Up PG
Pixar doesn't make bad movies. This one is soaring. They did not disappoint with Up, Pete Docter's second outing, a fantasy tale about a grumpy old widower who longs for his last great adventure, to South America, since he and his deceased wife always wanted to go there. Set in a world of oddly shaped people where it starts in the 1910s and ends up in the 1970s, the couple meet as childhood friends and marry, fall in love, and in old age his wife dies. Several years later, the old man is being forced off his postage stamp of land, now seated between huge towering buildings, but he turns the tables and makes his house into a flying machine using thousands of balloons (as millions would are hard to animate). Boy scout stowaway hangs on for dear life and is rescued only to teach the old codger about being adventurous again, and meeting your childhood hero literally. Moments in this movie brought me to tears. It was beautiful storytelling. The music and the mood was spot on. Give them an Oscar nod again. 1910s reference from the cars and dialog in the opening, during prohibition and before 1920, and the end credits sequence showing a picture of the old guy with the boy at the premiere of 'Star Wars' (1977). If he was about 78 that's about right. His references to modern stuff like 'GPS' is simply for the modern kiddies. Guess if they called it a 'radar compass or secret decoder ring' it would have been more accurate, but so what. Just enjoy it for the fable. (And if it was 2009 then the old guy would be well over 100 today, which it isn't in the story as the promos says he's 78 and the boy is 8). Review by Adam Browne
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