Mary Anning vs Up
Up has the higher audience score (8/10 against 7.5/10 for Mary Anning). Mary Anning is the shorter watch at 1h 10m compared with 1h 36m. Up is the older of the two (2009 against 2025). Both are adventure, animation, family movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Mary Anning
Up| Mary Anning | Up | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.5/10 | ★ 8.0/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2009 |
| Length | 1h 10m | 1h 36m |
| Genres | Adventure, Animation, Family | Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family |
| Country | – | United States of America |
| Director | Marcel Barelli | Pete Docter |
| Main cast | Alexia Depicker, Camille D'Hainaut, Jason Vansilliette, Bastien Van Dyck, Johanne Pastore | David Kaye, Delroy Lindo, Christopher Plummer, Jess Harnell, Ed Asner |
Synopsis
Mary Anning
England, 19th century. 12-year-old Mary is passionate about the fossils that she collects and sells with her father. When he accidentally dies near the fossil cliffs, Mary, her brother and her mother struggle to make the payments for the family house, meaning they will probably have to leave the seaside that Maëlys loves so much. But her father left a mysterious message: what was it that he saw on the cliffs before he died? With some help from…
Up
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a new lease on life.