Up

Really great movie but it did make me cry.


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Better than expected. Deeper life lessons than expected. The "Aging" concept isnt easy to express to adults much less children the film did it very well. Thumbs "UP"!

I cannot believe this film is at the bottom of the list. What a charming and amazing film and way better than "A Bug's Life". I certainly enjoyed it. It's safe to say this is one of my favourite Pixar animated movie thus far. Not a lot of animations have a senior citizen as the lead character and this is what I found so alluring. Carl Fredricksen is a miserable man, but he has every reason to be. The montage at the beginning of the film was so moving and beautiful and it helped the viewers to gain some understanding of Mr Fredrickson's current circumstance. The star of this entire cartoon for myself personally was Russell. Russell is an eight-year-old wilderness explorer who accidentally joins Mr Fredrickson on this adventure and how this comes about is too funny. Normally children depicted in animation (particularly Pixar movies) are portrayed as annoying little brats. Russell redemmed this quality by showing loyalty, trust, humanity, love and so much comedy (the way most children are in real life). Mr Fredrickson and Russell gained a lot from this unlikely friendship. I cannot recommend this film enough. Great to watch with all the family. Favourite scene:

Mr Fredrickson: Let's play who can keep their mouth shut the longest.
Russell: Oh boy, my Mom loves that game.

this was such a creative and wonderful movie. i loved it! if u haven't see this yet please go do so! i love the story to it and it made you want more. i cant even put into words of how good this movie is!

This movie rocks

Great Movie

Good movie, but not my favorite.

An adorable cute movie...... addictive sayings.. (SQUIRREL!!!) LOL. Though it was a little sad, it was a great family movie! I will own it:)

The film starts with a young boy, Carl Fredricksen, in a cinema watching a black and white documentary about his favourite hero, the adventurer Charles F. Muntz who was renowned for his exploits in South America but was shamed after accusations of forging a skeleton. On his way home he stumbles across a run-down house where he meets another Muntz fan called Ellie. The two of them make a promise to one day fly to Paradise Falls and it is then that Carl falls in love with her.

Time then moves quickly and we see that the couple marry and move into the house where they met after renovating the place. We also see their chance for a family taken away from them and their hopes of going adventuring to Paradise Falls slipping further and further out of reach. Eventually we seem them as an elderly couple, having never fulfilled their dreams of going to Paradise Falls. One day Carl buys plane tickets to go there but before he can show Ellie the tickets she collapses and is taken to the hospital. After giving Carl her "Adventure" book Ellie passes away, leaving Carl on his own once more.

I think this sequence is incredibly powerful at giving an insight into why Carl seems so sad and why he's keeping the world out of his life and doesn't want to move on - he misses his wife and the times they had together. The sense I got of the character at this point is he's given up on life, he's just keeping to himself and is waiting to die. Every time he steps he steps out his front door he is confronted by the world changing around him and business men wanting to tear down his beloved house to make way for new impersonal skyscrapers. When his postbox is accidentally knocked down he becomes distraught and in trying to protect it accidentally hits one of the workers on the head. After some court proceedings he is advised to take up residence at care home for the elderly.

Still determined to not leave his home behind he comes up with a plan to avoid the care home and attaches an amazing number of helium filled balloons to his house so that it can take off. Not long after take off he finds that the Wilderness Explorer who had pestered him earlier was on the porch. Intending on letting him go Carl starts to free some of the balloons so that he can be dropped off but they encounter a storm which causes Carl's belongings to become endangered.

We then see Carl wake up to find that he'd fallen asleep after tying his belongings down, and the Wilderness Explorer named Russell had steered the house to South America. They start to descend but hit ground too early due to some unexpected cliffs and they both end up falling out of the house and cling on to it by a hose pipe to stop it floating away. When the clouds clear they realise they are at Paradise Falls and Carl decides to accept Russell's help to walk the house round to the waterfall to fulfil Ellie's dream.

On the way through the jungle they come across a strange bird (which Russell names Kevin despite it being a girl) which is the same as the skeleton that Muntz was ridiculed for, and a talking dog named Dug. These two join up with them at the annoyance of Carl who just wants to be left alone, and despite several attempts to get rid of them still finds himself stuck with them. Eventually they wake up to find Kevin gone, and they are surrounded by more talking dogs who take them to their leader. It turns out the leader is Muntz (no surprise there really, it was to be expected) though he doesn't really look old enough considering the age difference between them at the start of the film (he must be over 100 if Carl is 78).

