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Movie Up


Movie Up

Up’ is a 2009 American computer-animated comedy-drama, action-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film premiered on May 29, 2009 in North America and is the first animated film to open the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2009.

About Movie Up

Up’ is director Pete Docter's second feature-length film after Monsters, Inc., and features the voices of Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Bob Peterson, and Jordan Nagai. It is Pixar's tenth feature film and the studio's first to be presented in Disney Digital 3-D, and is accompanied in theaters by the short film Partly Cloudy’. The film was also shown in Dolby 3D in selected theaters.

The film centers around an elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen and a young overeager wilderness explorer named Russell who fly to South America in a floating house suspended from helium balloons. The film has received overwhelmingly positive reviews with a rating of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes (the best reviewed film of 2009 on the site), and grossed over $723 million worldwide, making it Pixar's second most commercially successful film, behind Finding Nemo’.

Up’ won Golden Globe Awards for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. More recently, the film received five Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, making Up’ only the second animated film in history to receive such a nomination, following Beauty and the Beast in 1991. It also has been nominated for Best Animated Feature.

Edward Asner as Carl, a stereotypical old man complete with hearing-aid and walking cane.

Jordan Nagai as Russell, a Wilderness Explorer stowaway on Carl's flying house.

Bob Peterson as Dug, a talking golden retriever

Peterson also voices Alpha, a talking Doberman Pinscher

Pete Docter as vocalizations for Kevin, a large, flightless tropical bird.

Christopher Plummer as Charles F. Muntz, the antagonist.

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