Comments on: ‘Up’ Where We Belong

By: Kit

Kit — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:15:45 +0000

Apparently you have only seen Dreamworks movies and not Pixar.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:58:29 +0000

If the feminist critics wants strong female leads, let them look across the ocean to Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli films. Disney has released most of them here. (I'm still waiting for Only Yesterday, Disney.) But let Pixar be Pixar. They are doing just fine making wonderful stories.

By: joconde

joconde — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:04:13 +0000

Seems that you're saying unless you actually make movies, you have no business criticizing them, no? Doesn't anyone have the right to lobby for more representation in Hollywood? What if you substituted "Christian" or "conservative" for "feminist?" So much for Big Hollywood! Everyone gets to bitch.

By: maatkare

maatkare — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:57:11 +0000

More like crapped on his cornflakes…after tinkling in the coffee, en route to the Bitter Bus!

By: Hades69

Hades69 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:16:57 +0000

Geez- who tinkled in YOUR coffee?

By: Alexander

Alexander — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:55:37 +0000

"Up" is Pixar's WORST effort to date. "Up" sucked…and this comes from a guy who has admired EVERY PIXAR picture to date. "Up" was an overly sentimental boring, re-hashed bits from previous Pixar movies – bad writing, PIXAR for adults and not that entertaining….incoherent…flaccid effort

By: Carol Koster

Carol Koster — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:31:25 +0000

To Forlourned: I loved "WALL-E". To the point that a year ago I asked my family for this favor and they granted it to me, that we bought tickets to fly to Southern California, we saw Disneyland for the second time in a year, but also bought tickets to see "WALL-E" at Disney-owned El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. It's a beautiful "Golden Age of Hollywood" theater directly across from the Kodak Theater where the Oscars are handed out each year. "WALL-E" looked and sounded superb! And "WALL-E"'s true message was as appropriate for our times and appropriate for conservatives as it could be: Do not abdicate your responsibilities to your own health and well-being, or to slick-sounding government or government-like or pseudo-government-corporate officials. Determine your own destiny. And we flew from Louisiana to the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood so I could see that movie, with that message, in perhaps one of the best movie theaters there could be, I was proud to do it, money well-spent IMHO. Forlourned can disagree, so can anyone, but "WALL-E" is one of the best films of all time, not just animated, not just CGI, one of the best, period. The "global warming" alleged stuff in it was actually in the background and not even, really, alluded to. To me, "WALL-E" was about our own responsibilities to each other and to ourselves to not be lazy, to stay sharp and attentive. That is the metaphor within "WALL-E". And we see how "WALL-E" is coming more and more true, every day.

By: Hades69

Hades69 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:54:46 +0000

For the 'feminazis': if you sat through the credits instead of getting up in front of me so that I can't watch them, you would have read all the female names that helped Pete Docter make the film.

Wall E was good for about the first 20 minutes. Then it was 'why don't you hit us on the head a little harder with that don't litter mother earth mantra?' Lame… stunning to look at, but lame.

Kung Fu Panda (directed by yet another Calarts alumni like Bird, Lasseter, Stanton, Docter, Burton, Selick, Sanders etc.) was a gorgeous film, well studied for the beautiful Chinese rice paper art backgrounds, and had a great message- everyone has something special to give. Perhaps the success of all these films is not a Pixar thing, but a Calarts thing. Lilo and Stitch, Up, Coraline, and Kung Fu Panda are some of the best films to come out in a very long time!

By: tamzcam

tamzcam — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:19:21 +0000

My 10-year old daughter and I saw Up this past Friday night based on John Nolte's review. This movie was everything he said it was – it just blew us away. The following paragraph in John's review really sums it up for me:

Up” is what people mean when they say, “You know, they just don’t make ‘em like they used to.” That lament isn’t about a particular genre or even nostalgia for a simpler time. It’s about when a visit to the local theatre came with the promise of a sense of wonder and satisfying emotional journey; about being transported to exotic places with characters you feel something for, be it love or hate; about not having the spell broken by ham-handed filmmakers adding things that don’t belong.

Way to go Pixar!

By: Splashman

Splashman — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:58:16 +0000

That's good to hear, especially since in the other Up thread, some whiney parents complained about the "adult" themes, claiming their kids were bored. My 6- and 9-year-old girls both loved it, completely enthralled. Wifey and I are already planning a second trip to the theater.