movies jump the shark too !

Rating: 5/10 (16 October 2010)

up,an old balloon salesman uses 10,000 balloons to fly his house to south America,and unwittingly takes a 8 year old scout kid with him.
the movie starts out great with the story of carl and ellie,the first 15 minutes of the movie has the most powerful scenes,that add a depressing tone to the movie and leave you in tears.it starts out as a story about love,hope and grief.carl's struggle to fit into modern society and how he deals with his wife's death really moved me. after the first half of the movie i was expecting to see a lot of adventure and cleverly done visuals.but what did i get,annoying talking dogs.yes,and thats when up jumped the shark. i found the concept of a man travelling to paradise in a flying house quite amusing,carl and russel were cute,but after the first half of the movie it became apparent that the writers had no idea what to do with the characters,the story introduced a villain with a bunch talking dogs ruining the tone of the movie,making it too childish.i didn't get to see nice paradise like visuals or anything adventurous,and it all seemed thrown together.the ending was emotional but that didn't save the movie for me. voices and animations were great,and michael giacchino's music set the emotional tone of the movie.overall it was an okey movie for me,not as good as the critics said it was.up is a movie that had a lot of potential,but with the attempt to make the movie funny,they runied it,but the jokes weren't even funny.if they limited the plot to carl and his flying house,russel and his family issues,it woud have made an excellent movie.which makes up one of those movies i really wish were better.all things considered,up is overrated. rating -5/10