What's UP?

Hey folks, Harry here - not with MOVIE news, but basically one of those rare moments where we, the geeks behind Ain't It Cool News... well, we're big fucking geeks. Early this year when Pete Doctor came to Austin and interrogated me for the possible crime of never doing a PIXAR parody. Well, I didn't want to crush his illusion that we'd never acknowledged Pixar via Harry Head Parodies. Well, actually - Campbell and I lampooned WALL-E, just the year prior. BUT... What could I do? I told them the truth, that Cartuna - Cartuna is scared of PIXAR. Mortally terrified of PIXAR. Their films so make his privates tingle that he won't wash for a week for fear of electricution. It seems... their Kung Fu scares his Arm Wrestling. After weeks in therapy, Cartuna wrote me to say his therapist said he had to conquer his fear of PIXAR (known as Pixaphobiar). He had to parody UP! We still had a week to go for the actual release, so he set out to conquer. That week came and went. Reports of cats missing in Toronto set off my alarm though and I called up Cartuna to ask... "Sir, where's UP?" The boy broke. Tears. Massive fits of weeping. There was a small grove of wrinkled up papers with scratched out broken ideas. I tried to read a few - but he went to claw at me. I looked at the wretch and said, "Cartuna, let's marry UP and GRAN TORINO. Put me in the Boy Scout suit too small clutching the wall. Carl goes in, comes out with a shotgun, BANG, BLOOD, pull out, carl back in - sloppy zoom in, LOOP." Cartuna's single toe nail eye glimmered with hope. I loaned him my Commodore 64, the latest tech only for my boys! He set out to build the wireframes, write his shading tools and lighting apparati... but it was only a week before he realized he was in the backyard braiding grass into microchips... but he came to me - fingers bleeding from his attempt with the keyboard... when I suggested he animate it in 2D. Saying it would be a subtle commentary on the industry's CGing 2D away, we'll 2D right back at em! That was just 3 days ago. The pencils, the cels, the inking, painting... photographing, developing and then digitzing and lastly converting to FLASH... we had the below UP parody. You can see proof positive in the irrational drive of a crazed intimidated animator than his Tribute Merit Badges. See if you can identify them all... Go on, try...

Bullshit aside. I just wanted all of you to see how great a job Cartuna did here! That - and to just remind everyone in these dark days of summer... that UP was a friggin great movie!!! Right?