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I'm listening to track#3 from UP soundtrack, "Married Life". This song just represents nicely what UP got to offer, the sadness, exciting, happiness, and beauty. UP so far is my favorite movie of the year, and it's Pixar at its best. It's original, it's touching, and it made me cry (man, just watching the first 15 minutes and re-listening to the soundtrack already tore down my cry-barrier). The opening scene where it reveals the story how Karl meet Ellie and their marriage life, accompanied only by a wonderful music with no dialog at all, is the most touching scene ever in a movie. You get all the idea where their life was so happy, with the ups and downs, they complete and encourage each other. It's the reality, the painful one, when one of them had to go away, how the other one can cope with his life. It's a basic human story, where every beautiful beginning must have an ending. In this case, Karl Fredricksen has to live with it.

He becomes a different person, just like every other old men, grumpy. What's worst, his environment where new buildings are erected, has become his other nightmare during the daytime. Then he met Russell, a wilderness explorer, who just came by to ask whether Karl needs any help. This segment opens a new chapter of Karl's life.

After some inconvenient incident, Karl was forced to move out from the house. Sad and felt helpless, accidentally he found Ellie's old diary, where she had planned to fill the last chapters when she had reached the Paradise Falls, the dream land where it has been the last resting place since she's was little. In order to fulfill his beloved wife's dream, Karl starts an adventure, to search for the Paradise Falls, and put the house there, so Karl can spend the rest of his days together with the beloved house, along with Ellie's memory. Using the balloons to lift UP his house, embarks to find the Paradise Falls, and accidentally, brings Russell with him.

Once again, Pixar lives up the hype, beyond our expectation. It's like every each year, they always comes up with new standard of story telling. I thought Wall-E was their top notch production, but somehow, UP managed to be better, (damn, give 'em an OSCAR already for best picture). It's not all about sensory bombardment and volume, it's a perfect family movie, and also for couples, not just for kids. It's love story at its best, it has valuable lessons about friendships, and it teaches us to not give up achieving our dreams.

just like Russell said, "But it's a TALKING dog!"

All the cast played their role perfectly, especially Russell who seems to be the star of the movie. The voice acting is natural as any kids in his age. His enthusiasm and curiosity along with his friendly habits, is well done played. And if you see the cast list, I only recognize Christopher Plummer and Delroy Lindo, and don't know whatsoever for the remaining cast. It has always a Pixar trademark, that they prefer to spend the budget on the story and the perfect visualization rather to pay A-class actors/actresses (DREAMWORKS, are you reading this???). We only got several characters, not to many (except for the dogs), but all of them managed to deliver us a wonderful crafted Disney movie.

There are so many things I would like to write about UP, I have promoted this movie to all people I met, and asked them to bring the whole family to be a part of a wonderful experience (my mum and dad enjoyed it a lot). It's nice to see this kind of flick, and it's worth to rewatch over and over again. Damn, I can't wait to see the next Pixar project. Play the below audio clip to re-charm your memories again with the wonderful experience of UP.

My Rating: 10/10