A heart-warming story with adventure, laughs and everything a great movie should be

Rating: 10/10 (3 June 2009)

I saw this today with my friends and i wanted to watch Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell instead but my friends talked me into seeing this, and boy was i glad they did. Pixar has delivered some timeless classics like Toy Story, Monsters Inc. Finding Nemo, and the most recent Wall-E but this one has to be by far my favorite. Walking into the theater i was expecting a typical kids movie with a couple of laughs, crazy scenarios and funny characters but i got much MUCH more than that. The short film Party-cloudy couldn't have been a more appropriate warm up of what was to come in this movie because that short film had me tearing a little.
The first 5 minutes of this story gave me such a nostalgic feeling of when i saw Bambi as a kid couldn't help but cry. The start of the movie had me moved with having Carl and his friend Ellie venture into the start of their lives and the close and unconditional love they shared for each-other. An amazing and almost too perfect couple put in a Disney film you think they could never have such a tragic event happen to this couple. But sadly, the animators of Pixar leave you bawling with this tear-jerker. The simple things about this intro really got to me like how they showed when they were kids and Ellie flew a balloon with a paper attached to it into Carl's room and Carl did the same thing to her when she was in the hospital. After his wife died, your heart sinks and you think to yourself how can i watch the rest of this movie after witnessing such a depressing moment? The scene afterwards with the bulldozers almost crushing his mailbox with their handprints on it and then wacking the guy in the head was almost hard to watch.
But of course Pixar pulls it off again and takes the audience on a surreal adventure with great witticisms and characters. Russell's character was well portrayed and brought a lot of comedy and a great companion to Mr. Fredrickson. The dog 'Dug' brought a lot of great humor to the film and lines that had me laughing out of my chair at times. And the character of Charles Muntz, Carl's once childhood hero and now enemy was a great addition to the plot.
All in all, this movie defines what real family movie is. It is literally for any age out there and you will enjoy it no matter where, when or who you are watching it with. A movie like Up will be frozen in the Pixar vault for a long time and other movies to come will have to be greatly designed to beat this classic. 10/10 easily