Above
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Above |
| Original title | Up |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pete Docter |
| script |
Bob Peterson , Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy |
| production | Jonas Rivera |
| music | Michael Giacchino |
| camera | Patrick Lin |
| cut | Kevin Nolting |
Above (original title Up ) from 2009 is the tenth computer-animated feature film from Pixar Animation Studios and the Walt Disney Company . The premiere was on May 13, 2009 as the official opening film of the Cannes International Film Festival . The German cinema release took place on September 17, 2009. It is the first Pixar production of a 3D film . At the 2010 Academy Awards , Oben received five nominations and won the categories of Best Animated Film and Best Film Music . The supporting film to Above is partly cloudy .
action
The film begins with a prologue in which the life story of the protagonist is told. As a child, Carl Fredricksen was enthusiastic about the adventurer and explorer Charles Muntz. On the way home he meets Ellie, who is also a fan of Muntz. She tells Carl about her desire to build a house next to the Paradise Falls in South America, which Muntz discovered, and unceremoniously gets shy Carl to promise her that. The two fall in love and eventually get married. They remain a couple and the desire for children and the happiness they share together make the childhood dream of secondary importance for the time being. But Ellie loses her child and they start to raise money to make their wish come true. But accidents and other incidents prevent this again and again. When Carl finally buys plane tickets to South America, Ellie - both of them have now grown old - becomes seriously ill and dies. An important piece of his life dies and Carl is lonely and sad when the action starts.
At the beginning of the film, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen still lives in his house, which a construction company now wants to buy up and tear down in order to build new buildings there. When one of the workers accidentally damages Carl's mailbox, Carl hits him on the head with his walking stick. He is incapacitated and is to be admitted to a retirement home. When the nurses want to pick him up, Carl flees with his house, which he makes flying with thousands of balloons. He finally wants to go to Paradise Falls.
Inadvertently, however, he takes the clumsy 8-year-old boy scout Russell with him, who had been looking under the porch for a snipe (invented by Carl) because he was supposed to "help an elderly person" in order to obtain the last of a series of badges. Despite the loss of the GPS device and a violent storm, the two finally make it to South America. When they crash into a rocky plateau in thick clouds and are thrown out of the house, they see Paradise Falls for the first time. However, you have to continue on foot as many balloons have burst and are pulling the low-hanging house behind you on ropes. You meet a huge, colorful bird that Russell's chocolate has attracted. Russell calls the bird "Kevin" - although he soon realizes that it is actually a female looking for its young. Russell says that he had imagined the wilderness differently and you get an insight into Russell's uncomfortable family circumstances. The trio is then joined by a dog named Dug, who can speak using a specially developed collar and tries unsuccessfully to catch Kevin.
The four are suddenly chased by a pack of dogs who are also talking. It turns out that the dogs belong to Charles Muntz, who is still on the hunt for the mysterious "Monster of Paradise Falls" whose discovery made him famous in Carl's childhood until scientists questioned the authenticity of the skeleton he was showing . To restore his reputation he has to catch it alive, which is why he lives in his airship Spirit of Adventure near Paradise Falls. Carl admits he is a big fan, and Muntz takes him and Russell out to dinner. Russell gossips and Muntz learns that the bird he is looking for is friends with his guests. Carl realizes that Muntz will stop at nothing to restore his reputation and flees the airship with Russell and Dug. Kevin is injured while trying to escape. Carl and Russell transport the injured Kevin to their boys on the flying house. Shortly before their destination, Kevin is caught by Muntz, who also sets Carl's house on fire. Carl saves his house from the flames and accepts that Muntz will take Kevin with him.
With fewer and fewer balloons left and the house sinking deeper and deeper, he uses his last efforts to bring it to Paradise Falls. The house sinks to the ground just before the falls. Sitting in the house, Carl flips through Ellie's adventure book again. Under the heading “What I want to experience” he finds photos from his and Ellie's life instead of the pages that were believed to be empty. Under the last photo of the two of them is handwritten “Thank you for the adventure - find yourself something new! With love, Ellie ”. Meanwhile, Russell tries to fly away with some balloons to help Kevin. Carl spontaneously decides to follow him. He throws all the furniture out of the house to make it easier.
