If you look at the hospital scene carefully, You can see that there is tape and scissors on her table. Her putting the pictures in the scrapbook was a last minute endeavor, so he is justified in thinking it was still blank.
As someone who lost a spouse, it doesn't surprise me... I'd think that even in the best situation, the surviving partner is still going to initially see all the things that didn't happen... Perspective takes time...
And the worst thing about it is. It combines perfectly. First love. From that comes old people. And then the old people embrace death at the end of their lives.
I used to love this movie. It was one of my favorite Pixar films. But since I lost my wife in January of this year, it’s too painful. I feel so much pain and understand Carl so deeply. We (my late wife and I) even had our chairs side by side (even though hers was now empty). Someday I will revisit this film, but not now
It's a real testament to Pixar's skill for animated visual storytelling that they were able to tell the complete story of these two people who meet, fall in love, and grow old together in a 10-minute sequence with minimal dialogue, and were able to do it so well that no one who watches it is able to make it through without crying
Speaking of Pixar movies with minimal dialogue, Wall-E is a mastercraft in pulling off emotional scenes with almost no dialogue. Most of the first half of the movie has no clearly spoken lines yet it is utterly compelling and you can understand everything Wall-E & Eve think and feel.
Or at least without feeling anything. I don't recall actually crying, since it takes a lot for me to actually tear up, but I did feel emotional during that scene.
Carl is 78 in most of the movie and Charles Muntz is 92, meaning Muntz is 14 years older than Fredriksen. In the prolouge Muntz was 23 while Carl was 9.
@cyathoris7530 Well, he's an adventurer, so he has kept himself fit throughout his life. At this point, he isn't as spry as he used to be, relying on his dogs to do the harder work, but he's sure spry for his age compared to Carl, who had a more relaxed lifestyle.
@@macaronandcheese18113 I can't believe Carl, the man who installed an automatic chair to go down his stairs, was doing monkey bars and running around like a top cadet
Every time I watch this movie, I'm reminded of the meme about how the first 5 minutes of "Up" is a better love story than all of "Twilight" and how correct that statement is in every way.
The meme is a creepy or just bad romance and saying still a better love story than twilight the start of up is just an infinity better love story than twilightno meme
Alpha doesn't suck, he just has a bad owner. At the end you can see him, still in the cone of shame, in the audience watching Russell get his badge. Then during the end credits you see Alpha being a therapy dog.
Young Ellie is voiced by Ellie Docter, director Pete Docter's daughter, who also was the inspiration for Riley in Inside Out, Docter's next movie. Pete Docter himself did a lot of vocal effects for Kevin and also cameoed as the Wilderness Scoutmaster at the end of the movie.
I was in my freshman year of college when this movie came out. Me and seven or eight frat buddies crammed in a dorm room expecting to laugh and jeer at a kid's movie, and inside ten minutes we were all stunned into sadness after the opening sequence. From then on we were invested enough to watch and pay attention, and you never saw a dozen 18-year-old men shed a few manly group tears until near the end (and you know what scene I'm talking about). I now have a memory I can laugh at and remember fondly years later, thanks to "Up". A truly good movie!
i held it together mostly until Russel started talking about his dad and sitting with him and how he doesn't get to spend time with him anymore. that just broke me to pieces.
Movies like Wall-E & Up are absolute masterpieces of animated cinema IMO. That intro (like John Wick's intro) gives you all the information you need while making you feel ALL the feelings. And Doug is so adorable and funny! (I think they did a "special" / movie short / something? all about him) "SQUIRREL!" Also, I LOVED that (just like the characters in the movie) you PAUSED as Russel was dragged across the windshield! LMAO. Easily missed joke: The "Doggy Fighter Planes" all "checked in" with the Fighters in Star Wars. But instead of saying, "Gold 4 checking in." or "Red 5 standing by.", they ALL said, "Grey checking in."! (Because dogs cant see color!
There's a short series of Doug and Carl living together, after they sell off the Spirit of Adventure and move into a new suburban home, called "Dug Days". It's basically all about Dug learning all the things a normal dog would encounter in everyday life... in his own Dug way. The series should be on Disney+, still.
I knew that Mr. Fredrickson was a lonely old man, and probably a widower, from the trailers. So when the movie introduced his wife as a child I know that she wasn't going to survive for too long, and started crying immediately. Did I mention that I saw this for the first time on a flight to Vegas? Everyone on the plane watching the movie was crying. It was beautiful. Heck, I'm fighting back the tears as I sit here listening to this at work. This is also my favorite animated movie of all time. So it's got that going for it.
Quite possibly my favorite movie ever. The opening montage is one of the greatest achieveements in animation. This film is a masterpiece. The symbolism of the house representing Ellie, both as uplifting Carl (literally too) and then becoming a burden as his grief prevents him from getting on with his life is just genius storytelling. I cry every time.
I love how at the moment Russell is sliding slowly across the window and Muntz is just staring in confusion, you also stop mid-sentence and just watch. Hilarious V. You're a comedic genuis!
26:18: “A lot of Disney and Pixar movies…” *Pause while Russell slides through the blimp’s window, as Muntz also pauses what he was doing 26:27: “As I was saying, a lot of Disney and Pixar movies…” I’ve never seen a UA-cam reaction with such a perfect coordination with the source movie. So perfect 😂
@@Ellis_Hugh Soul was a masterpiece. Just because lightyear wasn't a masterpiece doesnt mean theyre garbage now. Elemental is an immigrant story so its a little harder to relate to it if you don't know that experience but its still great.
