Disney Pixar's Up

I went to the cinema to see the new "Disney Pixar's Up". I was unable to see it in 3d due to it being sold out, but that did not change how comical or fascinating the film is.

The film is based upon the life and adventures of Carl Fredricksen. Primarily we are shown this young boy with rather large spectacles admiring his hero Charles F. Muntz.

He then meets well more like stumbles across Ellie Docter who is also a fan of Charles F. Muntz. The two soon become inseparable, the close knit friendship turns into a relationship with Carl proposing and he and Ellie getting married. We then see the happiness misfortunes they go through. We witness the excitement and pleasure as they buy the house they used as a clubhouse when they were children. As they renovate/decorate the house and add their own homely touches. But we soon become aware of the one thing that they really want they are unable to have...children. This does not stop them from having a fulfilling life together. Years pass by and Ellie unfortunately passes away leaving Carl all alone. But it appears not to phase him as he still talks to her as if she is there.

Carl's life is soon changed rapidly when he first accidentally assaults a construction worker who breaks his and Ellie's mailbox and meets young and bubbly Russell. Carl is supposed to be moving into a retirement home after he assaults the construction worker but he conjures up a cunning plan so that he can remain in his house and live out his and Ellie's childhood dream.

On the morning of him moving out of his house to the retirement home, Carl finally puts his plan into action. Carl has devised it so that his house has become a giant air balloon literally with thousands and thousands of helium balloons carrying his house via his chimney. The shock factor for Carl is that just as the house took off young Russell had been standing on the veranda.

The once one-sided friendship soon changes into a rounded friendship. Russell appears to both help and bring entertainment to Carl's adventure. But he also gets the male companionship he has longed for so long as his father and mother divorced, with his father re-marrying and not really have anytime for him.

From here on out the film presents the audience with witty anecdotes and various comical scenes, with a few touching scenes such as both Russell and Carl saving one another and the mishaps they encounter with their new found friends Kevin, Dug and Charles F. Muntz.

The film ends with a happily ever after ending but not one that you initially expect, Russell finally gets his assisting the elderly badge but from who his beloved father he wants to make proud or his new found friend/ male role model Carl?