During a fight in and around Charles Muntz's airship, Muntz falls into the depths. Carl's house is slowly sinking to the ground because of many destroyed balloons. Carl and Russell take Kevin to their boys in the airship. Then they fly home.
Back home, Russell receives an award for serving seniors. Russell's father was actually supposed to infect him with this; but instead Carl comes to award him. Instead of the Boy Scout Order, he puts a Grape Soda button on him from Ellie ("the Ellie Order"). Muntz's entire pack of dogs sits in the audience. Finally, Russell and Carl sit on the curb with an ice cream and count cars by color, just like Russell used to do with his father. The last scene shows Carl and Ellie's house - it landed exactly next to Paradise Falls and is now exactly where it belonged on Ellie's drawings.
In the end credits of the film, photos are shown showing that Dug is now living with Carl and that they are going on a lot of "little" adventures with Russel; in the end, life has become more beautiful for both of them.
Film music
The soundtrack comes mainly from Michael Giacchino . The tracks "Carl's Maiden Voyage", "Muntz's Dark Reverie" and "Meet Kevin In The Jungle" are interpreted by Skywalker Sound .
- Up With Titles
- We're In The Club Now
- Married life
- Carl Goes Up
- 52 Chachki pickup
- Paradise Found
- Walkin 'The House
- Three Dog Dash
- Kevin Beak'n
- Canine Conundrum
- The Nickel Tour
- The Explorer Motel
- Escape From Muntz Mountain
- Giving Muntz The Bird
- Stuff We Did
- Memories Can Weigh You Down
- The Small Mailman Returns
- He's got the bird
- Seizing The Spirit Of Adventure
- It's just a house
- The Ellie Badge
- Up With End Credits
- The Spirit Of Adventure
- Carl's Maiden Voyage
- Muntz's Dark Reverie
- Meet Kevin In The Jungle
production
Production costs were $ 175 million.
The Salto Angel waterfalls , which are still remote today, were used as a model for the Paradise Falls. The character of Carl Fredericksen is based on the appearance and also in part on the movie characters of the US film star Spencer Tracy .
As with every Pixar film, the so-called "production babies" are also listed in the top credits ; these are the children of the Pixar team who were born during film production.
synchronization
The German dubbing was based on a dialogue book by Pierre Peters-Arnolds under his dialogue direction on behalf of Film- & Fernseh-Synchron .
| role | Original speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Fredricksen | Edward Asner |
Fred Maire ( D ) Otto Schenk ( A ) |
| Russell | Jordan Nagai | Maximilian Belle |
| Charles Muntz | Christopher Plummer | Karlheinz Bohm |
| Dug | Bob Peterson | Dirk Bach |
| Young Ellie | Elizabeth Docter | Isabelle Rauscher |
| Movietown Newscaster | David Kaye | Kai Taschner |
| alpha | Bob Peterson | Claus-Peter Damitz |
| gamma | Jerome Ranft | Pierre Peters-Arnolds |
| beta | Delroy Lindo | Stefan Günther |
| Foreman Tom | John Ratzenberger | Reinhard Brock |
| Head Scout Shrub | Pete Docter | Manfred Trilling |
| Construction worker Steve | Danny Mann | Gerd Meyer |
| Policewoman Edith | Mickie McGowan | Ecaterina Dimitriu |
| Nurse George | Donald Fullilove | Ole Pfennig |
| Nurse AJ | Jess Harnell | Crock Krumbiegel |
| Young Carl | Jeremy Leary | Lenny Peteanu |
reception
Reviews
The top received mostly positive reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , 98% of 280 reviews were positive, with the film achieving 8.7 out of 10 points. The film received a good rating at IMDb (8.3 / 10).