@@justarandomveryintelligent8934 elemental was zootopia but not as good, lightyear sucked and seeing red didn't do very well in the box office either. true that most of the bad movies have been from disney studios, not necessarily pixar, but it doesn't really help either.
A love like Carl and Ellie’s is THE relationship goal. A lifelong couple that treasures each other more than anything else, that’s what I’m hoping for in a possible future marriage.
26:43 It's only JUST hit me now, after all the times I've watched this, that the dogs' fighter plane callsigns are Gray # because dogs are part-colourblind. That's amazing.
I had a chubby yellow Labrador retriever named Foster at the time when Up! came out and he was the living embodiment of Dug; all happy and wiggly. Kids used to stop dead in their tracks and say "It's Dug!" or "That dog looks just like Dug!".
Even after all these years, this movie still chokes me up. As for Muntz, I'm sure he WAS a good guy, at first... But years of frustration on not getting "the bird" twisted him into a very bad man.
@@Metzwerg74 And the name of the character was based on Charles Mintz - a guy who essentially stole a Disney-owned character (Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit) and tried to make it his own.
The beginning broke me, the ending broke me. Seeing Carl hand over the “Ellie badge”, the pin he put in at the start (well, the old age start) of the film. And standing over Russell as the son he never had breaks me uncontrollably
This is one of those Disney movies that I cannot sit down and watch more than once or twice because I just cry too much. For some reason I am especially prone to this response with Pixar animated movies especially. Up, Wall-E, Coco, they all break me like an egg and I just curl up into a ball and cry like a baby. This one though... wow. This one just really hits harder the older you get and you appreciate it more the older you get. It's a really, really weird feeling for me. I cannot sit down and watch it again, but at the same time I can appreciate the genuine beauty and sentiment behind it all even more now than I could when it released. Pixar is really good at having that affect on me and it just makes me appreciate the films more
Up is one of the best character introductions ever. The main character is a crotchety old angry man - and we love him deeply and fully understand his point of view.
I remember a news story when this movie was released...a little girl hospitalized with terminal cancer asked if she could see it. It was arranged to have it shown in her hospital room. She began watching it, surrounded by her family, and passed away near the end of the movie.
Pixar is VERY good at touching on serious topics and delving deep below the surface level thematics of their animated films. One of the best studios period for this, not just animation studios, I mean film studios in general. Frankly, you can’t go wrong with any Pixar movie, they’re all masterfully built and tell deep stories with layered nuance that touch on issues deep inside the human condition. All this while still being funny, exciting, and heart warming all at once.
I disagree. True, Pixar hasn’t had the best run in the last couple of years, but I would only call them bad in comparison to other Pixar films, and even then I would say “not as good as” rather than “bad”. I think even if they’re not my favorites, their more recent films still touch on important subjects and are still relatable in a lot of ways, and the quality of the animation has certainly not diminished. Soul was amazing, Turning Red was great, Luca was a lot of fun, it’s just Lightyear and Element that didn’t quite hit home for me, though Lightyear is kind of it’s own out-of-universe thing not really related to the rest of the toy-story franchise, and Element has a great story and excellent world building I just didn’t vibe with the music and some of the characters were a bit too over-exaggerated for my tastes.
We took the kids to see this in the theater. They got most of the jokes but the deep emotions of Carl and Ellie's relationship went straight over their heads. Ten minutes in all of the adults were crying like crazy and my son just looked at me and said you guys are weird. I wish I would be around to see him rewatch it about 30 years from now so I could tease him about the tears.
Just because I'm an endless fountain of trivia... Muntz's ship is a dirigible, not a blimp. Blimps are essentially giant balloons. Dirigibles have a rigid frame. The ridges on the ship are the frame.
On the rare occasion that I need a good cry, I just watch the first 10 minutes of this movie, gets me every time. Also Vee's "I didn't think I'd watch an old man fall to his death in Up...More like Down for him" made me laugh so hard and that comment had no right being that funny. 😂
I remember seeing this in the theater when it came out. My then girlfriend had just broke up with me after 4 years and I needed a distraction and figured a Pixar movie would be perfect. I mean what could go wrong, it's Pixar. Well ten minutes in a thirty something man is quietly crying in the back. Then wen Carl finally looks through the rest of the book and sees his life with Ellie was their adventure and I just LOST it and started sobbing. I swear I heard some little kid go "Mommy why is that man crying?" only to be shushed. For some reason that made me laugh and I felt better. I knew then that things would be alright. This movie is in my top ten of all time favorites. Just master story telling throughout and those first ten minutes will never be topped.
I remember when i see this movie in cinema, I came from chile, and many people think that "Its a Disney film, its for the children", well this happen: In the first 20 min. of the movie, all the teen and adult audiences (even me), fight for not cry, and then came the album scene, I totally honest cryed in that scene, buy not only me, I star hearing and all the audience except the most little ones, we were al crying, and I don´t know someone ask for a tissue or a paper, and in that moment, all the theater were tissues, handkerchief, even toilet paper flying all over the place. That moment was beutiful and magical for me, all that people connected in that moment, is magic , this movie is magic.
3.57 - V: ''You guys know like the 3 things that make me cry are like love, old people and death, so.... Stop!" Those of us watching who 'know': ''ohhhhh boy!'' 🥺🥺❤
Just in case no one has mentioned it, the actor doing the voice for Carl is the same actor who played Santa Claus in Elf, Ed Asner. He used to be on TV every week from 1970 to 1982, he played the same character on two different programs.
The intro is amazing. Me and my girlfriend had just got to terms with not being able to have kids when this movie came out, and that montage hit us hard. But it is my favorite Pixar movie to date.
