My review on Disneys new film 'Up'

Here is my review on the Disney Pixar film 'Up'. The text in blue relates back to my work.

Today I saw 'Up' in 3D at the cinema. I thought this film was too sensitive to be classed as a U. It touched very sensitive areas that I believe young children may not understand or may end up being distraught. The film started with the main character, Carl Fredricksen, as a young boy. You see him befriend a young girl, Ellie, and you watch them grow up together, getting married and growing old. What I think the younger audience may not understand is when the couple find out they can’t have a baby, all you see is Ellie and Carl upset in a hospital where there is a poster of a baby on the wall. This made me and I believe a lot of the older audience quite moved. There’s one part that made me very upset, when the couple were quite old, Carl buys tickets for them to go on holiday but Ellie gets ill and unfortunately dies. This made my partner very distraught because it had brought back bad memories of his grandparents and he couldn’t enjoy the rest of the film. It kept coming back up during the film and I could see my partner was unhappy about it. If this film could make a couple of young adults cry then how will those who are younger than us react? I believe they would either not understand or care, or get very upset. That’s why I think this film should be a PG so parents can see this before their children and decide whether it’s ok for their children to watch. This made me think about the rating of our film, we'll need to put alot of thought into who should be our target audience and then once it's finished think again if our audience we have chosen it the right one. Our film may not have any sad moments, but it's still important to get the target audience right

After the very sad beginning the film tries to balance out the emotions throughout the film by bringing in the comedy with a little boy, Russell, a snipe (bird) called Kevin, who ends up being a girl, and a talking dog called Doug.



But before the film started we were softened up by a Pixar short, 'Partly Cloudy'. It looks like the story was based on the tale of stalks delivering babies, I guess no one thought of where the stalk gets the baby from so Pixar jumped in there and thought this out. Bassically all of the stalks go to seperate clouds, these clouds make babies, not just humans but animals too but there's this one cloud that creates not very nice animals, like crocodiles, that the stalk gets hurt by. Eventually the stalk goes to another cloud and his original cloud gets upset and starts raining, but the stalk come back wearing a helmet and knee pads, his cloud his happy again and hands him the next baby, it's an eel and the stalk gets electricuted. I loved it, it was short but sweet. This shows how such a simple short story can be succesful, maybe if we made ours this simple it would be easier for people to like it, but I think they did this for the younger audience since there is no speach in it. Our film is going to be more complex so the audience will be older and more likely to laugh at the parts we are parodying, this is another reason why we should think about the target audience.



This was the 6th film I've seen with the new 3D technology and It still amazes me. The picture is in such depth as well as things stretching out at you. I liked that the makers didn't deliberately have things coming at you like in the old 3D films such as Spy Kids 3D. I could really believe that this film was a real world because of the depth, I believe the makers a very pleased with how it's turned out. I think it would be great to have our film in 3D, so the audience can feel like they are part of the story.