"Up" is a great movie for the most part, but unfortunately loses strength in the third act. As you all know, your first 10 minutes are absolutly gorgeous, simple, and touching, but the movie begins to decline as soon as the presence irritating Russell becomes permanent, and worsens the journey of the characters reaches the forest, which turns out to be a far less exuberant scenario than one might expect.
And the script from that moment introduces a conflict that sounds absolutely artificial, (Spoilers) when Russell and Carl discover the giant bird and decide and the boy decides that it needs to be protected, even at the risk of their own lives. Because? No reason is provided for such a decision. Such a situation, as well as Muntz's revelation as a psychopathic killer, seems only created by the need to justify the feature film.What becomes uncomfortable in the third act of "Up" is not its absurdity, the dogs with speech devices that fly planes, or the fact that Russell is able to do in minutes what Muntz has not been able to do in almost a century, that is , tame the great bird. but rather the fact that the plot becomes totally forced, seeming to exist only for the necessity to fill the third act.
2/3 of a great film.
"Up" is a great movie for the most part, but unfortunately loses strength in the third act. As you all know, your first 10 minutes are absolutly gorgeous, simple, and touching, but the movie begins to decline as soon as the presence irritating Russell becomes permanent, and worsens the journey of the characters reaches the forest, which turns out to be a far less exuberant scenario than one might expect. And the script from that moment introduces a conflict that sounds absolutely artificial, (Spoilers) when Russell and Carl discover the giant bird and decide and the boy decides that it needs to be protected, even at the risk of their own lives. Because? No reason is provided for such a decision. Such a situation, as well as Muntz's revelation as a psychopathic killer, seems only created by the need to justify the feature film.What becomes uncomfortable in the third act of "Up" is not its absurdity, the dogs with speech devices that fly planes, or the fact that Russell is able to do in minutes what Muntz has not been able to do in almost a century, that is , tame the great bird. but rather the fact that the plot becomes totally forced, seeming to exist only for the necessity to fill the third act.