Holiday Gift Guide - Disney's Up Review

Welcome to the Holiday Gift Guide and thanks for stopping by. I've got some great gift ideas to share with you this holiday season so make sure to check back often. Don't forget to see what Casey has to offer today at A Couch With A View too.

Do you have a whole family you need to shop for? Movies are always a great gift idea because they can be for just about anyone. It's a good excuse to pop some popcorn and spend some quality family time together.

Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios take moviegoers up, up and away on one of the funniest adventures of all time with their latest comedy-fantasy. follows the uplifting tale of 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. Their journey to a lost world, where they encounter some strange, exotic and surprising characters, is filled with hilarity, emotion and wildly imaginative adventure.

I have some Balloon Science Fun I'd like to share with you too! These are from the press release and I did not come up with these all on my own of course. But I thought they'd be fun for you and maybe you'd like to share them with your kids!

Have you ever wondered how many helium balloons it would take to lift different objects Up into the air?

It’s a tricky question and an even trickier answer because there are so many variables to consider. For instance:

• How big are the balloons?
• How heavy is the object?
• How quickly do you want the object to rise Up?

We have come Up with a general formula you can use to figure out how many balloons it would take to lift... well, just about anything!

• Helium has a lifting force of about 1 gram per liter.
• An average size party balloon is approximately 30cm (one foot) in diameter.
• It can hold approximately 14 liters.
• That’s 14 grams of lift power per balloon.
• Estimate and subtract the weight of the string and the latex balloon.
• Formula: 1 balloon = 10 grams of lift power.

How Many Balloons Would It Take To Lift:

Disney • Pixar’s Up Blu-ray Combo Pack?
At approximately 227 grams (or 0.5 lbs) in weight, it requires approximately 22 balloons to send the movie Up, up and away!

Your Neighbor’s Dog?
A happy Labrador Retriever dog weighs in at about 32 kg (70 lbs). It would take approximately 3200 balloons to lift this furry friend off the ground.
Fun Fact: The voice of Dug (the Dog) in the movie Up is actually the voice of Co-Director / Screenwriter, Bob Peterson.

A Bicycle?
The average bicycle weighs approximately 19 kilograms (or 42 lbs). You will need approximately 1,900 balloons
to turn a 2-wheeler into an air-bike.
Fun Fact: Before the Wright Brothers built their first flying airplane in 1903, they operated a small bicycle repair shop.

Here's a video clip of the talking dogs too. They were so funny in the movie!



I absolutely loved this movie! It was a little sad at first. I won't tell you why because it'll ruin it for you, and I wouldn't want to do that! But as it got further into the movie, it began such a fun adventure with new friendships and just a different understanding of life.

The kids really enjoyed it because they though a flying house was just awesome. I had to keep telling them to shush and watch the movie because they were getting so silly trying to figure out how they could get our house to float!

Buy It! Up is available in stores now for a SRP of $39.99 for the 2 disk DVD. The 4 Disk combo pack which includes DVD and Blue-ray is available for a SRP of $45.99.

A big thanks goes out to Up for participating in this event!

I was given a copy of Up for the purpose of reviewing. Opinions expressed are my own or my families and are not influenced by any form of compensation. Take it or leave it. Click here to view my full acknowledgment policy.