UP (3D) is another amazing computer graphics animated film from Disney-Pixar. Technically it is what we've come to expect, but this film comes with a heart-warming story as well.

As a boy, Carl Fredrickson meets an energetic girl, Ellie, who shares his dreams of adventure and heroes. She makes plans for things she is going to do and places she will go in a picture diary. Eventually Carl and Ellie get married, and the years roll by. Life takes over, and dreams remain dreams. Many years later, Ellie dies. Carl carries on alone, but he is in conflict with building developers all around him who want him to sell his house and move.

Carl decides it is time to honor Ellie's memory and go on a great adventure to South America, and take his house with him. In spectacular fashion he gets his house UP into the sky with thousands of balloons. An eight-year-old Scout named Russell, becomes an accidental stowaway. Together, they go to a lost land in South America. There they find Carl's long-lost boyhood hero-explorer, Charles Muntz, and his talking dogs, not to mention a very rare bird, Kevin. Muntz is obsessed with capturing Kevin, but Carl and Russell want to save him (her). By the way, the talking dogs are just great.

I saw the 3D version of the movie, and was a bit surprised by the extra $3 charge tacked on to the ticket price. Supposedly it is for the glasses and the special projector - yeah, sounds fishy. I don't recall extra charges with Bolt 3D, but it seems to be the way with 3D films now.

I'll definitely be getting the DVD of UP when it come out. I've got lots of these RealD glasses now, so let's have a 3D DVD version for home viewing! Why not?

UPDATE 2012: Yes, the rapidly advancing technology makes me sound like a dim-wit. However, this was more enjoyable in 2D on DVD.