Disappointment.

Rating: 2/10 (23 June 2010)

I watched this film a lot later than it came out on DVD. Im glad i didn't go to the cinema to watch this.
the first few minutes of the film were very well done. they didn't seem emotional at all in my view, but they made me root for the character and i wanted him to succeed. Possibly the scene that made me want to shout at the screen was the bit where the contractors came to take his house.
the storm scene was again very well done. but as soon as they landed in south America, i was met with a wall of one-sided character development, weak storyline, and irrational behavior. maybe if there were more scenes that the old man (i forget his name) had to bond with the two incredibly annoying creatures, i wouldn't be so harsh with this review. but i cant understand at all why he would suddenly risk his life to save a stupid bird that, less than 10 minutes ago, he told to sod off. the dog got on my nerves too. by the end i found no reason why anyone would want to rescue that bloody thing, and i wished it had fallen onto some rocks or something.
the villain was irrational. he seems to undergo an impossible change of character - either he was a schizo, or the script wasn't written very well. one minute he wants to find the bird alongside the old man, next he sees the bird and wants to kill them both instead of asking nicely for it. this sort of insane colour bambardment continues throughout the film, and we get loads of threads in the story which are left untied.
a good script is one where every move made by the characters is one that you know fits the character well, or one that you would be able to transpose onto a real person. in UP, the only rational decsion made is the marriage of that woman to that man.(i forget their names, you see.) everything else said or done is so implausible that the rest of the film dies. I'm sorry, but here are some examples.
the bird is an annoyance to everyone - the dog, the old man, the boy - but everybody loves it. its another example of the annoying thing that everyone likes in Disney films. the old man spends less than a day with that boy and suddenly they are like father and son. the villain guy has no reason to chase the people with dogs. he could simply ask for the bird. but he instead embarks on this needless token battle which ends in his death.
nobody sees the stupidity of the decisions made in the film, and i really hope that this film does not make it into the top 250 - or top 100000 for that matter. this was probably the only pixar film which sunk to the depths of chaep Disney drivel. i despair.