Not a single adult was in the theater trying so hard not to ugly cry in the beginning...so poignant. My wife and I were among them. And then so many other good moments. One of my top animated movies.
Originally it was going to be called "Down", but they decided to go in a different direction. But seriously, I showed this to my elderly parents years ago and they both cried and loved the movie.
Didn't actually watch this movie until after my wife died from ovarian cancer at 24 back in 2022. The opening scene almost made me join her. It made it so much worse that we actually lost our son to miscarriage a year before she was diagnosed...
Charles Muntz is a foil for Mr Fredrickson. Like Fredrickson he can't let go of his promise from so long ago, and because of his conviction, he loses sight of the people right in front of them and of the person he used to be. He is supposed to show the path Fredrickson would have taken were it not for Russell, Kevin, and Doug (and Ellie) showing him it's okay to let go of the past and have a new adventure.
Up was the first movie me and my wife saw together when we started dating. We went to the cinema expecting nothing. The first ten minutes ended, we were all in tears and I thought she was my Ellie. Fourteen years later, she still is.
Thank you for watching this one. I lost my elderly mother in 2009 and my dad in 2010, so that first 10 minutes just moves me beyond words. It's a powerful, powerful and beautifully written film.
"Why did the dogs Wilhelm scream?" I was hoping someone would say that in an *Up* reaction. I got a bit choked up, during the first 15 minutes, but... 23:50 -- when Carl was looking at Ellie's book, that wrecked me. On opening weekend of this film, that scene made me cry like a kid with a skinned knee. "A lot of Disney and Pixar movies --" (Russell scrapes along the glass) "As I was saying, a lot of Disney and Pixar movies..." You should check out "Dug Days" -- they are follow-up stories, taking place after this movie. It's done by the same writer and cast as this film.
There's something even more depressing about this movie: there was a girl who was fighting cancer. She said her final wish was to see this movie. Upon hearing this, one of the crew members personally traveled all the way to her just so she could see the film (it hadn't released in theaters). The girl passed away eight hours after the movie ended.
I used to call my golden retriever Doug whenever he was acting like a doofus/ignoring his training because of this movie. He also chased squirels, cats etc, but even if he caught them he had a very soft mouth and would never actually bite anything he caught. He would also "catch" people and lead them around the house by holding your arm or hand in his mouth, i used to have to warn people that he'd take you on a walk if you let him lol. This movie definitely has a special spot in my heart. As for the intro, odd thing to key in on, but chimneys in fact are usually very structurally sound and often are a point of annoyance when demo-ing older homes.
I love the fact that Pixar moved its studios years ago to th San Francico Bay Area (Emeryville Ca.) I have grown up watching various Bay Area sites as "Easter Eggs" in their movies like the ice cream shop at the end of this movie("Fenton's) is a real ice cream shop of the same name in the Piedmont district that I grew up going to as a kid.( I'm 52)😮❤👏🏾🥰
The opening 20 minutes show animation at its finest: not just funny pictures to make kids laugh, but using drawings to expand what's possible on screen and portray things that can't be filmed as well in real life in order to tell a story more powerfully than if they had used live actors
Being married, I am 43, my wife is 39. The opening when I first seen the movie gutted me. But now that I am married, that opening just destroys me to the bone. Especially because its seems like our marriage. We haven't gotten to really live our dreams as a couple. Things keep getting in the way, like medical bills. Two years ago my wife had a miscarraige, which also happened in the sequence. And now we are on out 10 year mark and I am afraid of the future of having to deal with her passing or vica versa. I can't imagine my life with out her. Long story short, the movie intro hits even harder when your married.
The first time I saw this I didn't cry.....only because during that time I didn't have anyone to love me so I was embittered. But then when I was in my mid 20s I finally got that sort of love and finally felt what everyone else was feeling and I won't lie....it hit me like a train when I finally felt it and tears were everywhere
It's Pixar showing their story telling muscle. If you can get an audience to cry in the first 5 minutes of your film, you pretty much have them fully invested. This one in particular is like a gut punch. And you just said what I just said word for word. lol!
That first ten minutes is the MOST brutal that Pixar has ever done. But I love that it was a movie about an older person, grief, and a renewed zest for life. So rare to see that in an animated movie.
A beautiful, nearly perfect film. I have a special place in my heart for Dug. Reminds me so much of my dog Sonny who I miss so much. I love how emotional you can be, and not afraid to show us. Thank you! ❤
❤❤❤ V, this is still the only movie to make me cry before it really gets started. Everybody needs an Ellie relationship, but most of us never get one. Ellie pushes you into an uncomfortable place and makes it not so through pure strength of will. Such a positive attitude. I think that Muntz guy went crazy looking for a live Kevin. I don't know how you could be there soooo long and have never encountered one. Especially with all those dogs at your beck and call and having aerial surveillance. But I guess it is what it is. So much growth by Carl after the mail box incident. He started interacting with people, became a real adventurer, got a mobile home, he could park anywhere, and got a dog he could talk to. SQUIRREL!
Our wedding was based around this movie. It was mine and my wife’s favorite Disney movie and we wanted to have a marriage with the same kind of love that Carl and Ellie had.
Seeing that in the theater was absolutely magnificent. People were chuckling at the thought of them having babies and the fun of putting together a nursery, and then... silence. You could have heard a pin drop. The temperature in the theater dropped 5 degrees when that happened. It was incredible.
