Twice, they were sued! I think it was dropped because of unsubstantial evidence. At least that injunction never came to fruition.
I never said anything about either of those movies. Heck, I’ve said several times I don’t care about Newt; I didn’t know anything about it, and the mating thing is a little overdone. The similarities in Up and the short don’t bug me.
thedriveintheatre is right, even Pixar is not able to make up entirely new, fresh storylines. Everything has been done before, and the similarities between Up and Above then Beyond are very striking indeed. And as love70ways said, even the general idea of a flying house isn’t original. It’s impossible to do nowadays.
It wasn’t directed at you, Incredigirl. I know you’re a pretty balanced and open-minded kinda person. I was just upset with the dissing going on in the Rio and Alpha & Omega threads and I guess I brought some of that anger here.
Really, to dismiss a movie just because it’s reminiscent of others is a shallow excuse. Good to point it out as an observation (I do that all the time with my comments and mash-up trailers), but it’s not a valid argument not to watch it. I really don’t think the rival studios intentionally copy each other. The exception being the Katzenberg saga with Antz and these blatant startup studios’ knockoffs.
Oh, sorry. I just read your post and commented, without thinking first. 
At first it bothered me that Up looked like that short, but Up is really special because of the characters and their feelings, just like all Pixar films. The house similarities don’t bother me, even if my family now torments me with this stuff about the imperfections of Pixar. I’m happy now. 
You know, if we want, we could talk about how much Wall*E is like 2001:"A Space Odyssey. Auto looks exactly like Hal(the red light?), and the whole Man VS. Machine, all movies are reminiscent of other movies.
Exactly! Pixar is not immune to deriving its inspirations from other sources, either. That’s why I think the “this film is bad just because it sounds like another” argument is pretty much invalid, really.
On a side note, I did several mash-ups involving Wall-E with other movies. You can check em’ out on my Youtube channel. end plug
In the commentary, Mr. Stanton was talking about the playing of the 2001 theme in the background. I noticed it before, but it was still cool to have him explain it. 
Anyways, back to the Asslyumvideo Damnquedo films. After watching a bitt of What’s Up I felt a ittle sick feeling. I’m not sure why they’re still making these films. Little Bee? Where’s the pun in that? More like little bi-
Anyway (again), I’ve been thinking about maybe making a comparison shot between the possibly vomit-inducing films and the real deal. Like you know how what’s UP has the UP capitalized like UP?
Wow, how low can you get? These things really make me and a lot of us want to puke…
Kind of like a Hackintosh. 
Just a geeky way to look at it.
I almost want to watch one of these “movies” just so I can witness their absolute lack of originality and crappiness first hand…