"Up" - A Review

It's always a great event to see a Pixar film for the first time. I'm happy to say that I've seen every single Pixar film in the theater on opening day. And there's simply no reason why their latest masterpiece, "Up", shouldn't be included in that streak.

"Up" stars Carl Fredricksen, a newly-widowed man who realizes that his lifelong love, Ellie, never had the great adventure she always dreamed of having: to build a house on top of Paradise Falls in South America. After her funeral, and sitting alone in his chair with her empty chair next to him, he vows to make her dream come true by tying thousands of helium balloons to his house, lifting it off its foundations, and floating it all due south. But in his triumphant escape, he inadvertently brings along a young Wilderness Explorer named Russell. Being unable to return to the city, he is reluctantly stuck with the eager Russell, and they both manage to find their way to South America. But to get to the final destination of Paradise Falls, they both must overcome the greatest, and most treacherous, adventure they've ever encountered.

This movie was definitely classic Pixar. A huge adventure, great characters, great story, and great visuals. With that being said, I'm not going to say it was my favorite Pixar movie, because I think they succeeded a lot more with some of their other films (anyone remember "Wall-E"?).

"Up" also surprised me in a few instances. It was probably the saddest movie Pixar's ever done. And it marks the first time Pixar crossed over the human "blood" line. We almost never see blood in a Pixar film, let alone a Disney release. We previously saw blood from Dory's nose in "Finding Nemo", and that didn't really get a reaction from me. But when I first saw red on a human character, I'm like "holy...!" That definitely surprised me.

And, of course, I had to see this in 3D. With it being Pixar's first venture into the 3rd dimension, I was really curious as to how they would pull this off. And my response would be, if I had seen this before seeing the 3D versions of "Beowulf" or "Monsters vs. Aliens", I would have been highly impressed. But in my opinion, they didn't pull off the effect as well as those other movies, at least not from beginning to end.  The movie had moments where the effect was really felt, but those were just moments. "Monsters vs. Aliens" remains the best 3D movie I've ever seen, and I think future 3D films have a lot to live up to.

So if you're not a die-hard like me, and are on the fence about seeing this in 2D or 3D, I'd stick with 2D. You'll get the same emotional reactions from the film, and you'll save a few bucks in the process.  And ultimately, you'll see another success from Pixar.

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