Aspect 1: Pixar's first 3D animated feature film Pixar will never let us down. With the sudden emergence of the 3D era, Pixar will not be content to lag behind two competitors, DreamWorks Animation and Blue Sky Studio. As Pixar's first 3D feature film, Travels around the Flying House has made considerable contributions. This film is Pixar's tenth animated feature film and the first animated opening film in the 60-year history of Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Pixar veteran director Peter Dokett, who directed Monster Company. In addition, this film is Pixar's first feature film featuring ordinary people, so many people have doubts about its box office prospects. However, after its release in North America, the strong performance of Flying House dispelled these doubts. The global box office of the film exceeded $73,654,380+billion, which was the second best-selling film of Pixar at that time, second only to Finding Nemo. Of course, this is also related to the relatively high ticket prices of 3D movies. Like Pixar's previous works, Travels around the Flying House has an excellent reputation, ranking 84th on IMDB website and 4th among all animated films. Film critics were completely impressed by it, and the praise rate of the film on rotten tomato website was as high as 98%. The famous film critic Roger Abbott gave a perfect score of four stars. John Horn, a film critic of the Los Angeles Times, believes that Travels around the Flying House is the most ambitious of all Pixar films. Aspect 2: Strange old people and fat children forget to make friends with each other. Very sincere, very touched. Pixar movies can always show emotion to people, and this Travels around the Flying House is no exception. There are two main characters in this film. One is 78-year-old retired balloon retailer Carl Sr. According to the director, the role was inspired by the legendary movie star Spencer Tracy, and the other is Russell, an Asian boy aged 65,438+00. After the death of his wife Ellie, old Carl became withdrawn, because he refused to sell his land to developers and became the best nail house. The developer uses both hard and soft every day, which makes him fidgety. Just then, a fat boy, Russell, came to the door and pestered him for a badge to help the elderly. Old Carl built a flying house with tens of thousands of balloons in order to realize Ellie's dream of visiting Wonderland Falls, a South American resort, but only after he went to heaven did he find that Russell had built his downwind house. At first, old Carl didn't like Russell. He has no children of his own, so he doesn't know much about children. Besides, fat children ask too much. One minute he wants to adopt a big bird, and the next he is tired. But gradually, the two became good friends ... The chemical reaction between Carl Sr. and Russell Jr. is the emotion engine of this film, and their sincere and touching friendship has injected strong emotional power into this film. Only a few movies can make people deeply moved after knowing a smile, and Travel Notes of Flying House is one of them. Aspect 3: The golden retriever is a golden green leaf. There are two supporting roles in Flying House, both of which are animals. One is Kevin, the giant bird, and the other is Doug, the golden retriever. Kevin is a mysterious bird that can't fly in South America. He is optimistic and naughty. He likes chocolate best. He became his good friend the first time he met Russell. More importantly, without him, there would be no long adventure story of Carl and Russell in South America. Doug, the golden retriever, is a member of the dog team trained by adventurer Muntz to catch giant birds. Because he wears a voice collar, he can spit people out. Doug prefers to make friends with old Carl and Russell rather than be a loyal servant of Muntz. These two animal characters are very lovable, especially Doug, who was a little timid at first, and later became brave, especially the part where he put a shame ring on the evil dog Alpha, which made people feel very carefree. In fact, apart from Kevin and Doug, Flying House also has an important supporting role, that is, the dream place of old Carl and his wife Ellie, the unique landform of Venezuela in South America-the fairyland waterfall on the Grand Canyon. After Pixar's animators came to the scene to collect the scenery, combined with superb computer imaging calculation, the wonderland waterfall with extremely magnificent scenery was vividly presented to us. Aspect 4: the wonderful details are constant. One of the trump cards of Pixar movies is that they can always design some unexpected and amazing details. In this film "Travels around the Flying House", such details abound. For example, the piggy bank at the beginning of the film represents the dream of Carl and his wife Ellie, but every time the piggy bank is almost full, there will be an accident to empty it, which also paves the way for old Carl's later flying house adventure. And old Carl's flying house soon rose to the sky, and he lost his way. At this time, Fat Russell took out a GPS gift, but as soon as he showed off the use of this baby, he accidentally threw it out of the window. In other words, they can't use it to navigate. This detail is better than comedy. In addition, there is a high-tech collar around the dog's neck, which is not only a positioning communication device, but also allows the dog to talk to people, thus solving a big problem that dogs can't communicate with people in one fell swoop. Even the four originally unremarkable tennis balls on old Carl's crutches played a wonderful role at the critical moment. Aspect 5: Thrilling scenes are better than special effects. All Pixar films will have a long and thrilling chase scene, which should be regarded as Pixar's exclusive patent. For example, in the space city chase scene in Robot Kawara Tsutomu in 2008, Kawara Tsutomu was chased by a large group of police robots, which was full of tension and fun; The year before last, in "Food Story", the genius mouse chef first came to the kitchen of Augustus restaurant, which he had admired for a long time. He was caught in the array of chefs and had to avoid all kinds of dark fires in the kitchen, which was very thrilling.

