Hugos: Up

This is a pretty good film. I wasn't entranced the whole way but it was entertaining and interesting and made me cry in a good way, certainly one of Pixar's good films if not one of their best.

I'm not going to complain too much about the Bechdel fail since there weren't many characters and the one (one!) female character with more than like one line was pretty cool. But the minor characters were way more male-only than was necessary or even made any sense, and it annoyed me that it was strongly implied that ALL child+camping mentor relationships are male-only.

There was a bit of a "If you REALLY need to you can overcome your physical limitations" thing but I guess that's the way action scenes tend to work, and it was nice having a main character with mobility problems.

Carl TOTALLY reminded me of my Grandad, with the grumpiness and the obsession with faraway places and holding things together with straps and tape. He even looks kind of like him and has a North American accent (Canadian though, so he might not like the comparison :)) Which, since Grandma died last year and Grandad's increasingly senile made me extra weepy :( But it was very sweet.

GIP: Up

:) (The icon, for those who can't view it, is a rope ladder hanging down into a disabled parking space. Of course those who need disabled parking spaces are likely to not be big on rope ladders, but I like the image anyway)

nb the way I got this was by using Photobooth on this computer to take a photo of the laptop, since Apple have gotten better at stopping you from taking screenshots of dvds. But I prevailed! (I'm sure there's a better way but I couldn't be bothered looking into it for a single image that didn't need to be high quality)