UP
Directed by Pete Docter
Another year, another Pixar masterpiece. UP sits firmly for me in the top half of the Pixar table. A moving (exceedingly so) and exciting adventure story, it’s almost impossible to believe that people doubted the commerciality of the film pre-release. Indeed some commentators were claiming that it could be the studio’s biggest failure, due to the lack of merchandising opportunities of a film where the main characters were a young, overweight Korean boy and a 70-something year-old man. Of course, the true reason for Pixar’s success hasn’t been that the toys are good, but that the scripts are, and UP is no exception. It works equally well for younger audiences as it does for adults, and passes off the neat trick of being exciting to both audiences in the same way. The film is a rare one, it has true, universal appeal.
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