A wonderful and feel good adventure journey of connection and fun surprises with new friends and new land!

Rating: 8/10 (18 January 2010)

Disney's Pixar is at it again as once more they prove to be the kings of animation! One of 2009's best rightfully titled "Up" a very funny film that touches and connects your heart emotionally even if your a grown adult like me! It proves that when you go up in the sky limits are no more in terms of friendships, journey, and most of all you find unexpected happiness.
The tale centers around Carl Fredricksen a 78 year old retired balloon salesman who's lonely and grumpy after losing his wife. Yet Carl's always been a part time dreamer who wants one more chance to fly the high skies. As the surrounding area around him one by one is being crushed off Carl has an extreme and clever plan to save his house, he's tied thousands of balloons to it to make it fly and float away with the sky clouds when he's ready! He wants to accomplish his childhood dreams of seeing lost worlds.
To throw a rock to his journey he meets Carl Russell an overeager eight year old Wilderness explorer who's never ventured past his own back yard so he wants to journey along! Just when you think that this friendship is odd and unusual along the journey both meet the oddest yet most loved new friends in the form of Dug a dog with a special collar that allows him to speak. Now if you think that's neat how about Kevin a rare 13-foot-tall flightless bird! All stuck together in the far away land and jungle many unexpected twist and turns are taken as a journey doesn't always go as planned.
Clearly for an animation film "Up" scores a big victory it has all the themes and elements that appeal to a viewers emotions young or old as the ability to journey after dreaming for so long combined with the fact that connections are made finding new friends even though they seem unlikely it's both touching and very sentimental. So soar to the sky and ride the clouds to a wonderful adventure as when you go up you never know what to expect look out as delightful surprises await.