Corrected entry: Reviews of "Up" state that Carl Frederickson attached 20,622 helium-filled balloon to his house. When the floating house is over South America, he cuts only a dozen balloons loose and, amazingly, the house begins to descend.
Corrected entry: When Carl first takes off with his house, you can see the front porch, as we see the house lift off from the retirement home workers' POV. Russell is nowhere to be seen, yet he knocks on Carl's door after they are flying high in the air.
Correction: Russell said he was hiding under the porch. He obviously hadn't climbed onto the porch at that point.
Incorrect, we get multiple shots of the underside of the house before Carl finds him, and he's not there.
Corrected entry: When Russell makes the tent for Carl, he says, "This is for you." And when he says this, there is a strange red mark on his left eye. The tent flies away, and the mark is gone.
Correction: The red mark is from a tie down that slapped him in the face. It was a temporary "sting" mark that fades away quickly.
Corrected entry: When Carl is dangling Russell above the buildings, he accidentally lets go and Russell falls. Now how in the world can Carl float down, get Russell, and still be able to float back up?
Correction: That was a comical daydream. Carl was imagining how to get Russell onto the ground.
Corrected entry: When we are first introduced to Dug, he says "Squirrel!" and looks away. Squirrels aren't native to South America.
Correction: It's a joke! Dug is a dimwitted dog and his attention is easily distracted, as he formerly chased squirrels before they floated to South America.
Corrected entry: Carl Frederickson is 78. "Up" opens with a scene of him as a child, watching a movie newsreel about an explorer named Charles Muntz. Carl arrives in Venezuela to find Muntz still alive and trying to find an elusive large bird. After 70 years, Muntz would now be between 90 and 100 years old but is still agile enough to control a pack of dogs, go bird-hunting, wield a sword, and climb a long ladder on the outside of a dirigible.
Correction: He's an adventurer and has to be in tip top shape for his "profession". He may not be as strong or agile as he was 70 years ago, but he'd still be more fit and energetic than most others of his age.
Corrected entry: Carl uses the leaf blower to dust off his mailbox, he puts it down against the fence (as we see when he's using the bullhorn to talk to the "company man"), then he goes inside and watches TV until Russell knocks on his door. The leaf blower is gone.
Correction: The scene where he watches TV is later in the day, therefore he could have easily gone back outside to get it.
Corrected entry: The tree at the top of the hill that we see twice in the Fredricksons' lifetime montage does not change size or shape, despite the passage of at least four decades. By the time Ellie is old and collapses on her way up the hill, the tree should have grown significantly but it looks the same then as it did at the beginning of their life together.
Correction: We never see the full tree, so can make little determination as to how it may or may not have changed over time. You also assume the tree hasn't reached its maximum size or that the lower branches hadn't been pruned to maintain its shape.
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.
Corrected entry: The first time Kevin chokes on Carl's cane, he spits it out and it is wet and slobbery. A few camera shots later, Carl picks it up and it is perfectly dry.
Correction: Just because it is not dripping with saliva, does not mean it is "perfectly dry".
Corrected entry: When Carl's house is floating through the air, suspended by thousands of helium balloons, he is able to control its direction by means of ropes attached to the weather vane. The movement of a tiny weather vane would have absolutely no effect on the direction of a two-story floating house.
Correction: If we can accept a two story house being able to float with balloons, we have to suspend disbelief on how it is maneuvered. It's not logical to accept one facet of a fantasy, and not another.
Correction: There has to be a point where X amount of balloons will raise the weight. It also means that there is a point where the balloons can hold the weight and a point where the balloons can't hold the weight. Since we don't know the weight and the uplift of the balloons it is fair to assume that by cutting 12 balloons it could lower the house.
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