Up (2009)

Pixar manages to somehow keep making movies that are some of the best of their respective years, and Up is no different. This movie has so much heart for an animated movie that it's almost hard to believe.

Carl (Ed Asner) is a recent widower who lived his whole life with his childhood sweetheart Ellie. Everything they did, they did it together. The one thing they never got to do was visit South America like their hero adventurer Charles Muntz (Christopher Plummer). With Ellie's passing and a bunch of suits trying to get his land, Carl has one last chance for an adventure. Naturally, he fills his house with helium balloons and uses it as a flying boat of sorts. His unexpected companion is a boy scout named Russell. Through their adventure, they meet a multicolored superbird named Kevin and a talking dog named Dug.

This movie was fantastic and so full of heart and emotion. You get lost in the animated world and start picturing it in reality. Dug is absolutely hysterical. They made him a talking dog while never forgetting that he is a dog. As great as Toy Story was, Pixar has managed to make their movies smarter and smarter as times goes on. I don't know if it was better than Wall-E, but it's damn close.