*UP* is NOT Suitable for Children… 

The horror of this movie is, "All the dreams you had....may never come true." The hope of this movie is, "All the dreams you never knew you had just might."

Beginning of Up is a masterpiece on its own

My favorite joke in this is at the end when they are counting red and blue cars and Dug keeps saying "gray one" because dogs are color blind.

It always hurt a little when I realized that Russel was trying so hard to get that "assisting the elderly" Badge because his dad promised to be there when he got it. And apparently was spending such little time with him that Russel thought it would be a way to get his attention again, if even for a short ceremony.

i always felt like russel is exactly the kind of kid ellie and carl could have/nearly had, hes such a good mix of who ellie and carl are when they were together and not the grumpy carl he had become, he needed that reminder from ellie that it was okay to be himself without her... makes me cry everytime

Man that scene with the rest of the scrapbook and Ellie's message is so perfect. Also very sad when you consider that up to this point, Carl was doing all this, not for an adventure or to honor Ellie, but because he felt like he failed her by never going to Paradise Falls. This was very much an act of atonement, imo, and I think he probably would've just sat in his chair forever like you said had the message not been there. Ellie's message opened his eyes to the fact that she didn't think of their life together as a failure in any sense of the word, she saw it as the most grand adventure and she was happy with all of it. All that to say, I think the change is very sudden, but also very earned when you consider how that little message changed his entire perception of his life.

most wholesome yet depressing movie of all time. genuinely will bring anyone to their knees in tears

This movie has a special place in my heart. When it came out, my girlfriend and I had just gotten the news that she can't get pregnant, and that it's because of a degenerate disease that will eventually be lethal. So when we sat together and watched Ellie and Carl getting that terrible news hit us hard. But the rest of the movie of them being together, AND Carl being there for kids that aren't his, gave us new goals in live, in terms of being there for other people's kids.

Just a suggestion but if you haven't watched Pixar's Coco it might be worth doing during the month of October. It takes place during the Mexican holiday of Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) which is the day after Halloween. It's another visually stunning movie with a great story.

My family and I grew up with Pixar, but this film in particular is one of my mom’s favorites. She likes to rewatch this particular film every now and then. Paradise Falls is based on the real-life Angel Falls in southeastern Venezuela, which continues to be the tallest uninterrupted waterfall in the world. Ed Asner, the voice behind Carl Fredricksen, has sadly passed away in 2021. Before he passed though, he was able to lend his voice as Carl one last time in the sequel series titled Dug Days.

I think the main reason why Carl and Ellie’s house could POSSIBLY fly is because the chimney just happens to be right in the dead center of the house. Making it far more stable when lifted by the balloons. But given that house is also from the 1920’s or possibly even earlier, I think it’s safe to say it’s one of those buildings that was made to last, especially after Carl and Ellie restored it.

Fun fact. The reason none of the other dogs couldn't find the bird is because they're different types of guard dogs while Doug is a golden retriever which are retriever/hunting dogs

I like how over time Carl loses his spirit of adventure and focuses too much on the destination and not the journey. And when he finally realizes that he wasn't appreciating the adventure he was on, he regained his spirit of adventure, and flies into the sunset on an airship called the spirit of adventure.

One of the last movies I watched with my dad in our living room when I was home for Christmas. He loved it so much he asked me if there are any other movies like Up that we could watch next. But there was none. One of my happiest memories, just spending time with him. I’m crying again. It’s been more than 10 years and I’m still crying when I think of him. I miss him so much❤

UP is my absolute favorite Pixar film. That monologue of Ellie and Carl's life together makes me bawl tears every single time. It is so well done, and the rest of the film is just so top tier for story telling, world building and character growth. I really wish Pixar films were still like this and not what they've become.

The first 15 is the greatest love story ever. The moment it goes from painting the nursery to the doctors office makes me cry everytime. Mainly because it happened to us. Make every day an adventure.

The sequence of Karl and Elle growing old together is almost unique in animated movies for two reasons, firstly it has no dialogue and secondly it has the ability to bring a tear to the eye more than once.

This a movie that always tugs on the heartstrings a bit mainly because I used to watch it with my Grandpa and Grandma when I was younger, its one of good memories I always recall

3:06 this part of the movie is amazing on it's own. no words had to be said. i love stuff like this, it was also perfect in the Overwatch "Last Bastion" Cinematic and the part in Wall-E where Eva is just egg mode and he's watching over her!

Fun fact - the voice you picked up of the construction worker is John Ratzenberger. He was in every Pixar movie until very recently. Was always fun trying to pick him out when he only has a tiny part

5:19 this is how everyone takes the opening bit of this movie but I hope by the end you see she did live, and so did he. They lived full lives together, and that's the most important bit. It never matters where you are, but who you're with matters a whole lot.

