movie review - Up
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Toronto, 2013.11.27
This is an excellent animated kids' movie about an elderly man who is being pressured to give up his home by callous real-estate agents. Rather than try to defat these faceless monsters and their various antics, he takes his house air-borne to travel to the destination that he and his late wife never reached. What follows is an unintended adventure with an annoying child in his care and a very unexpected encounter with his childhood hero's nemesis. Brilliantly written and thoroughly engaging, I found it original and engaging and The Boy clearly loved it. This is my favorite animated film since "Wall-E".
Strongly recommended.