21:50 for anyone who doesn’t know dogs that chase small animals have a high prey drive. People forget we domesticated them from wild animals and they still have certain traits from their ancestors. It’s also why dogs like squeaky toys. The squeak imitates a dying animal. 🐕
At 3:58 "The three things that make me cry- are Love, Old People, and Death"... Welp honey you are definitely going to be bawling your eyeballs out in a sec (love how you legit described the beginning of the movie), anyways I can't wait for you to check out more movies/shows- I can't wait for more Content from you and I hope that you are doing well and staying safe and healthy!
The consensus of just about everybody who saw this movie in theaters, basically had the same mentality in mind: If they had just slapped “the end “ After the first 15 minutes of the movie, nobody would’ve been upset or felt cheated at all. So much was packed into the equivalent of the prologue of the movie.
The beginning of this movie always gets me Misty eyed but the part that really gets me is the emotional climax. When Carl finally gets the house to Paradise Falls and he sits down and sees that the rest of Ellie’s Adventure Book is filled in with pictures of their life together. All this time Carl thought he hadn’t given Ellie the Adventure she wanted, but he did. When he reads “Thanks for the adventure. Now go have another one,” I cry like a baby.
Everyone thinks of Carl and Ellie's story as heartbreaking, but they actually had a long and happy marriage, albeit with ups and downs, before Ellie dies of old age. It's not tragic at all, but only sad because we see their life together before she passes
The idea that Carl never looked through the rest of the book and probably thought that Ellie died unfulfilled and unhappy hurts me DEEPLY
If you look at the hospital scene carefully, You can see that there is tape and scissors on her table. Her putting the pictures in the scrapbook was a last minute endeavor, so he is justified in thinking it was still blank.
Wow, that’s deep 😢.
Reminds me of Tangled when Flynn says to Rapunzel, “you were my new dream” 🥹❤️
As someone who lost a spouse, it doesn't surprise me...
I'd think that even in the best situation, the surviving partner is still going to initially see all the things that didn't happen...
Perspective takes time...
@@desiv1170my condolences for your loss
"3 things make me cry: Love, old people, and death"
Ohhhh boyyyy
She got all three, and then some.
Up: coming right up ma’am.
And the worst thing about it is. It combines perfectly. First love. From that comes old people. And then the old people embrace death at the end of their lives.
@@primaitalia753 thank you benito for the perspective
"You know the things that make me cry are love, old people and death." Holy shit you hit the trifecta with this movie then!
Immediate thought “the next 5 minutes are gonna be ROUGH for our girl…l
@@darthdarthification thought the same...
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When she said that, I was like "Um, damn...!" 😬
Girl about to be REKD by this movie...
I used to love this movie. It was one of my favorite Pixar films. But since I lost my wife in January of this year, it’s too painful. I feel so much pain and understand Carl so deeply. We (my late wife and I) even had our chairs side by side (even though hers was now empty). Someday I will revisit this film, but not now
I'm sorry for your loss, Sir
Vibes and sentiments from a random stranger in the internet.
When you decide to revisit Up, let me know. If nothing else, I can send some well wishes your way. I’ll be around for however long it may be.
Update us, so we can come back here and send you happy words❤
I will keep you informed. It’s getting better, but it’s hard to predict what may trigger the tears
It's a real testament to Pixar's skill for animated visual storytelling that they were able to tell the complete story of these two people who meet, fall in love, and grow old together in a 10-minute sequence with minimal dialogue, and were able to do it so well that no one who watches it is able to make it through without crying
Speaking of Pixar movies with minimal dialogue, Wall-E is a mastercraft in pulling off emotional scenes with almost no dialogue. Most of the first half of the movie has no clearly spoken lines yet it is utterly compelling and you can understand everything Wall-E & Eve think and feel.
Pixar without John Lassiter is just another animation company. It's fallen of very hard times 😢
@@alaneskew2664 literal infitesmal price to pay to avoid literal children being SA:d
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@christianwise637
Thats because Lassiter and the old guard at PIXAR were HUGE Miyazaki/Ghibli fans!!! Ghibli does this very well!
Or at least without feeling anything. I don't recall actually crying, since it takes a lot for me to actually tear up, but I did feel emotional during that scene.
The opening of Up should be used as a test, if the person doesn't cry, it's because something is wrong
“You’re either a sociopath or you weren’t paying attention.”
They are a Sociopath or ROBOT if they do not cry.
So I didn’t cry there, was close for sure, but the scene towards the end where he finds her message again totally got me. Emotions are wild here.
Well I’m a sociopath and I didn’t cry during that scene so that checks out.
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Carl is 78 in most of the movie and Charles Muntz is 92, meaning Muntz is 14 years older than Fredriksen. In the prolouge Muntz was 23 while Carl was 9.
Muntz looked pretty good for 92
@cyathoris7530 Well, he's an adventurer, so he has kept himself fit throughout his life. At this point, he isn't as spry as he used to be, relying on his dogs to do the harder work, but he's sure spry for his age compared to Carl, who had a more relaxed lifestyle.
@@mevb bro have you SEEN the stuff carl was doing at the end of the movie? you can't tell me he's not the most spry old man you've seen
@@macaronandcheese18113 I can't believe Carl, the man who installed an automatic chair to go down his stairs, was doing monkey bars and running around like a top cadet
@@ABSolution2468 it was all a ruse, to fool the men trying to take his house. or he has a stunt double who got paid as much as he did for filming
Every time I watch this movie, I'm reminded of the meme about how the first 5 minutes of "Up" is a better love story than all of "Twilight" and how correct that statement is in every way.
Film critic Roger Ebert once said that the best movie of that year was the first 20 minutes of Up
@@charlize1253 he was not wrong...
well Hellraiser was a better lovestory than twilight...
twilight was the choice between Necrophilie and bestiality...
