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It had depth.
There were so many things not usually put into a childrens movie that really brought depth to the characters.
in my opinion, pixar will have to really try with their next movies to do better then Up
Oh sorry, I give it a 10/10, I wish to give it a higher grade than that.
I could talk about the animation and effects, but this is Pixar, what else did you expect other than perfection?
I don't think there is a live action movie in recent years that had such a beautifully realized, and beautifully real relationship between a married couple as the one between Carl and Ellie Fredrickson. Their journey through life together was resonant and Carl's reaction to Ellie's death was hearbreaking.
I love Russell because he isn't one of these stock, precocious child characters that seem to populate Disney's live action movies and TV shows (maybe Pixar could take over those too....). Russell's a real kid. He's good, is heart is in the right place but like real children, he's annoying as all hell. One minute you love them to death, the next minute you're scearming "AW SHADDUP!!" to them.
I only need one word to describe how cool Doug the Dog is: "SQUIRREL!"
It is, without hyperbole, the first great film of 2009.
Also if someone were to talk, they will kill you while watching this perfect movie, just kidding, that is what I thought.
The only movie for sure people shouldn’t download and then burn is Up because its deserves a big box office !!
It almost killed me because I was crying a lot during the sad parts.
However, that feeling quickly disappeared with the appearance of Dug the talking dog, one of the dumbest, most pointless characters created by Pixar. Seriously, it's the Jar Jar Binks of Pixar, that's how much I hated this damn dog.
I thought I was getting a genuine, thoughtful story of a man going on one last great adventure, and I did, for the most part. But, I think the execution of the Dug character kept Up from reaching a new level of success, and brought it down to the level of an extremely well-made typical children's movie.
And because of that, I'm disappointed.
...but dogs flying biplanes stretches my imagination a little too far for me to appreciate. I can take every other fantastical element, but that one just takes me out of the film. Everything else was amazing, though.
I couldn't agree with you more about the talking dogs. What distracted me the most were the plot elements that comes off as being geared to the younger ones watching. "We can't go until we help Kevin" felt to me me like a belaboring sidetrack cliche. But what got me questioning Pixar's quality were the talking dogs. Dogs flying fighter planes feels more like DreamWorks than Pixar. If anything, "Up" is a balance between 3 styles of storytelling:Pixar, Miyazaki, and DreamWorks. Pixar is better than that to be closer to Dreamworks. You could argue that "Hey, it still makes money", but then that is not how I want my Pixar to be.
And, well, the thing is it IS for children. Though it is always important to remember the parents who are the ones actually paying, it is important to remember why the parents actually first come. But Pixar does it in such a way, that it is pretty much unoticable for the majority and we all love Dug.