Convenient adventure story thrills you visually

Rating: 7/10 (31 March 2012)

Not much to say for a review of "Up" except that it was an adventure of a tale filled with adult-undertones in an otherwise child-like movie that knows how to use its sense of fantasy to drive the story home. The music was standard Pixar/Disney fare, which has a hint of obvious, on-the-nose emotional-clichés about it by this point in Disney films. Even though the scenes were absolutely ridiculous in logic, it makes for the best kind of kid's film. This is the updated version of "Rescuers Down Under" and "Flight of the Navigator." (Basically Disney and Pixar decide over the question "Does the shot look dramatic enough?" and goes with whichever logic gets them that shot) Personally, I would have liked the movie better if Carl made the decision to stand his ground in the end and not to go after these accessory characters, and the way they arrive and return to the destinations of home and Paradise Falls is completely by happen-stance. In the end, I gave the movie a reluctant 7 stars, though, because it is fascinating what Pixar can dream up, however implausible the story is.