Comments on: Up Review

By: Erick

Erick — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:32:08 +0000

Don’t be a buch of “i don’t like it”, for sure Sean, and his gang, have seen thousands of pictures this year that have a great history and deserve 10 oscars… i would love to see against what stardards of art you compare the movies to say that was not enough?

even more… you sound like the guys that feel over everything and just don’t like it because if you don’t anyone would read your middel tought reviews…

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:16:49 +0000

Sean,

I’ll bet you are under 30.
I’m over 50, and I thought that UP was an incredibly sweet movie that had a lesson in it that EVERYBODY needs to learn….yes, it is important to have your dreams, and to work for your dreams….but don’t get so hung up on them that you forget to live! Carl learned that Ellie had NOT been shortchanged (And thinking back of what we know of Ellie the album should NOT have been a surprise–but it was at the time!). It really is the little things that you remember the best–and turn out to have been the most important.

I think you’re wrong, the heavy emotions that got dropped on us at the beginnning of the film WERE resolved–we watched the resolutions in the film. And the reason the ending relationship between Carl and Russel was predictable is because after a shared adventure like that, and having learned the lessons in the way they did, the ending was virtually inevitable.

The thing was–the cartoon was so good, you didn’t even know you were being taught a lesson.

By: Neil M

Neil M — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:36:11 +0000

I don’t think you’re an idiot Sean. In fact, I agree with you most of the time. That being said, I had a lot of fun with Up. I’ll agree that there were some emotional moments that felt a tad forced, but I wouldn’t call the movie pretentious. I do think that people need to settle down a little bit when referring to this as a “masterpiece.”

By: Goon

Goon — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:13:30 +0000

While theres a lot of perfect scores, I think more of views like yours are out there. I mean yours is still a positive review, by RT’s standards if you were counted you’d be counted among the hypers pushing it towards 100%

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:20:27 +0000

Comparing the ratings for two totally different kinds of movies is difficult and arbitrary, but I do think I got more out of Terminator Salvation.

I have to admit though, I’m surprised there aren’t more people voicing the same concern. I was worried there would be a wave of pro-Pixar people on here telling me I was an idiot, but so far that hasn’t happened. Maybe more people were underwhelmed with Up than I originally thought.

By: Justice

Justice — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:42:03 +0000

argh, You’re going to tell me that this movie is worse than that over-bloated piece of junk? Admittedly, it isn’t Pixar’s best, but its still light years ahead of Terminator.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:40:31 +0000

Less, actually.

By: Justice

Justice — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:42:34 +0000

You gave this the same rating as Terminator? Come on, man.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:56:08 +0000

“Pixar has come a long way in terms of taking chances”

Yes they have, but they’re not quite to the point where they’re going the full distance with that (see Wall-E’s second half). It doesn’t change A Bug’s Life being a good film in spite of its age. Hell, Toy Story 2 will be 10 years old this year and it’s still their best movie imo.

By: Rony

Rony — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:23:43 +0000

Loved the film and second to the review.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:20:35 +0000

I’m just saying (And I like the Seven Samurai story) that Pixar has come a long way in terms of taking chances and realizing their stories since A Bug’s Life.

By: mrbenning

mrbenning — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:11:53 +0000

The last time I watched Antz I had a really hard time getting past the overall look of the film. This might sound nit-picky, and I know ants live underground, but does every background in the movie need to be brown dirt?