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Up 20098/18/2023 The music for this whimsical (and at the same time, deeply touching) film was composed by Michael Giacchino, whose prior work includes such films as Mission Impossible III, Star Trek and the sequel Into Darkness, The Incredibles, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Jurassic World. As it turns out, Carl and Russell end up encountering a certain flightless bird (dubbed “Kevin” by Russell) which inevitably brings them to Muntz’s attention. He departed, vowing to bring back a live specimen, and had never returned. Decades ago, he returned from an expedition claiming he’d discovered a new type of flightless bird, but was ridiculed by the scientific community as a liar. Muntz (Christopher Plummer), a legendary explorer that Carl idolized as a child. The journey is full of surprises, including an unexpected encounter with Charles F. Almost immediately he picks up a stowaway: a young “Wilderness Explorer” named Russell (Jordan Nagai) who needs to earn his final merit badge for assisting the elderly. Up tells the story of retired widower Carl Fredrickson (Ed Asner), who turns his old house into a flying machine via thousands of balloons so that he can fulfill the last dream of his deceased wife: to visit Paradise Falls in South America. And then there’s that crazy huge bird, the talking dogs, a half-crazed explorer, etc. All of my friends were raving about it when it came out, but for some reason I was not into the movie at all, so it was years later before I saw it. It took me WAY too long to see Up (2009).
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