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Up Dazzles Audiences at NY Comic Con
When I first saw the teaser trailer for Pixar’s new film Up, I thought it had the makings of one of their masterful shorts. After all, what story could you tell about a crotchety old man who makes his house float away. Then I realized it was their next feature film and the most I saw, the more it looked like a great adventure. .
Well at the New York Comic Con, the film made its debut to tease the lucky attenders. But only the first 45 minutes!
Not to say the film is playing it safe. “Up” begins with a black-and-white newsreel and segues into a 7-minute short film—without dialogue and with very few sound effects—that recounts the story of how the young Carl met his wife, Ellie. We watch Ellie find out she cannot become pregnant, we watch as the daily responsibilities and costs of life interfere with their dreams to travel the world, we watch as Ellie ultimately dies, leaving Carl lost and lonely. None of this is sugar coated, and it remains to be seen if kids will be amenable to such real world, often harsh storytelling.Yet with the success of “WALL-E,” Pixar has proven young moviegoers are more sophisticated than many of us adults realize. The bottom line is Pixar has delivered another rollicking winner. When the screen cut out after the 45 minutes had passed, the crowd let out an audible, frustrated sigh. “Can we see the rest?” someone begged.
Showing a teaser or even a full theatrical trailer is enough to make someone watch a movie, but to reveal a big part of the film like 45 minutes of it is just cruel! It’s like catching that episode of your favourite show and being totally into it then seeing those doomed words sprawl across the screen on a cliffhanger moment … to be Continued!
But those in attendance seem to be of mutual opinion that Pixar has once again hit it out of the park.
This film looks amazing, can’t wait for it.
Every movie Pixar makes is great. The funny thing about it, for me at least, is that when I see the trailers I look at them and think “how can this be a good movie?” For an example when I saw the teaser for “The Incredibles” I thought that this would be one of those dumb animated movies that makes jokes about fat people which is rather common with DreamWorks. Boy was I wrong. It turned out to be my favorite of the Pixar movies. When I saw the teaser and even the trailer “WallE” I thought “this looks like it will be so dumb” but realizing it was Pixar made me go and see it in theaters (which I don’t do often) and as it turned out it was great. This is the same thing for this one, how much of a story can you have about a grouch who makes his house float away is right but because it is Pixar I will go see it.
Yeah it does look great, Dreamworks Animation and Pixar are so different. Pixar has more imagination and Dreamworks Animation seems aimed for the little ones
My most anticipated film of the year (even more than ‘Avatar’).
My most anticipated of the year is Watchmen, then Transformers 2, then Terminator, then Angles & Demons
Wait – I thought this was the first Disney film WITHOUT
Damn it! Stupid enter in such a silly place. Sorry…
Like I was saying, … Without Pixar?
i have a friend whos a pixar FANATIC…like..he knows every characters name from the movie monsters inc and everything….and he said that if you think the stories just about a house with balloons then, youre in for a big surprise…supposedly its about a lot of stuff…..now i want to see it!
but when i saw the teaser i was like “wow this looks awful…about time pixar fucked up”
1 question though
when does it come out? (i should ask my friend but hes not in my grade)
May 29th I believe
holy shit mays PACKED!
Love love pixar. Can’t wait to see it. My favorite is still The Incredibles.
I’m a real fan of Pixar but I was really really apprehensive about the plot, but I know Pixar won’t fail!! It won’t! And now that I hear this news, my hopes are definitely up there high in the sky! hehe. CAN’T WAIT!!!