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Positive Experience/Entertaining? Entertaining? Sure. Good? No. I know a lot of folks disagree with me, but I just kept shaking my head almost from the very beginning.
Technically any good? The CG was incredible, as you'd expect from a Pixar movie. The acting was great, too. The basic premise was solid, as well.
Sadly, those are the only good things I can say about this movie.
Everything else, and I mean EVERYthing else, was contrived and stupid. From the talking dogs to the insane ease at which the lead characters achieve their goals to the weak reasons for conflict that stop the movie from being about 20 minutes long.
I don't have a problem with a house being carried off by balloons. I can accept anything in a movie if the universe is constructed in a way that makes me believe these things are possible. All Up does is make me believe that anything to save the characters and further the plot is possible, including rock-stupid choices made by uninteresting, predictable characters and acts of god so common, the Deus Ex Machina Corporation would be made a Fortune 500 company from the royalties it would collect from this movie.
How did it leave me feeling? Angry because this movie had the ingredients to live up to or even surpass the Pixar level of greatness set by films like Toy Story or Wall-E. However, this movie fails on every level Pixar films usually succeed on. It's not clever, it doesn't resonate, and all it does manage to do is make you glad you're not staring at a blank wall.
Final Rating? NFI - NetFlix It if you've got really little kids and want to show them something stupid.
Put simply: there's no reason a kids movie needs to be this dumb.
Orignal From: UP (2009)
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