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[innerSpaceman]

And to touch on something GD said pages or so ago, I don't think the societal skewering was without enough substance. Satire does not need to go too deep to be satire. Quite the contrary, when a barbed point is so on point it's instantly recognizable and humorous, what's more to tell about it other than the pointing itself?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

And to touch on something GD said pages or so ago, I don't think the societal skewering was without enough substance. Satire does not need to go too deep to be satire. Quite the contrary, when a barbed point is so on point it's instantly recognizable and humorous, what's more to tell about it other than the pointing itself?

It's not so much that the satire didn't go anywhere, it was that the characters within the satire didn't go anywhere. All we saw was a bunch of half-baked random encounters with no character arc. There was nothing for me to care about, no emotional connection to these non-pedal decedents of mine that had me caring one way or another whether they made it back to Earth or not. Pixar movies are usually far better about that, where characters aren't just set pieces to push a plot along but actual emotional beings the audience cares about. Starting with an excellent social commentary is not enough to make up for lack of good story telling. Especially when that social commentary isn't all that unique (a lot of the same stuff was brought up by Idiocracy, and even that highly imperfect movie covered far more interesting ground than this did, imo).