Up (With People)

[madbaker]

We watched Up last night. As you may know I refuse to watch Disney animation (it was a vow I made when I was seven years old, out of disgust with what they were doing to books I liked) but Pixar is not Disney. I don't care what the stockholders say.

Anyway, Up was decent. The opening bit was sheer genius; the rest... didn't measure up, much like Wall-E. Although I enjoyed that portion of Up more than Wall-E. On my internal Pixar scale of Finding Nemo and Cars (1) to The Incredibles (10), I'd rate it about the level of Toy Story 2. Wait, there's no Randy Newman in it -- that bumps it up closer to Monsters Inc.

Comments

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

Man! You ARE hard to please. I loved UP!

[fionnbharro.livejournal.com]

I think the opening segment deserves nomination for an Oscar(TM) on its own.

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

Me too. It made me cry. (In a sweet way, as I recalled the wonderful dreams and memorable times I had with my late husband.)

[tshuma]

I thought that opening sequence was sheer genius.

The rest of the movie was merely fun. It dragged in a couple of places.

I definitely would rate it higher than Cars. Cars may be my least favorite of the Pixar movies I've seen. Incredibles is above it, though.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

My scale has Cars and Finding Nemo as their low points with The Incredibles at the top, with Up somewhere in between around Monsters Inc.

[tshuma]

I really enjoyed Finding Nemo, but that had a lot to do with just the environment it was portraying. (I similarly enjoyed Avatar in spite of the story, mostly for the environment.)

I never saw the second Toy Story, unless it simply didn't stick in my mind. I liked Monsters fairly well. So, I think I would agree with your scale in general with the exception of Finding Nemo.

Cars, well, I've seen too many non-annimated films with the equivalent of that plot, and it annoyed me back when I saw it the first time. I couldn't be bothered to care what happened to the main character. Also, oy, the gender roles. 1950s tripe with a thinly laid veneer of PC -- see, girls can be smart, too!

[wufmew.livejournal.com]

I adore UP, but that's because I'm about 98% kid and spend 80% of my week entertaining, um I mean teaching them, and all the dog things were so spot on, and Russel was a perfect kid. The opening is indeed brilliant and I can't cry without watching it.....it's too close to real life fears for me.