2009 Directed by Pete Docter
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.
Edward Asner Christopher Plummer Jordan Nagai Bob Peterson Delroy Lindo Jerome Ranft John Ratzenberger David Kaye Elie Docter Jeremy Leary Mickie McGowan Danny Mann Donald Fullilove Jess Harnell Josh Cooley Pete Docter Mark Andrews Bob Bergen Brenda Chapman Emma Coats John Cygan Paul Eiding Tony Fucile Teresa Ganzel Sherry Lynn Laraine Newman Teddy Newton Jeff Pidgeon Valerie LaPointe Show All…
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Dad what's wrong?
Grown up stuff, sweetheart.
Like what?
Daddy's just a bit afraid for the world.
Is it because of the Orange Hamster Man?
Yep.
Are you sad?
A bit.
Wanna watch a movie?
Yeah.
Which one?
You pick.
My kids know me so well.
One hundred years from now, film scholars will study the 15 wordless minutes near the beginning of this movie as one of the finest examples of storytelling across any medium or genre. I say this without threat of hyperbole.
My family went to see Up on my grandpa’s 70th birthday back in 2009. When the movie was over, I remember everyone being ecstatic - and undeniably moved. At age 9, I think it was probably the first time I’d seen my parents shed tears in a movie. My dad immediately dubbed the first 15 minutes of the film “The Robot Test” - because “if you don’t cry in the first 15 minutes, you’re a robot.”
My grandpa, Jim, loved Up more than anyone else. As soon as he’d seen it once, he wanted to see it again. Happy to do so, we all went back to the theater for the second time that day. A few weeks later, my…
My dad made it sound so easy. He's really good at camping, and how to make fire from rocks and stuff. He used to come to all my Sweatlodge meetings...
And afterwards we'd go get ice cream at Fentons. I always get chocolate and he gets butter- brickle. Then we'd sit on this one curb, right outside, and I'll count all the blue cars and he counts all the red ones, and whoever gets the most, wins...
I like that curb...
That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most.
(Naturally, everyone remembers the wife dying, but for me, Russel's speech is just as gut-wrenching.)
This movie is so perfect it feels like a work of alchemy. The only way I can conceive of someone creating something this moving and funny and exciting is if they first went down to the crossroads and made a deal with Satan. I waffle on Pixar's greatest masterpiece (FINDING NEMO and MONSTERS INC. are usually my other contenders) but for now, I'm going with UP.
Up is another one of Pixar's absolute gems from the countless films they've made over the years. This one though, is rather sentimental from the start. This is an extremely complex thing to achieve for most filmmakers, but Pixar always hires the best so they effortlessly pulled it off because of the exceptional way they did it throughout the first couple of minutes.
The rest of the film too, also handles this constant emotion, but includes humor that fits the tone well, touching moments that stick with you even after the film ends, and an adventure for a literal lifetime between the admirable characters to create a near-perfect animated feature that will forever be seen as a classic for the ages.
Cute kiddie fluff with an excellent opening and score. Take those out and ehhhhh. Don't get me wrong, Dug is really funny and it's a nice little adventure but it's not really thematically cohesive like Wall-E or Shrek 2. If people could stop calling this the greatest Pixar movie based off of the opening alone that'd be great.
After college, most of my friends moved away. I found myself somewhat adrift and unsure of how to connect with others. Around that time, I had a chat online with an old friend that re-opened my struggle with my gender (I had managed to repress things pretty significantly for a few years there), and I felt completely isolated. Even after I started finding new friends and new experiences, I still found myself pulling back, closing off, unable to push myself beyond certain routines. Despite managing to find my own small adventures, even in company, gender dysphoria kept the real me locked away. And in my mind, especially lately, the good parts of those years have been hard to remember. All…
Pixar Ranked 👍🏼
If someone doesn't play Married Life at my funeral, then I'm not dying.