The meme is a creepy or just bad romance and saying still a better love story than twilight the start of up is just an infinity better love story than twilightno meme
A better love story than Twilight is not a high bar to set.
Alpha doesn't suck, he just has a bad owner. At the end you can see him, still in the cone of shame, in the audience watching Russell get his badge. Then during the end credits you see Alpha being a therapy dog.
"There's no such thing as a bad student. Only bad teacher."
And the same goes for people as well. Bad enveironments and/or parents.
that's because there are no such things as bad dogs. only bad owners. all dogs are good dogs.
Young Ellie is voiced by Ellie Docter, director Pete Docter's daughter, who also was the inspiration for Riley in Inside Out, Docter's next movie.
Pete Docter himself did a lot of vocal effects for Kevin and also cameoed as the Wilderness Scoutmaster at the end of the movie.
I was in my freshman year of college when this movie came out. Me and seven or eight frat buddies crammed in a dorm room expecting to laugh and jeer at a kid's movie, and inside ten minutes we were all stunned into sadness after the opening sequence. From then on we were invested enough to watch and pay attention, and you never saw a dozen 18-year-old men shed a few manly group tears until near the end (and you know what scene I'm talking about). I now have a memory I can laugh at and remember fondly years later, thanks to "Up". A truly good movie!
i held it together mostly until Russel started talking about his dad and sitting with him and how he doesn't get to spend time with him anymore. that just broke me to pieces.
Movies like Wall-E & Up are absolute masterpieces of animated cinema IMO.
That intro (like John Wick's intro) gives you all the information you need while making you feel ALL the feelings.
And Doug is so adorable and funny! (I think they did a "special" / movie short / something? all about him)
"SQUIRREL!"
Also, I LOVED that (just like the characters in the movie) you PAUSED as Russel was dragged across the windshield! LMAO.
Easily missed joke: The "Doggy Fighter Planes" all "checked in" with the Fighters in Star Wars. But instead of saying, "Gold 4 checking in." or "Red 5 standing by.", they ALL said, "Grey checking in."! (Because dogs cant see color!
There's a short series of Doug and Carl living together, after they sell off the Spirit of Adventure and move into a new suburban home, called "Dug Days". It's basically all about Dug learning all the things a normal dog would encounter in everyday life... in his own Dug way.
The series should be on Disney+, still.
I knew that Mr. Fredrickson was a lonely old man, and probably a widower, from the trailers. So when the movie introduced his wife as a child I know that she wasn't going to survive for too long, and started crying immediately. Did I mention that I saw this for the first time on a flight to Vegas? Everyone on the plane watching the movie was crying. It was beautiful. Heck, I'm fighting back the tears as I sit here listening to this at work.
This is also my favorite animated movie of all time. So it's got that going for it.
Quite possibly my favorite movie ever. The opening montage is one of the greatest achieveements in animation. This film is a masterpiece. The symbolism of the house representing Ellie, both as uplifting Carl (literally too) and then becoming a burden as his grief prevents him from getting on with his life is just genius storytelling. I cry every time.
"The three things that make me cry are Love, Old People and Death..."
Holy mother have mercy on her soul...
I love how at the moment Russell is sliding slowly across the window and Muntz is just staring in confusion, you also stop mid-sentence and just watch. Hilarious V. You're a comedic genuis!
It's like she's part of the movie
Yeah, that was gold!!! 😂
Nobody has ever made it past the opening 15 minutes without crying. Ever.
She didn't make it past the first 5 minutes lol
I managed to make it through the movie without crying, but I was already a tortured soul when I saw it so I shouldn’t count 😅
yes they have. thats not the kind of scene that gets me emotional.
Funny, this movie never made me cry. But reactors reacting to it, always tears me up.
Sociopaths do, by the 15 minute mark they have mentally noted at least seven possible exploit opportunities.
26:18: “A lot of Disney and Pixar movies…”
*Pause while Russell slides through the blimp’s window, as Muntz also pauses what he was doing
26:27: “As I was saying, a lot of Disney and Pixar movies…”
I’ve never seen a UA-cam reaction with such a perfect coordination with the source movie. So perfect 😂
For those that don't know, a "Snipe Hunt" is a wild-goose chase for an imaginary bird, and an old ruse that is sprung on young Russell.
Pixar movies were masters at story telling. And this never fails to hit me right in the feels every single time I watch it! Glad you enjoyed it!
They really were. Sadly the emphasis is on 'were'... maybe one day again.
Hopefully :(@@Ellis_Hugh
Elemental was pretty good.
@@Ellis_Hugh Soul was a masterpiece. Just because lightyear wasn't a masterpiece doesnt mean theyre garbage now. Elemental is an immigrant story so its a little harder to relate to it if you don't know that experience but its still great.
@@justarandomveryintelligent8934 elemental was zootopia but not as good, lightyear sucked and seeing red didn't do very well in the box office either. true that most of the bad movies have been from disney studios, not necessarily pixar, but it doesn't really help either.
A love like Carl and Ellie’s is THE relationship goal. A lifelong couple that treasures each other more than anything else, that’s what I’m hoping for in a possible future marriage.
Or Adam and Morticia on the Addams Family.
26:43 It's only JUST hit me now, after all the times I've watched this, that the dogs' fighter plane callsigns are Gray # because dogs are part-colourblind. That's amazing.
Also Star Wars reference....
@@armynurseboy red 5 standing by!
I had a chubby yellow Labrador retriever named Foster at the time when Up! came out and he was the living embodiment of Dug; all happy and wiggly. Kids used to stop dead in their tracks and say "It's Dug!" or "That dog looks just like Dug!".
