Here’s my quick review of Pixar’s Up from the latest issue of jmag.
UP
Directed by Pete Docter & Bob Peterson
Starring Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson
When Pixar heard that a ten-year-old girl with cancer might not live long enough to see their latest film, Up, they flew a copy to her house. She died soon after.
To summarise: Pixar are awesome, and the world is terribly, terribly unfair.
Up is the story of what happens when Mister Fredricksen, mourning his wife, decides to attach thousands of balloons to his house and fly it away to childhood adventure. Thank god Pixar put story before toy sales, because a crotchety old man and a fat Boy Scout sidekick aren’t exactly Optimus Prime.
Despite its beautiful use of 3D, Up mightn’t be held up as one of Pixar’s classics. It’s not as conceptually clean as their others, with a plot that happily creates its own logic a la The Wizard Of Oz – one far too gonzo to sum up in a line or two. Watching it, though, I laughed and cried more than I have at a movie in a long, long time.
Other reviews by me this month: Wendy and Lucy, Fast & Furious, and Anvil! The Story of Anvil. (You can read that last one over here).
Issue #32 is on sale now.