His worst time ever

Rating: 3/10 (6 June 2009)

The kid screamed, cried a river, feared, worried, wanted to get out of there, wanted to quit the whole thing and go home.
I am not talking about Russell, the kid character in the movie, I am talking about my 6 year old kid. It was his worst time ever in a movie theater. Certainly I regret taking him to see this film.
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Sadness (excesive in my opinion), dogs with ridiculous talking gadgets to save film time, an exaggerated villain (who being a hero world explorer becomes a raving-mad animal slaughterer in a split second), a cartoonesque rare bird taken from a Porky Pig episode that is neither funny nor tender and scared the hell out of my kid, a miraculously resistant hose, inconsistent time tables (if Muntz was a grown up when Carl was a kid, how old is he when Carl is 78 years old?), graphic violence and a common place kid of divorced parents to fix the tearful ending.
I certainly do not agree with all these "best Pixar film ever" reviews. The story is not solid, everything is excessively explained for an adult film and extremely violent for a children's.
It seems that some executive had the idea of a flying house and nobody knew what to do with that.
Yes, the graphics are great, but then again, Pixar used to do more than that.