It's showtime.
Bettlejuice
So, a pair of bumbling inept post-living people find themselves with annoying neighbours. These two can't even be bothered to read a single book, so they ask the system for help. The system turns them down and tells them to haunt the people out themselves. They try, and fail miserably.
Enter our hero, The ghost with the most. Be -er this dapper fellow has style, experience, and skill. Most of all, he's willing to help the inept pair when nobody else will. What do these ingrates do? They turn their back on his kindness. Selflessly, he tries to help anyway, and to great effect. The couple interferes to stop him.
Yet despite nothing but negativity from them, this wandering bioexorcist is still willing to save the couple in their time of greatest need. What a great guy. How does the couple repay this rescue? By busting up his wedding and attacking him with savage creatures. Talk about rude.
Indeed.
Tell your son he's a genius and that in the world of Wall-E all humans died horribly.
LOL. I'll be sure to tell him you said that.
To continue my (distorted) description of Wall-E, the Captain, in his process of fighting Auto, tips the spacecraft, causing disasters all over. Machines go crashing into the walls, threatening to crush people to death, requiring all kinds of heroics to save those people. The Captain is the real menace!
And in the end, Eve decides to bring the Axiom to Earth, not because it's her directive to do so, and not because she judges it's the best thing for the human race. She nearly tosses those considerations aside, clearly symbolizing that attitude by literally tossing aside the plant. No, she does it to save Wall-E, one robot with whom she's fallen in love. These robots get so involved in their own personal lives, they put those considerations before the jobs they should be doing for the good of the human race they're supposedly serving.
It sounds pretty ominous, doesn't it?
In fact, even early in the movie, Wall-E abandons the job he should be doing - helping to save the Earth - in order to pursue Eve, simply because he's fallen in love with her.
I guess my last post seemed to drift away from the point. My point is that some of the supposed heroes of the story lose their focus. But Auto, the supposed villain, steadfastly does his job to the best of his ability, no matter who tries to stop him.