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"I can’t say that Up was a bad movie. It was, in many ways, good. When Chicken Run came out, it was 90%+ on the Tomatometer. Over the years I’ve noticed this across the board. Animated movies can be very high (with a few exceptions). Waiting for Up, we saw trailers for two horrible looking animated features. Up, however, didn’t look horrible. The Pixar/Disney film looked great. The styles, shapes, shading and color were fantastic. They’re not done with a realist’s eye, but with true inspiration. And the writing! It was nail on the head. When they needed a sad beat, it was at their finger tips (failed at child-birth, forcing your wife needlessly up a death march of a hill to give her a poignant "
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"Up I've always had an aversion to Pixar films for some reason, even though I've never sat down and watched one since Toy Story, the only other Pixar film I've seen. I had my reasons for avoiding these films. First of all, Toy Story was a kids movie. About toys and kids and their fantasy world. And I found it in my memory to be devoid of facing any real hard truths of this world. It was all kind of glossed over with the problems being about a child's level of interaction between people. Maybe I'm wrong, but this is my memory. It's a glossed, child fantasy reality. Then I saw Shrek which I hated. Now Shrek is not Pixar, I know. It's Dreamworks. But they are the primary competitors in the world of blockbuster, computer generated animation, family oriented films. Shrek features the same glossed over and simplified look at the world with the added annoyance of extra mindless pop stars and singers being tied in. Anyone else "
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"A few days after seeing Pixar's Up, but before I had actually written this review of it, I was taken to task by the five year old son of a friend of mine. He apparently took offense toward my putting down of such a (in his opinion) fine film as Up. How he had gathered my opinion on the film I am still not quite sure, but there he was anyway. How dare I dislike this film. How dare I dislike any Pixar film. Perhaps I should not review children's films anymore, or at the very least, perhaps I should allow him to review them with me. Since he immediately went kid-shy on me when asked for his opinion by his mother (I do know he loved the talking dogs though) I must instead trudge on, alone at the helm of this review, and give my nearly thwarted critique of this, Pixar's tenth animated feature, and as the ads boldly state, the first one in digital 3-D. What my intrepid but reticent five year old fellow critic has possibly not taken into account is the simple fact that I actually did like ... "
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"With Up, Pixar has pulled off something magnificent--and old-fashioned adventure story and an aching comment on aging packaged in a family friendly studio film. Don't get me wrong, Up works brilliantly as a film "for the whole family," sacrificing none of Pixar's inherent charm in order to make a mature film (much like Wall-E, which addressed similarly advanced themes whilst maintaining the slap-stick, love-sick aura of a children's movie). However, what amazed this reviewer the most was the fact that the adult's in the multiplex, my mother included, and the children, my brother included, enjoyed the film equally and non-equivocally; the themes of the film appealed to both the adults and the kids, and both seemed moved, often to the point of tears. (My mom, as well as several elderly members of the audience, were moved to tears by several sequences.) One can only imagine the excitement the Pixar creative team must have felt when they nabbed the idea of an old fart flying away in hi ... "
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"Over a week ago, I made one of my rare trips to the movie theater for one of my annual devotionals to Pixar. Yes, folks, I have officially seen every single Pixar film at the show and within a week of its release. I, no doubt, have an overt bias toward this production company, but let's face it. Pixar's worst film (which for me is Cars right now) is still ahead of the curve and better than 90% of the films out there. Not to mention the fact that the originator of CGI entertainment still remains original, while all of the copycats have languished in the mediocrity of imitiation. Up is Pixar's tenth feature and a strange hybrid of the studio's most original, and yet, most cliched story concept to date (some might peg that brand on Wall-E, but I beg to differ). The first act treats us to the introduction of Carl Fredericksen and how he came to meet his future wife and soulmate, Ellie. As childhood friends and sweethearts, they shared a love of adventure and dreamt of exploring S ... "
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"How letting go can help one get through in their lives. A story about one man, who is about to have an adventure he'll never forget. It's exciting, funny, sentimental, and has a whole lot to give to all types of audiences. "
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"In case you haven’t heard (even though most people were talking about this yesterday — sorry today is that slow), next year’s Oscars will return to the month of March, due the Academy’s need to get out of the way of the Winter Olympics. For some of you, this may mean you have extra time to see the nominees. For most of you, this also means you’ll have more time to complain about how the Academy snubbed Wolverine, Avatar, Up or whatever other movie you think deserved a Best Picture nod. As for us film bloggers, the delay gives us additional time to speculate, predict and otherwise cover awards season to death. As if this year’s Oscars didn’t seem over-blogged enough, I can only expect there will be even more movie sites, including those specializing in the Oscars, next year. And therefore I can only expect that by the time the Oscar telecast airs on March 7 I will be so sick of the whole film awards concept that I’ll almost not even live-Tweet the big night. Reactions to the Academy ... "
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"Until last year’s brilliantly directed Ratatouille, all of Pixar’s animated features could be summed up with one word (toys, bugs, monsters, fish, superheroes, cars). Then the more complex plot synopsis of “rat functions as a culinary Cyrano in a French restaurant’s kitchen” came along and ruined the studio’s tradition of simplistic scenarios. Fortunately, this year Pixar is back on track with Wall-E, a movie that can be summed up as being about, in a word, robots. But in their pipeline they’ve got a couple sequels (Cars 2, Toy Story 3) and a couple multi-word synopses (2009’s
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