Up, up and away.

Pixar, stop hogging all the awesome.

I mean, really.

(SPOILER FREE) Up was amazing, animation and story wise. It proposes a very touching introduction and looks into serious issues the same way Wall-e did - with wit, humor and killer animation. It talks about adventure and how it's easy to miss (or rather how it's easy to think you never had one when you're whole life is one), it talks about death and moving on, it talks about friendship and it talks about the little boring things that make up a life, or rather an adventure, and make it worth living. The boring stuff, the tiny boring stuff is so beautiful in this movie. It's a good reminder to us about life and adventure.

The characters are somewhat stereotyped, but strung together... they rock.

I have a little soft spot for Doug, the talking Dog and Ellie, the main character's late wife, who barely appears in the film, but serves as a inspiring guide to the main character, who is still grieving.

So to resume, if you like Pixar, and even if you don't, Up is pretty amazing. Maybe a little childish, but the mind blowing animation will keep you distracted during those moments aimed at the kiddies.

Also, the opening short film (a new tradition at Pixar is that every major motion picture is matched with two short films - one shown in theaters and one on the DVD extras. They are opening the Vancouver studios to work on these and direct to DvDs movies) is hilarious.
Anyways, off to work with me. I'm doing crap long hours until friday. *sigh* I'll have to ask my boss why she is trying to destroy us all. *laughs* Everybody at the office is pretty tired and looking forward to next week, when we don't have a huge conference-contract taking over our lives.

-Isa