"UP" is a downer

[mtemm]

So to most kids it would just go right over their heads.

yep. we took our kids (7, 5, 5) to this movie. dh and I both bawled like babies during the montage (quietly, the kids had no idea we were), but the kids were blissfully ignorant. they had no idea what that was about.

they loved the movie. I will say the twins were frightened a few times, but they still said they loved it.

it was really cute. and the little kid was hysterical. my husband coaches our 7 year old's baseball team and omg, it was like listening to all the kids on his team. very very funny.

yes there are adult themes, but there are in pretty much every disney movie I can think of. in fact, I can't think of any disney movies offhand that don't have mature themes to them.

 

[karly05]

Probably, yes. Also (as I'm sure someone has already mentioned), the montage of Carl & Ellie's life together has no dialogue, just (Michael Giacchino's beautiful) music, so there is no actual conversation about it. It's just as Scurvy describes it.

By the way - preliminary weekend numbers show that Up was #1 at the box office again, with $44 million dollars, and only a 35% drop from their opening weekend!

 

[Jennasis]

I saw it opening weekend with my kids (9 and 6). The 9 year old agreed with me when I said there was some sad parts, but I'm not sure if she would have said "oh it was sad" unless I said it first.

The three of us loved the movie! I thought it was right up there with Toy Story, something very original.

I did tear up in a few spots of the movie, but there are many Disney/Pixar movies that I do cry.

I wonder if why many adults are reacting to this movie so much is because we have older parents or grandparents and are dealing with a loss of a parent/grandparent, or can see that they are getting older and this could be them.

Even though it made me cry in parts, the ending was the best. If you are an adult and can understand everything that Carl went through and then to see where he ended up....that is amazing.

As far as the miscarriage part goes, my DS (6) has not idea what that 30 seconds of the movie was about.

MISCARRIAGE??? How did you come up with that? I gathered she was infertile.

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

My kids both saw it and loved it.
My oldest(11) said she almost cried at a couple of parts.
My youngest kept asking why he kept telling his wife that they were going to make it when she wasn;t there. But after I explained that she was with him in memory, spitrit and inspiration, She kinda got it. And was fine

 

[chicagoshannon]

I think the thing that's slightly different about UP is that a HUMAN baby dies. And then a HUMAN women dies. I found it to be a very sad movie, but I really loved it.

It was very real and I'm gonna guess that one of the writers of the movie has experienced some infertility/loss of a pregnancy. It showed the very real emotions that one goes through when dealing with that stuff.

 

[mtemm]

MISCARRIAGE??? How did you come up with that? I gathered she was infertile.

I assumed it was both (they miscarried, and were then told they could never have children, maybe she wouldn't be able to carry to term or something), actually, but only because they showed them actually decorating a nursery, and I don't know anyone who does that who isn't pregnant. but it could just be a visual reference to them being ready to start a family. it never is said exactly which it is.

 

[BriarfoxinWA]

I went and saw it this afternoon with DH and DS13. We all loved it. Yes it is sad in parts but it is really funny too...

 

[ChrisFL]

I think the thing that's slightly different about UP is that a HUMAN baby dies. And then a HUMAN women dies. I found it to be a very sad movie, but I really loved it.

It was very real and I'm gonna guess that one of the writers of the movie has experienced some infertility/loss of a pregnancy. It showed the very real emotions that one goes through when dealing with that stuff.

but a Human Baby doesn't die, it never even showed Ellie pregnant at all!

 

[DVCLiz]

MISCARRIAGE??? How did you come up with that? I gathered she was infertile.

My daughters went to see Up tonight and they both thought it was a miscarriage. They are 20 and 15. I said, "Miscarriage? I read on the DIS it was about infertility!" (LOL at me getting my info from the DIS!) They both said, "No, Mom, they are painting a nursery and then they go to a doctor so she was pregnant and lost a baby." That was the way they interpreted it.

My 20 year old cried several times during the movie and cried some more when she got home and told me about it - she laughed at herself for crying but had more tears, too. It was very moving for them - they both loved it!!

 

[java]

MISCARRIAGE??? How did you come up with that? I gathered she was infertile.

I thought it was miscarriage because they were doing the "nursery". It broke my heart. I cried so many times in that movie.

My son is saying he "read" the plot line and the father of the boyscout was dead. I thought it was deadbeat dad. The one that wasn't showing up because of new wife? Am I the only one that thought that?

