Thursday, May 14, 2009

GET UP, STAND UP: Walt Dropo was an okay baseball player in the 1950s, a one-time all-star who finished twice in the top thirty in MVP voting. His claim to fame is that he holds the major league baseball record for consecutive hits without recording an out or walk -- 10 straight hits.

Up is Pixar's tenth film, and its bid for a share of Walt Dropo's record. Honestly, I haven't been wild about the previews. It seems a little more standard-cartoony than the fully realized worlds of, really, all the Pixar movies except for Cars (I was going to do a "but especially," but my "but especially" included six movies, so forget it). Nevertheless, it's Pete Docter's first picture since the beloved (by Marsha and me, anyway) Monsters, Inc., and the preliminary tomatometer, including entries from Ebert, Corliss, and Variety, is 100% positive. Excited? Moderately or enthusiastically so?

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