"Up" is a wonderful film, with characters who are as believable as any characters can be who spend much of their time floating above the rain forests of Venezuela. They have tempers, problems and obsessions. They are cute and goofy, but they aren't cute in the treacly way of little cartoon animals. They're cute in the human way of the animation master Hayao Miyazaki. Two of the three central ...
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Tom Charity CNN.com Funny and poignant and full of life, Up easily qualifies as one of the best movies of the year so far. Go with someone you care about. Jul 6, 2010 Full Review Cosmo Landesman ...
'Up' Review: 2009 Pixar Movie
Movies; Movie Reviews 'Up': Film Review. Winsome, touching and arguably the funniest Pixar effort ever, the gorgeously rendered, high-flying adventure is a tidy 90-minute distillation of all ...
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Up is breathtaking in its imaginative detail and astonishing in its emotional range. Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 11, 2014. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted ...
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Parents need to know that Up is the second Pixar movie (after The Incredibles) to receive a PG rating, mostly due to a few potentially frightening scenes involving a band of trained talking dogs trying to get rid of the protagonists, some moments where characters almost fall from a floating house, and some guns firing.That said, it's Disney/Pixar, so the violence is mild.
Up (2009)
User Reviews. Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner) as a young quiet kid idolized explorer Charles Muntz (Christopher Plummer) and his discovery of Paradise Falls. Ellie is much more animated and also a great fan of Muntz. Together they would marry and live their lives together until the day she dies.
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Up. Directed by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson. Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family. PG. 1h 36m. By Manohla Dargis. May 28, 2009. In its opening stretch the new Pixar movie "Up" flies high, borne ...
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Up is a comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 9-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. (Walt ...
Up (2009)
Up: Directed by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson. With Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson. 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
Up (2009)
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Up transported me to another world and allowed me to experience that thrill of adventure, previously felt only in films as great as Raiders of the Lost Ark. But perhaps the film's biggest ...
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Up is not without flaws. Carl and Russell's equatorial odyssey at times settles for cliche, and there may be one or two too many aerial cliffhangers during the climax. But such concerns barely ...
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Original Title: Up. In 1982, Werner Herzog made Fitzcarraldo, the story of an over-zealous Irishman (bonkers Klaus Kinski) who, in his quest to bring opera to the South American jungle, drags a ...
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A dog bites Kevin's leg, drawing blood. As a child, Carl falls through an attic floorboard and accidentally smacks himself in the face with his own arm cast. As an adult, he thwacks a poor, innocent construction worker with his cane. (The construction worker's knocked out, and he appears to bleed a bit.)
Up (2009)
A three-hankie weepie and a cliffhanging thriller. A cross-generational odd-couple buddy movie; a story of man and dog. A tale of sharply observed melancholy truths and whimsically unfettered nonsense. Directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson. Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson, Delroy Lindo, Jerome Ranft.
'UP' Review
There's nothing better than an easy review: Pixar's latest summer offering, UP, is a fantastic film.Simply fantastic. Seriously, if Ratatouille and Wall-E deserved to be in the running for Best Picture of the Year (as many said they did at the times of their releases) then UP certainly does.. It's that good.. The film - which was written by Bob Peterson (Finding Nemo, Ratatouille) and directed ...
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UP is a terrific movie full of crazy hilarity, hairbreadth escapes, enchanting characters, thrilling suspense, brilliant wit, and incredibly poignant, touching moments that remind one of the most heartfelt moments in one's favorite movies. In fact, UP has one of the most adorable, winsome and extraordinarily tender openings ever seen in a ...
Movie Review: Up (2009)
Instead, this film may be their strongest showing yet. Continuing through the door that WALL-E ripped open, Up too, tells a powerful tale without wasting words or packing the 96 minute running time with unneeded filler material. It gets going with an unexpectedly moving and heartfelt montage laying out the younger years of Carl Fredericksen ...
Up (2009 film)
Up is a 2009 American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.The film was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Bob Peterson, and produced by Jonas Rivera.Docter and Peterson also wrote the film's screenplay and story, with Tom McCarthy co-writing the latter. The film stars the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer ...
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Up (United States, 2009) May 26, 2009. A movie review by James Berardinelli. A film like Up makes it clear that Pixar has moved beyond the point where it feels the need to pander to children. Unlike its main animation competitor, Dreamworks, Pixar allows sophisticated themes and ideas to seep into its movies.
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Up. 2009, PG, 96 min. Directed by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson. Voices by Bob Peterson, Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Delroy Lindo, Jerome Ranft, Elie Docter. Pixar tops itself with ...
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Muntz's character was quite frankly underdeveloped, shallow, and, moreover, controversial. In one scene, he is portrayed as a hero and a hospitable gentleman, but quickly changes in a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde fashion into a maddened, obsessed lunatic bent on capturing the bird without regard to even human life.
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This follow-up to the 1996 blockbuster Twister updates the original by making its heroine — not its hero — the center of gravity, but alas, the script doesn't let her be a whole lot of fun.
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"Up" is a wonderful film, with characters who are as believable as any characters can be who spend much of their time floating above the rain forests of Venezuela. They have tempers, problems and obsessions. They are cute and goofy, but they aren't cute in the treacly way of little cartoon animals. They're cute in the human way of the animation master Hayao Miyazaki. Two of the three central ...
Tom Charity CNN.com Funny and poignant and full of life, Up easily qualifies as one of the best movies of the year so far. Go with someone you care about. Jul 6, 2010 Full Review Cosmo Landesman ...
