Brilliant Writing, Touching Story, Side-splitting High jinks

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2010)

Wonderfully written, UP is poignant, funny, sad, frightening, uplifting, cute, entertaining, and visually pleasing to the eye. And the dogs are just amazing. The animators capture their faces, movements, and idiosyncrasies so perfectly they're side-splitting; especially Dug.
There are number of messages in UP; the most evocative being resiliency.
Another is the spirit of adventure, woven throughout the story.
The most important message – which if mentioned will spoil the story – is very touchingly played between the married couple, and then continues on when character Carl Fredricksen finally realizes the path he must take.
That being said, the screenwriters (Doctor and Peterson) are very in touch with the human spirit and psyche with UP. Kudos, guys.
UP is a relevant movie to discuss with most children because it captures many feelings we humans experience.
In addition. it is nice to see an overweight, animated child in the story so that other overweight children can relate.