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Topic: Let's Talk about 'UP' (please warn of spoilers)

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mele
Thu 6/4/2009 7:26a
LOL! Embarrassing. I promise, I do know how to spell "alpha". Maybe I shouldn't be posting that late at night. LOL
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greenbean
Thu 6/4/2009 11:27a
SPOILERS!!!


The Alpha dogs were so hilarious. I loved when they prepared the dinner - it was just such a creative touch.

But favorite character had to be Carl. He relationship with Ellie was so touching and when he went back to look through her scrapbook, I teared up. Wonderful film!
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hopemax
Thu 6/4/2009 12:16p
The serving dinner scene, was I think, one of my Dad's favorites. Not because of any cinematic marvel, but because a few days before the movie he was watching a Travel channel special about V&A's. On the show, they mentioned how in some fine restaurants, each person's food is brought out by a separate waiter. The plates are placed at the table all at the same time, and the covers are removed all at the same time. So after just watching that, here the dog waiters did that exact thing! He was so impressed that the film makers knew that.
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basil fan
Thu 6/4/2009 4:52p
Just saw it (in 2-D because I didn't want to wait around another 50 minutes for the 3-D).

Okay, if you're talking about reality, this movie was absurd. It wasn't just one stretch, it was one after another after another...

I thought it was great! Just a wonderful film.

SPOILERS:

The dogs in planes was certainly the hardest to swallow, but after watching the old guy pull his house around for days, it just rolled off the proverbial back.

Had no problem with the intelligence of the dogs, however. Animals in animated films have been as smart as humans since as far back as I can remember. Whether they talk or not.

Thought Russell was a marvelous character. A kid character who didn't annoy me...whoa.

I cried three times during the film, which is not unusual. What is unusual was the uncontrolled sobbing. Normally the tears flow, but the emotion here was more intense than that.

This is the saddest film opening since Oliver and Company.

I liked Up so much better than Wall*E, which I found only so-so. It was great!

Mouse History 101
http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...ory.html
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danyoung
Fri 6/5/2009 10:05a
basil fan, I don't really disagree with most of what you said. As to the dogs, however, I had no problem with Dug and his English translations, because he was still mostly acting like a dog. And even when Alpha and the pack came around, they were acting like dogs on the hunt. When it came to serving dinner, flying planes, etc., well that was just a bit much for me. And as I said, it would have been easy to sneak in a 30 second segment about how Muntz hired a canine geneticist, moved his operation to South America, and successfully produced a more intelligent canine. I'm guessing something of this nature was probably discussed at Pixar, and was nixed because it would drag down the action. It's not a dealbreaker for me or anything, as I still loved the movie. But I just thought that one aspect could have been dealt with a little bit better.
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RockyMtnMinnie
Fri 6/5/2009 12:10p
I really loved the movie... Squirrel!!!

I really loved the movie. It made me cry.
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basil fan
Sat 6/6/2009 1:35p
I didn't cry. I sobbed uncontrollably. So glad there was nobody sitting near me.

Donald Duck's Family Tree
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FiveBearRugs
Sun 6/7/2009 10:13p
You know what's interesting? in the Read-Aloud Storybook, Muntz's demise is slightly different; it says that his leg gets caught in the balloons and he's carried away...
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DyGDisney
Mon 6/8/2009 6:49a
SPOILER:
Well, that makes sense as the book is for small children. I guess it would kind of fread them out if it said he fell to his death.
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DyGDisney
Mon 6/8/2009 6:50a
I meant "freak" them out. UGH ---too early.
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