Movies; Movie Reviews 'Up': Film Review. Winsome, touching and arguably the funniest Pixar effort ever, the gorgeously rendered, high-flying adventure is a tidy 90-minute distillation of all ...
Up is breathtaking in its imaginative detail and astonishing in its emotional range. Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 11, 2014. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted ...
Parents need to know that Up is the second Pixar movie (after The Incredibles) to receive a PG rating, mostly due to a few potentially frightening scenes involving a band of trained talking dogs trying to get rid of the protagonists, some moments where characters almost fall from a floating house, and some guns firing.That said, it's Disney/Pixar, so the violence is mild.
User Reviews. Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner) as a young quiet kid idolized explorer Charles Muntz (Christopher Plummer) and his discovery of Paradise Falls. Ellie is much more animated and also a great fan of Muntz. Together they would marry and live their lives together until the day she dies.
Up. Directed by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson. Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family. PG. 1h 36m. By Manohla Dargis. May 28, 2009. In its opening stretch the new Pixar movie "Up" flies high, borne ...
Up is a comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 9-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. (Walt ...
Up: Directed by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson. With Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson. 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
Up (2009) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... Menu. Movies. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. TV Shows. ... Metacritic reviews. Up. 88. Metascore. 37 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com. 100.
Up transported me to another world and allowed me to experience that thrill of adventure, previously felt only in films as great as Raiders of the Lost Ark. But perhaps the film's biggest ...
Up is not without flaws. Carl and Russell's equatorial odyssey at times settles for cliche, and there may be one or two too many aerial cliffhangers during the climax. But such concerns barely ...
Original Title: Up. In 1982, Werner Herzog made Fitzcarraldo, the story of an over-zealous Irishman (bonkers Klaus Kinski) who, in his quest to bring opera to the South American jungle, drags a ...
A dog bites Kevin's leg, drawing blood. As a child, Carl falls through an attic floorboard and accidentally smacks himself in the face with his own arm cast. As an adult, he thwacks a poor, innocent construction worker with his cane. (The construction worker's knocked out, and he appears to bleed a bit.)
A three-hankie weepie and a cliffhanging thriller. A cross-generational odd-couple buddy movie; a story of man and dog. A tale of sharply observed melancholy truths and whimsically unfettered nonsense. Directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson. Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson, Delroy Lindo, Jerome Ranft.
There's nothing better than an easy review: Pixar's latest summer offering, UP, is a fantastic film.Simply fantastic. Seriously, if Ratatouille and Wall-E deserved to be in the running for Best Picture of the Year (as many said they did at the times of their releases) then UP certainly does.. It's that good.. The film - which was written by Bob Peterson (Finding Nemo, Ratatouille) and directed ...
UP is a terrific movie full of crazy hilarity, hairbreadth escapes, enchanting characters, thrilling suspense, brilliant wit, and incredibly poignant, touching moments that remind one of the most heartfelt moments in one's favorite movies. In fact, UP has one of the most adorable, winsome and extraordinarily tender openings ever seen in a ...
Instead, this film may be their strongest showing yet. Continuing through the door that WALL-E ripped open, Up too, tells a powerful tale without wasting words or packing the 96 minute running time with unneeded filler material. It gets going with an unexpectedly moving and heartfelt montage laying out the younger years of Carl Fredericksen ...
Up is a 2009 American animated comedy-drama adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.The film was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Bob Peterson, and produced by Jonas Rivera.Docter and Peterson also wrote the film's screenplay and story, with Tom McCarthy co-writing the latter. The film stars the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer ...
Up (United States, 2009) May 26, 2009. A movie review by James Berardinelli. A film like Up makes it clear that Pixar has moved beyond the point where it feels the need to pander to children. Unlike its main animation competitor, Dreamworks, Pixar allows sophisticated themes and ideas to seep into its movies.
Up. 2009, PG, 96 min. Directed by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson. Voices by Bob Peterson, Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Delroy Lindo, Jerome Ranft, Elie Docter. Pixar tops itself with ...
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Muntz's character was quite frankly underdeveloped, shallow, and, moreover, controversial. In one scene, he is portrayed as a hero and a hospitable gentleman, but quickly changes in a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde fashion into a maddened, obsessed lunatic bent on capturing the bird without regard to even human life.
This follow-up to the 1996 blockbuster Twister updates the original by making its heroine — not its hero — the center of gravity, but alas, the script doesn't let her be a whole lot of fun.
A trailer for the movie's release broke records, racking up 365 million views in 24 hours.. Directed by Night at the Museum maker Shawn Levy, the film follows the superheroes as they ...
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman double down on fan service in Shawn Levy's Marvel team-up, 'Deadpool & Wolverine,' also starring Emma Corrin.
The summer before high school begins, a 13-year-old Taiwanese American tries to find his way in Sean Wang's narrative feature debut.
From our review: Chris is a stand-in for Sean Wang, who built the movie on top of his own memories. So while those recollections are highly specific to the setting and the time period — Chris ...
Harold and the Purple Crayon: Directed by Carlos Saldanha. With Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Zooey Deschanel, Benjamin Bottani. Inside of his book, adventurous Harold can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book's pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life.
Meek middle manager Thomas (Freddie Prinze Jr.) seemingly has the perfect life.He has a good job, a huge home in the serene suburbs, two kids — clean-cut teenagers Alex (Tyler Lawrence Gray) and ...