UP

We saw Pixar's tenth film, UP, today. Brilliant.

When a movie has you misty-eyed within the first ten minutes, after a moving and touching montage of the life of a husband and wife, you know you're in good hands. As with every other Pixar film, they eschew the cheap pop culture references and fart jokes of most other modern animated movies. Instead they deliver developed characters in complex, mature stories. UP deals with themes such as death, loneliness, and childhood dreams versus reality. It's closer to a film by Japanese master animator Hayao Miyazaki than anything else.

It's a wonderful film.


EDITED TO ADD: The Pixar short before the film, Partly Cloudy, was as excellent as we've come to expect. Pixar has mastered the art of the short, funny and touching film.