The main idea with which I left the cinema that I’m not interested envy our ancestors. All these people who lived in the era when The Beatles released new albums and our fathers and grandfathers were waiting for them. And those ancestors, who saw on the screen Godfather in the premiere weekend, and told then in offices and telephone conversations that Marlon Brando cool even when he’s fat. And those ancestors, who watched through spyglasses at the sky, hoping to see a space satellite with antennas all around the body.
Our generation has its own cause for pride - we lived in time of Pixar. Each year we’re waiting for their new movie still not believing that it will overtop the previous. But for some reason every time it exactly what will happen.
OK, let’s back to review.
Up is completely bold cartoon. If I was a Hollywood producer, I would have put the law on it for insubordination. See, the filmmakers hire top-paid actors, make four hundred duplicates of each scene to create true agony of lovely artist dying from cancer at the hovel. And here come computer geeks and render simple cartoon that crush all this dramatic as a bulldozer. And audience is happy without exception.
Bad luck, right?
The saga about old romantic man travelling with the boy-scout to find the lost Brazilian waterfall could not be sold to mass audience on wide screen any time. With participation of any director, any producer and any actor – no matter. It of course could be a kind of festival movie that gives opportunity to critics to talk about all those rednecks who don’t understand such kind of art.
But Pixar put it off with fireworks and smiles. A definitive proof that cartoon can do absolutely everything (and sometimes even more than wide screen movie) retrieved indeed. Who ever saw more brutal satire than South Park? When we last time laughed at comedy as much as during the second Ice Age? And finally, maybe, James Cameron is not so wrong when combines animation and film in his coming project Avatar?
