This gives you a pretty good idea where the ostensible hero Muntz stands in the scheme of things. Cartoon historians know that Walt Disney started in the cartoon biz by creating Oswald the Rabbit for producer Charles Mintz, who then greedily stole the rights to Disney's creation. This is another in-joke that's even vaguer than the first one. Also, part of the plot involves Carl's long-held wish to meet a Lindbergh-type adventurer named Charles Muntz (Christopher Plummer!). One is a gag that is a take-off on a famous painting – perhaps too inside of an inside joke, but typical of Pixar's cheery attempts to appeal to viewers of all ages. I'll also mention a couple of other items that can gauge your potential interest in the movie. Soon, he finds himself reluctantly sharing his ride with a short-attention-spanned kid named Russell. The one clue I can give away – because it's the movie's heavily hyped premise – is that Carl Fredrickson, a gruffy old widower (voiced with gruffy old charm by Ed Asner), miraculously inflates enough balloons to use his house as an aircraft. But how do you go about extolling the movie's virtues without giving away its surprises? Like the kid at the beginning of the movie, you don't try to conquer the immovable force you work around it. UP, Pixar's latest animated feature, is just delightful.
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