cake1
Since: Feb, 2016
02/23/2016 00:00:00
I like to think of it as a great adventure movie with a sentimental touch, just like many of the movies Disney does. I agree that the opening was absolutely heart-rending, although I don\'t think that it necessarily stood out as mood whiplash compared to the rest of the movie. I think it was kind of about how Carl, by way of fulfilling his childhood dream, was able to \"begin a new adventure\" in his life and move on from Ellie\'s death. He finds new companions and begins to live life again. The plot may have been a little \"silly\", but honestly wasn\'t that implausible, considering all of the fantasy elements. I don\'t know, it\'s been a long time since I\'ve last seen \"Up\", I should probably watch it again some time.
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Outstanding at parts, but extremely uneven
When I first saw this movie, I thought it was amazing. The first ten minutes were one of the best examples of visual storytelling I've ever seen and made me instantly connect with Carl, the rest of the cast were incredibly entertaining to watch, the whole adventure was fun and the payoff when Carl actually reaches his goal only to realize how utterly hollow his victory is was an absolutely beautiful moment... However, time has not been all that kind to this movie. Oh don't get me wrong, everything involving Carl and Ellie's relationship is absolutely outstanding... but this is pretty much all in those first ten minutes and the scene where Carl looks through the album just before the climax. And the rest of the movie, while undoubtedly entertaining, is to me just a bit too silly, and its logic seems horribly inconsistent. Like, I can accept for the purpose of the story that Carl was able to lift the house by attaching thousands of balloons to it... but the idea that he and Russel are then able to weigh it down just by their own body-weight, keeping the house afloat but preventing it from flying away? That makes no sense whatsoever. Also the adventure they go to just does not feel like it belongs in the same movie as the opening montage. Like, really? Dogs flying airplanes and firing syringes at a kid hanging from a waterhose attached to a flying house? And how is Muntz still alive at this point?
Don't get me wrong, this is still a good movie. Despite its excessive silliness, it is consistently entertaining, Carl and Russel are still incredibly likable protagonists and the relationship between them is genuinely moving, and the opening montage alone more than justifies the price of admission, but on the whole... Yeah, not one of my favorites. With Ratatouille, Pixar started a string of absolutely brilliant movies which continued up to Toy Story 3 (and abruptly ended after that with the release of easily their worst movie yet in Cars 2 but that's neither here nor there), but to me, this is the weakest movie they released in that period.