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Point I Fell Asleep: 0:45 out of 1:36 (47%)
Location: Theater
Time I Started Movie: Primetime
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049413/

Time to blast away at this stupid movie! First off, I have loved every Pixar movie to date. I can't remember one that I did not enjoy. Well, this would be the first. My problem with this movie is that the main character is a grumpy old man. Now why would I want to watch my grumpy old grandpa in a movie? To answer that question, I DON'T! I have a feeling this was because Pixar was sold to Disney about 2 years ago, and since it takes 2 years to do a movie, I can only imagine that goat Michael Eisner green lighting this project.

The 2nd problem I had with this movie was this - okay, I will buy the fact that this old man used balloons to float his ass to South America. Chances of that happening in real life? NONE! But I'll believe it for this movie. However, what I won't believe is the fact that when the grumpy old man was a kid, he watched this Howard Hughes-like character in a movie. Next thing you know, the kid grows up to be a grumpy old man and the Howard Hughes character IS STILL ALIVE!?!? That puts HH at around 150 years old! I'll even give you the dodo bird like character, but HH being alive...sorry, that ruined the movie for it. That and the fact that the movie was neither funny or enjoyable.

The best part of the movie wasn't even in the movie. The best part was the short animation about the clouds at the very beginning. I should have just walked out of the theater at that point.

And oh yeah, the 3D was utterly pointless. The movie would have been fine in 2D.