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Up is a 2009 American computer-animated comedy-drama, adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film premiered on May 29, 2009 in North America and is the first animated film to open the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2009.

Up is director Pete Docter's second feature-length film after Monsters, Inc., and features the voices of Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Bob Peterson, and Jordan Nagai. It is Pixar's tenth feature film and the studio's first to be presented in Disney Digital 3-D,and is accompanied in theaters by the short film Partly Cloudy.The film was also shown in Dolby 3D in selected theaters.

The film centers around an elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen and an overeager wilderness explorer named Russell who fly to South America in a floating house suspended from helium balloons. The film has received overwhelmingly positive reviews with a rating of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, and grossed over $715 million worldwide, making it Pixar's second most commercially successful film, after Finding Nemo.

Young Carl Fredricksen (Jeremy Leary) is a shy and quiet boy who has long idolized renowned explorer Charles F. Muntz (Christopher Plummer). To his dismay, he learns that Muntz has recently been accused of fraud upon his return from a trek in South America, vowing to return only upon catching an elusive creature he had discovered there. One day, Carl befriends an energetic and outgoing tomboy named Ellie (Elizabeth Docter), who is also a passionate Muntz fan. Detailing her ambitions in her personal scrapbook, she tells Carl of her desire to move her clubhouse to Paradise Falls - a majestic waterfall cliff in South America, and makes him promise to help her. Carl and Ellie eventually wed and grow old together in the old house where they first met, working as a toy balloon vendor and a zookeeper, respectively. Unable to have children, they repeatedly try to save up for the trip to Paradise Falls, but other financial obligations arise. Just as they're finally about to make the voyage, Ellie dies of old age, leaving Carl a lonely and bitter widower.

As the years pass, the city grows around Carl's house with new construction, but the now elderly Carl (Edward Asner) refuses to move. Carl ends up in a tussle with a construction worker over his broken mailbox, and is forced by court order to vacate into a retirement home. He then comes up with a scheme to keep his promise to Ellie: by turning his house into a makeshift airship, using tens of thousands of helium balloons to lift it off its foundations. Russell (Jordan Nagai), a Wilderness Explorer trying to earn his final merit badge for "Assisting the Elderly", had stowed away on the porch after Carl had sent him on a snipe hunt the day before.



After getting caught in a thunderstorm, they find themselves landing on a great plateau across a large ravine facing Paradise Falls. With their body weight providing ballast (allowing Carl and Russell to pull the floating house), the two begin to walk around the ravine, hoping to reach the falls while there's still enough helium in the balloons to keep the building afloat. They later encounter a tall and colorful flightless bird, which Russell names Kevin (Pete Docter) (despite it being a female), and then a dog named Dug (Bob Peterson) who wears a special collar that allows him to speak. Dug's owner is found out to be none other than an elderly Charles Muntz, who has since failed to retrieve the live specimen he had been searching for to restore his reputation; namely a large species of bird. Muntz invites Carl and Russell onto his immense dirigible, and though Carl is initially thrilled to meet his childhood hero, Muntz quickly learns of Kevin from Russell (who innocently discloses that he had been luring her around with chocolate), and hints that he would kill them both to acquire her. Carl, Russell, Dug, and Kevin then flee from Muntz's army of vicious dogs, but Kevin is injured during the escape. As the group assists Kevin to her chicks, Muntz and his dogs arrive in tow (led by a tracking device in Dug's collar) and set a fire beneath Carl's house, (causing some damage with a picture of Ellie) causing Carl to have to choose it over Kevin; Muntz quickly has his dogs capture the bird and departs. Carl eventually gets the house on the ground overlooking Paradise Falls per Ellie's wish, but he has earned Russell's enmity as a result.

Finally settled into his home, Carl is sadly pondering over Ellie's childhood scrapbook when, to his surprise, he discovers photos of their married life added in the formerly blank pages, and a final note from Ellie thanking him for "the adventure", with an encouragement to go on a "new one." Invigorated, he goes outside to find Russell, only to see him flying away with some balloons to save Kevin by himself. Carl lightens the weight of his house by dumping his old furniture and other sentimental possessions, allowing him to give chase. Russell ends up being captured, but Carl arrives just in time to save him and free Kevin. Muntz pursues them about the airship until he manages to corner Dug, Kevin, and Russell inside the house with a hunting rifle while Carl tries to anchor it down. Once Muntz breaks inside, Carl lures Kevin out a window with a chocolate bar as Dug and Russell hang onto her, causing the insane Muntz to leap out after them — only to snag on some balloons and fall to his death.Snapped from its garden hose tether, the house descends below the clouds and out of sight, but Carl decides to let it go.

Carl takes Muntz's dirigible and returns Kevin to her chicks, and then flies Russell and Dug back to the city. When Russell's father misses his son's Senior Explorer ceremony, Carl fulfills that role himself to proudly present Russell with his final badge: the grape soda cap badge that Ellie gave to Carl when they first met. Russell adopts Carl as his father figure, while Dug takes to him as his new master. As the three set out on many new adventures, the house is revealed to have since landed perfectly on the cliff over Paradise Falls.