George et A.J.

George & A.J. are staff from Shady Oaks Retirement Village who are supposed to bring in Carl Fredricksen. They are shocked when he flies away with his home. One week later, they are to bring in Mrs. Peterson but she escapes with her cats pulling her home away. Others do their own escapes in their own special ways until Shady Oaks itself is rocketed away with oxygen tanks. Then Carl returns in the blimp crushing George & A.J.'s van.

The animation is more primitive and similar to animated storyboards. It ties in with the movie 'Up'. It has a fun premise building upon the movie. The characters are good. The primitive animation does limit its appeal and there are obvious differences from the movie. I'm guessing this short was done before or during the making of the movie and some of the differences can be contributed to changes that naturally happen in any production.

I am pretty sure this is just colorized storyboards of rejected gags from the movie UP. If it is not the animation style sure feels like that. There is a amusing daft vibe to this short and most of the gags are funny. But it doesn't have the care of most Pixar works.

This animated short ties in the the Pixar film Up.

George & AJ from Shady Oaks Retirement Village knock on Carl Fredricksen's home to bring in to the retirement home.

Something they have been tried to for a while as Carl is always making them wait or being evasive.

This time the house flies away leaving George & AJ in a state of shock.

Pretty soon other elderly people are inspired to escape in daring ways each time George & AJ come knocking.

An amusing enough animated short but the animation is crude, it does not even look like CGI but something produced in Flash.

This short movie is related to the Pixar movie "Up".

I remember the scene flying house so well. It was a brave and brilliant moment!

According to this short film, there were many ideas to escape to an elderly house.

If you remember the Pixar movie UP, you may recall that a couple of men from the retirement home were coming to take him there when he thwarted everyone (except the audience), by attaching many balloons to his house. In this ultra-short cartoon, they don't know what to make of it, but when local news reports on it, all the other elderly people in town quickly figure it out. Much to the bafflement of those two men.

This partially animated short seems to have first appeared on television. It has shown up on various home video sets since then -- how do you think I saw it? Despite its deliberately poor production values, it is very well written.