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Heinz releases new heartwarming Pixar-like baked beans commercial

If you’re a fan of the movie “Up,” Heinz new advertisement will hit you right in the feels. Heinz Australia took a page out of Pixar’s emotional animation playbook when it channeled the 2009 tear-jerker to create its “Can Size for Every Aussie” ad campaign. The new campaign launches four new can sizes of the company’s most popular baked beans. The three-minute animated short tells the story of Geoff, whose curious lifelong love of beans leads to a job at Heinz as head of innovation. There, he experiments with new ways to share his favorite food with the world. Initially, Geoff is consumed with creating the perfect-sized can of beans to fit on a single slice of toast — thus, “The One for One” — a single serving of beans. But as life goes on, his bean needs change. After meeting a pretty, young co-worker from the spaghetti department, he’s inspired to create a “The One for Two”…