From: matrix29@charter.net   
      
       The movie "UP" (2009) was very good.   
       I would rate it as one of Pixar's best despite a few logical issues of   
   Carl being mostly sedentary when he is old to moving into some fairly high   
   exertion action later in the movie.  Also toss in some illogical   
   time-transitional issues and obvious wind-pattern impossibilities to mix in   
   the journey to South America and these are the only big plot issues that are   
   seriously problematic.   
       The movie is well worth watching and "kid safe" in most Conservative   
   demographics.   
       I now want to see it in 3D.   
      
       [general plot spoilers below]   
       [close this immediately if you don't want to know some of the basic   
   plot!]   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
       Basic plotline is a young man is watching a movie at the theater about   
   the explorer Charles Muntz (voiced by Christopher Plummer) who lost his   
   official status with an explorer society after his find was deemed a fake by   
   the scientific community.  The young boy, Carl Fredricksen (voiced by Edward   
   Asner), vows to go see South America's "Paradise Falls" after meeting Ellie   
   (voiced by Elie Docter) and falling in love with her.   
      
       Years go by, Ellie and Carl marry, life's interruptions intercede, and   
   the promise to go to Paradise Falls is shuffled into the background.  Ellie   
   passes away and society begins building a fancy new skyscraper around Carl's   
   house.   
      
       Carl gets in a scuffle with a construction employee over the damaged   
   mailbox and the courts declare him a menace and force him into a retirement   
   home the next day.  Carl escapes the controlled life of a retirement village   
   by airlifting his home with a vast (illogically tiny amount of balloons for   
   the shown weight-lifted) helium balloon cloud (which would rub against each   
   other in flight) tethered to his fireplace.  A "Wilderness Explorer Scout"   
   Russel (voiced by Jordan Nagai) who visited him the previous day is found on   
   his front porch many hundreds of feet up in the air to join him on the   
   adventure.  Russel helps guide the house to Paradise Falls though his   
   handheld GPS unit while Carl is asleep (which is time-impossible in under 48   
   hours and logically impossible for known world weather and equatorial   
   jetstream patterns) after encountering a thunderstorm cloud.   
      
       At any rate, the adventure takes off from there as the house drifts down   
   from hundreds of feet up to the top of the rocky elevated plateau of   
   Paradise Falls, but not at the falls themselves.  All of the plot points   
   then logically proceed (in the context of the animated universe) as each   
   acting character is introduced and the long sought after mystery bird joins   
   the main cast.   
      
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