![]() It wouldn’t sell toys, they said, and thus it would doubtless be a failure. There were many – mainly in the field of marketing – who questioned the premise of Pixar’s tenth feature, saying that there was no way people would turn out to watch a film about a senior citizen on what amounted to a suicide mission to reclaim lost love and dreams deferred. UP manages to thread a number of needles very successfully, making fools of the pundits who doubted Pixar’s ability to translate its esoteric premise into a successful family film. Needless to say, it’s another in a long line of Pixar triumphs, and perhaps their most challenging yet. It’s nearly unthinkable that any reader of this blog will have yet to see this film, making any further review practically superfluous. True to Disney’s recent pattern, it has been released in multiple formats: a bare-bones, single-disc DVD a deluxe DVD with bonus features and a digital copy of the film on a second disc and a four-disc package that includes the film and its extras on two Blu-Ray discs, a bonus DVD of the film for those yet to upgrade, and a disc containing a downloadable digital version of the film. What better way to start, then, than the home video release of this year’s Pixar success, UP? The simple tale of a boy and his dog… and an old man… and a flying house… and a giant rare bird named Kevin… was released to stores last Tuesday. ![]() For some time, we here at Progress City have wanted to review new releases of note from Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar.
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