Up (DVD, 2009)

The life of Carl Fredericksen comes to life in this latest collaboration between Disney Studios and Pixar.

Carl is a 78 year old man who has lived a wonderful life until his childhood sweetheart and wife passes away. Carl, left on his own and with the world moving around him has his world suddenly turned on end when developers move into the neighborhood. After a ugly encounter with one of the construction workers, Carl devises a plan to live out the childhood of himself and his wife and sail away to Paradise Falls in South America.

Carl is joined by a well meaning boy scout who is trying to earn his badge by assisting an elderly person.

The two sail off together into an adventure that is full of excitement and wonder.

This latest movie by Pixar brings to life a heartwarming story of love and life. It captures your heart and carries you away to a far away land. It is entertaining. The Plot of the story is great and the animation is one of a kind.

This movie will make you smile, laugh and even cry a bit.

I highly recommend this movie to anyone who loves adventure and loves life.

The cast of voices include:
Jordan Nagai - Voice of Russell
Ed Asner - Voice of Carl Fredricksen
Christopher Plummer - Voice of Charles Muntz
John Ratzenberger - Voice of Construction Foreman Tom
Delroy Lindo - Voice of Beta
Paul Eiding - Additional Voices
Bob Peterson - Voice of Dug/Alpha
Jerome Ranft - Voice of Gamma
David Kaye - Voice of Newsreel Announcer
Mickie McGowan - Voice of Police Officer Edith
Danny Mann - Voice of Construction Worker Steve
Don Fullilove - Voice of Nurse George
Jess Harnell - Voice of Nurse AJ
Josh Cooley - Voice of Omega
Pete Docter - Voice of Campmaster Strauch

Get this movie, it is well worth the price.

Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios take moviegoers up, up and away on one of the funniest adventures of all time with their latest comedy-fantasy. Up follows the uplifting tale of 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip an overly optimistic 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. Their journey to a lost world, where they encounter some strange, exotic and surprising characters, is filled with hilarity, emotion and wildly imaginative adventure.

Pixar's newest animated feature "UP", is a real gem.

Carl Fredrickson (voice of Ed Asner) is a grumpy old widower who miraculously inflates enough balloons to pick up his house and fly to an exotic destination. He finds himself sharing his ride with a pudgy, Cub-Scout kid named Russell who just happened to be on the porch when the house took off.

Part of the film story involves Carl's wish to meet a Lindbergh-type adventurer named Charles Muntz (voice of Christopher Plummer).

Cartoon history points to Walt Disney starting in the cartoon business by creating "Oswald the Rabbit" for producer Charles Mintz, who then greedily stole the rights to Disney's creation. This pretty much just happens to be some kind of inside irony that gives a little history to this film. Of course changing the name a bit makes it less obvious.

There's a dog who's the leader of his pack and menacing beyond measure, until he opens his mouth and gets one of the movie's biggest laughs. There's a huge, awkward bird that is a big laugh-getter at first. Then she becomes a real enough character that – at least in the audience I was in – when she's injured, she elicits screams of fright worthy of Bambi's late mother.

There's surprising, heartfelt emotion, vivid imagery (you can almost touch the landscapes and skies), and a music score by Michael Giacchino that's practically a character in the movie – particularly in a thoughtful montage that takes Carl from childhood to widowhood.

Pixar Studios should have its own say from now own, because they have pretty much proven there own.

I'm going to give this film a 5/5 for it's wonderful imagery.

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I had spent my childhood in the older movie houses, and recalled the times when I did not have to research everything that I wanted me or my kids to watch.
I loved this movie as a Disney film, this dealt with "life", death, laughing, and then crying...(I didn't expect that)~!~!
It was great from the opening credits and deserves our support and money to see it, and show it to others...especially all of us "kids", past, present and future.
It was a child's mindset, so look at it through yours and you will wish for more as I did.
I liked the fact that it wasn't classic Disney, where I couldn't sleep even though "Snow White and the 7 Dwarves" was tops in my life, as was Uncle Remus and Br'r Rabbit and Bre'r Bear.
There was a tad bit scariness in it, but not a necromancer with evil intents to kill and mame and - or murder the "Beauty" of the movie.
This was much closer to our real lives of growing up, fantisizing, dreaming, watching clouds go by with your favorite friend who you married and started life together..(While the hero of the derigible "Spirit of Adventure" Charles Muzz swore to back to "Paradise Falls" to bring back the real "Flightless Bird" ...(I called him a "Doo-Doo Bird" )and when "scientific Leadership" called him and his "find" a hoax, (though it was them who provoked the hoax by 'fitting wrong bones in wrong places), they had poor Charles defrocked, so he declared he would go back and bring home the real "Doo-Doo Bird") that he had found.
Well, that was my life~!~! WOW!~!~! I loved C. Lindburgh and the Spirit of St. Louis " So, this was me as you will be grabbed up and be brought right into the adventure...this is great, no evil witches to kill, and throw off of a cliff, no evil necromancers to steal the breath of life from the heroine princess, it was "YOU"~! and when you start recalling you youth, your friend whom you married, and watched clouds go past in the sky, saw the time when you would marry her and then have a family, even though things do not always turn out that way.
Such was my life with my wife whom I had courted four (4) years and married when I left the service of our US NAVY back in the days of Vietnam.
I shall now leave this story with you, as when you, like myself, got older, and life took it's toll and 50% of your family...your wife who was childless as was my Barbara. (We adopted one after out only gift from God)...so life was what we put into it and we received bushels back in blessings or mitzvahs.

The movie takes the aged widower back to Paradise Falls to engage the animals, and terrain they found there, and by "they" the older gent was joined by a "Boyscout-type" who needed to help an older person do or with anything for his "Assist an Older Person" badge, and he does succeed by joining The Older Man find his prize.
If you do NOT love it...take some "Prozak" and continue on with what you were doing, but this DVD was worth it "To the Max".
The humor was squeeky clean and I laughed, while I cried as I looked at my wife in my left armpit as we watched it in bed as we have been doing since 1965.
Yes! It's a perfectly watchable animated picture, filled with wonderful happenings in life, and some of the worst... but, life would NOT be the same without that too~!

Get it, enjoy it, then play it again, but remember to have your hankies or tissues to wipe your eyes for the parts that definitely will call for it.

Thanks for your time and attention:
Tatonka-i-e

(**** out of ****) With all the elements of a classic film, this is a movie-lover's delight. Mixing the nostalgia of the 20's 'newsreels' along with a good-old fashioned adventure film, this movie has something that everyone can enjoy. Ed Asner plays Carl Fredrickson, a crotchedy old man who has since lost the luster and zest for life he once had meets likeable, energetic Russell, a boyscout hoping to earn his 'Senior Citizen' badge. The story is multi-layered and tugs at one's heartstrings with its adult themes of death and loss, and there are touching messages sprinkled throughout the movie. I also found the movie profound in its lesson of letting things go and not allowing negative elements or earthly 'things' to weigh you down. Once you let the past go, you can 'rise' to new heights. Friendship, loyalty, good vs. evil, everything you have come to expect from a Disney film, and even more. Even the featurette is delightful ! It is a must-own for Pixar fans and Disney lovers alike.