Movies Suck: Pixar does it again, but I'm not sure it's a compliment anymore.

Rating: 4/10 (23 June 2010)

Have you seen "Shrek"?
You have? Oh good, that saves me a lot of time. "Up" is basically that.
No? Well, fine. Alright, I guess I'll review it for real then.
"Up" is about a grumpy old widower who rigs his house up with a million billion helium balloons so he can fly it to South America and live in Paradise Falls, which is what he and his dead wife always wanted. On the way of his adventures he teams up with a goofy boy scout, a goofy talking dog, and a goofy tropical bird. He also meets up with his idol and fellow adventurer, who then sets out to try to kill him for "stealing his bird". Then the good guys win, the bad guys don't, and everyone has a happy ever after.
Doesn't sound like Shrek? Allow me...
Entire plot of movie = grumpy people + foils get put through some adventure the grumpy people don't want to do, but through doing it become generally happier people with metaphorically and physically more than what they started out with. In Shrek's case it was a princess. In Grumpy old man's case it was a big blimp and a team of talking dogsand the opportunity to see South America.
"Up" is by no means a bad movie...overall, it's a good movie in its own right, but a disappointment for me personally.
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