Movie Review: Up
I -loved- Up. LOVED it. I'm throwing in a full 5/5 for it, because Disney and Pixar has totally, completely sucked me dry of tears with this movie. (I bawled, therefore, no more tears, see? Laugh, people, LAUGH.)
I was pleasantly surprised at the beginning of the film, to see the short film that they'd aired in true Pixar fashion. (something about cloud-beings that made babies/fuzzy cute things/fun stuff with lightning and puffs of clouds, which were then delivered to people down in a suburb town.)
I giggled as the storks swept in. Made a girly d'awww when kittens were dropped at a door. Another, when a baby was dropped. Laughed at the ingenuity of it all when the storks swooped to the clouds to retrieve other things to deliver.
The short made me think that friendship is perhaps one of the most beautiful things in the world. No matter how much your friend hurts you, you come back; because at the end of the day, it's your friend. Watch that short; it'll make you giggle and cry all at the same time.
Twenty minutes into Up, I was bawling like a baby. Carl Fredrickson and Ellie Fredrickson are perhaps two of the sweetest couples I've seen on the big-screen in a long, long time. That she'd died, and left him her 'adventure book', was something so touching, that it made me want to cry again and again, and again. They were loving; they had each other.
I want to find a Carl Fredrickson of my own, and I want to grow old with him the way Ellie grew old with hers.
Even the biggest bunch of misfits can fit together if there's love all around.
I could understand little Russell's determination and pain to hang onto his female-with-a-male-name-pet bird. Here's a little boy, very happy outside, but you know he has his problems. Like Carl, he's missing something in his life, and he's lonely. The journey that they take together not only makes them stronger within, it gives them hope, and it gives them each other.
Does anyone else realise that Carl no longer needs his cane by the middle of the movie? Once again, Disney sends us subliminal messages through this tiny little detail.
Have the adventure you've always wanted, no matter how old, or how young you are. Live on life, and every day will be the best day you've ever had. They all certainly look happy up there.
All in all, I have to say, that Up was possibly one of THE best movies I've seen this year. It made me laugh and cry, it made me want to watch it again and again and again.
My parting words are these.
"I hid under your porch because I love you." - Dug, Up
Ain't life simple in the head of a dog? ;)
Good boy, Dug. We all love you too. <3
P/S - Is it just me, or does Alpha's voice sound like Foamy the Neurotic Squirrel?