Pixar the "Emperor With No Clothes"?

Rating: 6/10 (5 June 2009)

I'm sure for the handful of people that read this I'm going to probably get a 0 out of 12 found this review helpful. It seems, almost without exception that positive reviews are deemed helpful but negative ones are not.
With that said, I felt this was one of the most disappointing, if not the most disappointing Pixar film yet. The story was obviously pieced together almost as an after thought. It was flawed, and at times preposterous.
First, what I liked. The opening 15 minutes. When the young boy and girl met, fell in love, grew old together, and then...well then the rest of the movie happens. Also, very much enjoyed the little boy scout character.
Again, a spoiler alert is called for here. In the opening scene, Carl Frederickson, the 78 year old hero of the story, is a little boy watching a newsreel in a movie theater of his hero, an intrepid adventurer who travels the world in his airship (blimp). Jump forward seventy years later and our 78 year old hero runs into his hero, at least thirty years his senior and the hero looks and acts like a man in his late 50s or early 60s. I mean, Please! Then, the dogs. Oh yes, those cutified, electronic collar talking dogs. Are you kidding me? Who came up with that idea? Ugh!!! We know the idea of "Up" came from the Japanese masterpiece "Howl's Moving Castle." But how that could have a rating on IMDb of 8.1 and "Up" a rating of 9.1 just boggles this person's mind.