Muntz takes them into his airship, the Spirit of Adventure where the dogs serve them lunch and Muntz talks of his desire to capture the bird to end his years in exile and how many people have tried to "cheat" him out of this. At this point it is so obvious he's bordering on your stereotypical villain who has lost sight of his original goal and now puts it before all else. It's an archetype which is seen in many films including the role of Anakin Skywalker during Revenge of the Sith - but obviously in this case it isn't so serious. Muntz starts to believe that Carl is planning the same and sends the dogs after him, but Kevin and Dug help them escape, injuring Kevin's leg in the process.

After seeing how two animals he'd treated badly still wanted to help him, Carl starts to warm to them and agrees to take the injured Kevin to see her young. On the way however Muntz catches up with him in his airship and catches Kevin in a net. Here Carl is faced with what for him was an impossible dilemma - does he save Kevin who saved his life earlier, or does he save his home (which has now been set on fire) and risk losing everything in there which belonged to him and Ellie and his memories of her. For Carl there was no choice, he couldn't bear to lose his memories of Ellie and decides to save his some instead, making Russell feel betrayed as Kevin is captured. I can't really fault Carl's choice here, he's faced with losing everything and he made the only decision he knew how to make; soon he realises there's more to life than your past.

Finally dragging the house to the Paradise Falls he relaxes in his chair and starts to look through Ellie's Adventure scrapbook, but he notices the pages which had been left blank for their planned adventure had been filled with photos of their life together and ended with a message from his wife thanking him for the adventure they shared together and telling him to have another adventure. I think that's quite a sad moment in the film, but it wakes Carl up to realise the importance of his new friends and the adventure they're having. He rushes out of the house to find Russell flying away on some balloons, and so in a desperate attempt to follow he empties the house of all furniture so the house flies once more.

Without going into too much more detail Carl fights Muntz onboard the airship and eventually loses the house at the same time as Muntz falls to his death leaving the airship and the dogs for him to control as they head home. We then see during the credits that this adventure with his new friends has taken Carl out of his shell and he's no longer closed off to the world - he is living his life once more.

I thought this was an incredibly enjoyable film with great animation and a great story, Pixar have really outdone themselves this time. One thing which is good about the Blu-ray release is that it comes with a DVD version also so if you're not yet ready to switch to Blu-ray it means you can have the film in both formats ready for when you do.

One of the best Movies I have ever seen! One of the things that really grabbed me was the music, it was great. The whole movie is funny, suspenseful and sometimes a little sad. The characters are so lovable, especially the talking dogs :) I saw it in the theater and I have watched it around 5 times on demand, I just cant stop watching it. 5 stars for this movie for sure! Go see it!

this is a pretty funny movie !

terrific movie from start to finish. Expertly made, well drawn, good story. My 86 yr. old mom and my 20 yr old daughter and me, at 54, all liked the movie tremendously.

Hmm, did that come out ever? I didn't see anything about it here.

let it come

If you ever check out the Rotten Tomatoes website, with any movie that has an extremely good rating, and if any expert critics slams that movie down, you'll find a train of fans spamming that thread to death calling the critic anything you can think of. It's not any of my intention to be in that position, but the sun shines brightly today and I feel I could just about take on the world even if everyone opposed me.

While I was in the 3D theater watching the preview, I was astoned by the new 3D graphics one can get in a movie theater now a day. I have seen 3D films before in IMAX, but the experiences compared to the 3D seen in Disneyland or Disneyworld were nowhere close. While I was being wowed by the 3D effect during the preview, I was glad that I chose to view this movie in 3D and just couldn't wait to have the best 3D experience ever. The feature presentation however, really didn't compare in terms of the 3D graphics. There was definitely 3D, but it's not in front of your face 3D. My husband took off the glasses in the middle of the movie to see if there was any differences, and he said there definitely was - the pictures were brighter without the 3D glasses.

The best part of the film was the first 10 min. Tears ran down my face and I just couldn't wait to see the rest of the movie to develop and reach that climax... which already passed after the first 10 min. Now, not to get me wrong and think the movie was a piece of crap, it wasn't. It was simply not good enough to a standard that had been set so high. I had read many reviews where people compare this movie to Wall.E, and some said they liked Up even more. I may have gone into the theater with expectation set way too high, but I did the same thing before I watched Wall.E, and Wall.E still impressed me while Up did not. Perhaps there's just too many dialogues in the film. Dialogues constantly between the old man and the child, and dialogues with the dogs and between dogs. One thing I particularly do not like is talking animals, though they are funny at times, but they just aren't cute. The plot was very predictable and though I found most of the characters sort of likable, I wasn't particularly charmed.

