Guest Blogger: Taylyr W.

UP

Even though I will be eighteen in February, my love for Disney movies hasn’t changed since I was a toddler. Even before the movie came out in theatres I couldn’t wait to see this movie. The previews really had me reeled in. UP is a fiction based pixar film that begins with a short stubby kid in the theatres watching his adorned adventurer hero Charles Muntz about to set off to South America to continue his search for rare exotic species. Shortly after Carl (the short stubby kid) is plucked up by a hyper active creative Ellie who is also obsessed with Charles Muntz. Then the next five minutes of the film are wordless and show Carl and Ellie getting married, showing both working at a zoo her as the zookeeper and him as the balloon artist. This part really shows just how in love and pure they are, next scene shows them dreaming of having children then the doctor telling them they are unable to bear child. So they change their plans and start saving their money to travel to South America like their childhood hero, except they keep having to use the money for other things, and eventually their in their seventies and then ellie dies. It’s a very heart wrenching part of the movie, it takes you from flawless young love, to the love of his life dieing. Then Carl Fredrickson age 78 refuses to give up his home which is in the middle of downtown, so he blows up millions of balloons in hopes of escaping to South America as him and his love always planned. But an unexpected company shows up and it ends up being an innocent cub scout who was on his front porch. They land in South America only miles away form target, run into talking dogs, endangered birds, and a childhood hero who ends up not being to hero-like. Ed Asner really voices the appreciable impatience for Carl Fredrickson. And Jordan Nagai animates the character of Russel the clueless Cub Scout perfectly. He conveys the attitude and attention spend of an 8-year-old boy very well. I think the audience really takes away that sense of true love away, and how Carl never gave up his love for Ellie. And they’ll really appreciate how Carl abandoned his dreams of landing his house on the waterfall to save Russel and Dug. This was a very mature and goodhearted childrens movie and very worth your money for the young and old.