Up (2009)

Rating: 80%
Well here's supposedly the big one. The one that practically everyone loves. The first animated film to be nominated for best picture since Beauty and the Beast. I am of coarse talking about the movie that's my Pixar review #9: Up.

Plot: Carl and his wife Ellie were fans of an adventurer named Charles Muntz who was last seen re-exploring a place in South Africa called Paradise Falls. They tried to good there themselves but budget cuts and ultimately Ellie's death kept them from going. Then as he gets older, Carl gets evicted from his out after attacking a construction worker and is ordered to a retirement home. Instead, he inflates a large number of balloons tied up to his house to use it as an airship to fly to Paradise Falls. But along the way, a young boy named Russell accidentally stows away in his house and joins for the trip.


Now there's one thing that nobody who's anybody should deny: this movie is original as frick! I mean a guy using his house as an airship, plus the stuff that joins that like dogs having translator collars, it's just one film that really succeeds in giving us something entirely different. Most of the characters were a lot of fun and some of the comedy is very memorable from Alpha's broken translator to Muntz's reaction to Russell smearing the window as he's floating by. And the first ten minutes of the movie are completely awesome. Just incredibly well done.But is it altogether as wonderful as everyone says it is? To me, no. I mean please don't misunderstand me, it deserves a lot of the praise that it's been getting. But I feel that the whole journey on Carl's part mostly was just not original *WARNING SPOILERS* You know he's going to avoid Russel, Kevin and Dug throughout the journey, you can tell they'll start to grow on him and it's clear that in the end he's going to let go of his dream to help them. *END OF SPOILERS* So the movie is very good when it comes to its originality and it's all around usual family humor and fun Pixar style. But since Carl's part as far as I care is no better than McQueen's  in the first Cars movie, it just doesn't do it for me.

Characters:
Carl: Well my main opinion has already been said in the spoilers so yeah.
Russell: I thought Russell was okay. He wasn't horrible but I didn't find too much in him that I found interesting.
Dug: Dug I easily loved. I mean he's a dog for one thing and the things he said are cute and can probably be mostly what most dogs are thinking at certain times. He's a very lovable character and pretty much my favorite in this film.

Music: It was very nice. the theme music was nice.

And that's my review for Up. It's funny and also original an heck, but Carl's personal goal and the change throughout the journey just was unoriginal enough that it didn't work for me.