ABC Wednesday: U is for UP

This week on ABC Wednesday is U. U for me this week is the amazing and funny movie "UP".

Last weekend, I finally had a chance to watch the UP movie with my husband and we watched it again last night when my brother and mother in law came over for dinner. It was a very fun movie and we had a great laugh.

When I never seen the movie yet, I was wondering why is it called UP. Why? Because after a lifetime of dreaming of traveling the world, 78-year-old homebody Carl flies away on an unbelievable adventure, with Russell, an 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer , unexpectedly in tow. Together, the unlikely pair embarks on a thrilling odyssey full of jungle beasts and rough terrain. One of the scene that sudden me about the movie is when he lost his wife and the house. The story is very sweet too.

The movie is very amusing, from time to time a laugh would wave up the stadium seating but that couldn’t be helped. I found my emotions quickly switching from sadness to hilarity to concern seamlessly in this perfectly constructed plot. This is the best animation I've been to in quite some time and it is the first film I've watched.

Well, to reveal any more information would be to spoil the fun. Part of what I enjoyed about this movie was the original idea: a house lifted from its foundation by an enormous collections of balloons.

Anyway, the boy named Russell reminds me of my nephew too way back in the Philippines, he was really like him.



So, wonderful, "up" lifting movie. The main characters are totally endearing; what could have been sappy I put the DVD on my wish list for Christmas, too!