UP – UNLIKELY HEROES

UP Available on Disney Blu-ray and DVD January 13 2010!

For their tenth computer-animated feature release, Disney•Pixar literally goes sky high with the action-adventure comedy Up…and, at the heart of this story, is perhaps the most unlikely onscreen heroes to have ever flown a house to South America.

“Up is an action-adventure film, starring this grouchy guy, Carl Fredricksen, and this overly enthusiastic Wilderness Explorer, who will not take ‘No’ for an answer,” explains the Oscar^®-nominated writer/director of the film, Pete Docter.  Carl is a 78-year-old widower and retired balloon salesman who, when developers threaten to bulldoze his beloved home, ties thousands of balloons to his house and floats it away and out of harm’s way.  Trouble is, eight-year-old Russell, the Wilderness Explorer with precious little experience of an actual wilderness, becomes an unintended stowaway, spoiling Carl’s dreams of a solitary trip to South America.  “Together, they’re the odd couple in the sky,” quips Docter.

The film’s executive producer, John Lasseter (double Oscar^® winner and chief creative officer of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios and principal creative advisor at Walt Disney Imagineering), adds, “These two are the mostly unlikely heroes you could ever imagine.  And you put these two characters together, and I think it’s the funniest Pixar film we’ve ever made.”