This is a truly remarkable film that quite rightly has rocketed its way to the 25th best film of all time on the imdb.com list, and that’s from 27000 votes. Although it’s an animation, it is like nothing I’ve ever seen before, and completely blew me away when I watched it.
The film begins with two children meeting each-other. A boy and a girl, they develop a friendship. There then follows a truly heartbreaking montage that shows them growing up, ... ...wife dying. This few minutes of film is something so profound it just blew me and my wife away, and I can’t put into words the simple but effective power it had.
What you’re left with, then, is 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen, the boy from the start of the movie, who undertakes an adventure never before conceived of. His dream with his wife was to travel to this far away canyon in the US outback, and he decides to make that dream a reality. Despite ...
bruffyboy 27.07.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Up (DVD)
Advantages: Superb animation, characterisation, design, subtle 3D Disadvantages: None
...of the latest Disney/Pixar movie UP released 29th May in the US and scheduled for release in the UK October Half-term. This is without doubt a classic movie. It really shows what state of the art animation can do, true characterisation, humour and pathos. The early part of the movie portrays the life of our hero, his meeting with his life partner their life together and her eventual death. This section was done superbly no-one could fail to be moved ... ...family home and the eventual UP of the title. A comedy partnership is initiated with a young scout who travels "up" with the old man, eventually to the excitement of the quest. Trials and tribulation follow, my youngest showed a little concern but of course happy endings.... On seeing pictures of the old man you might wonder about the design and artwork but don't, the facial designs used enable a much finer set of expressions to be incorporated the ...
Cannylondon 09.06.2009
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful Review of Up (DVD)
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