This should be called DOWN.

Rating: 1/10 (30 December 2011)

I'm assuming everyone who has rated this movie with such adoration must relate to the boring story of this tale, which is a sign that a lot of people are not living up to their potential and making the most out of their life.
My biggest critique is that the story was meant to inspire a life without regret and started off with realistic circumstances but half way through the movie they weakened their purpose by taking the plot in a whole new direction and making everything suddenly unrealistic. Instead of demonstrating that life has unforeseen incidences that can get in the way of your dreams and show how to overcome those hurdles, Pixar and Disney decided to crush those dreams AND any hope for the future. First of all the couple gets married, than tries to go on a dream trip in quest of meeting their adventure hero but house repairs consumes their savings making it difficult to leave. The point of this is obvious, don't wait for tomorrow for tomorrow may never come. But then the wife has a miscarriage! Granted this has happened to many woman but what's the point of showing that? It's not like it's something that can be controlled. What's the lesson of this and what is it doing in a children's film? I know tragedy is a big part of storytelling history but usually death is the main motivator not miscarriage, that is one step away from a still born. Then the couple gets old and the woman dies and the man is left to survive on his own.Surely this happens too again reminding us that we may die before we reach our dreams but she was old and so basically at this point the message seems to be "if your lazy your whole life and stay in the same house and same neighborhood, you're gonna waste your life". Well okay but then the second half of the story is completely unrealistic. An annoying young boy decides to suddenly hang out with the old man and no one cares about the missing child. The house can fly miraculously and off they go to the place he always wanted to go with his wife only to find out that his lifelong hero is a phony and a poacher. Some fake colorful bird shows up displaying pixars latest modeling and texturing skills but it's more ridiculous than meaningful. Sure this movie was "different" and bold but in my opinion the worst film they've ever made. I just hope my negative review will help to deflate this overinflated idea of a good movie.