From Disney-Pixar, (creators of Ratatouille, Wall-E,) comes a comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman who finally fulfils his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But, he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic eight-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. Starring the voices of Christopher Plummer, Edward Asner, and Jordan Nagai.
Named “Film of the Year” at the Richard Attenborough Film Awards; “Best Animated Film” at the Golden Globes and Critics Choice Awards.
This is, without doubt, the best movie produced this year. And it has been a tough year. And it’s a fairy tale.
Some myths are so powerful you can hardly believe they popped out of people’s heads. Peter Pan is like that. And this is like that. It shows Pixar Studios to be at the forefront of storytelling in our time, bringing real and invented worlds into wonderful proximity. Every great story, in whatever medium, involves wizardry. The great thing about Pixar is that it has married older kinds of wizardry — writing, voicing — to the most up-to-date technological wizardry on the planet. The result is spectacular: a product of care, love and millions of dollars but a film fashioned to such high standards you come away feeling you have not watched a manufactured thing at all.
That’s really what it’s all about. People will make a fuss of the computer-driven brilliance — and it is amazing — but its pre-eminence is to do with a certain wise simplicity in its conception. As with Pinnochio or Bambi, some viewers might feel manipulated by the emotionalism of the narrative, but I feel it is much less sentimental than those Disney classics, while sharing much of their beauty.
It looks like a piece for children but is really a film for adults. The children will love it but people who have been through a few years — and lost things — will find in this spirited, tender story the kind of dividend that art should pay to life.
Go and see this film. Take your children. Take your mother and father. Take someone you miss when they’re not around. Take the kind of friend who increases your sense of friendship. Take someone you just met on the Tube who looks like they need cheering up. Take a fool, take an enemy, take the fool and the enemy in yourself, just to show him that fellow-feeling is all that really exists when the balloons start to pop. (from the Guardian)
Trailer on http://adisney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/up/
Web links http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(2009_film)
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THIS YEAR (while our Hall is being rebuilt) SHOWING AT:
PARWICH CHURCH (St. Peter’s) FRIDAY 19th February 7.45PM
- Free Entrance
- Refreshments
- Raffle
- Silent projection
- Hi Fi Sound
- Special hi-fi headphones for those with hearing difficulties, please ask.
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