Up (2009)
Up (2009)
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Critic Consensus: An exciting, funny, and poignant adventure, Up offers an impeccably crafted story told with wit and arranged with depth, as well as yet another visual Pixar treat.
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Cast
as Carl Fredricksen
as Charles Muntz

as Russell
as Construction Foreman Tom
as Beta

as Dug / Alpha

as Gamma
as Newsreel Announcer

as Young Ellie

as Young Carl

as Police Officer Edith
as Construction Worker Steve

as Nurse George
as Nurse AJ
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Critic Reviews for Up
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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.

The movie is packed with lovely jokes, some of them funny in inexplicable ways.
The key to Pixar's success has always been the perfect blend of heart and humor -- and they've certainly done it again here.

This is really special.

An exquisite work of cinematic art that also happens to be the funniest, most touching, most exciting and most entertaining movie released so far this year.
Its charms appear to have been applied with surgical precision; by the end, I felt expertly sutured, but not much else.
Audience Reviews for Up
Pixar never fails. Even if you are a stiff as a rock this movie will at least give you goosebumps along with a smile/chuckle. Kudos to whoever created the score.
Super Reviewer
Absolutely wonderful animated feature, Pixar crafts a stunning, engrossing picture that is superbly animated and boasts a great cast of talented voice actors and a heartwarming story. I had heard plenty of great things about this film, and heard it was one of the sadder of Pixar's output. With that being said, the film is sad, but it so makes you feel good, and it's really one that makes you feel all sorts of things. I've seen many of Pixar's films, and each of them has that quality that makes it so good, with UP, we get something more, we get a film that goes deep in its story and adds a lot more depth into one film. One minute the tone is sad, heartfelt, the next, it's funny, whimsical and adventurous. But as a whole, Up is a standout picture, one of the finest of Pixar's animated features, and is highly entertaining from start to finish. If you want a great animated comedy, Up is a great film to watch and it's a film for all ages, one that has a simple, but well constructed story, and it is a film that just has plenty of charm to really make it standout, and it's easily one of the finest films that Pixar has ever produced. If you enjoy animated feature, Up will certainly deliver, and it's one of those movies that is purely entrancing from the first frame, and it doesn't let go until the wonderful final. Brilliantly animated, and with a great script Up is yet another solid animated feature from Pixar, who always deliver some truly wonderful, amusing and highly memorable pictures. Although there are some sad moments here and there, the film just makes you feel good, and as the film goes on, the story is richer, fuller and gets even more enjoyable. If you enjoy animated films, especially Pixar films, definitely don't pass up this great film. Up is one of the studios finest works, and that's saying something.

Super Reviewer
An imaginative tale from the brilliant minds of Pixar about an elderly gentleman named Carl (voiced by Ed Asner), who, after losing his wife, devises a plan to escape society and live out his dreams of going to South America by attaching helium balloons to his house and taking off. While the set-up of the story is ultimately more intriguing than what happens in the story itself, it still keeps your attention and has a genuine sweetness to it that is absolutely infections, especially through its use of a young boy (voiced by Jordan Nagai) who accompanies Carl during his journey. To me, it does not rank with the greatest films Pixar has ever done, and it is almost unrelentingly sad given the circumstances of the lead character, but as said, the charm it has is enough to make it worthy of a watch.
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Up Quotes
Dug: | Squirrel! |
Dug: | Hey, I know a joke! A squirrel walks up to a tree and says, "I forgot to store acorns for the winter and now I am dead." Ha! It is funny because the squirrel gets dead! |
Carl Fredricksen: | [woke up] |
Russell: | Uh, I thought you were dead. |
Russell: | Hey, that one looks like a turtle! Look at that one! That one looks like a dog! AAH!!! It is a dog! |
Russell: | Hey, that one looks like a turtle! Look at that one! That one looks like a dog! Ahh! It is a dog! |
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