Upside Down
MPAA Rating: PG-13In Theaters: March 15th, 2013
Runtime: 1 hour 48 minutes (108 minutes)
Rated PG-13 for some violence.
Genres: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy
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Upside Down Review
- What's Good:
- Inventive plot, some sequences you might not have yet seen in a hollywood movie.
- What's Bad:
- Lacks on the story part -- at the end you feel like its hollow somewhere.
- Verdict:
- Upside Down is a experimental plot which the audience may like or otherwise.
- Watch or Not:
- Watch it if you're bored of conventional sci-fi movies and want something new.
Audience Ratings for Upside Down
Plot Summary
Ever since Adam (Jim Sturgess) and Eden (Kirsten Dunst) fell in love as teens, their bond has faced astronomical odds. The pair are separated not just by social class and a political system bent on keeping them apart, but also by a freak planetary condition: they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions-he on the poverty-stricken planet below, she on the wealthy, exploitative world above. Their budding but illicit romance screeches to a tragic halt when interplanetary-border patrol agents catch them and Eden suffers an apparently fatal fall. But when, ten years later, Adam learns she is alive and working at a vast corporation whose towering headquarters connects their planets, he sets out on a dangerous quest to infiltrate the company and the upper world to reconnect with her. UPSIDE DOWN is a visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?(c) Millenium
Critics Reviews for Upside Down
29 Critics like this movie.
Reviews Counted: 17 | Positive Review: 5 | Negative Review: 12 | Average Rating: 2.7/5Absent any emotional grounding, the film is a gorgeous, sterile construction, like a dream city unoccupied by humans.
Simply put, this is one of the craziest films to come along in a while and I can confidently say that anyone who sees it will either hail it is some kind of crackpot masterpiece or dismiss it as one of the silliest damn things they've ever seen.
Critic Score: 3.5/4
It doesn't really develop its story, or its themes. It doesn't truly draw out its characters. It evokes no serious emotions. It has - in the end - no gravity.
Critic Score: 2/4
"Upside Down" is such a gorgeous wreck that I could almost sense Terry Gilliam somewhere muttering, "Wait a minute, I should have been the one to screw up this idea."
Critic Score: 1.5/4
"Upside Down" paints a pretty picture, as long as you don't think about it too much.
Critic Score: 2/4
The only problem is that, after creating the most wonderful fantastic frame, "Upside Down" doesn't devise a picture worthy of it.
Critic Score: 2/4
The novelty of the idea, which suggests a less elegant offshoot of M. C. Escher drawings, quickly wears thin. The production design is too busy, and the film's desaturated palette is forbiddingly austere.
Critic Score: 2/5
Just enjoy its dazzling visuals, dream-like inventiveness and lush romanticism.
Critic Score: 3.5/5
At a time when so many movies look alike, and studio productions sometimes look aggressively ugly, here's a quirky vision at the intersection of sci-fi and romance.
Despite its undeniably clever conceit and visuals, this love story set in twin worlds remains earthbound.
Timothy Spall enlivens this as a crafty engineer in the corporation where Dunst and Sturgess work, but they're all just props in a dream whose logic hasn't been quite worked out.
Though "Upside Down" starts with a strong idea, its compelling conceit is immediately weighed down by leaden execution.
Critic Score: 2/5
"Upside Down" gives you four movies for the price of one.
Critic Score: 3/4
Is the film something to look at? Yes. "Upside Down" is something to look at. But that's not enough for a full-length, full-bodied, romance.
Critic Score: 2/4
Upside Down is a very fancy piece of junk.
Critic Score: C-
True originality is so rare that it's a treat to welcome a movie as completely different and provocative as Upside Down. It's unlike anything you have ever seen.
Dunst is radiant, as always, though it's radiance with depth: She's not just your average dream girl; she's gravity's rainbow. But there just isn't enough of her.
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