MUSIC
It’s funny how a song with no lyrics can tell an inspiring and emotional story. People SLEEP on film scores all the time and take them for granted. Well, in Up, it is made apparent that music speaks more than words. Just think about it, without Michael Giacchino's wonderful music - Up would be very awkward and have barely any feeling. I'm going to mention the main song here obviously, Married Life. I'll try to stop myself from writing too much about this theme. The song itself should get all the praise in the world. Even listening to it on its own, it…
Watched in preparation for Pete Docter's newest film, Inside Out.
Although I like Up quite a bit, I still don't find it to be the masterpiece other people say it is. Yes, it goes without saying that the first ten minutes are absolutely brilliant, flawless even. From the opening bit of exposition to the utterly astonishing montage showing the relationship between Carl and Ellie over the course of several decades, the filmmakers managed to create possibly the greatest thing to come out of the studio. Hell, it might even be one of the greatest movie moments of the 21st century! Every single time I watch it, I'm completely taken by the craftsmanship put into the visual composition, musical accompaniment, and…
The first ever animated feature film to inaugurate the Cannes Film Festival & one of the only three works of animation to have been nominated for Best Picture Oscar so far, Pixar’s Up is a profoundly intimate human drama, a rollicking adventure, a heartwarming romance, a joyous coming-of-age tale & a rib-tickling comedy, all extraordinarily blended into one gorgeously rendered masterpiece that not only succeeds as one of the best works of Pixar Animation Studios but deserves to be ranked amongst the greatest films ever made.
Commencing its story with what’s unquestionably the finest opening scene in any Pixar film to date, Up tells the story of an old grumpy widower who, in order to avoid going to a retirement home, ties…
One of the best opening montages to a film I’ve seen. Really empathise with all the characters. Quite a serious film for a kids cartoon. Overall really enjoyable watch.
The opening 15 minutes are amazing. No one has ever told a story just through moving pictures with no dialogue before, these guys invented that. Pure genius.
It's difficult to rank these Pixar movies after watching 10 of them because they are all so good (with few exceptions), so it saddens me to give Up "only" 4 out of 5 stars. I think Ed Asner delivers a poignant voice role as Carl and I love the characters of Russell, Dug, Kevin and even Charles Muntz. The animation is gorgeous as usual, ever getting better by Pixar standards, and the music is so atmospheric for what an adventure this is. It's a rare treat when the first 10 minutes of a movie can set the mood and purpose of the rest of the story so well, but that's what Up manages to do!
this movie has one of the most beautiful soundtracks ever. aside from the iconic “married life” song (a real tearjerker every time), each track just feels... right; left me both feeling nostalgic & yearning for experiences that haven’t happened to me yet. who knew an animated film can do such a great job of making you feel a million things in only 96 minutes.
If it weren’t for the stupid childish jokes, the movie would be a lot better
I always have enjoyed this movie a lot. Such a sweet, sad and funny masterpiece, we all can agree on that. My first watch was on theaters with my dad when I was 9 and watched it several times on television later. It wasn’t my favorite animated film but I really had liked it.
10 years forward, I’m watching Up with my 2 year old brother for the millionth time, while he is hugging his golden retriever plushie - it reminds me of Doug. He is always laughing at everything that happens there, and when he does, my baby brother checks if I’m laughing too, giving me the greatest smile on the universe. I always smile back at him. Undoubtedly, I love this movie now more than I ever did before.
Cinematic Perfection
"That might sound boring, but I think the boring stuff is the stuff I remember the most."
If you hate or dislike this film, I'm convinced that you have no soul and will end up somewhere other than heaven. An undeniably moving, wholehearted testament to the hilarity, poignancy, and exhilaration - both emotional & profound - of not only the cinematic medium but of the entirety of animation's fantastical possibilities. Moments of innocence and regrets, love and isolation, motivations and experiences; a life lived vs. new adventures. A perfect endeavor. Flip the page.
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