They then meet Dug, a Golden Retriever who wears a special collar with a device that translates his thoughts into English he joins them on their trek.Ī pack of fierce dogs led by the Doberman Pinscher Alpha take Carl, Russell, Dug, and Kevin to their master, the now elderly Charles Muntz. Russell encounters a giant, colorful flightless bird, whom he names Kevin. Carl and Russell harness themselves to the still-buoyant house and begin to walk it across the mesa, hoping to reach the falls before the balloons deflate. The house lands on a mesa opposite Paradise Falls. Before Carl can land and send Russell home, they encounter a storm that propels the house to South America. Russell, an eight-year-old 'Wilderness Explorer' who visits Carl in an effort to earn his final merit badge for assisting the elderly, becomes an accidental stowaway. However, Carl resolves to keep his promise, turning his house into a makeshift airship using countless helium balloons and flying away. After an enraged Carl strikes a construction worker who damaged his mailbox, the court deems him a public menace, requiring his relocation to an assisted living facility. Some time later, a now-retired Carl stubbornly holds out in the house while the neighborhood around him is urbanized. On the day that Carl plans to tell Ellie, she falls ill and is hospitalized, dying soon after. Years pass and Carl decides to arrange the trip as a surprise for Ellie. After Ellie suffers a miscarriage, the couple decide to refocus and begin saving for a trip to Paradise Falls, but are constantly forced to spend their savings on more urgent needs. The two later marry and live in the rebuilt house, with Carl working as a balloon salesman and Ellie a tour guide at the zoo. Carl meets fellow Muntz fan Ellie, who confides her desire to move her 'clubhouse'-an abandoned house in the neighborhood-to a cliff overlooking Paradise Falls. After he is accused of presenting a fake giant bird skeleton from Paradise Falls in South America, Muntz returns to the area intent on clearing his name by capturing a living specimen. Up was nominated for five awards at the 82nd Academy Awards, winning two, and received numerous accolades.Īs a young boy, 10-year-old Carl Fredricksen idolizes explorer Charles Muntz. It earned $735.1 million worldwide, finishing its theatrical run as the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2009. Organizations like the National Board of Review and American Film Institute named Up as one of the top 10 films of 2009. The film received critical acclaim from critics for its screenplay, animation, characters, themes, narrative, Asner's vocal performance, Michael Giacchino's musical score, and the opening sequence. Up debuted at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2009, and was released in the United States on May 29. It was Pixar's first film to be presented in 3D format. The designs of the characters were caricatured and stylized considerably, and animators were challenged with creating realistic cloth. He and eleven other Pixar artists spent three days in Venezuela gathering research and inspiration. Originally titled Heliums, Docter conceived the outline for Up in 2004 based on fantasies of escaping from life when it becomes too irritating.

Along the way, they meet a talking dog named Dug (Peterson), and encounter a giant bird named Kevin, who is being hunted by the explorer Charles Muntz (Plummer). The film centers on elderly widower Carl Fredricksen (Asner) and Wilderness Explorer Russell (Nagai), who go on a journey to South America in order to fulfill a promise that Carl made to his late wife Ellie. The film stars the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, and Peterson. Docter and Peterson also wrote the film’s screenplay and story, with Tom McCarthy co-writing the latter. The film was directed by Pete Docter, co-directed by Bob Peterson (in his feature directorial debut), and produced by Jonas Rivera. Up is a 2009 American computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

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