Love Me
Love Me
5.146%59%
In a story that spans billions of years, a buoy and a satellite meet online long after humanity’s extinction. As they learn what life was like on Earth, they discover themselves and what it means to be alive and in love.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 2, 2025
Loved the live action Wall-E vibes at the outset but found most of the rest of the films exploration a little boring and not all that insightful. A bajillion years (I can’t remember specifically how many) after life expired on planet earth, a SMART buoy, and a Satellite make a connection. The satellite has the entire recorded history of the internet in memory and the buoy starts surfing the web in hopes of forging a connection with the satellite. Buoy attempts to synthesize human life and relationships based almost entirely on family Youtube channels, one in particular that stars Deja and Liam (Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun — who also provide the voices for buoy and satellite). Buoy and satellite take on the names ME and I.AM, respectively, and they attempt a simulated relationship. Me spend a lot of time focusing on mimicking Deja and Liam’s relationship exactly, while I.AM starts to want to branch out and do things differently. Thematically, it touches on how “finding happiness” is a inherently a pretty self-serving goal. Their names along with the film’s title Love Me, signify the importance of self. We all want to be loved. But relationships require more than than just going through the motions—and more than just self-serving behavior. As Me and I.Am iterate and reiterate on their relationship it felt like watching an animated couples therapy session. Interesting idea for a film, but I was left wanting. And for a film that stars only Stewart and Yeun, it weirdly still felt like they weren’t in it enough.