“[The film] makes us feel extremely happy and deeply sad. Those who are not moved to the heart from above must ask themselves whether they have one. Perhaps never before has a film succeeded in making the audience feel so vividly the pace at which life rushes by, leaving behind many unfulfilled dreams: [...] "
“In a grandiose, dialogue-free opening montage, the film captures the homely happiness and helpless loss of the man who finally defends himself against his fate by giving wings to his threatened home. […] [In South America] the plot then follows more conventional patterns, […] In between, however , Oben repeatedly finds ingeniously simple and poetic images, […] images of loss, grief and death in a Disney film that is more adult than ever is. "
"Carl, Russell and Kevin (that's the name of the bird of paradise) should still have their place in film history: as main characters in the first 3-D film that completely subordinated its famous new technology to storytelling."
"That is a somewhat too penetrating mixture of psychotherapeutic knowledge and 'Overcome yourself!' - rhetoric."
"Pete Docter's 'Up' is full of weird ideas and yet mostly melancholy - because it's about always looking ahead, no matter how much you've loved in the past."
“Pixar's big and surprising family entertainment by Pete Docter and Bob Peterson ( Die Monster AG ) commemorates the adventure genre of pulp literature and film of the thirties with a tender fantasy. As in Wall-E - The last one clears up the earth , you can feel the epic spirit of Charlie Chaplin's great comedies here and let yourself be enchanted by it "
“The animation is wonderful to look at and refreshingly 'not cute' - the dialogues are funny and the whole film exudes an old-fashioned warmth that is so rare. The imagery always manages to capture fantastic moments that are basically rooted in reality. The fact that the topics of old age, grief and loss are dealt with in a lovably smeary way is just one of the strengths of this film. "
Gross profit
On the opening weekend, the film achieved grossing US $ 68.1 million in the United States, making it number 1. Overall, the film played $ 293.0 million in the United States, the equivalent of around 442.1 million. US dollars at the international level (of which about 33 million US dollars from German-speaking countries), which adds up to about 735.1 million US dollars. After Toy Story 3 , Finding Nemo , Everything is upside down , Finding Dory and The Monster Uni is the sixth most successful animated film from Pixar.
Awards
At the presentation of the Annie Awards on February 6, 2010, Oben led the field of favorite films together with Coraline (10 nominations) with nine nominations and won the prizes for the best animated film and the best director.
At the 2010 Golden Globe Awards , the Pixar production won the prize for the best animated film. Pixar has received this award for the fourth time in a row. In addition, film composer Michael Giacchino received the Golden Globe Award for best film music. At the British BAFTA Awards , the film also won victories in the animated film and film music categories.
At the 2010 Academy Awards , Oben received five nominations: In the categories of Best Film, Best Animated Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Music and Best Sound Editing. The film won the categories of Best Animated Film and Best Film Music.
At the Grammy Awards 2010 , Oben received a Grammy for Best Composed Soundtrack Album for Film, Television or Other Visual Media .
The 4-disc set (Blu-ray) was awarded the Video Champion in the Family Entertainment category.
computer game
THQ published Oben: The video game for all current gaming platforms. It is a 3D action adventure with which the player can control some characters from the film. Multiplayer function ( co-op mode ) is available, but without online capability. Among other things, the precision of the controls and the simple level of difficulty of the puzzles were criticized.
Trivia
It would take at least 13 million helium balloons to blow a house this size. Carl uses "only" 20,622 in the film.
Web links
- Up in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Official website for the Disney film
- Official Pixar Movie Website
- Above at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Scientific review on KinderundJugendmedien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the top . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2009 (PDF; test number: 118 061 K).
- ↑ Age rating for above . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Welt-Online from May 14, 2009
- ↑ Partly Cloudy. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Official page for Partly Cloudy on pixar.com.
- ↑ exclaim, approx
- ↑ above. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Austria version with Otto Schenk
- ↑ Der Spiegel, No. 38 (September 14, 2009), p. 165.
- ↑ Focus, No. 38 (September 14, 2009), p. 58.
- ↑ And now the glasses, please! In: taz-online from May 14, 2009.
- ↑ Cannes opening film "Up" ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 14, 2009.
- ↑ moviemaze.de
- ↑ On top of moviepilot.de.
- ^ Up (2009) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
- ↑ above. (No longer available online.) In: areagames.de. September 18, 2009, archived from the original on October 17, 2012 ; accessed on February 10, 2016 .
