The other day I watched the new movie ‘UP’ from Disney-Pixar.

I’m not entirely sure what to think about it. Yes, it was a great movie. Yes it causes an emotional response from everyone who watches it and happens to be human. Still, I feel weird about it. It could have been because the kid was an annoying chuckle-head, the bird was an annoying siren, and the dog was an annoying dope.

The main premise of the story was absolutely great.

(And here come the spoilers!  Go watch the movie, then come read the rest.)

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The latest Dreamworks animation just came out “Monsters vs. Aliens”  and for some reason I decided to go.  If you are looking to waste a chunk of change, perhaps you should burn it before seeing this movie.  Perhaps it wasn’t THAT BAD.  I do remember going to the Simpsons Movie in theater as well.

The script was absolutely terrible.  The characters were flat.  Every single line in the movie was cheesy.  The story was boring.  There was no tension in the movie.    There were one or two good gags in the movie, but certainly not enough to justify an hour and a half.

And there were five people making the screenplay?  Furthermore there are two more people credited as story writers?  This goes to show two things.

1. Committees cannot write good movies.
2. Anyone can get a job as a screenwriter.  What recession?

The most disappointing part about this movie is how good DreamWorks did on Kung Fu Panda last year.  I really thought they were going to be setting the bar a little bit higher after seeing what a GOOD movie can do for them.

This movie is in 3d, which is cool because the theater gets to charge an extra 3 bucks per person for silly looking glasses.  If only the theater would be optimized for that technology.  I’m sure that the 3d picture is better in other places where they have a decent sized screen and actually turn down the sidelights during the movie.

In the very first scene of the movie there was a 3d gimmick done only to remind you that you were watching a 3d movie.  A paddleball was done into the camera.  How clever!  Good thing I have these stupid glasses.

I really hate getting ripped off from bad movies.  The best part of this movie was the trailer for the new Pixar movie.