Moves beyond entertainment to art

Rating: 10/10 (7 June 2010)

Pixar has made a lot of wonderful movies, and a couple of less wonderful ones, but nothing has impressed me as much as Up, which has the humor and heart of a Hayao Miyazaki film. The beginning is typically Pixar-cute, as a little boy meets a little girl with similar interests. This is followed by a remarkable sequence of these two over the next 50 years, which could be taken from the movie and turned into a popular animated short in animation shows.
The movie moves easily from wildly, amazingly funny to non-maudlin touching. There are incredible ideas in the film that I won't spoil for you, and wonderful visuals, most notably a scene in which a mass of balloons throws brightly colored shadows. This film is both one of Pixar's funniest movies, and the one that feels most like true art. It is a movie everyone should see.