You can pretty much walk into any Pixar movie and expect to have a good time at the very least. Everyone rates the movies differently, but Pixar is pretty much the only studio on the planet that hits big with every single picture they make. Up doesn’t deviate from that historical line.

78 year old Carl is up for an adventure. Living his life with his beloved wife, she passes away without them going on the big life adventure they always intended to make since they met as kids. After being fed up with all the changes going around him, he decides to give a middle finger to the world and pack up and leave all the kids to ruin things the way they see fit. Except he takes everything that is his. With baloons tied to his house! Just after lift off he finds a stow away passanger, the neighborhood kid Russell. Russell meant well, he just wanted to help old man Carl so he could earn his last Wilderness Explorer badge.

So off the odd pair go, to land in the lost legendary lands somewhere in South America. Up is a touching adventure of two people who are worlds apart that soon discover they have more in common than they ever thought. The typical charm and magic of a Pixar movie is here. Great characters, a solid story, fun dialog and animation to die for. Things do get more juvenile and wacky closer to the end of the movie (dogs flying bi-planes? Okay, aerial dog fight but still) which is pretty rare for a Pixar movie. So while the action gets low brow the movie doesn’t really suffer for it. It’s a great flick for anyone to enjoy.

Watch in confidence. Pixar did make it you know.