Review – Up

Despite starting off on an extremely depressing note, this turns out to be an okay movie. Suffering the loss of his wife and a court-ordered move to a retirement home, our curmudgeonly hero (voiced by Ed Asner) decides to attach thousands of helium balloons to his house and drift off on an adventure he and his spouse always dreamed of. He ends up with unexpected company on his journey and meets a childhood hero who turns out to be other than heroic. Though a lot of the movie is as full of “inspirational” message as we’ve come to expect from Disney/Pixar – not to mention extra added moodiness – I did like the occasional clever moments supplied by Kevin the bird and Doug the dog. Mildly amusing