Not such a fun movie

Rating: 7/10 (15 March 2010)

Pixar animated movies like "Toy Story" & "A Bug's Life" were fun, creative and amusing. Up is strangely "adult" in nature and it's appeal to the very young maybe minimal. The best line in the entire film "I finally get to meet my childhood hero, and now he wants to kill me". Seriously, this should have been a PG-13 movie. Pixar films were more upbeat before they teamed with Disney. Now with Disney, their films have an added drama to them. Disney is great at musical animation storytelling, but I wish they had left Pixar alone.
The story isn't that great, although the love story between Carl & Ellie is admirable, ultimately it's about the widowed Carl and an obese stowaway but determined boy scout, Russell. Their encounters with a strange bird and a talking dog lead them to the villain in the movie, who probably should have had more screen time. There was no explanation of why he needed all those talking dogs.
I thought the animation was superb but the scenarios when the main characters were put in peril, were a little too unbelievable. It seemed with all those bright colored balloons it would be a fun movie, but "Up" can be a downer sometimes and I'd only recommend it to fans of animated films.