Up - LaughingPlace.com Movie Guide

  Up
May 29, 2008

Cast and Filmmaker Summary

Plot Summary

From the Academy Award®-nominated team of director Pete Docter ("Monsters, Inc.") and co-director Bob Peterson comes "Up," a comedic adventure taking off (and lifting spirits) in summer 2009. Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life. "Up" takes audiences on a thrilling journey where the unlikely pair encounter wild terrain, unexpected villains and jungle creatures. When seeking adventure next summer -- look "Up." -- from April 8, 2008 Announcement

Additional Details

• Coming in Disney Digital 3-D (TM)

News Stories

• Pixar / Disney Up News Stories

Reviews

• Michael Rechtshaffe, Positive review, (The Hollywood Reporter)
  "Winsome, touching and arguably the funniest Pixar effort ever, the gorgeously rendered, high-flying adventure is a tidy 90-minute distillation of all the signature touches that came before it."
• Todd McCarthy, positive review, (Variety)
  ""Tale of an unlikely journey to uncharted geographic and emotional territory by an old codger and a young explorer could easily have been cloying, but instead proves disarming in its deep reserves of narrative imagination and surprise, as well as its poignant thematic balance of dreams deferred and dreams fulfilled." "

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