Pixar's Up is a magnificent film from start to finish. The story follows a cantankerous old man named Carl Fredricksen throughout his life. He has a love of adventure, but is lambasted at every turn in his attempts to visit South America, until he finally reaches the end of his life and finds himself alone with unfulfilled dreams. After a violent mistake, and faced with few palatable options, he decides to finally make the trip to South America--by inflating hundreds of helium balloons and lifting his house off its very foundations. And from there, adventure is thrust into every facet of his life, in the form of a chubby Japanese wilderness scout, an exotic dinosaur-bird, and a talking dog.The animation is clean and beautiful. For some reason, it seems as if Pixar is the only studio able to get the aesthetics of animation correct; even in Disney's own Bolt, I had a number of objections to certain visual choices. In Up, the pacing is absolutely flawless. With good movies, there is a paucity of unnecessary scenes; with this movie, there are none to be found. The music is brilliant, as expected. The dialogue is sparse yet poetic. While I found some lines to be far too subtle, especially considering its intended young audience, the rest brought multiple meanings and thematics to an already entertaining and hilarious picture. And as far as animated movies can bring emotion onto the screen, this one does it better than anything else I've seen to date. In fact, everything works together as a perfectly unified package that will make your pulse quicken, your heart break, and your soul lift up. Up is a movie not to be missed.
IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049413/