Even after all these years, this movie still chokes me up. As for Muntz, I'm sure he WAS a good guy, at first... But years of frustration on not getting "the bird" twisted him into a very bad man.
What's sad is that the bird skeleton he brought back was probably real and it ruined his career.
@@andrewli6606 the hero muntz lived long enough to become the villain....
just like di$ney...
@@Metzwerg74 And the name of the character was based on Charles Mintz - a guy who essentially stole a Disney-owned character (Oswald, the Lucky Rabbit) and tried to make it his own.
Ironic, since disneys entire catalogue is just plagiarised old stories.@@PhilBagels
The beginning broke me, the ending broke me. Seeing Carl hand over the “Ellie badge”, the pin he put in at the start (well, the old age start) of the film. And standing over Russell as the son he never had breaks me uncontrollably
Ellie always had loved birds, too, when you see her in the beginning of the story. She'd be glad her husband saved Kevin and her family.
Perfect reaction. If you don't cry during this movie...you're not human. You passed the test...you're a good human. Keep up the good work!!!
That intro sequence won several awards on it's own.
This is one of those Disney movies that I cannot sit down and watch more than once or twice because I just cry too much. For some reason I am especially prone to this response with Pixar animated movies especially. Up, Wall-E, Coco, they all break me like an egg and I just curl up into a ball and cry like a baby. This one though... wow. This one just really hits harder the older you get and you appreciate it more the older you get. It's a really, really weird feeling for me. I cannot sit down and watch it again, but at the same time I can appreciate the genuine beauty and sentiment behind it all even more now than I could when it released. Pixar is really good at having that affect on me and it just makes me appreciate the films more
@@tawogtrailersDisney Pixar
Disney owns Pixar as of 2006 FYI and this movie came out later. It's a Disney movie made under Pixar studio. @@tawogtrailers
Up is one of the best character introductions ever.
The main character is a crotchety old angry man - and we love him deeply and fully understand his point of view.
I remember a news story when this movie was released...a little girl hospitalized with terminal cancer asked if she could see it. It was arranged to have it shown in her hospital room. She began watching it, surrounded by her family, and passed away near the end of the movie.
"Love, old people and death"
combo !, DOUBLE COMBO !!, *TRRRRRRIPLE COMBOOOO !!!*
"you guys know that the 3 things that make me cry are love, old people, and death." Proceeds to see all 3 in the intro.
Pixar is VERY good at touching on serious topics and delving deep below the surface level thematics of their animated films. One of the best studios period for this, not just animation studios, I mean film studios in general. Frankly, you can’t go wrong with any Pixar movie, they’re all masterfully built and tell deep stories with layered nuance that touch on issues deep inside the human condition. All this while still being funny, exciting, and heart warming all at once.
Pixar WAS very good.
yeah, WAS, past time
in recent yearh the quality said "'ight, imma head out"
I disagree. True, Pixar hasn’t had the best run in the last couple of years, but I would only call them bad in comparison to other Pixar films, and even then I would say “not as good as” rather than “bad”. I think even if they’re not my favorites, their more recent films still touch on important subjects and are still relatable in a lot of ways, and the quality of the animation has certainly not diminished. Soul was amazing, Turning Red was great, Luca was a lot of fun, it’s just Lightyear and Element that didn’t quite hit home for me, though Lightyear is kind of it’s own out-of-universe thing not really related to the rest of the toy-story franchise, and Element has a great story and excellent world building I just didn’t vibe with the music and some of the characters were a bit too over-exaggerated for my tastes.
We took the kids to see this in the theater. They got most of the jokes but the deep emotions of Carl and Ellie's relationship went straight over their heads. Ten minutes in all of the adults were crying like crazy and my son just looked at me and said you guys are weird. I wish I would be around to see him rewatch it about 30 years from now so I could tease him about the tears.
Just because I'm an endless fountain of trivia... Muntz's ship is a dirigible, not a blimp. Blimps are essentially giant balloons. Dirigibles have a rigid frame. The ridges on the ship are the frame.
Better known as an airship.
On the rare occasion that I need a good cry, I just watch the first 10 minutes of this movie, gets me every time. Also Vee's "I didn't think I'd watch an old man fall to his death in Up...More like Down for him" made me laugh so hard and that comment had no right being that funny. 😂
"3 things that makes me cry: Love, Old people, Death"
Random Old Person just living his life: "What did I do?"
I remember seeing this in the theater when it came out. My then girlfriend had just broke up with me after 4 years and I needed a distraction and figured a Pixar movie would be perfect. I mean what could go wrong, it's Pixar. Well ten minutes in a thirty something man is quietly crying in the back.
Then wen Carl finally looks through the rest of the book and sees his life with Ellie was their adventure and I just LOST it and started sobbing. I swear I heard some little kid go "Mommy why is that man crying?" only to be shushed. For some reason that made me laugh and I felt better. I knew then that things would be alright.
This movie is in my top ten of all time favorites. Just master story telling throughout and those first ten minutes will never be topped.
I remember when i see this movie in cinema, I came from chile, and many people think that "Its a Disney film, its for the children", well this happen:
In the first 20 min. of the movie, all the teen and adult audiences (even me), fight for not cry, and then came the album scene, I totally honest cryed in that scene, buy not only me, I star hearing and all the audience except the most little ones, we were al crying, and I don´t know someone ask for a tissue or a paper, and in that moment, all the theater were tissues, handkerchief, even toilet paper flying all over the place.
That moment was beutiful and magical for me, all that people connected in that moment, is magic , this movie is magic.
