UP

[armageddon]

UP---------------------***1/2 out of ****

Though a little too maturely morose at times and pinch too childish at others, UP is nonetheless the 9th Pixar success in 10 tries by my movie measuring stick. (Sadly, I've never liked MONSTERS, INC. as much as everyone else - I found it too oriented toward little ones and not enough toward grown-ups, a trademark balance Pixar Films usually nails with ease but misses again here in my opinion, if only slightly.)

The film's general success is due in greatest part by magnificent voice-over work by Ed Asner in the lead role and the most stunning, rubber-and-model-looking animation the studio has thus far ever offered (...even moreso than CARS, their previous such height of physical work in my eyes.) Add good, villainous voice over work by Christopher Plummer as Asner's foil, a lovely score and yet another lump throat, heartwarming Pixar ending, and it's all well worth the price of admission if you ask me, despite it's (slight) tonal failings.

Like last year's WALL-E, I think UP is very good but being over-rated overall (I found several elements of WALL-E truly odd), however I also think many reviewers are failing to recognize UP's physical brilliance.

For me, FINDING NEMO, TOY STORY, THE INCREDIBLES, CARS and RATATOUILLE are all still preferred Pixar works, but like WALL-E, A BUG'S LIFE, and TOY STORY 2, I can still thoroughly recommend the picture overall.

[r-type]

Fantastic movie. (saw this on Friday)

This movie had me choked up from the get-go and was putty in its hands the rest of the way.

The tonal shifts of this movie weren't enough of a "minus" for me.

Not to mention I actually felt like I was up there in the Carl's house looking down at the scenery or feeling slightly uneasy when they're atop a Zeppelin, or a cliff. You forget that you are looking at renderings. Simply amazing scenic work.



SQUIRREL!!!!!

[Optimash Prime]

Saw it and loved it my new pixar rankings are:
1 Finding nemo
2 Toy story
3 UP <===yeah
4 Toy story two
5 Monsters inc
6 Wall e
and so forth.....

Up was good, it was just sad and I actually got teary eyed (chianti) and my girl was laughing at me ...i was like "damn disney way to be morbid in the begining of your film like bambi and nemo" lol ...so great movie but dont see it drunk on chianti you ll start tearing up...

[Optimash Prime]

SQUIRREL!!!!!

Wanna hear a joke ,once there was a squirrel that didn't store enough acorns for the winter and he died..it is a funny joke because the squirrel died!!!

[Mindfreak87]

Up is hitting cinemas over here in the UK in October, which is really odd. By that time the US will have a DVD / Blu-ray version out. Just order an import.. the region of the disc isn't important these days. Very strange move, and for such a highly rated film also.

[halofan1]

Best film of the year, and easily the best Pixar film.

[Mindfreak87]

Best film of the year.

How is it possible to even predict that when we are only 1/2 way through the year.

[dragonfire144]

the squirrl thing was awsome and hilarious

[Jason Gould]

Movie was good, infact it came out on my birthday.

[dragonfire144]

Movie was good, infact it came out on my birthday.

happy belated birthday i guess

[Simon]

Best film of the year, and easily the best Pixar film.

Again, like almost all Pixar movies... Most overrated movie of the year. And yes, that's until the actual end of the year.
Pixar movies overall are overrated as hell.
They're cool, great... sure, better than other animation movies... But not the "masterpieces" everyone is babbling about.

[Jason Gould]

happy belated birthday i guess

Thanks man.

[fallen_guy15]

Again, like almost all Pixar movies... Most overrated movie of the year. And yes, that's until the actual end of the year.
Pixar movies overall are overrated as hell.
They're cool, great... sure, better than other animation movies... But not the "masterpieces" everyone is babbling about.

True, they aren't always masterpieces, but they are very clever sometimes.

[Winkeladvokat]

Well, I for one are certainly going with the "masterpiece"-crowd, concerning almost each and every one of Pixars movies up to date, excluding only the a-little-too-formulaic "Toy Story 2" and the second half of the (otherwise utterly brilliant) "Wall-E". "Up" is their most mature work to date and its first 20 minutes represent some of the finest filmmaking ever.

[littleman794]

i actually really want to see this...

[r-type]

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=415257&GT1=28101

California girl gets dying wish to see movie 'Up'

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Colby Curtin got her final wish.
The 10-year-old girl desperately wanted to see the new Disney-Pixar movie, "Up." But the cancer-stricken girl was too sick to go to a theater.
Thanks to a family friend who got in touch with the movie studio Pixar, an employee of the Emeryville-based company arrived at Colby's home with a DVD copy of the movie, The Orange County Register reported Friday. The girl died later that night.
Colby's mother, Lisa, said she had asked her daughter if she could hang on until the movie arrived.
"I'm ready (to die), but I'm going to wait for the movie," she said her daughter replied.
"Up" is the animated tale of a grumpy old man who, after his wife's death, tries to fulfill their joint dream of visiting South America by tying thousands of balloons to his house and floating away.
"When I watched it, I had really no idea about the content of the theme of the movie," Colby's mother told the Register. "I just know that word 'Up' and all of the balloons and I swear to you, for me it meant that (Colby) was going to go up. Up to heaven."
Colby, who was diagnosed with vascular cancer in 2005, saw previews for the film in April.
"It was from then on, she said, 'I have to see that movie. It is so cool,'" family friend Carole Lynch said.
But the girl's health began to deteriorate. On June 4, Curtin asked a hospice company to bring a wheelchair so that her daughter could go to a movie theater but the chair was not delivered over the weekend, Curtin said.
By June 9, Colby was too sick to go anywhere.

Another family friend, Terrell Orum, called both Pixar and Disney, which owns the animation studio. The message was received by Pixar officials, who agreed to send someone to Colby's house the next day with a copy of "Up" for a private screening, Orum said.

The employee arrived with the DVD, stuffed animals of characters and other movie memorabilia.

Colby was unable to open her eyes to see the movie so her mother described the scenes. When her mother asked if she enjoyed it, the girl nodded, Curtin said.

The Pixar employee left after the movie, taking the DVD, which has not been released. Lynch, who was with the family during the screening, said the employee's "eyes were just welled up."

A call to Pixar seeking comment was not immediately returned Friday.

Colby, with her parents nearby, died later that night.

Her mother said one of the memorabilia left by the Pixar employee was an "adventure book" based on a scrapbook that, in the movie, is kept by the wife of the main character.

"I'll have to fill those adventures in for her," Lisa Curtin said of her daughter.

[DiplomaDope]

I'm going to see it