Up! Poster
Up!
PG
1 hour, 29 minutes
Starring: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, and Jordan Nagai
Well, Pixar has done it again! After Up you start to question if it’s even possible for them to make a bad movie. I thought Cars wasn’t their best venture, but it’s still an okay movie. Up is no exception. I will have to say, the story is absolutely ridiculous in every way. I’m a big fan of creative story telling and even this film had me going “Really?” It wasn’t enough to deter the enjoyment. The comedy is flavorful; the characters unlike anything in previous Pixar pictures, and of course the element of adventure!
I’m reluctant to really explain the plot any further than what is revealed in the trailers; an angry old man fixes balloons to his house setting it in flight, only to have a rather annoying and eager young boy scout along for the ride. Honestly, giving little away is a great idea, because discovering what this movie has in store is half the fun.
I laughed, I was touched, and I was emotionally involved with the characters. What more can you really ask for in a film? I will admit that my first reaction to this movie left me feeling uncertain about it. However, the more and more I think about, the fonder I grow of it.
Go see it. Do you really want to be the person that missed out on the latest Pixar movie? They have become staples to the movie going experience. So I ask, have you been stapled lately? A-
Watching this movie I feel like I was stapled. I’ll give it to you- there are some parts of this movie that are quite enjoyable, even touching. However, I found some parts of the movie quite DARK for a “kid’s film.” At one point I heard a child ask his parents what happened to Ellie and I was like, wow- what a time to start this discussion. The movie is good, I don’t know about an A- I’d give it a B at best. I think the physics, (the ones stated IN the movie on the ones in real life) i.e. the balloons staying filled past when they said they would, not to mention half the balloons can pop and it still stay afloat, seem to betray the story, it took me out of it at times. But all in all it was fun, unfortunately it’s nothing I haven’t seen before, nothing amazing. Pixar still makes humans look weird. Ed Asner’s character looks like a Muppet. But it’s worth going to see. I just wish they didn’t show the best parts in the the trailers. I preferred the teaser and not knowing what it was about instead of the more recent trailers. This is why I close my eyes and cover my ears when the trailers to movies I know I want to see come on. Oh yeah, and the 3-D wasn’t even noticeable- i guess that’s just me though.