Watching Up left me down...

Rating: 9/10 (5 June 2010)

I've finally got to watch Up, and from the beginning, I wasn't disappointed, but I was more or less saddened... I mean, I know every good story has to have a back-story, but this puts a man's whole life into ten minutes, and it's very, very sad. Cute, but sad. The man's wife (who, to add to the sadness, passed away) always wanted to take their house to Paradise Falls, a waterfall in South America. He does so, by equipping his house with thousands of balloons. During the journey, he meets an overly-hyperactive boy-scout-type kid, a bird that's definitely taller than I am, and a dog (with a collar that allows it to talk) who is the runt of the litter...
But what really made it click was the ending, after they lose the house to the villain, who plummets to their death. We find that the house was placed, perfectly, next to Paradise Falls, the way the wife would have wanted it... It deserves every award and accolade it's received, though I do not believe it's suitable to be called a children's movie. Animated, yes. Family, maybe. Children's movie, no.