Up (2009) Critic Reviews

On the most basic level the new film is pure vaudeville: a loopy flyaway fantasy that's hysterically funny if only to keep the darkness at bay.Read the full review

This is another masterwork from Pixar, which is leading the charge in modern animation.Read the full review

A lovely, thoughtful, and yes, uplifting adventure.Read the full review

Rarely has any film, let alone an animated one powered by the logic of dream and fantasy, been able to move so successfully -- and so effortlessly -- through so many different kinds of cinematic territory.Read the full review

Up is not as transcendent as last year's "WALL-E," and doesn't rank near the top of Pixar's pantheon of great features, but it's a solid (and in some ways innovative) fantasy adventure that mixes comedy, action, and drama into a satisfying whole.Read the full review

Up is a breathtaking ride into the realm of pure imagination.Read the full review

Has some great movie moments but also boring stretches.Read the full review

Up is Pixar's most ambitious attempt yet to take animation to higher (and deeper) places than it's been before, and Giacchino's sprightly music keeps the whole thing, impossibly, aloft.Read the full review

Winsome, touching and arguably the funniest Pixar effort ever, the gorgeously rendered, high-flying adventure is a tidy 90-minute distillation of all the signature touches that came before it.Read the full review