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Throwback Thursday: Up!

Up is one of my favorite movies of all time... or is just the first few minutes of Up my favorite movie ever? Hard to tell!

I have to say... I don't like the whole movie as much as I like the sad montage at the beginning of the movie. I didn't pay that much attention to it when I just recently watched it because I was also cleaning my room... so I didn't totally take in all the beautiful animation of it... but I was pretty much fully watching it and I feel like there's such a weird shift in the movie that I'm not sure fits that well together... it's just very odd.

It's action-y and adventure-y... but when they get to Paradise Falls... everything gets kind of weird. And it isn't that I don't like it it's just kind of... not really my thing. I like Kevin- she's really pretty. I love Dug and think all the talking dogs are really funny... but it's just really strange compared to the beginning of the movie- which is very cute but ordinary... and I guess that's kind of the point of showing this crazy and fun adventure after the very ordinary opening montage of the movie. I'm not sure I would like this if this was any other storyteller than Pixar... but Pixar just does it right with it's characters and it's animation... that it is still one of my favorite movies ever.

The part that really gets me is after Ellie finds out that she cannot have children and they show her outside.
It's just very, very beautiful and heartbreaking... and the way that they animated this was just very beautiful and it said a lot without actually saying any words.

And that's another thing that sort of always gets me about this movie... Ellie is only in the beginning of the movie... but it seems like she's in the whole movie... I didn't really realize that adult Ellie didn't even have any lines in the movie... it's just a little silent movie at the beginning and they just did such a wonderful job with it.

Pixar does a great job with silent movies really... Wall E and this beginning montage... they're just perfect. Wall E came out before this movie... and this was just kind of a good continuation of that.

I also know this was the 10th Pixar movie too and that was a big deal! And it was just really beautiful. So pretty to see all the balloons and the sky... it's just one that maybe isn't my favorite story overall for a Pixar movie... but I'm always going to appreciate all these little things about it and incredible details!

Byeee!
-Shannon

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