Stunning Visuals, Intensely Heart Warming and Very Funny!

Rating: 8/10 (19 February 2010)

Critics raving and audiences are in total cinematic aw with Pixar's latest addition to the family. Up, is a visually stunning, hilarious and heart warming tale and although sugar coated, it has a much darker layer for it's audience to indulge in. What makes Up so devastatingly brilliant is how it manages to deal with such serious themes like life and death, but does it in such a honest yet innocent way that it doesn't talk down to children. Obviously, this is as far fetched a plot could possibly ever get, but while saying that this is so smart and once again delivers to both adults and children.
Even more character to fall in love with like Russell and Carl, and so many ideas that just add so much to Pixar's already outstanding reputation. It doesn't have the element that made Toy Story, Finding Nemo and The Incredibles such masterpieces, but it's best not too compare. This is one of those movies that if you don't love it, your insane. Up is a very tight film so the running time is a little on the short side and we are deprived of our short film opening. But still, the best animation movie of the year hands down, and probably just one of the best movies too.
Overall: Up is hilarious, intensely heart warming and involves some of the greatest visuals to ever bless the screen. Not quite a masterpiece such as their earlier efforts, but if you don love this movie, your criminally insane.
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