UP is what
» S.D. Smith

pixar-up-posterHere’s a part of my Rabbit Room comrade Pete Peterson’s non-review of UP.

“…What a privilege it is to have the trust of your audience. Such is Pixar’s legacy that people who would otherwise turn up their nose at a mere ‘cartoon’ came in droves to fill the house based on the trust of a studio’s name alone. It’s a precious and delicate thing and with each successive film I fear the spell will finally shatter.

But UP isn’t a flop. The integrity of the Pixar name is well intact and may it be so for years to come. There’s nothing I can write here that can say more eloquently what has already been said in theaters across the country. UP’s reviews are written in a communal grammar built of gasps, and happy tears, a language filled with the sighs of the long-lived, the breathless wonder of cynics like me, and best of all the laughter and joyous exclamation not only of children but of those who dare to come and sit in the darkness and hear the storyteller’s whisper and remember how to be child-like once more.”

Right. On.

This was an amazing film. Take your family and go see it. We took our whole family to the movies for the first time (kids aged 6, 3, and 3 months) and it was a wonderful family memory. We’re keeping the stubs.

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