I had the same thoughts as the author while walking out of the theater. The way it was so easy for everyone in the packed Boston theater to laugh at the fat jokes in the movie made me EXTREMELY sad and uncomfortable, and I'm not even fat myself - but I kept thinking how it would make my sister-in-law feel, a wonderful, loving, caring person who is obese. Believe me, she is hardworking and disciplined and the idea that fat = lazy is insane in her case (and most cases, I imagine).

And let me tell you something. She knows she's fat. She doesn't need a bunch of assholes explaining to her that she should really watch what she eats. I hate the theme that turns up on a lot of these threads that fat people just really need to be told that they should eat less and exercise more, written in this kind of self-satisfied tone of moral righteousness, as if they're telling those fatties a hard truth that no one before has ever been willing to say to them. I mean, really? They should?? OHMYGOD I bet they've never thought of that! So good of you to be so helpful! I don't know why, but obesity seems to rarely ellicit compassion in people; just judgment.

I understand how you feel about the audience laughing at the so called fat jokes in movie, I don't think it was Pixar's message or intent to send across fat jokes. At least, it didn't feel that way to me. When I looked at the lounging people in the Axiom, I didn't see fat adults - I saw very large babies.

The whole movie purveyed that message to me. Humans have become incapable of fulfilling our responsibilities to ourselves and our environment, and have devolved into giant babies. The robots are just fulfilling the role of adult, taking care of residents and attempting to give us a fresh start on our planet. Maybe everyone didn't see the movie on that level, and it's very likely that a lot of the people in the audience are going to take it as fat jokes. But I can't help but feel that a lot of viewers and reviewers are getting the wrong idea and that isn't Pixar's fault.

I agree with pallas_athene. The point was to demonstrate the humans' helplessness, complacency, and mindless way of living.

I encourage the OP not to forget that the movie shows two of the heavy people flirting and falling in love (or at least, it's implied that they will be together). How many other movies do that, without making fun of the subjects?

It is a shame that idiots in the audience made fat jokes and weren't able to see past their deeply held stereotypes to appreciate what the movie was trying to convey.

I was frustrated when the people spilled out of their hoverchair things and weren't able to get up, frustrated that they never talked to others except over the little video chat thing, and frustrated that they didn't question anything (until the end of course). At no point was I made to feel disgusted or repulsed, which is how we're often taught to feel about fat people.