Disney Animated Films
Topic: UP is Disney/ Pixar’s first DUD

#	Author	Message
81	Sara Tonin Mon 6/8/2009 12:14p	#1-two weeks in a row...
82	skinnerbox Mon 6/8/2009 1:31p	Actually, Hangover's numbers were revised this morning, and UP came in a close second this past weekend: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/st...=6854061 "The Warner Bros. comedy "The Hangover" drew bigger audiences than earlier projected to raise its weekend ticket sales to $45 million, about $1.8 million more than the studio estimated Sunday. That made it the No. 1 draw for the weekend instead of Disney and Pixar Animation's "Up," which came in second with $44.3 million. Sunday studio estimates had "Up" edging "The Hangover" by about $1 million."
83	wahooskipper Mon 6/8/2009 1:32p	Ok...I stand corrected. Up? Dud. :-)
84	DlandDug Mon 6/8/2009 4:21p	I'll bet the producers of Land of the Lost wish they had a hangover on their hands. Even BoxOfficeMojo managed to miss this one-- they still have UP at #1 in their headlines, even though they've revised the lead story to reflect the corrected numbers. Regardless, UP seems well settled in to make it ten hits in a row for Pixar. No duds for Lasseter and the Mighty Lamp...
85	basil fan Mon 6/8/2009 4:45p	I'm sure the people on this thread crying "dud" mean that they didn't like the movie, not that it didn't perform well. However, I loved it. Donald Duck's Family Tree www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/donald.html
86	Jim in Merced CA Tue 6/9/2009 7:23p	Thing is... 'UP' is not gathering the same audience as 'The Hangover.' 'UP' is wonderful for all ages. 'The Hangover' --- is not.
87	crazycroc Wed 6/10/2009 12:29a	I didn't like "UP" either. That's cool for those who did, I can respect that. I work in a highly stressful industry dealing with dsyfunctional family systems 6 days a week. So, I bet it's totally me, not needing something "deep" in my system after work. The last thing I want in one of my Disney movies is this type of sadness. From Carl's wife passing, to the little boy's Dad being a no-show, to Muntz being a bad guy to Carl, I just found the whole thing a bit depressing. I am however, eagerly anticipating more entertainment in the vein of Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2: Back to Mexico.
88	Jim in Merced CA Thu 6/11/2009 7:56a	crazycroc -- are you kidding? I can't tell if you're trying to be funny.
89	mawnck Thu 6/11/2009 4:48p	Yep, dud. It's Pixar's worst movie by a comfortable margin, because there's plot holes, and then there's "we just aren't paying attention." (Spoilers ahead.) I loved, loved, LOVED the opening too, but the movie jumped the shark when the house got caught in the storm and started being knocked around so violently. We've already established that Carl can break his arm and that he can't climb stairs and that getting bopped on the head makes you bleed, and yet this seventy-something year old guy spends the rest of the movie getting bopped and bashed, dragging a floating house, running from vicious dogs, and just generally having a strenuous time of it. And he never breaks a sweat, let alone an arm. Kevin can get hurt badly. Dug and Muntz can not get hurt at all. Russell can get hurt once if a gag calls for it but heals up instantly. Make up your dang mind! Muntz in his 90's? Try 110's. He had lunch with Teddy Roosevelt, remember? Spry old geezer, huh. And he builds electronic psychic talking dog collars in a rain forest (why?) like the Professor on Gilligan's Island, and has a 70-year-old zeppelin with a spotless museum in it that is in airworthy condition, complete with hydrogen, staffed entirely by dogs. It was like Dreamworks trying to do a Pixar movie. "Well it's supposed to have this, and this, and a laugh here because it's getting too heavy and ooh we have a plot problem here so we'll just stick in a 'cone of shame' gag earlier in the film so we can use it here even though it's the 7th time we've done this kind of thing," and so on. All the main characters spent a great deal of time dangling on the edge of something. Good the first few times, not so much after the 8th or 9th dangle. By the time we got to that ridiculous dogs flying airplanes thing (where did they get the planes and why?) I was already officially mad at the movie, and that really tore it. As often happens when I'm trying to defend a negative opinion of a film that everyone else appears to love to pieces, this is coming out as if I thought this was another "Home on the Range." It's not. It's an entertaining movie, with some really magical moments. I give it 5 stars out of 10, which beats about half of Dreamworks' catalog. I've just come to expect Pixar movies to be more solidly assembled than this. I am quite content to forgive plot holes as long as they aren't glaring, but in this I felt like I was getting socked in the face with them, one after another. If a character takes a ridiculous beating and doesn't get the least bit hurt, then don't be surprised if I stop caring whether he gets hurt or not. And I am no hater of cartoony business - heck, those airplane dogs would be a hoot in a different movie - but we keep being asked to accept Carl's world as somewhat based in cold reality, and then having that reality shattered by slapsticky or over-the-top action-sequence business. They tried to have it both ways, and with me at least, failed miserably. Bolt, which had a few plot issues itself, is MUCH better. To put it in Studio Ghibli terms, Up is Pixar's equivalent to "The Cat Returns," and I sure hope they aren't working on their "Tales from Earthsea," cause that will **really** suck.
90	mawnck Thu 6/11/2009 4:55p	PS - Someone on another board had a theory that the whole movie from the point of the balloon takeoff was supposed to turn out to be Carl's dream right before he died, and that the movie was supposed to end with him being carried out of the house - which is still on the construction site - in a body bag. But the powers that be vetoed it because you just can't have a blockbuster movie with a sad ending in 2009. IF that is the case - and I emphasize that it was ONLY speculation on the poster's part - then this movie would have made a lot more sense, and it's too bad they didn't stick to their guns.

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