Really the whole movie had sad parts, funny parts, beautiful parts. So even though I was crying a lot I have to say this is a great movie.
And the 3-D was cool in that you felt like you were in the movie.

 

[Jennasis]

Huh..I never "got" that they miscarried. I "got" infertile. Ellie never looked pregnant. I assumed they were decorating the nursery in preparation for starting a family.

 

[LoraJ]

I thought it was miscarriage because they were doing the "nursery". It broke my heart. I cried so many times in that movie.

My son is saying he "read" the plot line and the father of the boyscout was dead. I thought it was deadbeat dad. The one that wasn't showing up because of new wife? Am I the only one that thought that?

Really the whole movie had sad parts, funny parts, beautiful parts. So even though I was crying a lot I have to say this is a great movie.
And the 3-D was cool in that you felt like you were in the movie.

He was definitely not dead. Just an absentee dad with a new family.

 

[traviesojmt]

Our family went to see UP while on vacation at WDW last week. We all absolutely loved it. Of course I cried a bit in the beginning, but I am a sap that way. My DS 11 and DD 5 loved the movie. We are very careful in what we let our kids watch and I didn't have any concerns with this movie. I really think that this movie is quite tame in comparison to other Disney movies. Our family gives this movie 2 very big thumbs up.

 

[*BTMRR*]

Huh..I never "got" that they miscarried. I "got" infertile. Ellie never looked pregnant. I assumed they were decorating the nursery in preparation for starting a family.

Same here. I thought the sad scene in the doctor's office was the doctor telling them they were infertile. A miscarriage generally wouldn't explain why a couple never went on to have any kids.

 

[muffyn]

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I had been hearing that UP was really good, 'wonderful', etc...

God, am I glad I saw this thread.

Now I may be having second thoughts.

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my daughter & her 40ish husband went for "preview" night to see this,<AFLAC was gving out free tickets promo> we could not make it since my hubby could not get outta work early enough.
she told me s-i-l cried during the movie.. I said " how the heck could you cry in a disney film,, isn't it supposed to be happy? the previews sure make it seem happy!!!"
I did not ask 'what was sad' so when I went a couple days ago,..hmmm
after about 4 minutes,, a brick hit me.. now *WHY* didn't I see this coming?? oh man,, I just knew i'd be in a puddle of tears soon enough.
( & a few more times during the movie.......)
that said. I LOVED LOVED the movie (but I am also a sucker for 3-d movies).
go see it, but if you are like many of us who just cry at passing under the "welcome to disney world" signs,, nothing can save you

 

[disney1990]

Pixar's movies are -- adult movies for children and/or children's movies for adults. Yes, the beginning was sad, but I think most of it goes over the heads of the kids in the audience. It's the adults that pickup on everything and "cry". All in all, I thought it was a fantastic movie. I told my DH just the other day that I wanted to go back to see it again so that I could pickup the stuff that I missed the first time around.

 

[minnie56]

LOVED LOVED LOVED this movie. Made me laugh till I cried and have that lump in my throat here and there too....not sure that it's for kids indeed...but I thought it one of the best I have seen in agesss.

 

[disneyworldluvr349]

That movie made me cry like a baby multiple times. I know that's the Disney way. But, it just seemed like this movie dealt with some very deep, mature subjects. I take my kid to the movies for fun and escape not to be punched in the gut. Infertility, death, absent parents are all tough subjects for a kid's movie.

I completely 100% agree with you in every way. Redundant, yes. This movie was brilliant to me, but my 7 year old brother sat there with his mouth gaping and a puzzled look on his face. I cried so many times, tears were streaming down my face. It was moving and beautiful but I think that it was way above kids heads.

 

[muffyn]

I assumed it was both (they miscarried, and were then told they could never have children, maybe she wouldn't be able to carry to term or something), actually, but only because they showed them actually decorating a nursery, and I don't know anyone who does that who isn't pregnant. but it could just be a visual reference to them being ready to start a family. it never is said exactly which it is.

I also thought 'miscarraige' , because it seemed like she was telling him she was pregnant , when they were looking at the clouds, then decorating a nursery. and the doc's office where she was told no more children.
why else would she sit there in the yard so despondent?
who makes a nursery if they are not pregnant?
anyone

 

[Tasha+Scott]

Okay, all this thread has done for me is make me want to go see this movie! It sounds sooo interesting after reading these reviews. I actually wasn't even interested till now. I now feel I MUST see it. I doubt my 4 year old would care much about it but I'm sure dh and I would.