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES! THANK YOU! I had an very dear person in my family who died last year, and the old man mr Fredricksen reminds me of him. I miss you so much Sune. Rest in peace! 😭💔

It still amazes me how folks don't know, MOST Children's Stories/Fables weren't meant to be 'Cutesy/Hugsie' stories. They're usually dark/sinister, and often have horrible themes. This was supposed to help educate children in the very real dangers of the world, but in ways that were a bit less traumatizing. This movie is adorable, in spite of all the swirling undercurrents! Great 'Reaction,' too! :-)

As a widower, the start of this movie hits hard.

Fourteen years. For fourteen years, I've seen this movie many times and watched many reactions. And today, because of you, I learned that Mr. Frederickson used the Wilderness Explorer call to alert Russell because they were apart. And it's amazing, sweet and hilarious. 😂 That's one of the reasons why I enjoy watching reactors, I get to still learn more about movies and shows. 😂

I love the message about living your dreams and doing the things you want to do while you can. I think it's also important to let people live their dreams of being lazy if that's what they want. Some people don't like to travel or have adventures. I just want people to do what they want no matter what it is.

I will argue that is the best opening to any movie ever. It's whole story in just a few minutes taking you from the highest high to the lowest low.

I went to see this movie in the theatres when it came out, and I can fairly confidently say that the opening few minutes left not a dry eye in the entire theatre. I could hear lots of sniffling haha, it's very well done and absolutely enthralling to watch. Great reaction as usual Alex! Keep it *up* ;)

The opening sequence of this film is pure perfection! I've never cried so quickly as i did watching this.

This movie is phenomenal and ALWAYS makes me cry lol. I'm not sure what makes me cry more the first 5 minutes of "Up" or the Pixar short "Bao" 😂

Always love your reactions but was particularly happy to see you posted such a heartwarming movie today. I had had a really rough day today and needed something to cheer me up so I was really grateful to watch this reaction. Thank you.

Fun fact! Up was originally inspired by Edith Macefield and her familys house. She lived in this house her entire life, she was born in that house, so was her mom. When people tried to buy the house from her to build these big company buildings, she refused so they had to build around, just like we see happening with Carl. I think she ended up passing away in that house and it still stands to this day in memory to her. I live less than 15 minutes away from it. This movie is my childhood ❤

It is scary how they thought this movie is suitable for children. The first 15 minutes brakes me every time.

Some dude once held up an airport because he decided to put a bunch of weather balloons on his lawn chair and ended up floating near the runway. When he wants to go lower he would pop one of the balloons with a pellet rifle. He even had a cooler with beer up there with him. Dude was known as Lawn Chair Larry after that.

I have seen several reactors do this movie, and none of them knew what it was to be sent on a snipe hunt. Amazing.

This movie was very good. Like really good.

It’s crazy how emotionally draining the first minutes of this movie is. Paired with the Amazing “Married Life” piano theme is so powerful

Alex you are so good at this. You were born to be a Reactor. The way u enjoy the movies we help u pick. And the way u describe what you watched at the end is just amazing. You deserve to have a show on network TV every Saturday morning. Well night because there is no way ur show should be for children. 😂 But seriously u r my favorite reactor of all time. Damn Man U r really really good at this. I watched this movie years ago but I swear I enjoyed it 1000 times more watching it with u and hearing ur synopsis through ur eyes. Kudos Alex. I am a loyal fan for life.

I loved this movie growing up & I was always like how is he gonna get food? But when I grew up and rewatched I realized that was Carl’s last adventure, he was gonna go to Paradise Falls & essentially die where him & his wife always dreamed to go. It breaks my heart but this movie is an example that animation can tell beautiful stories that aren’t meant for kids, they are just movies kids can watch & that’s a totally different difference. I’m so proud of Pixar & how far they have come & they will always be a part of my life. I’m so happy you enjoyed this Alex & I can’t wait to see more of your animated movie reactions. (But I love all the videos, keep up the amazing work you do for us!

29:00 Damn, Carl reminds me of my grandmother when she came to watch the Mother's Day play at school, because my mother could never come, I always cried thinking that I was the only one without a mother, I took the memories among the other children being taken by their mothers, until my grandmother arrived in the crowd. And personally, I was much happier with her there for me!

Someone has probably already mentioned this, but the big fan theory on this film is that everything after the court house is a dementia fever dream that Carl comforts himself with while living in the nursing home: true horror right there. Also, I can't get over how many Americans haven't heard of a snipe. They were a staple of my childhood 😆

"After this video because we need the retention" LOL

Your summary at the end was very insightful. This is my first time watching one of your videos, so going from your gregarious, attention grabbing presence to serious on a dime for the really impactful moments gives you a lot of depth.

