Well, the film has now opened the Cannes Film Festival – a feat in itself to be asked, and the first animated film to do so – and the first verdicts on Up are coming through. And the word is good. Very good indeed. The Hollywood Reporter is singing from the same song sheet, calling Up a “wonderful big picture”, noting that it’s “winsome, touching and arguably the funniest Pixar effort ever” and “Chaplin-esque”. It also reckons that when it comes to box office potential with Up, “the sky’s the limit”. Roger Ebert in his Chicago Sun-Times blog, meanwhile, also concurs that the film is “wonderful”, saying, “This is a story as tickling to the imagination as the magical animated films of my childhood.”
title: “First Reviews In For Pixar S Up” ShowToc: true date: “2025-08-02” author: “Kit Cannellos”
Well, the film has now opened the Cannes Film Festival – a feat in itself to be asked, and the first animated film to do so – and the first verdicts on Up are coming through. And the word is good. Very good indeed. The Hollywood Reporter is singing from the same song sheet, calling Up a “wonderful big picture”, noting that it’s “winsome, touching and arguably the funniest Pixar effort ever” and “Chaplin-esque”. It also reckons that when it comes to box office potential with Up, “the sky’s the limit”. Roger Ebert in his Chicago Sun-Times blog, meanwhile, also concurs that the film is “wonderful”, saying, “This is a story as tickling to the imagination as the magical animated films of my childhood.”
