There’s a sly mood turn, early in Up, that foreshadows nicely why this film is quirky and different from the herd. Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner), our curmudgeon old blockhead, is trying to stop a construction worker from touching his sentimental mailbox. They go into a tug-of-war over the mailbox, which looks silly to us, but agitates Carl. So he whacks the guy on the head with his walker. Bonk. The guy falls on his tush, holding his head. We laugh. Then, as if revealing a plot twist, he moves his hand and we see that he’s bleeding quite heavily. Other concerned characters tend to his injury. Carl, clutching his mailbox tight, panics and runs into his house. We stop laughing.
We’re so used to cartoons having no consequences that an action so simple could be used so provocatively. Up doesn’t pretend to be realistic, but it
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