Our review of Pixar’s Up is a rave, & we gush over this 5x Oscar Nominee from the 2009/10 Awards Season. Our behind the scenes coverage takes perhaps the most extravagant field trip with their production team, & the 22 Rules of Storytelling segment discusses the rewrite process.

What is a Pixar Re-Watch Episode? - 1:27

NON-SPOILER SECTION

Cast and Crew - 2:46

How Pixar Got Here - 5:13

Production Nuggets - 9:15

Movie Specs - 11:28

Plot Premises/Expectations - 15:50

Production Values:

Sound - 18:08

Sight - 19:51

Performances - 23:58

Script Thoughts - 26:11

Spoiler Warning - 28:16

SPOILER-FILLED SECTION

Pixar’s 22 Rules of Screenwriting No. 11 - 29:18

Scenes of Heartbreak/HeartWarming - 35:18

Happy Pills + Highlights - 41:13

Issues and How They’re Forgivable -46:48

Final Thoughts - 51:39

Our Social Media/Your Homework/Words of Wisdom - 53:20

This episode on ‘Up” marks our 8th installment of this Pixar Re-Watch. We’ve also included a Toy Story 95/96’ Best Original Song category and our OSP of The Incredibles 2 in our Soundcloud playlist. But as for the main series, we’ve completed joyous episodes on Toy Story, Monsters Inc & Monsters University, A Bug’s Life, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo & Finding Dory, Ratatouille, and Wall-E. For one Mike, Up might be his favorite. For the other, he has a tough decision to make. But both of us are loving these films so much more after further study.

The History of the Pixar Company & Movie Specs segments chronicle how the company has hit its stride both in terms of Oscar recognition and box office gains. We share more fascinating animation stories from our behind the scenes studies throughout the episodes, and we also analyze perhaps the most influential of the 22 Rules of Pixar Storytelling to date in spoilers.

As the Oscars off-season nears its end, we continue to gain momentum with our MMO Weekly film festival updates and this massively rewarding Oscar Movie Re-Watch of the Pixar Franchise. We’re building this series up to the release of Toy Story 4, and we’ll have another major series rewatch announcement and our first episode in that series for you all next week.

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