Pixar fools nobody. Its petty surface about a floating house tied to colourful balloons is a trick no one falls for. Beneath each of the skilled story teller’s colourfully pixelated film is a moving story that ease right at home with the predictable cartoon antics. In Up we get served the usual, though it’s by no means the animator’s best work.
The biggest flaw with the film is that too much of it seems ancillary. It could be the Wall.E effect, where simplicity was the rule of the game, and everything else was readily made redundant. Up seems too caught up in itself, willingly falling into the trap other animators are faulted for- trying too hard to be funny. Though the great opening was salvaged by a somewhat worthy conclusion, the journey there feels too draggy, and at times, noisy.
Still, the emotional story about dreams, told interspersely from the perspectives of a grumpy old man and a (overly) bubbly kid is worth exploring. It just wasn’t as good as it could be. [3.5]
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