The year end praise of Pete Docter’s Up continues to pour in. Here’s the latest honors:
- Time magazine named Up the #2 film of the year (after The Princess and the Frog and just ahead of The Fantastic Mr. Fox). Film critic Richard Corliss had this to say:
2. Up
This prime Pixar achievement begins with the intertwined life and love stories of Carl and his wife Ellie, which span 70 years and are told in pantomime; there’s no sweeter, more poignant 4½ minutes in movie history. Then director Pete Docter ties a bunch of helium-filled balloons to Carl’s dead-end life, sending the crotchety old man and a feckless young interloper to South America for a lesson in what constitutes a life of adventure. Of the year’s many CGI-animated features, from the imaginative (Monsters vs Aliens, 9, Astro Boy) to the just O.K. (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs), none soared as high as Up.
- Associated Press movie writer David Germain honored Up as his #5 film of the year. Here’s what he said:
5. Up
By now, saying “the latest from Pixar Animation” should be enough to justify a movie’s top-10 status. Director Pete Docter and his Pixar pals beguiled young and old with this story of a bitter widower who renews his sense of adventure by airlifting his house via helium balloons on a romp to South America. Voice star Ed Asner conjures up the patron saint of lovable grouches, and a segment encapsulating the lost decades with the love of his life is one of the sweetest, saddest montages in film history.
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