Saturday, June 6, 2009

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When Carl Fredrickson was only 8 years old, he wanted to fly to South America. His wife had a clubhouse , that is now their home. His wife had the same dream of flying on the blimp, the Spirit of Adventure. His wife, Ellie also wanted to have an adventure to South America and put their clubhouse on the top of the Falls. Carl and Ellie has been best friends since they were eight. They had the best adventure intheir clubhouse.Ellie had adventure book. This book shows where she wants to go. Ellie wants to go to Venzuela. After they got married, Carl and Ellie fixed up their clubhouse and it became their new home. They had a picnic on the hill, Carl works at the zoo selling balloons, and Ellie works with the animals and gives group tours.
In this begining is a flashback, Disney purposely made the flashback in black and white to make it like the olden days. Where Model T cars were on the street. Carl and Ellie met in an old abandoned house when they were eight years old. Carl finished watching a movie and was walking home. He passed by the house and saw the sign said the Spirit of Adventure. He went in and met a new friend. Later on in life, he married Ellie. The redecorated the Clubhouse and it became their new home. They brought furniture and they're first date was going on a hill above the city to have a picnic. All her life, Ellie wanted to travel to the Falls in Venezuala and place their club house on the top of it.
When Carl and Ellie were senior citizens, Carl brought plane tickets to Venenzuela. He wanted to surprise ellie, but when they were at the hill. Ellie couldn't wlk any furthur and she went to the hospital. The next day Ellie passed away.
For the rest of Carl's life, he lived alone until he met Russell. Russell is a wilderness explorer and always wanted a adventure. Russell and Carl took off to Venezuela, because a construction boss wanted to tear down his house. Russell just hitchhiked along.
Carl tied 100,000,000 helium balloons to his house. He flew it all the way to Venezuela. On their way, Carl's house undergoed a huge thuderstorm and russell saved the house by steering it.
Russell is a eight year old boy that has a divourced mother and father. He lives with his mother and step father. His step father's name is Philius. His father never returned back. Russell is Asian, probabaly Chinese.
When they arrived in Venezuela, they met a golden retriever named Doug and Carl's childhood hero. It turned out Carl's childhood hero tried to kill him. His childhood hero and his talking dog army will go after Doug , Eussell, and Carl. They want the bird that Russell named Kevin. Kevin is an unique bird that is only in South America and has children to take care of.
As the story progresses, Carl learns that adventure can be just life in general. In Venezuela, Carl was reading Ellie's Adventure journal and saw her To do list. In it was her wedding, job, husband, and her first date. Ellie wrote for Carl, " Go have your own adventure."
Carl had his very own adventure in Venezuela with Doug and Russell. Carl became Doug's master and Russell's Role model. He saved Russell from a mad man that was his old hero.
In this 3D adventure, Carl learned a million life lessons that all viewers of this movie need to learn. Carl learned that be open minded and social. Ellie was really open minded about welcoming Carl and Carl learned to be open minded about Russell. At the Begining he thought of Russell as a nuisence and sent him away. In the end, they became best friends.
Carl also learned about being happy and enjoying life. He's no longer the old man sitting in his house watching TV, he's a changed man playing with an eight year old boy named Russell. He learned to Pursuit of Happiness.
He enjoyed a great adventure, not because he flew his house on 100,000,000 helium balloons. It was because of the life lessons he learned from Russell and his recently deceased wife, Ellie. The activies he enjoyed with Russell made him a happy, comforted and relaxed vacation.
Happiness and Comfort doesn't require money. The best vacation is the vacation with your friends and family. In Carl's case, his best vacation is the vacation that he learned that he no longer need to sit on his chair and watch TV. He is happy man instead of a lonely and sad widow.