UP is an amazing comedy adventure about an old guy, called Carl Fredricksen, who ends up on a great ballooning adventure with an 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell.
All his life, Mr Fredricksen has dreamed of a big adventure. Finally, he does it! He ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America.
BUT Russell has stowed away on the trip! Oh-oh!
Join Russell and Mr Fredrickson on their hilarious journey to a lost world! In cinemas from September 10.
In some theatres around New Zealand, you can catch it on digital 3-D!
UP is made by Disney Pixar. They’re the same people who made all these big hits:
WALL-E, Ratatouille, Cars, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and A Bug’s Life.
So it’s gotta be good, right?
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Meet 7-year-old JORDAN NAGAI, the voice behind Russell in the movie, UP.
Jordan hadn’t even intended to audition for the part.
He’d simply tagged along when his brother, a talented actor, auditioned for the part along with 450 other kids in the USA.
But during the wait, Jordan started talking to the show’s producer, jonas Rivera. “He started talking to us about his judo class. Bob Peterson (co-director) and I just looked at each and said, “There’s Russell!”
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“One of the things that attracted us to Jordan was when
he just talked about nothing - judo or piano lessons or whatever - he would just meander and the way he spoke was so funny. That did influence Russell quite a bit,” said Rivera. |
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Check out these amazing shots from the Los Angeles premiere of UP! The Pixar Animation Studios team actually recreated a giant balloon – made out of balloons – which suspended a toy house high in the sky between the skyscrapers! Wow!