Up

Up Review

starring: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger
director(s): Pete Docter, Bob Peterson

For the people that have seen Up, I don't have to tell you how sad the first 10-13 minutes of the movie is. The Pixar crew definitely summed the life of a childhood couple in love up quite quickly. The heart-warming scenes were, in my opinion, way more powerful than the whole movie put together. The scenes put time in perspective, and made everyone kind of realize how little they actually have on this wonderful Earth of ours.

Anyways, the movie then progressed slowly afterwards with a great idea for a plot, but it never captured my emotions the whole time like other Pixar films (like Finding Nemo). The 'talking' dogs, and huge colorful bird made it a little too unrealistic, even though it is an animation film. Not to mention the scenery and setting of the barren wastelands / semi-jungle was just not fun to look at or 'be at'. The little problems that Carl and Russell faced didn't capture my worry too much either.

Overall I didn't particularly love this movie as I do with almost every other Pixar film ever made. It seemed like not a whole lot of thought was put in to the story line and it could have definitely been improved, in my humble opinion. However, because it was Pixar, I still enjoyed my time watching Up, it's always relaxing to watch a good animation film made by the best animation studio on the planet.