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Up Movie


Up Movie

'Up' stars Ed Asner and Jordan Nagai as Carl and Russell, a grumpy old man and an adventurous young scout, who fly a house to Victoria Falls in a heartwarming and fun animated classic from Disney and Pixar.

About Up Movie

Up’ is a 2009 American computer-animated comedy-drama, action-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It won the 2010 Oscar for best animated movie. 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.

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 on 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.

'Up' was nominated for a 2010 Kids Choice Award in the category of Favorite Animated Movie.

'Up' Stars: Edward Asner as Carl, a cynical old man complete with hearing-aid and walking cane
Jordan Nagai as Russell, a Wilderness Explorer and 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 Kevin, a large, flightless tropical bird
Christopher Plummer as Charles F. Muntz, as a long, lost adventurer

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