Posts Tagged ‘Ed Asner’
October 28th, 2009 | 
Author: James
Author: James
Soaraway success
It seems that hardly a year passes without an animated masterpiece from Pixar – following the wonderfully moving ecological fable Wall-E (2008), the ‘toon geniuses take us on a new journey into beauty…and this time, it’s in 3D.
To be fair, writer-directors Pete Docter (Monsters Inc (2001) and Bob Peterson (it’s his first feature) have taken something of a risk in their choice of ‘hero’ – Carl Fredricksen (voiced by Ed Asner) is a 78-year-old grumpy grandpa, seemingly left all alone in his dotage, and turning sour at the missed opportunities of his life.
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