{"id":2560,"date":"2009-06-08T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T04:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=2560"},"modified":"2009-06-08T00:01:13","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T04:01:13","slug":"up-2009-pete-docter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/2560","title":{"rendered":"Up (2009, Pete Docter)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew that an old guy flies away with his house using hundreds of balloons, along with a boy scout stowaway, and that&#8217;s all I knew.  If I&#8217;d have realized there would be a giant comic bird and a pack of talking dogs I might&#8217;ve been less anxious to watch this &#8211; but shit, it&#8217;s Pixar and they can do no wrong, so we ended up loving it.<\/p>\n<p>Features a montage of a happy couple from childhood to marriage to her death many years later &#8211; the saddest thing I&#8217;ve seen in ages, used to give us insight into our seemingly cranky protagonist&#8230; a boy with an absentee father&#8230; a childhood hero turning out to be unworthy (actually a murderous egomaniac, an <em>Incredibles<\/em>-reminiscent supervillain).  It&#8217;s a very adult cartoon.<\/p>\n<p>Also a fun short about storks and clouds, <strong><em>Partly Cloudy<\/em><\/strong>, directed by animator Peter Sohn (who also did a voice in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/320\">Ratatouille<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew that an old guy flies away with his house using hundreds of balloons, along with a boy scout stowaway, and that&#8217;s all I knew. If I&#8217;d have realized there would be a giant comic bird and a pack of talking dogs I might&#8217;ve been less anxious to watch this &#8211; but shit, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,401,457],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-animation","tag-balloons","tag-pixar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}