3.57 - V: ''You guys know like the 3 things that make me cry are like love, old people and death, so.... Stop!"
Those of us watching who 'know': ''ohhhhh boy!'' 🥺🥺❤
Just in case no one has mentioned it, the actor doing the voice for Carl is the same actor who played Santa Claus in Elf, Ed Asner. He used to be on TV every week from 1970 to 1982, he played the same character on two different programs.
The intro is amazing. Me and my girlfriend had just got to terms with not being able to have kids when this movie came out, and that montage hit us hard. But it is my favorite Pixar movie to date.
Not a single adult was in the theater trying so hard not to ugly cry in the beginning...so poignant. My wife and I were among them. And then so many other good moments. One of my top animated movies.
Your crying in the opening and 23:52 was wonderful, i'm glad your watching this academy award winning pixar masterpice!!
I just got the notification and i said to myself "Oh boy .. this isn't going to end well" 😂❤
Originally it was going to be called "Down", but they decided to go in a different direction. But seriously, I showed this to my elderly parents years ago and they both cried and loved the movie.
I saw this notification and was like "oh! Oh cool...oh...oh no...OH NO" slowly remembering the first 15 minutes lmao
Didn't actually watch this movie until after my wife died from ovarian cancer at 24 back in 2022. The opening scene almost made me join her. It made it so much worse that we actually lost our son to miscarriage a year before she was diagnosed...
Sorry for your loss. I hope Your wife and son are sleeping peacefully
Charles Muntz is a foil for Mr Fredrickson. Like Fredrickson he can't let go of his promise from so long ago, and because of his conviction, he loses sight of the people right in front of them and of the person he used to be. He is supposed to show the path Fredrickson would have taken were it not for Russell, Kevin, and Doug (and Ellie) showing him it's okay to let go of the past and have a new adventure.
Up was the first movie me and my wife saw together when we started dating. We went to the cinema expecting nothing. The first ten minutes ended, we were all in tears and I thought she was my Ellie. Fourteen years later, she still is.
01:19, funny thing is Charles Muntz could've ensured his name in the history books for those inventions alone.
She held up her 3 fingers saying what makes her cry and I was like "Girl this film has all three."
V: "The 3 things that make me cry are Love, Old People, and Death"
Me, who knows whats coming: "Oh, dear..."
Thank you for watching this one. I lost my elderly mother in 2009 and my dad in 2010, so that first 10 minutes just moves me beyond words. It's a powerful, powerful and beautifully written film.
"Why did the dogs Wilhelm scream?" I was hoping someone would say that in an *Up* reaction.
I got a bit choked up, during the first 15 minutes, but... 23:50 -- when Carl was looking at Ellie's book, that wrecked me. On opening weekend of this film, that scene made me cry like a kid with a skinned knee.
"A lot of Disney and Pixar movies --" (Russell scrapes along the glass) "As I was saying, a lot of Disney and Pixar movies..."
You should check out "Dug Days" -- they are follow-up stories, taking place after this movie. It's done by the same writer and cast as this film.
The Dogs translators convert dog thought into human voice.
I remember when this came out, everyone talked about the first 10 minutes, it was a cultural phenomenon
16:43 there’s a theory that Ellie actually sent Russel to Karl, as a way to help him move on. I like to think that too.
There's something even more depressing about this movie: there was a girl who was fighting cancer. She said her final wish was to see this movie. Upon hearing this, one of the crew members personally traveled all the way to her just so she could see the film (it hadn't released in theaters). The girl passed away eight hours after the movie ended.
I used to call my golden retriever Doug whenever he was acting like a doofus/ignoring his training because of this movie. He also chased squirels, cats etc, but even if he caught them he had a very soft mouth and would never actually bite anything he caught. He would also "catch" people and lead them around the house by holding your arm or hand in his mouth, i used to have to warn people that he'd take you on a walk if you let him lol.
This movie definitely has a special spot in my heart.
As for the intro, odd thing to key in on, but chimneys in fact are usually very structurally sound and often are a point of annoyance when demo-ing older homes.
I love the fact that Pixar moved its studios years ago to th San Francico Bay Area (Emeryville Ca.) I have grown up watching various Bay Area sites as "Easter Eggs" in their movies like the ice cream shop at the end of this movie("Fenton's) is a real ice cream shop of the same name in the Piedmont district that I grew up going to as a kid.( I'm 52)😮❤👏🏾🥰
Saw this in the theater, in 3-d. Wiping tears out from under 3-d glasses is a pain in the ass.
Me too! I saw this in 3D as well.
“I already need a tissue”
You’re gonna need a whole box.
yea, that first 5-10 mins is a heart punch. "3 things that make me cry are love, old people and death" oh lord, she's not ready.
The opening to up is legitimately perfection. With almost no words summarized the whole life of Carl & Ellie.
“The three things that make me cry - Love, Old People, Death”
Me: Oh she’s not gonna make it
The opening 20 minutes show animation at its finest: not just funny pictures to make kids laugh, but using drawings to expand what's possible on screen and portray things that can't be filmed as well in real life in order to tell a story more powerfully than if they had used live actors
I just had a horrible thought: What if Darth Iger tries to make a Live Action version of "Up"?
The first 10 minutes with little words tell one of the greatest love stories in all of cinema... remarkable srotytelling
Being married, I am 43, my wife is 39. The opening when I first seen the movie gutted me. But now that I am married, that opening just destroys me to the bone. Especially because its seems like our marriage. We haven't gotten to really live our dreams as a couple. Things keep getting in the way, like medical bills. Two years ago my wife had a miscarraige, which also happened in the sequence. And now we are on out 10 year mark and I am afraid of the future of having to deal with her passing or vica versa. I can't imagine my life with out her.
