Up and Over Every Expectation Imaginable

Rating: 10/10 (18 November 2009)

Where do we begin with this one? How about returning to an era of voice-over work where the characters mattered and not the celebrity voices? How about the beautiful animation, from the shadows produced by the light in Muntz's lamp to the water running off of Paradise Falls. How about the most touching story imaginable? You know you've done a good job with your movie when a little animated couple make a nineteen year old boy tear up...and that's the THIRD time I saw it. I'll be downright angry if this does not win the academy award for best picture. Seriously, there hasn't been a better movie in 2009. And it's the best Pixar movie ever. I mean, WALL-E was the best animated film ever, so what's that tell you about this? UP has something for everyone. When was the last time a movie did that? Forget the awful 9. Forget the disappointing WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Even forget the sublime and darkly enchanting CORALINE. THIS is the "kids" movie of the DECADE. If UP is only Pixar's tenth picture, I can't wait to see what they'll come up with in the next ten years.