Movie Review: Up
Pros: Whimsical yet touching story, wonderful voice acting and Pixar's awesome visual artwork Cons: None! Up: Whimsical Yet Touching Co-written and co-directed by Bob Peterson and Pete Docter, Up is essentially the love story of Carl and Ellie Fredricksen, even though Ellie dies before the film's main plot about the house-and-balloons adventure that gives the movie its offbeat but effective title. Up begins as an extended flashback in which we first meet Carl Fredricksen as a very shy young boy in a packed movie house watching an old newsreel; it's sometime in the 1930s or '40s and newsreels were the "windows to the world" in the same way that cable networks such as BBC World, CNN and MSNBC are today. In this newsreel we're introduced to explorer Charles Muntz (Christopher Plummer), who's a cross between Howard Hughes and Indiana Jones. Muntz flies all over the world in The Spirit of Adventure, a Z...