Even after the prologue, Pixar can still amaze us

Rating: 9/10 (26 May 2016)

Up is just one more reason why 2009 can be considered among the best years in modern animation. The animation is pristinely captured and rendered, making each scene colorful (in the elderly person style, but it fits) and completely watchable at worst. The characters are a blast to have on screen or off (if Russell is a tad obnoxious), and the story has among the best balances of originality and cliché I have seen in a Pixar movie (up there with Monsters. Inc, which didn't take too much advantage of its originality), all because of its execution. The prologue, of course, is what most people will hold memories of, connecting to the lives of any widowers or widows who might watch this movie with their grandchildren or someone else. Even after leaving it, Pixar put in quite an amount of labor in creating the Venezuelan rainforest that the rest of the movie would be set in (please do not take that literally). The jokes work as does the action, and it sums up to a movie that anyone would (or should) appreciate. Pixar, you have crafted another champion, and I have optimism that you will continue to do so in the future (little did I know that only one movie past this point until the Dark Age would be such).