An Adventure by a balloon: Pixar’s UP!

One of the movies that I love is Up by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture. It was directed by Pete Docter. The main characters were Carl Fredricksen, Charles Munts and Russell.

 

One of the parts I liked the most is how Ellie and Carl met each other when they were still kids. They both clicked because they both love Charles Munts, an explorer. Eventually, wedding bells rang for the two of them. Their love story was very touching. From childhood sweethearts to soul mates. But unfortunately they never had a child.

 

I was pretty much amazed on how the writers made the audience understand the purity and the charm of Carl and Ellie’s tale of love. It was short, simple yet very emotional.

 

Ellie had a childhood dream of getting into Paradise Falls where Child Munts had an expedition. She dreamt of having their house parked right after the falls. But before Carl’s surprise for Ellie of them going to South America to visit the Paradise Falls, Ellie got sick and eventually past away.

 

Since then, Carl became so sad that his life became dull and miserable. Until the he decided to go on an adventure and tied hundreds of balloons to their house and made it fly. He wanted to make Ellie’s dream come true to have their house beside the Paradise Falls.

 

Along with Russell, Kevin and Dug, Mr. Fredricksen had one heck of adventure. They got off the house and ended up pulling the house while they travel by foot and fought with Charles Munts himself together with his battalion of talking dogs.

 

The movie is animated which makes it appealing to young audiences. But the story and the content itself are more understandable to teenagers and adults — the endless love story of Ellie and Carl, the bravery of Russell as a wilderness explorer and Carl’s courage to accept Ellie’s death and finally letting go of the grief — are more matured issues tackled by the movie. All of these serious topics combined with the cuteness of Russell and the very charming yet pure love of Carl to Ellie made the movie very special.