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Here’s a movie for dog lovers, the elderly, children of divorce, FOBs (Friends of Birds), used Boy Scouts, people yearning for adventure, and anyone who has ever loved… and lost. Up is for everyone. It made me laugh out loud, and it made me scream.
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I view it would be tough for Up to match the emotional power of Wall-E. The two Pixar films are similar in their lack of dialogue in the first act, which helps deepen the emotional impact. Up begins with Carl, a petrified young boy star-struck by a distinguished explorer; and kookie Ellie, who has a similar obsession. The two kids become swiftly friends, and command to one day recede to Venezuela’s Paradise Falls. After getting married, they seize their dream home and fix it up, hoping to contain it with children. Carl and Ellie’s life together from childhood through mature age is depicted, silently, with delicacy and subtlety. The first 15 minutes is like a celebration of a delighted marriage, and you truly feel Carl’s distress when he is left alone. He sits slumped in his chair, talking to the house as if it is the missing Ellie.
When developers halt in on Carl’s beloved home, he decides to fulfill his promise to Ellie and move to Paradise Falls. A dilapidated balloon vendor, Carl lifts his home with hundreds of quick-witted balloons. Stowing away on the porch is Russell, a chubby, dauntless kid trying to fetch a scouting badge.
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After landing in Paradise Falls, the broken-down man and the microscopic boy are joined by a golden retriever named Dug who can talk with his collar, and a gigantic rare bird that bonds with Russell (he names her “Kevin”) . Dug is priceless: spot-on for every dog that ever lived, including an obsession with squirrels. Through a series of terminate calls and adventures, the quartet vanquishes a villain, saving the day. And Russell earns his scouting badge.
In the process, Carl learns to let go of his shaded mourning for Ellie, and live life again. When this happens, a truly magical thing happens. Before, Carl’s craggy face is gray and monochromatic. At the moment of his transformation, Carl’s face is awash in color, and he is surrounded by blooming hues. It reminded me of The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy steps out of her gray world and into a candy-colored Munchkinland. Carl, too, enters a whole original world.
Up is a deeply emotional film, burly of truth. It’s the year’s best film. Get another triumph for Pixar.
Someday, Pixar is going to do it — they’re going to build an emotionally uninspiring, lackluster exciting movie. But in the meantime, they’re smooth putting out luscious spellbinding movies like “Up,” which defies the usual kid-movie conventions by starring a crotchety worn man. It’s a charming, fun tiny adventure sage with flying dogs and balloon-powered houses, but underlying it is a bittersweet small anecdote about loss and savor.
As a child, the scared Carl Fredricksen bonded with the oddball Ellie over their shared admire of adventure, the explorer Charles Muntz, and Paradise Falls. They later married, depart into their “clubhouse” together, and lived a long, sadly childless life together. When Ellie died, she had never fulfilled her dream of going to Paradise Falls.
Now crotchety, alone and harassed by a true estate developer, Carl (Ed Asner) is finally ordered to a retirement home. But he isn’t going quietly — instead he attaches thousands of balloons to his house and floats it away toward South America. But he accidentally takes an eager, naive Wilderness Explorer (a thinly-veiled Boy Scout) named Russell (Jordan Nagai) along for the prance. Abominable kid was fair trying to procure an “assisting the elderly” badge.
And the jungle plug to Paradise Falls turns out to have some surprising obstacles: a gigantic emulike bird that Russell names Kevin, a talking dog named Dug (”I am jumping on you, bird!”), and a mysterious outmoded man who lives deep in the heart of the jungle. Turns out the archaic guy is very familiar to Carl — and to bewitch Kevin, he’s willing to sacrifice Carl and Russell.
Industry experts were babbling about how “Up” wouldn’t be as favorite as the previous Pixar movies, because the protagonist is basically a crusty faded coot. Well, shows what they know. It ended up becoming one of those classic movies that somehow appeals to all ages — while the humor and action appeal to children, adults can relish Carl’s worship for his lost wife, and his humdrum realization that he’s clinging to the past.
In fact, the first ten minutes are some of the most heart-tugging, quietly bittersweet scenes I’ve seen in a long time. Without a word, they demonstrate all the ups and downs of a realistic marriage — joys, sorrows (Ellie’s inability to have children), growing feeble together, and finally loss.
But it’s not a depressing movie by any stretch — in fact, it’s like a childhood fantasy near to life, complete with a floating house suspended on hundreds of balloons, and biplanes piloted by a talking dog army.. Plenty of ample dialogue (”Do you want to play a game? It’s called Gawk Who Can Go the Longest Without Saying Anything.” “Cold! My mom loves that game!”) and an action-packed climax in an passe airship.
Ed Asner is absolutely perfect as ubergrouch Carl — crotchety, grumpy, and distinct to fulfill his wife’s lifelong dream, but gradually realizing he’s clinging to the past. Nagai is equally perfect as Carl’s polar opposite: a naive, chattery Scout who is certain to reunite Kevin with her baby chicks. And the utterly adorable Dug and the other dogs deserve special see. These creatures are utterly hilarious — they talk (”I hid under your porch because I adore you”) and act the blueprint dogs would if they talked. Three words: cone of shame.
The two-disc edition is going to have some very nice extras, but once again people with regular-def DVDs are going to pick up shafted because the Blu-ray edition will have a bunch of peculiar stuff. Grr. As for this one, there’s a digital copy, the director’s audio commentary, kinda-alternate-ending “The Many Endings of Muntz,” and the documentary “Adventure Is Out There” about the research for this movie.
There are also a pair of adorable bewitching shorts. “Partly Cloudy” has a much-abused stork having to protest potentially depraved baby creatures from a kind but clueless cloud. And “Dug’s Special Mission” is a sort of backstory for the adorable Dug, explaining what the heck he was doing before he met up with Carl and Russell.
“Up” continues Pixar’s running tally of gloriously challenging, emotionally layered movies that the entire family can savor. With that, I have only one more thing to say… SQUIRREL!
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