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One of my daughter's all time favorites, its a bit hard trying to explain the first 5 minutes of the movie to a 4 year old being so tragic, but its a great movie about following your dreams none the less. A family must see :) 10/10

To describe this film, I'll use a line right from the movie.
"I have just met you. And I love you." -Doug
It's possible that this flick is more enjoyable for adults, then to the kids who love it as well. Like the first Shrek, maybe better.

this movie was sad :(
but good at the same time

If there are any words or describe Up, Pixar Animation Studios tenth film and their first to utilize Disney Digital 3-D technology, it's "Pixar perfect (again)." A melding of the cutting edge computer animation and the character-centered storytelling that's made Pixar the preeminent computer animation studio (with a global brand to match), Up is the second film to be written (actually co-written) and directed by Pete Docter. Docter, best known as the writer-director of Monsters, Inc., Pixar's fourth film, returns after eight years with a film just as emotionally and thematically resonant as his first film. Co-writing Up with Bob Peterson (who also receives a co-directing credit), Docter can set aside the Academy Awards next spring where he and Peterson will pick up another Best Animated Film Oscar from the academy.

The world has moved on, but Carl Fredricksen (voiced by Edward Asner) hasn't. A 78 year-old former balloon salesman, Carl still clings to his memories of his late wife, memories reflected in the house they once owned together and in the knick-knacks and other mementos they collected over the years. Bereft, but with nowhere to go, Carl clings stubbornly to his house, refusing to sell the house to the local developer who's purchased every lot in the neighborhood except Carl's. After an angry outburst lands Carl in civil court, he faces the prospect of losing his home permanently and being forced into a retirement home. Carl, however, refuses to acquiesce, instead installing 10,000 helium-filled balloons from his chimney and floating, flying away to Paradise Falls, Venezuela, the last known destination for one-time explorer and adventurer, Charles Muntz (Christopher Plummer) and the almost mythical location Ellie dreamed of visiting, but never did.

But Carl isn't counting on Russell (Jordan Nagai), an avid Wilderness Explorer eager to obtain his last badge for "assisting the elderly." An inadvertent stowaway, Russell's eager to join Carl on his adventure. Carl isn't eager for company, but when a storm hits, Carl and Russell are forced to work together, ultimately reaching Venezuela and the plateau. Far from Paradise Falls and with the helium slowly leaking from the balloons, Carl and Russell head for the falls, the house tethered to their backs. What they find on the plateau, their subsequent adventures, some of them death defying, and, just as importantly, the "life lessons" both characters learn on the way to Paradise Falls are best for moviegoers to discover for themselves. Suffice it to say that their adventures involves several additional characters, two who talk and one that doesn't. Two characters prove to be loyal. One even proves to be Carl and Russell's best friend.

For inspiration, Docter and Peterson drew on The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle's (Sherlock Holmes) 1913 novel and subsequent adaptations, including the 1925 version that featured stop-motion dinosaurs created by Willis O'Brien (King Kong, Mighty Joe Young), both for the Muntz character, clearly modeled on the proto-Indiana Jones hero Professor Challenger who returns to the plateau to bring back a live specimen of a prehistoric animal and in the plateau itself, a "Land Time Forgot," a reference both to Doyle's novel and a similarly premised novel, The Land Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Wizard of Oz, Martin Brest's Going in Style, and Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo influenced Up to varying degrees.

In Carl, Russell, Muntz, and several others, Docter and Peterson have created memorable characters. Physically, Docter and Peterson modeled the Muntz character on Kirk Douglas and Errol Flynn (with a touch of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.). For Carl, Peterson and Doctor borrowed Spencer Tracey's abundance of white hair and prominent jaw, but otherwise created a unique character, albeit one with Ed Asner's famously cantankerous disposition. While Russell might not be the first Asian-American character in an animated film (Disney's Mulan got there first), he's the first major Asian-American character in a Pixar film. Where Carl and Muntz are angular, a conscious decision by Docter and Peterson to reflect their inner limitations, Russell is oval-shaped.

But Up is more than the sum of its influences. It's much more. In the silent montage that follows an eight year-old Carl and his first meeting with Ellie, the love of his life, Docter and Peterson craft a mini-film that brings moviegoers up to speed on Carl's present state-of-mind, but also encapsulates Up's theme of relationships, especially lifelong ones, as adventures in and of themselves. The other major theme, of Carl reawakening to life's possibilities, including mentoring the fatherless Russell, is handled with a light hand that let's Carl, and by extension the audience, learn an important "life lesson" with a minimum of sentimentality or sermonizing.