It’s amazing how good this movie is at sight gags. Carl opening the door to have the camera swing to show Russel pressed up against the house terrified nearly took me out when I first saw it.

About your title? That’s the point. Carl had nowhere to go but Up.

You laugh like George McFly.

Amazing movie. So, there's an animated short film that went along with this called "Dug's Special Mission" that follows Dug throughout the day up to the point where he meets Carl and Russel, and you find out it was his birthday and he wished for a new master. Warms my heart every time I think about it. lol

It’s always amazing to me that you can play those piano notes of the beginning montage and anyone who has seen the movie looks to where ever it is those notes came from and looks like they’re about to cry. Such an amazing movie.

Great movie

I truly believe that this movie has the saddest opening ever.

I enjoyed every moment of your reaction and analyses. You really summed it up so well. Keep UP your work.

Your message about moving where you want to really stood out to me. For years i kept telling myself i was gonna move to texas and kept i kept making excuses. But September 24 2023 i finally took that step and it was the best decision i ever made. Life is short, so we gotta make the best of it while we got it

The editing and placement of the "in video-screens" is spot on! Kudos for the video editor!

I definitely used to be about the camping, but I'm in the UK, so there's far less wilderness and more actual camp sites to go to (where you had hot showers). Over time we graduated from those tiny tents up to ones you could stand up in, and finally one that could literally sleep twelve people while also parking the trailer that carried our gear in the back of it... with a gazebo outside for grilling under in the rain, and wind-breaks for a fence that allowed us to make a parking spot for the car... and the trailer tail had a custom cooking station that we made and installed... It. Was. Glorious.

There were some videos going around years back where they were getting some groups of certain 20-ish year old guys - I know one group was soldiers, I assume the rest were similarly "tough, manly" guys - together who had not seen Up, getting them drunk, and then showing them the first 15 minutes of the movie, and filming their reactions. Nothing like watching people's souls get crushed in real time while they're too inebriated to handle it emotionally. :)

5:13 lmao I love how he has his name tattooed on his arm to make sure he doesn't forget

This is one of the very few movies that have genuinely made me cry every time I watch it

My best friend works at a library and they do movie afternoons for kids and someday showed this movie and after the story turned so sad in the beginning a little boy came to my friend in tears and clearly devastaded and asked her as reproachful as a little boy can be: "Why do you show us this!!!". I think that sums it up pretty well. I really love this movie - especially the first part. But I am in tears every time I watch it and I think as a child I would have hated it just as much as that little boy.

One reason this movie hits so hard is that as a kid the grandpa seemed angry and unlikable in the beginning but know as we grow up we understand that he just had a hard life and we feel bad for him.

You just made my night with this reaction! You are so funny and hilarious! Just gained yourself a new subscriber!

I didn’t appreciate the intro to this movie way back as a kid when it first came out, but now that I’m older it never fails to give me an emotional gut punch

There's a pretty strong fanon that Russell's dad is the businessman from the beginning. It'd explain why Russell ended up at Mr. Frederikson's front door in the first place.

Dude no BS, your vids are so entertaining. Been following for awhile now and figured I would send some love your way.

This is exactlyy the reaction I needed to give me a break from the horror films for a second 😢🔥

i really needed this today thanks for your words of encouragement and obviously lovely reaction as always.

Thank you for uploading this. It was a good reminder.

About 10 years ago, we went to see Pixar in Concert....basically an orchestra playing the music from Pixar movies as they play the scene the music is from on a screen. They played the music from UP and for the first section with Carl and Ellie, needless to say, they were passing around a box of tissues. Like you said early on, it's amazing how much can be conveyed just through music.

12:57 That's actually a bugle, not a trumpet. Trumpets have valves, bugles don't (typically). There is the contrabass bugle that does have valves, because it's just a concert tuba with a bent lead pipe.

Alex you make me smile! So full of happiness, I just love it, thank you! And the movie was very sweet, I totally agree.

If you haven't already seen it...please watch WALL-E. It's another wholesome movie made for kids with a message adults can learn from.

Your editing has me cracking up! Thank you for making my Friday enjoyable

The opening to this movie and the bing-bong scene from inside out get me every single time I watch them.

This was SO FUNNY, which was bad for ME because I watched this laying next to my napping husband, and was trying not to shake with laughter 😂😂 As to your question about camping at 16:30: I love it. Sure, using the bathroom outside isn’t fun, and j kids my bed after a couple days, but there’s nothing like it for reconnecting with nature and DISconnecting from this too-fast, always-yelling world. And I need that.

this was my first reactionof yours that i watched and you absolutely sent me when you gave yourself the finger. huge fan.