Plot introduction

At the beginning of the story, the little boy, Cane Frederiskson, was absorbed in watching the news film. The famous explorer Charles Muntz and his dog have just returned from a hot air balloon expedition in South America. Muntz announced that he had discovered a new species, but scientists didn't believe him and called him a liar. Muntz was discredited. But Carl Jr. is convinced of Muntz's experience and takes his words to heart, especially his sentence "The adventure is there", which is regarded as a wise saying by Carl Jr. He also wants to be a great explorer like Muntz. At the corner of the picture, little Carl walks home with a balloon. When he passed an uninhabited house, another child's voice came. This is a tomboy girl named Ellie, who is also obsessed with Muntz's adventure story. The chattering Ellie used the weather vane on the top of the house as a joystick and the whole house as a big spaceship, trying to persuade Carl, who was at a loss, to join her plan and sit in a "flying house". Of course, the two children didn't fly, but fell. But Carl and Ellie got to know each other. Later, the camera showed us the montage of their growth, marriage and cohabitation. Ellie made a city zoo and Carl got a car to sell helium balloons. Both of them dreamed of exploring what Muntz called the paradise waterfall in South America all their lives, but they were always exhausted. Until Ellie died of illness, this wish failed to come true. After Ellie's death, Carl became withdrawn and unwilling to contact people. But to make matters worse, his house is on the land planned by the government, where a skyscraper is about to be built. Carl, who didn't want to move out of here, became a "nail house". The government sent people to send him to a nursing home, but just before those people came, Carl made a decision to leave here with his house and go to South America to realize his wife's dream! So we saw the classic scene in the trailer, where colorful balloons dragged a whole house into the air. The picture of the flying house overlooking the earth in the air is very beautiful (this is the director's initial inspiration for creating this film). But what old Carl didn't expect was that he boarded an "illegal immigrant"-an 8-year-old Asian boy Russell. The overly optimistic boy likes to speak quickly. He joined the Association of Wild Explorers. In order to become a senior member, he only needs to collect the last badge-the badge for helping the elderly. Unfortunately, he chose to help the eccentric Carl, who hates this fat guy who always follows him. Carl tried many ways to throw the annoying child out of the flying house. But before he put it into practice, the flying house flew into the storm cloud, and many of Ali's relics fell down. Carl was anxious to protect these things ... After Carl woke up, Ronaldinho, the "stowaway", told Carl that his GPS could help them fly to the "Wonderland Waterfall", but Carl still cut some balloons and prepared to land, sending Ronaldinho to the bus home. At this time, the accident happened. The flying house clinging to the ground in the dense fog hit a boulder. Although the house escaped a robbery, Carl and Ronaldinho were left behind. Seeing that the flying house was about to float away, Carl trapped it with a water pipe, and then the flying house dragged him until it stopped at the edge of the cliff. Carl discovered that the "Wonderland Waterfall" was in front of him (as shown on the right). From here, two people began to drag the flying house on foot (they later went into the jungle). That night, Ronaldinho and Carl talked about his hometown ... In the jungle, Carl and Ronaldinho met a new friend-a colorful bird with a long red beak (a new species discovered by explorer Muntz). This bird is really big and likes to eat chocolate. Ronaldinho named it Kevin. Birds like Ronaldinho very much, but don't like Carl very much. Then they met their second friend, Doby, a talking dog, and said it was inaccurate that the dog could not talk. In fact, the collar worn around the dog's neck can express the dog's thoughts through human language. Then they came to a canyon, where several dogs, two bulldogs and Adu Binquan (many other dogs appeared one after another, all related to Muntz) appeared. Later, the father and son were taken to an airship, and they found that the owner of the airship was actually the explorer Charles Muntz. His purpose is to catch the big bird and prove himself. Knowing that Muntz would do anything to achieve his goal, the father and son fled first. When he put the big bird home, Muntz came and took it away ... Then, the father and son fought with Muntz to save the big bird. But Muntz put the plane down from the airship and interfered with the flying house ... After the battle, Muntz and the flying house both fell into the clouds. After saying goodbye to the big bird, my father and the big dog drove Muntz's airship back to the city, and Ronaldinho also received a badge from Carl. The three "people" became inseparable friends and lived a happy and comfortable life (as Ronaldinho and Carl described when they talked about their family). And their flying house finally floated to the edge of the fairyland waterfall in the "Pingdingshan vein" alone with the balloon (while Muntz's whereabouts were unknown), realizing Ellie and Carl's lifelong dream.