If you are a grown person with a developed cerebral cortex; your experience with this movie would be far below the reviews of an underdeveloped child. One hour and thirty-six minutes of watching the movie and it seems to be like a movie made for toddlers. Despite the amazing reviews from renowned film critics, the movie Up is the most fictional movie ever to be produced. The movie has love, action, comedy, and a whole lot of fiction. Pixar, time and time has exceeded my expectations of creating the most unrealistic, confusing, and targeted movies of any film conglomerate to this date.

Up was released in the promising year of 2009 and is an Animation/Adventure/Comedy film. The movie was faithfully directed by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson, and written by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson and Tom McCarthy. The story revolves around the adventures of the two main characters: Carl Fredricksen and Russell. In short, the two characters: when Carl’s wife dies he lives his life in solitary up until he physically assaults someone and is forced to leave his house. Carl decides to fly to a place called “Paradise Falls” located in Venezuela, South America with a Wilderness Explorer Scout named Russell who happened to be on his porch when the house took off. As they pull the floating house to Paradise Falls they meet an undiscovered bird, an army of dogs, and an old scientist. Eventually they defeat the scientist, befriend the army of dogs and return to New York.

All Disney movies have one thing in common, they operate on a different plane of existence. These movies all follow one rule, which is to be as out of this world and as fictional as possible. One of the movie’s most iconic scenes is when Carl Fredricksen flies away in his house by attaching countless helium balloons to it (Up). It simply defies the laws of physics to fly away in a house by the means of attaching a bunch of balloons to it. Much less performing this task in a night’s work. Nina Shen Rastogi writes an article detailing the invalid calculations featured in Up, “Pixar estimated it would take 23.5 million party balloons to lift a 1,800-square-foot house like Carl’s...In the film, the animators used 20,622 balloons for the liftoff sequence” (Rastogi). In another scene, Russell is on the porch of the house high up in the air, begging for Carl to let him inside. Later on in the film, Carl explains to Russell that the balloons would take three days to deflate. Eventually, the balloons deflate (Up). This tells the audience that Carl’s mother was so careless that she didn’t even report the dissapearance of her child to the proper authorities. “Child neglect is a form of abuse in which the caregiver fails to provide for the child in some way that could result in physical, emotional, psychological, or even educational harm.” Furthermore, her unresponsiveness at the end of the film is terrifying (Child Neglect). She hands over her son to a man who all but kidnapped him. Russell should have emotional counseling for his traumatic experiences.This tells the audience that this movie is completely unrealistic and that in reality, Russell’s mother should be arrested for child neglect. The film, evidently, is missing huge pieces of information. These scenes are one of many situations that makes this  movie unrealistic and completely illogical.

One of the worst movies are the ones with a confusing plot. In the movie Up, an old man and a young Wilderness Explorer Scout fly in a house to South America and meet a robotic dog army, an undiscovered bird, and a centenarian scientist. Carl Fredricksen doesn’t buy a plane ticket to travel to South America, instead, he decides to fly his house there. In addition, at the end of the movie Carl doesn’t return to South America and lives there, in his dream place, which further complicates the ending as to why Carl even attempts to fly to such an area in the first place (Up). This story plot is confusing beyond imagination. The audience is confused as to why Carl Fredricksen put in all his labor just to leave his dream place once again to come back to New York. This is why the storyline of the movie Up is confusing for the audience.

Lastly, one of the most glaring issues with Up, it targets a specific audience. Disney is a company that targets young audiences by bringing them animations that appeal to their fantasies and makes people forget about real life situations. The film Up is just like other Disney movies in that it brings the same psychology to the table. Disney takes children in and tells stories of princesses and miracles, in this case they tell people floating houses with balloons will work. In one scene, Russell befriends a thirteen foot tall tropical bird named Kevin a talking dog named Dug, and eventually recruits the army of robotic dogs to take to New York (Up). A mere child that has such talents as training these animals that have yet to have been discovered is fascinating to say the least. It brings up the realization that this Wilderness Explorer Scout can train such animals, but a world class scientist who has spent most of his life tracking down a single creature can be easily outsmarted by such a young child. These stories are childish and would never define the possible.

In conclusion, the movie Up is made for children and does not appeal to adults. It astounds me that so many people give this film such great reviews when realising that the movie makes no sense at all. A movie that has such a terrible plot like Up is only lucrative due to Disney’s faithful worshippers.

Works Cited

“Child Neglect.” Findlaw, 24 Jan. 2019, criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-charges/child-neglect.html. Accessed 27 June 2020

Rastogi, Nina Shen. “How Many Balloons Would It Take to Lift a House like the One in Pixar's Up?” Slate Magazine, Slate, 4 June 2009, slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/06/how-many-balloons-would-it-take-to-lift-a-house-like-the-one-in-pixar-s-up.html. Accessed 26 June 2020

McCarthy, Tom. Up. Watch Up | Full Movie | Disney+, Pixar Animation Studios, 29 May 2009, www.disneyplus.com/movies/up/3XiRSXriK0E8/?cid=DTCI-Synergy-Disneycom-Site-Acquisition-USLaunch-US-Disney-UP-EN-NavPipe-MoviesPortalUp-NA. Accessed 26 June 2020