Giacchino doesn't disappoint, creating themes and motifs in the great tradition of film composers from Korngold to Williams. Notice that all those moments are marked by great music, too. The film's plot - an old man with a bunch of balloons and a shared dream with his late wife travels down to South America and has the adventure of a lifetime - was stunningly simple yet wildly sublime.Įverything about the movie, from key scenes (the sob-inducing, wordless overture, in which the birth and death of Carl and Ellie Fredricksen's lifelong relationship is chronicled), to delightful characters (who wouldn't want a dog like Dug, the lovable mutt with a collar that allows him to speak?) to appealing geometric patterns (notice Carl's square build in contrast to the round frame of eight-year-old stowaway Russell), makes Up a high watermark in animation, right up there with Mickey Mouse steering Steamboat Willie along the river, the presentation of Simba, the Lion King, before an adoring audience of savannah dwellers and Woody and Buzz Lightyear's high-flying adventure over a moving van. But it's Up that made him a star, in this writer's book. Giacchino, whose star rose off the backs of scores to television shows like Alias and Lost as well as video games in the Medal of Honor series, solidified his reputation with scores to Pixar's The Incredibles and Ratatouille.
It's not the deepest catalogue offering from a musical legacy that stretches back nearly 75 years - but it does finally right a major wrong in not having the soundtrack on physical media. Thus, the first release from the label/studio partnership: the Oscar and Grammy-winning soundtrack to Disney/Pixar's Up (Walt Disney Records/Intrada D0013727-02), composed by Michael Giacchino.
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Their sterling reputation as a label that knows how to put together a great soundtrack - and the knowledge of what will sell (recall the sellouts of their Predator and Spacecamp reissues in under a day each) - makes them the ideal partners to spread the Disney magic to the hungry, loving soundtrack collector's market. (The 40th anniversary edition of the Mary Poppins soundtrack and box sets for both Disneyland's 50th anniversary and the 1964 World's Fair exhibits are just three such projects par excellence.) But Walt Disney Records isn't a major label, and doesn't have the muscle like Rhino or Legacy might in getting those catalogue projects out there. Granted, the catalogue presence from Walt Disney Records was and is top-notch, thanks to guys like producer Randy Thornton, who's overseen a lot of the great releases from the fabled Disney vault throughout the past few decades. It's been a dream of Disney fans for years to see some sort of stable catalogue presentation from the beloved film studio. It's fitting, really, that Intrada's first soundtrack reissue in conjunction with The Walt Disney Company is a score to a film about fulfilling a lifelong dream.
To start things off, here’s Mike Duquette… Well, the release of Up is such big news here at Second Disc HQ that we felt one review just wasn’t enough! We hope you’re as excited as we are about our first-ever “tag team” review.
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