Without quality animation, story, themes, and characters would be, if not meaningless, then worth a lot less. Here as in their previous nine films (even including Cars), Pixar's attention to detail is evident in everything from the patches on Russell's Wilderness Explorer uniform to the knick-knacks and mementos in Carl's home, to the almost alien world Carl and Russell encounter in Venezuela. Docter, Peterson, and several other animators visited Angel Falls, Venezuela, the real-world equivalent of Paradise Falls in the film to gather reference material, including the tepuis, the singularly odd-shaped stone structures found on the Angel Falls plateau. Combined with 3-D that emphasizes depth over projection, Up is yet another triumph for Pixar, one that Pixar's competitors will be, once again, hard pressed to duplicate, let alone surpass.

enjoyed prerelease screening at Pixar-Beautifully emotional and funny film

An UP-lifting movie that make you laugh and cry. Beautiful and rich, it's storytelling at it's finest. The talking dog "Dug" will steal your heart!

So! Pixar has been notorious for having pretty retarded trailers. I suppose that doesn't matter, since it has a built-in audience. The moment you put "Pixar's" it's guaranteed in ticket sales and merchandising. My reason for saying this would be, I had absolutely no idea what to expect. I don't think anybody really does. You see a grouchy old man and the only thing you CAN expect is that he won't be such a grouch at the end of the film.

I tried to predict the ending before even arriving at the theater, but because the trailer provides so little information, there was really no way to foresee where the film was going to take me.

Up is definitely different. It was the same director of Monsters Inc. But the level of seriousness it explores reminds me of the opening of Finding Nemo. The film is decorated with moments like that and it's really touching. It moved me. At one point I actually shed some tears -- against my effort not to.

It's hard to wipe your tears off when you've got the stereo-scopic 3-d glasses and you don't want to miss anything happening on the screen.

Up went less toward comedy and more toward drama, action and adventure. It definitely made me laugh. At one point I think I laughed out loud when everyone else was quiet... I always seem to have a moment like that. In this case, it was when one of the supporting characters pointed at a vent and whispered "POINT!" That will make more sense in context, but I wanted to mention it so when you saw it, you'd think of me and have one more thing to laugh about.

My fear, as was my fear with Wall-e, is that the serious tones presented in the film may be too much for little kids. It almost felt like a kids movie for adults at one point.

There are two things Up did that are somewhat consistant with other Pixar movies lately and that is... a little bit of talk (although much more indirectly in this) about man's inhumanity to man and nature...and respecting nature.

Wall-e is an obvious case in point. Man's inhumanity to man and respecting nature.

Finding Nemo touched on it in the sense of showing you all the waste that goes into the ocean and man-made machinery that just sits there, potentially harmful to sea creatures. Man's inhumanity to nature.

Cars borrowed the plot from Doc Hollywood to illustrate how we have built things to get by faster only to miss all the great things we see when we pass through the slow route. Man's inhumanity to man.

Anyway, go see Up. I had a great time. I would have had a greater time if I didn't eat all that sugar and give myself a headache. I need to learn to control myself around free food.

I say to run out and go see it. It's worth your $11. And it's definitely worth seeing in stereo-scopic 3-d.

Pixar is following the same way that Disney went an in the end; they GOT Kick in the Butt with Atlantis. an this has traces of Atlantis all over it. THIS IS PIXAR'S ATLANTIS. just look at the opening A LOst WORLD? is brought up; going to find this Lost World and ect.

plus this is UP against BLOckbusters like NIght Of The Museum 2 and Terminator 4 and Angels and Demons and Star Trek! THis Is Going To GO DOWN Big Time, their is no WAY UP will Beat All of these Out; nore is their Going to be the Mass Movie Going Audiance mostly out there that's Going to Choose Pixar's UP that is just another CGI Cartoon FIlm in A vass of Many, Over Night/Museum 2 and Terminator 4,Star Trek and Xmen 4 and Angels/Demons.



Face it PIXAR REALLY MESS Their Pants this time, an their will be Heads that will roll for this AT WDAS, AS PIXAR's UP BOMBS and Fails Around the World like BOLT DID. an the Most the U.S. an the World WONT Go an Watch Pixar's UP just like they didn't Watch BOLT.

Another Pixar movie, and first of all this movie sucks.

those folks at Pixar are amazing and Up is stunning.