- Starring
- Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger
- Directors
- Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
- Rating
- PG
- Genre
- Adventure, Animation, Family
- Release date
- May 29, 2009
An elderly widower ties thousands of balloons to his house and sets off for South America, accidentally taking along an enthusiastic young Wilderness Explorer. Up follows their unlikely friendship and grand adventure through the skies and jungles.
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James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
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“Up” dealt with some sensitive topics, but it was creative, heartfelt, and well thought out. Easily ones of Pixar’s best.
The best part of the movie is over in the first five minutes. There’s a bit of gender confusion involving a bird, and the plot deliberately skirts the tropes of 1930s adventure serials, subtly inverting them to make masculine heroes from that era seem villainous. The movie’s biggest downside, though, is that it’s mostly harmless and doesn’t take enough risks.