Long story short, the movie intro hits even harder when your married.
Sir, it's gonna be fine. If the love is like the two from the movie, then I aspire to be like you both.
why does she pretend that crying while reacting ?
It’s even rougher once you lose a wife of over 2 decades. 😭
The first time I saw this I didn't cry.....only because during that time I didn't have anyone to love me so I was embittered. But then when I was in my mid 20s I finally got that sort of love and finally felt what everyone else was feeling and I won't lie....it hit me like a train when I finally felt it and tears were everywhere
The beginning of this movie hits differently now ever since my grandmother died. Her husband, my grandfather, misses her terribly even today.
She started crying during the happy part, I was like "She's done for" 🤣
People said that WALL-E was one of the biggest tearjerker films for a long time.
Pixar replied: Hold my beer
The opening crushes me every time.
It's Pixar showing their story telling muscle. If you can get an audience to cry in the first 5 minutes of your film, you pretty much have them fully invested. This one in particular is like a gut punch. And you just said what I just said word for word. lol!
>Starts crying before the sad parts of the intro even start.
AH BOY HERE WE GOOOO
That first ten minutes is the MOST brutal that Pixar has ever done. But I love that it was a movie about an older person, grief, and a renewed zest for life. So rare to see that in an animated movie.
"They can't just gut punch me in the first 15 minutes!" - Welcome to Up
Up and WALL-E are on a different level storytelling-wise
A beautiful, nearly perfect film. I have a special place in my heart for Dug. Reminds me so much of my dog Sonny who I miss so much. I love how emotional you can be, and not afraid to show us. Thank you! ❤
❤❤❤ V, this is still the only movie to make me cry before it really gets started. Everybody needs an Ellie relationship, but most of us never get one. Ellie pushes you into an uncomfortable place and makes it not so through pure strength of will. Such a positive attitude. I think that Muntz guy went crazy looking for a live Kevin. I don't know how you could be there soooo long and have never encountered one. Especially with all those dogs at your beck and call and having aerial surveillance. But I guess it is what it is. So much growth by Carl after the mail box incident. He started interacting with people, became a real adventurer, got a mobile home, he could park anywhere, and got a dog he could talk to. SQUIRREL!
The opening just smashes your heart with a metric ton of bricks.
Our wedding was based around this movie. It was mine and my wife’s favorite Disney movie and we wanted to have a marriage with the same kind of love that Carl and Ellie had.
Did anyone warn her she'd need a full box of tissues?
"They can't just gut punch me in the first 15 minutes."
*Remembers Bambi 😢
The implied miscarriage is one of the saddest things that Pixar has ever done. It's so heart breaking
Seeing that in the theater was absolutely magnificent. People were chuckling at the thought of them having babies and the fun of putting together a nursery, and then... silence. You could have heard a pin drop. The temperature in the theater dropped 5 degrees when that happened. It was incredible.
@@RedHeadKevin in my movie theater there were kids asking their parent "why are you crying?" Boy were we unprepared
Probably a good thing since he hates kids
@@strikerbowls791 Maybe this is why he hates kids. It reminds him of the fact he lost his
Either she had a miscarriage or she was infertile
5:21 It hits even harder when you realize that's the same chapel they got married in.
Let's rewatch this again with her🥺🌺
21:50 for anyone who doesn’t know dogs that chase small animals have a high prey drive. People forget we domesticated them from wild animals and they still have certain traits from their ancestors. It’s also why dogs like squeaky toys. The squeak imitates a dying animal. 🐕
At 3:58 "The three things that make me cry- are Love, Old People, and Death"... Welp honey you are definitely going to be bawling your eyeballs out in a sec (love how you legit described the beginning of the movie), anyways I can't wait for you to check out more movies/shows- I can't wait for more Content from you and I hope that you are doing well and staying safe and healthy!
The consensus of just about everybody who saw this movie in theaters, basically had the same mentality in mind:
If they had just slapped “the end “
After the first 15 minutes of the movie, nobody would’ve been upset or felt cheated at all.
So much was packed into the equivalent of the prologue of the movie.
Your reaction was so pure I loved it. Please do more Pixar movies!! I’d love to see more from you!
A core message of this movie is: live your life while you are young and have the energy to do things. Don't let lack of money stop you, find a way.
So, how many tissue are you going to need?
V: yes.
Edit: I hadn't even watched it all the way. My prophecy became true 😂
Funny thing about the Dogs, They aren't all hunting dogs, Doug is the only one in the arsenal that is a true hunting dog.
The beginning of this movie always gets me Misty eyed but the part that really gets me is the emotional climax. When Carl finally gets the house to Paradise Falls and he sits down and sees that the rest of Ellie’s Adventure Book is filled in with pictures of their life together. All this time Carl thought he hadn’t given Ellie the Adventure she wanted, but he did. When he reads “Thanks for the adventure. Now go have another one,” I cry like a baby.
Everyone thinks of Carl and Ellie's story as heartbreaking, but they actually had a long and happy marriage, albeit with ups and downs, before Ellie dies of old age. It's not tragic at all, but only sad because we see their life together before she passes
The whole montage in the beginning with his wife always gets me. I love your empathic reactions to movies. Love this movie
5:39 Wait until your 60's. It hurts to get up.
When at the end it leaves you literally clapping through tears, it's called a masterpiece.
I am glad you liked this movie, this one holds a special place for me now, since my Mom died recently and helping my Dad it hits a little too close