Here’s a movie for dog lovers, the elderly, children of divorce, FOBs (Friends of Birds), outmoded Boy Scouts, people yearning for adventure, and anyone who has ever loved… and lost. Up is for everyone. It made me laugh out loud, and it made me roar.
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I plan it would be tough for Up to match the emotional power of Wall-E. The two Pixar films are similar in their lack of dialogue in the first act, which helps deepen the emotional impact. Up begins with Carl, a stupefied young boy star-struck by a renowned explorer; and kookie Ellie, who has a similar obsession. The two kids become rapidly friends, and bid to one day disappear to Venezuela’s Paradise Falls. After getting married, they consume their dream home and fix it up, hoping to hold it with children. Carl and Ellie’s life together from childhood through aged age is depicted, silently, with delicacy and subtlety. The first 15 minutes is like a celebration of a overjoyed marriage, and you truly feel Carl’s hurt when he is left alone. He sits slumped in his chair, talking to the house as if it is the missing Ellie.
When developers conclude in on Carl’s beloved home, he decides to fulfill his promise to Ellie and move to Paradise Falls. A old-fashioned balloon vendor, Carl lifts his home with hundreds of shiny balloons. Stowing away on the porch is Russell, a fleshy, daring kid trying to rep a scouting badge.
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After landing in Paradise Falls, the aged man and the limited boy are joined by a golden retriever named Dug who can talk with his collar, and a titanic rare bird that bonds with Russell (he names her “Kevin”) . Dug is priceless: spot-on for every dog that ever lived, including an obsession with squirrels. Through a series of conclude calls and adventures, the quartet vanquishes a villain, saving the day. And Russell earns his scouting badge.
In the process, Carl learns to let go of his dismal mourning for Ellie, and live life again. When this happens, a truly magical thing happens. Before, Carl’s craggy face is gray and monochromatic. At the moment of his transformation, Carl’s face is awash in color, and he is surrounded by shapely hues. It reminded me of The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy steps out of her gray world and into a candy-colored Munchkinland. Carl, too, enters a whole modern world.
Up is a deeply emotional film, bulky of truth. It’s the year’s best film. Collect another triumph for Pixar.
Someday, Pixar is going to do it — they’re going to develop an emotionally uninspiring, lackluster involving movie. But in the meantime, they’re mild putting out delectable inviting movies like “Up,” which defies the usual kid-movie conventions by starring a crotchety passe man. It’s a charming, fun diminutive adventure chronicle with flying dogs and balloon-powered houses, but underlying it is a bittersweet minute anecdote about loss and treasure.
As a child, the panicked Carl Fredricksen bonded with the oddball Ellie over their shared like of adventure, the explorer Charles Muntz, and Paradise Falls. They later married, proceed into their “clubhouse” together, and lived a long, sadly childless life together. When Ellie died, she had never fulfilled her dream of going to Paradise Falls.
Now crotchety, alone and harassed by a loyal estate developer, Carl (Ed Asner) is finally ordered to a retirement home. But he isn’t going quietly — instead he attaches thousands of balloons to his house and floats it away toward South America. But he accidentally takes an interested, naive Wilderness Explorer (a thinly-veiled Boy Scout) named Russell (Jordan Nagai) along for the flow. Abominable kid was impartial trying to procure an “assisting the elderly” badge.
And the jungle gallop to Paradise Falls turns out to have some surprising obstacles: a mountainous emulike bird that Russell names Kevin, a talking dog named Dug (”I am jumping on you, bird!”), and a mysterious musty man who lives deep in the heart of the jungle. Turns out the outmoded guy is very familiar to Carl — and to assume Kevin, he’s willing to sacrifice Carl and Russell.
Industry experts were babbling about how “Up” wouldn’t be as current as the previous Pixar movies, because the protagonist is basically a crusty venerable coot. Well, shows what they know. It ended up becoming one of those classic movies that somehow appeals to all ages — while the humor and action appeal to children, adults can be pleased Carl’s treasure for his lost wife, and his dumb realization that he’s clinging to the past.
In fact, the first ten minutes are some of the most heart-tugging, quietly bittersweet scenes I’ve seen in a long time. Without a word, they exhibit all the ups and downs of a realistic marriage — joys, sorrows (Ellie’s inability to have children), growing former together, and finally loss.
But it’s not a depressing movie by any stretch — in fact, it’s like a childhood fantasy near to life, complete with a floating house suspended on hundreds of balloons, and biplanes piloted by a talking dog army.. Plenty of tall dialogue (”Do you want to play a game? It’s called Ogle Who Can Go the Longest Without Saying Anything.” “Icy! My mom loves that game!”) and an action-packed climax in an outmoded airship.
Ed Asner is absolutely perfect as ubergrouch Carl — crotchety, grumpy, and clear to fulfill his wife’s lifelong dream, but gradually realizing he’s clinging to the past. Nagai is equally perfect as Carl’s polar opposite: a naive, chattery Scout who is certain to reunite Kevin with her baby chicks. And the utterly adorable Dug and the other dogs deserve special peek. These creatures are utterly hilarious — they talk (”I hid under your porch because I savor you”) and act the design dogs would if they talked. Three words: cone of shame.
The two-disc edition is going to have some very nice extras, but once again people with regular-def DVDs are going to rep shafted because the Blu-ray edition will have a bunch of unique stuff. Grr. As for this one, there’s a digital copy, the director’s audio commentary, kinda-alternate-ending “The Many Endings of Muntz,” and the documentary “Adventure Is Out There” about the research for this movie.
There are also a pair of adorable gripping shorts. “Partly Cloudy” has a much-abused stork having to verbalize potentially inappropriate baby creatures from a kind but clueless cloud. And “Dug’s Special Mission” is a sort of backstory for the adorable Dug, explaining what the heck he was doing before he met up with Carl and Russell.
“Up” continues Pixar’s running tally of gloriously enthralling, emotionally layered movies that the entire family can appreciate. With that, I have only one more thing to say… SQUIRREL!
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