In very stark contrast to Funny People this was an awesome movie.
We watched UP in 3D and I’m not sure whether it was more gratifying than 2D because after awhile I didn’t really notice the 3D-ness anymore.
Anyway, there’s not a lot to it. It’s a simple story which worked out fabulous. And it wasn’t too long. I remember Wall-E had just as much hype but it dragged on enough to get me bored. UP is good the whole way through, and it was at least six times funnier than the supposed-to-be-hilarious Funny People.
The story. Carl meets Ellie when they’re little kids. Ellie shows Carl her adventure book in which she draws a picture of a house on Paradise Falls in South Africa. Carl and Ellie get married and when they find out that Ellie can’t have children Carl decides to save up and make her dream of living on top of Paradise Falls come true. However Ellie passes away before they could make it happen and Carl decides he’s going to do it himself in memory of her. He sets off on his house lifted by probably thousands of balloons and finds that the boy scout who looks like a giant egg has inadvertently followed him. They end up in South Africa and have some sort of adventure, at the end of which the evil explorer guy (who is supposed to be significantly older than Carl but for unexplained reasons wasn’t) free-falls to his splattery death and Carl and scout-boy Russell return home happy.
SQUIRREL! 9/10
October 19, 2009 at 3:33 am |
If you were bored by WALL-E you have no soul, simple as that, proven by science. Up had good parts like the montages and the adventure book, but it also had ultra lame talking dogs flying planes and firing at each other. Just idiotic. Not art. WALL-E was art, plain and simple.
October 19, 2009 at 10:54 pm |
Link me to the article that “scientifically proves” me soul-deficit.
Remember if P-value > 0.05 the difference is not significant. You can’t fool me with your inconclusive trials you flying canine.