It's an ok Disney/Pixar film in 2009, which would have been superb in 1995.

I saw this movie in the theaters for a class trip and it was funny and sad and heartwarming and sometimes you laughed so hard you started crying. But even though it is not one of my favorites i think that littler kids would love to see this movie.

Saw this with the lady the other day. . .

It's not really for kids. The first 15 minutes presents a montage that is quite heartbreaking if you're in a happy marriage. UP can be emotionally tough for those who have lost a close loved one. . .

But it's good work. . .courage, exploration, and keeping your word are a few of the values and lessons taught here. I didn't even know that Ed Asner was still alive. . .he's terrific as the old man.

Everyone in the crowd laughed and cried with this movie, it held no punches, and shows what makes pixar the best animation studio in hollywood catering to both adults and children, nothing is watered down, but yet is still incredibly heart warming.

I saw this movie last weekend and I have to admit, I was so moved I want to see it again. The magic of Pixar is that it speaks to all ages. There was an elderly couple behind me in the movie who kept making adorable comments to eachother throughout. This is an amazing, beautiful, heart wrenching story. The delicate montage of a life unfolding together in the beginning is worthy of being it's own art form. The twinkling melody that plays behind images of a couple loving each other through all of life's hardships was so melancholy it made me ache inside. By the end of it, when the old man walks through the door of their home alone, I was bawling. The rest of the movie continues in this manner...in great leaps it goes from tender and sweet to honest to goodness funny. The dogs in the movie really steal the show and the ingenious of Pixar truly never fails. Above all, I am blown away by the new kind of love the movie shows between an old man and a boy. The BEST movie I have seen in a long time, hands down.

Up is proof that Pixar is maturing towards genius in storytelling, animation and cinematography. The design of each and every environment is exquisite, particularly the interior of Carl Fredricksen's house. With Up, Pixar has created a version of the world full of fantasy and intrigue that comes closer to watching my imagination than anything I've seen on screen before. In short, I loved this film, it was perfection.

The story Up tells is timeless. Its core is familiar, and successfully rooted in reality before transcending into reverie. Carl, the old man in the film, loses his beloved wife Ellie after a long and happy life together. While they were younger, they dreamed of becoming adventurers, but instead settled into a routine until it was too late. Faced with the prospect of being shipped off to a retirement home after a unfortunate conflict with a real estate developer who wants his land, Carl decides to check out by unleashing thousands of balloons and traveling off to Paradise Falls in South America. Unbeknownst to him, he has a stowaway...a young Wilderness Explorer (think Boy Scouts reinvented without the military undertones and with a greater focus on environmentalism) in search of a "helping the elderly" badge whom he tried to ignore the day before.

The film is great for all ages since it can be taken at face value as a tale of discovery and exploration, or as a slightly more complex allegory about carrying the past as a burden. Far from being a lesson in regret, the denouement is uplifting and optimistic.

Pixar also proves that avoiding Disney's anthropomorphic tricks can lead to powerful characterizations that are easy to relate to. The animal characters are almost Chaplin-esque in their mannerisms, relying on movement for expression rather than humanistic eyes and facial expressions. Even the voices given to the dogs in the film avoid the common trap of becoming more of a human in an animal's body with clever writing that evokes what we all transpose onto animals as an internal dialogue in real life.

The Bottom line: Up is sweet without being saccharine, touching without being contrived, funny without being stupid, and above all else...intensely satisfying. See it if you haven't. You won't be disappointed.

Great movie overall and very touching. It's a shame that all of the bums on Wallstreet weren't as good as predicting the market or how well a pixar movie will do as Pixar is at making damn good movies.

I loved Up because of its simple yet moving human oriented story line and its sense of humor. I wasn't distracted by non-human animals, comic book characters, talking cars nor whiz bang computer animation. It's about an old man and a kid, some funny talking dogs who talk like dogs think rather than imitation people, and a bird with decidedly dinosaur-like movements. It's an UPlifting feel good movie written for adults more than kids. Up replaced Nemo as my favorite Pixar movie. (FWIW, I watched it in Disney World, where I work.)