Corrected entry: When Russell is on Carl's front porch, Russell calls him "Mr. Fredrickson," despite the fact that he never introduced himself.
MovieFan612
25th Apr 2014
Up (2009)
Correction: Russell could have very easily asked the construction workers outside who lived in the house. They seemed to know who he was.
10th Aug 2010
Up (2009)
Corrected entry: During the scene where Carl and Russell start to walk the house towards Paradise Falls, Carl looks up to the house and says "Don't you worry, Ellie, we'll get our house over there." The next shot shows the picture of Ellie, and through the window you can see Carl and Russell towing the house from further away. You can hear Russell say, "This is fun already." which transitions into a different shot of them. In this shot, Carl and Russell are towing the house from almost directly underneath the house, instead of more out in front of it.
Correction: Think about the physics (while at the same time suspending our disbelief of a floating house): Carl and Russell are walking in front of the house, trailing the helium-lifted house behind, and even if they walk slower, the momentum of the floating house will carry it forward and the house will, from time to time, be directly overhead.
16th Dec 2009
Up (2009)
Corrected entry: In the shot where young Carl smashes at the tree and starts to run again, his shadow is at his right. After he hears a sound from the nearby house, he turns to his right and listens to the sound. The shadow has moved its direction from front to back, which is not possible.
Correction: This has been addressed before. The shadows are intricate and they are all appropriate and correct. When he falls over the tree, his shadow is behind him, indicating the sun is in front of him. And when he turns right, toward the house, the shadows are now to his right, indicating the sun is still in the same position.
15th Jan 2011
Up (2009)
Corrected entry: When the house first lands and slides to the canyon's edge, we are shown a sweeping vista of the entire ground all the way around to the falls. Clearly it's all flat rock the whole way, no trees or valleys, an easy walk. Yet somehow tall forests, hills and jungles come out of nowhere.
Correction: There are myriad canyons and valleys and the "vista" can certainly support the terrain the characters travel through.
6th Sep 2010
Up (2009)
Corrected entry: When Russel is hanging under the house and the airplanes a chasing him, a few tranquilizer darts hit the porch roof and stairs. The darts seem to disappear almost immediately in every following shot, but is most apparent after the house lands atop the zeppelin and a close-up shot confirms it.
Correction: Tranquilizer darts, by their very nature, are specifically calibrated to have a much less intense velocity than bullets so the fact that they do not imbed themselves within the wood on the house for more than a few seconds isn't a mistake.
17th Jul 2010
Up (2009)
Corrected entry: When we first see Ellie in the old house, her eyes are blue. Not as dark blue as Carl's but still blue from all angles and light sources. Subsequently her eyes are deep green.
Correction: Eye colors can change between childhood and adulthood. My own eyes were blue as a child and now, 40 years later, are green.
10th Oct 2010
Up (2009)
Corrected entry: When Carl and Russel are having dinner with Muntz on the blimp, it's dark outside and in fact Carl says it's been a wonderful evening. They escape from the blimp and it's dark out, not caused by trees blocking the sun because we've seen the house floating outside the blimp also in darkness. However during the escape a couple of minutes later it's midday with blue skies and sunshine. Muntz's dogs fall into the river. Then two minutes after that it's night time again and Muntz is using the blimp's searchlights to capture Kevin.
Correction: It's dark during dinner because they are in a cave! The lighting is appropriate throughout the several sequences - including that the sky is still lit with sunlight/twilight when Carl and Russell escape from the dogs and enter the thicket where Kevin lives and, then as full dark comes upon them, they tend to Kevin's injured leg and Muntz searches with a spotlight.
2nd Dec 2009
Up (2009)
Corrected entry: In the title scene where young Carl Fredricksen is running with his balloon in his hand and smashes at the tree, it's visible that the trees shadow is missing. Only young Carl has his shadow.
Correction: The shadow cannot be seen by us from the angle shown. Look at the other shadows just before this point -- they are at about a "1:00" angle and we see the tree stump from about "7:00" so it would be hidden behind the stump.
2nd Dec 2009
Up (2009)
Corrected entry: After the house starts floating and reaches a good height, Mr.Carl Fredricksen sits on his chair. At that time he places his walking stick to his left hand and in the next-to-next shot, you can hear Russell knocking from outside the house. When he (Russell) knocks the second time, Mr. Carl Fredricksen goes and opens the door: that time you can find the stick in his right hand. It is also noticed in the previous shot that when he peeps through the door's hole, the right hand is animated as if it has the walking stick in hand.
Correction: Carl needs to switch the walker to his right hand to open the left-hinged door. He has plenty of time to do this between rising from the chair and arriving at the door.
20th Jun 2009
Up (2009)
Corrected entry: When Charles grabs Russel, he is suddenly tied to a chair in the next shot.
Correction: This is too vague - when Carl grabs Russell Where? When?
Correction: The original post refers to when Muntz captured Russell as he floated by the airship with the balloons and leafblower. However, the entry is still incorrect. First, Muntz tied Russell to the chair and left him to slowly fall off the ramp. Carl noticed this and used the garden hose, and his walker, to zipline to Russell grabbing the chair just before he fell. Afterwards, Dug winded them back in as the hose became detached. Russell stayed tied to the chair the entire time or he would have fallen.
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Correction: Mr. Frederickson is very well known in the town, he's lived there all his life and is part of a major dispute with a corporation. It is not unreasonable to assume that Russell already knew of him prior to knocking on the door.
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