Up was great. There are very few films that I go see as Summer blockbusters and expect to get any type of substance out of them other than to fill a deranged human craving for excessive carnage and explosions (as per every Michael Bay movie) or to get some kind of bubble gum sensation from watching the same watered down and redundant romantic comedies banking off the formulas of When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. Pixar has usually been quite good at providing relatively intelligent animation movies where they have just the right amount of maturity and playfulness where you can walk out of a theatre not thinking that the creators were pointing and laughing at your limited intellect as they cashed their cheques and bought themselves a new Porsche. [...]