Up
Up, Up and Away the Best Pixar Film Yet!
I really had my doubts that Pixar could top Wall-E, the environmental, fun-loving trash compactor come to life and his sweetie Eve.
The whole Pixar experience really has to do with taking a story back to basics -- keep it simple, fun, a bit of a formula and run with it.
As in the tradition of the early theaters, we start out with a cartoon regarding storks, babies and clouds. Did you know clouds create babies that the storks pick up? Amazing!
Then, the newsreel. The newsreel talks about an adventurer, and our little boy hero is deeply enamored with his hero and adventure. He meets a girl who has the same spirit. Kindred spirits they marry, and go through what too many couples go through, the loves, the tragedy. Life.
We spin many years later and find our man a crushed, grumpy Spencer Tracy look-alike, who got that way due to his wife's death. After that, nothing is right anymore. I'm not spoiling anything since this is all still intro.
He finds a fellow adventurer in a little chubby Asian boy who just needs to help an old person cross the street for his merit badge. He gets way more adventure than that!
The movie hit an emotional chord in me that only Wall-E and The Incredibles have done, where the hero, defeated, rises to the occasion and wins the day.
The detail of animation is amazingly accurate; sound effects move with animation, light and speech. The talking dogs and the bad guy are also a treat. (Oops, shouldn't say treat!)
Even the credits are done in the style of an old diary or scrapbook!
I have seen less starred reviews complain and nitpick. Please, knock it off! It's a movie already! We finally have a family friendly film that I highly recommend. I noted most of the audience was all smiles and the kids loved it.
Highly recommended!
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