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Pixar's Up

Submitted by ardith on Fri, 2009-06-05 11:08
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iconicon Lovers or animation and wonderful storytelling know that Pixar has been tops for the past decade or so. And while the trend of some digital animation houses is to pack as much popculture as possible into the hour and a half or so of runtime, Pixar stays classy by keeping their content focused on what is important. Story.


And it is the power of their stories that make Pixar so successful. With their latest effort, Pixar not only proves that they are have great visionary directors, but that they also are still growing and evolving as storytellers.

UP appeals to audiences of all ages. There is a great amount of emotion that beats within this story. And while it features a geriatric gentleman and a pre-teen wilderness scout, it's packed full of entertainment power.

Wall-e: A Slightly Bias Review

Submitted by ardith on Sat, 2008-07-05 20:08
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Wall-e

I finally had a bit of time to catch Wall-e yesterday. I have to say that I feared that I over-hyped the movie. To be honest, I didn't really care all that much for Cars, though I have watched it again on DVD.

I however totally loved Finding Nemo. I started crying in the theater in the first opening minutes and had a great time with the rest of the film. I think Finding Nemo and The Incredibles are tied as my favorite PIXAR film.... Well, until this.

I love many things about PIXAR, Their storytelling is really solid. They don't stuntcast for voices. Their animation is... amazing.

With Wall-e, you get all of that and more. Wall-e is one of thousands and thousands of robots left to clean up a decimated Earth. Humans have totally trashed the home undefinedworld. B&L, a gigantic conglomerate, seems to own/run everything, and Earth is a junkyard.

So humans leave on a 5 year cruise in space and let the robots clean up. (As an aside, after finally taking a cruise, I was greatly amused by the AXIOM. It's the ultimate space fun ship.)

700 years later, the humans are still away and all of the other WALL-E robots have ceased to function. The last remaining one has is malfunctioning in the best way ever. Like a kind of robot madness, he's broken through and develops a personality.

Wall-e is kind. He's romantic. He's lonely. He's funny. And he's amazing.

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