Pixar’s Up
Friday, June 19th, 2009
Gabe and I managed to convince Aunt Kristin to babysit for a few hours, and we headed to see Up. We opted to see the non-3D version as neither of us are extremely impressed with 3D effects. I mean, it’s cool and all, but wearing the glasses for an entire movie is a bit of a pain and literally gives me a headache. Just wearing the glasses and looking for the effects makes me far too aware that I’m watching a movie. It’s more difficult to immerse myself into the fantasy this way. So while I didn’t see this movie specifically in 3D, I will claim that I prefer the plain old-fashioned movie viewing.
I knew I had to see this one. I haven’t missed a single Pixar film in the theatre. We have missed some movies that we really wanted to see, but I made this one a priority. Shockingly, we saw it during opening weekend. This was just a coincidence as it was one of the only times we could arrange to have Kristin come over and babysit.
The short before the movie was Partly Cloudy about storks delivering various types of babies created by the clouds. It was cute and quite amusing in places. It didn’t skyrocket to the top of my favorite shorts, but it was still pretty good. Cute.
I’m amazed at Pixar’s ability to put out quality films every single time. I keep waiting for the movies to disappoint, but they never do. Up did not disappoint, though my expectations about an old man who ties a bunch of balloons to his house and flies away were a little low. I wasn’t sure how I was going to like it, but I loved it.
I didn’t know very much about the movie going into it, and I was delighted to find the talking dogs. The dogs were equipped with a collar that translated their thoughts into speech. The movie has some very funny bits with the dogs!! Something tells me that the DVD will have at least one bonus short featuring the dogs.
The movie took me through an array of emotions. It has parts to make you sad, parts to make you happy, parts to make you laugh, and parts to make you angry. I enjoyed the roller coaster of emotions.
I am definitely putting this movie on my Christmas list! I thought it was great!