The movie is packed with lovely jokes, some of them funny in inexplicable ways.
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:35
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: Another masterful work of art from Pixar, Up is an exciting, hilarious, and heartfelt adventure impeccably crafted and told with wit and depth.
Theatrical Release:May 29, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $292,979,556
Synopsis: From Disney•Pixar comes Up, a comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons... [More]
Starring: Ed Asner, Jordan Nagai, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger
Director: Pete Docter
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Reviews for Up
Top CriticThe key to Pixar’s success has always been the perfect blend of heart and humor -- and they’ve certainly done it again here.
06/01/09
Top CriticThis is really special.
06/01/09
Top CriticAn exquisite work of cinematic art that also happens to be the funniest, most touching, most exciting and most entertaining movie released so far this year.
05/29/09
Top CriticIts charms appear to have been applied with surgical precision; by the end, I felt expertly sutured, but not much else.
05/29/09
Top CriticTo watch Up with any attention is to be moved and astonished by the economy with which specific visuals are invested with emotion throughout.
05/29/09
Top CriticThere are not words enough to express how good Up is.
05/29/09
Top CriticThe lessons of Up lift us, even as they ground our heroes in what really matters.
05/29/09
Top CriticIt propels the viewer up, up and away in an experience combining smart, imaginative storytelling with dazzling dreamlike visuals, creating an experience that is the special province of animation -- at once utterly convincing and completely impossible.
05/29/09
Top Critic[A] kid's adventure yarn embedded in a grownup tale about grief and regret, purposes lost and rediscovered.
05/29/09
Top CriticAs in their finest work, the Pixar filmmakers have created thrilling cinema simply by rifling through its history.
05/29/09
Top CriticIt feels nervy and adventurous and a little messy, the result of formidable creators and genuine wits working on an enormous budget, enormously well-spent.
05/29/09
Top CriticIt's breezy, clever, hilarious, and entertaining -- all par for the course at Pixar -- and has the depth and intelligence that separate Pixar from every other animation factory.
05/28/09
Top CriticUp is a breathtaking ride into the realm of pure imagination. Up shames the pap that now passes for family entertainment (yes, Night at the Museum 2, I'm talking to you).
05/28/09
Top CriticPixar has done it again, in every best way possible.
05/28/09
Top CriticUp, the latest lovely fantasy from the artists at Disney's Pixar animation, it's a truly fantastic adventure -- a lighter-than-air daydream about a cranky widower, a chubby boy and their amazing journey.
05/28/09
Top CriticWhile their latest achievement can't quite one-up WALL-E, it offers soaring highs that are bound to enchant viewers of any age.
05/28/09
Top CriticFrom the title onward, Up is a stratospheric success. It's guaranteed to lift your spirits, and not with a pushy DreamWorks-style gag reel of celebrity voices and committee-processed one-liners.
05/28/09
Top CriticRarely has any film, let alone an animated one powered by the logic of dream and fantasy, been able to move so successfully -- and so effortlessly -- through so many different kinds of cinematic territory.
05/28/09
Top CriticThe outrageously inventive fable that it tells lifts it above the mundane and sends it floating off to the heights of charm as if carried by a helium balloon.
05/28/09
Top CriticLatest News for Up
November 09, 2009:
RT on DVD: Up, the Ultimate Watchmen Cut, and More
Last week, we announced the release of the big screen version of one of the Hasbro toy company's most beloved franchises, G.I. Joe; it's only fitting that this week we announce... More...
September 07, 2009:
Pixar directors honoured at Venice Film Festival 
John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter on hand to receive a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award for the studio. More...
June 18, 2009:
Pixar Screens Up for Dying 10-Year Old Girl
HUNTINGTON BEACH �" Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing �" a movie.
From the minute Colby saw the previews to the... More...
June 07, 2009:
Box Office Wrapup: The Hangover edges out Up for top spot
This weekend audiences embraced two very different films as the animated blockbuster Up from Disney/Pixar won a close race to retain its position at number one while the raunchy... More...
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