Up (2009) Critic Reviews

The result is a soaring, touching, funny and altogether buoyant movie that lives up to its title in spirit and in form.Read the full review

Easily the summer's, and probably the year's, most enchanting movie, Up is a buoyant delight.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

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

I'm still left, though, with an unshakable sense of Up being rushed and sketchy, a collection of lovely storyboards that coalesced incompletely or not at all.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

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

Passages of glorious imagination are invariably matched by stock characters and banal story choices.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