Yep, I have just watched this movie. I may sound very lame, but it doesn't really matter now. Cause I just want to talk about the movie.
First thing about, "UP" is that it is not "just a kid's show". Well, that was one of the things that came to my mind as my family and I watched the movie. It is pretty on the romantic side during the first quarter of the movie, telling about a boy that is crazy about adventurers, whose idol is an adventurer named Charles Muntz and meets a girl who has the same interest as him. Well, they get married, and they live very normally; they go for picnics, the wife repeatedly puts on a tie on the now grown-up man's neck. …...
But they couldn't have babies. The happily married couple had just this one problem. The wife became kind of depressed and gradually, as she became older, she became weak. One day, as husband and wife climb up the hill where they usually have picnics, while the husband reached the top easily, the wife stumbled half way up.(She didn’t die because she stumbled.) Well, she became ill after that and one sad day, she passed away, leaving the old man depressed. So, the real story begins from here. Since I don’t have much time, I will just write a short summary of three quarters of the story. Some construction work is going on in the old man’s neighborhood and all the people have moved out, their houses gone shortly after. Only the old man stubbornly guards his house. One day, a boy scout comes to his house to “help the old”. He cleverly sends him away. Not long after, he hurts a man over his post box, goes to court, and is forced to go to an old folk’s home. Well, the night he was informed of THAT, was when he started thinking. He came across his wife’s “Adventure Book” and he remembers Paradise Falls and his promise to her that their house will be beside the falls. Paradise Falls is the place found by Charles Muntz and he claims there are “out-of-this-world” animals there. So, he remembered the promise, and he came up with a plan, a plan that kills two birds with one stone—attaching thousands of helium balloons onto his house, sending it flying into the sky. Well, he brilliantly does that with curtains as the sails and a door knob as the steer. Thus, his adventure begins. First, with the finding of the scout-boy on his porch, to the finding of Paradise Falls after a terrible storm. They (the old man and the scout-boy teamed up finally with the old man saying, “Oh, alright!”) find an abnormally large bird (which proves Charles correct.), Charles Muntz himself (who has become slightly paranoid) and his “smart-dogs”. In the journey, through many perils and hardships (and funny parts), the man and boy build a strong, understanding relationship.
This is quite a bad summary but it ends with the old man’s house ending up beside the Paradise Falls.
I loved this movie and I know that you will if you have watched it or you are about to watch it.
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