Didn't Quite Live UP

Well...It was the most anticipated movie for the Fredstrom, but didn't quite live UP. This was by far Pixar's most emotionally TUGGING movie starting off slow and sad, but HANG on UP fans! Meet The Fredrickson, a retired balloon seller that sets out to fulfill a childhood dream. The Fredrickson was supposed to take his wife on this adventure, but life got in the way. Unfortunately,  The Fredrickson out lives his sweet wife, leaving him to take their house with him. Destination: South America.

So this is Russell, a very accomplished Wilderness Scout needing to assist the elderly for that last badge to become a senior scout.  Russell gets CAUGHT UP with The Fredrickson and is along for the adventure, encountering some of his own challenges and adding new ones for his geriatric compadre.

UP was very clever. Although slow at parts, UP's two main characters come from totally different places, ending up on the same page forming a very sweet relationship. And as with any Pixar film, it offered a very creative short film called Partly Cloudy...love it.

UP earns 7 Picasso's for it's creative plot and lovable characters.