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The latest from Disney's Pixar, which had quite a bit of success with these films, including Wall-E from last year.  This stars Ed Asner, first shown as a kid who shows a strong sense of adventure and wants to be a world traveller, who finds a young girl in an abandoned house who shares the same interests as his.  As kids she gets him to promise her that he will take her to Paradise Falls, showing him a picture of her house on top of the cliff looking down at the falls.  They marry, and start saving their change in a money jar for this trip, but something always comes along and makes them spend this money.  Along the way they plan on different things, but find out they are unable to have children. They never get to Paradise Falls, and Ed Asner's Carl's character faces life on his own as we see him at the funeral home after his wife Elie has died.  He continues living alone, resisting selling his house, even as developers are building around him.  He finally comes up with the plan to go to Paradise Falls and ties tons of helium filled balloons, for which this has been his career, and the house starts flying away.  However, it doesn't fly away before a young wilderness scout,Russell, has tagged along.  Carl is reluctant to take him with him, wanting to be all alone, but does so.  They finally arrive in Paradise Falls, but are on the wrong side, and must carry and drag their house with all the balloons, all the way to the other side.  On their way they run across an exotic bird, which Russell names Kevin, and a talking dog named Dug.  They  are chased and captured by a bunch of talking dogs, whom are all under care of Charles Muntz, voiced by Christopher Plummer.  Now, Charles Muntz was Carl's hero as a child, and to see him he is all awestruck, until he realizes that Charles is after the exotic bird that Carl and Russell have befriended.  The heroes escape, only to be followed by Charles and his talking dogs, and they are finally able to win the day and return home.   Carl has during his journey seen the light, and instead of being a grumpy old man, has turned into a caring one again, with Russell and Dug now tagging along with him in his new adventures.  A very well done movie, also shot in 3-D, if you have the chance to see it in this version, pay the extra 3 bucks and do so, it was well worth it.

Goran Savic   5 out of 5