I remember when I went to go see this movie in the theater. It was my 7th birthday and me, my mom, dad, brother, grandma and auntie all went out to dinner and caught a showing at The Castro Theater here in San Francisco. So much fun

1) there’s a Pixar short about other elderly people being inspired by the balloon getaway and trying their own versions. It’s worth a watch. 2) the DVD/BluRay release has an Easter-egg on the main screen. It leads to an explanation that was cut from the original script about how Carl’s older hero is still alive. The reason he wants the bird captured is because the eggs it produces slow the aging process. He had been consuming eggs to the point of driving the bird species to extinction. It contrasts with Carl’s story arc of learning that true immortality comes from passing your wisdom and love onto the next generations.

Another great reaction, thanks Alex - love the new haircut!

i remember watching that film for the first time and in the first like 10 minutes, it managed to make me cry

This movie is one of the most devastating Pixar movies ever. Breaks my heart every time but I still love it! Those piano notes can always get me.

putting up a tent as it starts to rain is an IQ test, the dryer you stay the smarter you are.....had to asemble a 2 person tent as a storm came through, no option other than take down the poles and sit on the canvas to stop the tent blowing away as there was no time to get to secure with the buildup of the wind!

There is a really sweet series called Doug Days. It takes place after Up. Sadly Ed Asner died shortly before it released but he did get to record some Carl stuff before he died.

I'm colourblind - "grey one" at 29:16 cracks me up.

I grew up and currently live in Michigan. Camping is something my family has done since I was a kid, and I LOVE it!!! You gotta experience it at least once!

After having a really crappy week this was just the pick me up I needed

FUCK. FUCK SHIT DAMMIT. I'm thirty two years old and this opening STILL makes me cry!

I love camping as I'm on multiple festivals during the season. But that's the best of both worlds. Sleeping in a tent, attend lots of great concerts AND having a warm shower every day :D

"Did that make you yawn?" -yes, ya gouch!

There are dozens of memes about the first ten or so minutes of this movie, most are "greater lover story than twilight"... but seriously it shows how you convey a past story in a relatively compact time and still create emotions.

It's all about definition. Up is a horrormovie bc they focus death on some point or How to train your Dragon which is a slasher bc someone loses his leg.

I enjoy watching peoples reactions of the beginning of UP. I've never watched the rest of their reactions, just the beginning

For anyone else wondering, they estimated it would take 23.5 million party balloons to lift Carl's 1800 square foot house. In the movie, only 20,622 balloons were rendered for the lift-off sequence and 10,297 for most flying scenes.

Why are they important? As an early educator: It helps students develop observational skills. By observing clouds, students can learn to identify different types of clouds and make predictions about the weather. This can help them to develop a better understanding of the natural world around them. It introduces students to the concept of weather forecasting. By learning about the different types of clouds and the weather conditions they are associated with, students can begin to understand how weather forecasts are made. This can help them to make informed decisions about their own activities, such as whether or not to go outside for recess. It helps students develop an appreciation for the natural world. Clouds are a beautiful and fascinating part of nature, and learning about them can help students to develop a greater appreciation for the world around them. This can lead to a lifelong interest in science and nature. It can be a fun and engaging way to learn about science. Clouds are a familiar and relatable topic for students, and learning about them can be a fun and engaging way to learn about science. This can help to spark students' interest in science and encourage them to pursue further study in the field.

Fun fact, this movie is believed to be inspired by a house in Seattle (not to totally sure if it was) that the owner didn’t want to sell to make way for the new buildings so they just started making new tall buildings around it. I think the house is still there but I could be wrong, I also think it’s knows as the Edith Macefield House.

one of my favorite youtube channels atm!

Alex, how did you not cry even a bit during this movie? I don't trust you anymore, you are an alien! 😄 (literally bawling the eyes out just during this commentary)

Subbed you because I love the way you react to movies!

Movie Theory: Carl never woke up that morning. Russel is the angel of death(or Carl and Ellie’s never had child) and the journey is Russel leading Carl into acceptance of the afterlife/resolution of his regrets.

This movie starts and I immediately cry every time!!! The whole rest of the movie is a mix of nonstop laughter & more crying! This beautiful movie hits straight to the heart every time! Side note: When you do start Star Wars which I cannot wait for, be prepared for a lot of content and a strict way to watch the entire timeline in order. It would be like watching Iron Man from the very beginning to where you are in the MCU now at Season 2 of Loki.

The real Up house still stands and is now something of a fixture and travel spot here in Seattle. Each weekend people visit and tie balloons to the fence.

To answer your question, i don't know about Mythbusters. But the guys of the channel corridor crew made a video about the physics in up. The video is called "VFX artist simulate Pixar but with real physics" I highly recommend their work :)