This review will be spoiler free. But I strongly recommend you dont read any other reviews. Discovery and wonder are a gift- dont spoil them.

Anyone can make a movie with a plucky kid who always gets underfoot and falls into wacky adventures. But it takes an especially talented team to break that kid out of his two-dimensional stereotype with just a few lines of dialogue, and turn him into someone you really feel for.

Anyone can make a movie with a talking dog. But it takes a special team to make that dog a hero, and more of a person than most of the life actors in most of the movies out right now.

Anyone can make an adventure movie with kids, or superheros. But it takes courage to make an adventure movie about a grumpy 70 year old man. And it takes a special kind of team to imbue that grumpy old man with a heart and a soul, and to make children not only like him, but change the way those kids- all of us- look at every grumpy old man; to maybe even teach us the difference between grumpiness and sadness; and that that the old man down the street we always passed by without a second thought is really a person. A person with feelings, and stories richer than anything we would imagine.

Anyone can write a movie about an adventure in the jungle, with beasts and villains and flying ships, but it takes a special kind of team to make the characters more than characters, and the story more than a story- to take their time, and unfold a story about dreams, and disappointment, and the pain and beauty of life. To craft a 5 minute prologue, sans dialogue, that could win an Oscar in its own right.

Anyone can make a movie abouta  house, even a flying one. But after that first 5 minute progloue, you will never again be able to look at that house without an acute pain in your heart and a smile on your face.

It takes a special kind of team to accomplish any one of these things. It takes Pixar to do them all. Simply put, Up is a perfect film.