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Article: Pixar up to its old tricks while Woody (Harrelson) finds his role in life
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2009
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Film 2 Up Pete Docter, Bob Peterson 96 MINS, U Zombieland Ruben
Fleischer 80 MINS, 15
Pixar has built its glittering reputation on cartoons that no
other studio would countenance and no focus group would recommend.
Whenever the competition churned out another frenetic adventure
featuring a gang of wisecracking, pop-culture-quoting animals, Pixar
would bring us the personal story of a superhero with a mid-life
crisis, a rubbish-collecting robot who talked in beeps and whistles,
or a rodent who aspired to be a French chef. But nothing Pixar has
done has been as unconventional as its new film, Up - or so it seems
for the first half-hour.
The film opens in the 1930s, and introduces us to two ...