It was well-received by the media for its characters, themes, narrative, Asner's vocal performance, and Giacchino's score, as was the montage of Carl and his wife Ellie growing old together.

Up debuted at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival on May 13, 2009, and was released in theaters in the United States on May 29. It was Pixar's first film to be presented in 3D format. The designs of the characters were caricatured and stylized considerably, and animators were challenged with creating realistic cloth. He and eleven other Pixar artists spent three days in Venezuela gathering research and inspiration. Originally titled Heliums, Docter conceived the outline for Up in 2004 based on fantasies of escaping from life when it becomes too irritating. Along the way, they meet a talking dog named Dug (Peterson), and encounter a giant bird named Kevin, who is being hunted by the explorer Charles Muntz (Plummer). The film centers on elderly widower Carl Fredricksen (Asner) and Wilderness Explorer Russell (Nagai), who go on a journey to South America in order to fulfill a promise that Carl made to his late wife Ellie. It stars the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, and Bob Peterson. Up is a 2009 American computer-animated film directed by Pete Docter, and co-written by Bob Peterson.

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