The story of a man at the end of his life who has fallen behind the times, his wife is dead and he steadfastly refuses to sell his house which is now surrounded by a huge building site.
Instead of being forced into a retirement home he attaches thousands of helium balloons to his house and takes off to relocate to Paradise Falls, something he and his wife always talked about but never did.
In Paradise Falls he lands in the wrong place and has to "walk" his house over to the waterfall, dragging it like a giant balloon with the help of stowaway Russell, a talking dog and a giant bird. They run into a lost explorer who has been hunting the giant bird for years and will stop at nothing to capture it.
It's about obsession, letting go of the past, realising that your heros may be fallible and reconnecting with young people. This is why Pixar is such a successful studio not because of the high quality of the animation but because it's movies always contain the sad, difficult parts of life along with the goodtimes.
YES - it's true, this is Pixar's best film.
