Why I HATED Up!

[DizBelle]

From pixar dot com, Corporate Overview:





People who take their kids to see a movie when they *think* the movie is a "kid's movie" are the ones to blame if the kids are upset, not Pixar.

And as for what exactly a "kid's movie" is...anyone watch Peter Pan recently? Really WATCH it? Listen to every word and see what happens in that flick? Jinkies, how is THAT a kid's movie? (captain hook isn't trying to just scare PP, he's trying to murder him, for one...and PP doesn't do anything different when he sets the croc after Hook)


Pixar makes people movies, NOT kid's movies.


(and there were a whole bunch of spoilers in this thread, and I'm really bummed I read every post)

This is exactly right.

The people who didn't like Up because it wasn't what they thought a kids movie should be need a little education. The movie is rated PG. From the MPAA:

Parental Guidance Suggested. Some Material May Not Be Suitable For Children.
A PG-rated motion picture should be investigated by parents before they let their younger children attend. The PG rating indicates, in the view of the Rating Board, that parents may consider some material unsuitable for their children, and parents should make that decision.

The more mature themes in some PG-rated motion pictures may call for parental guidance. There may be some profanity and some depictions of violence or brief nudity. But these elements are not deemed so intense as to require that parents be strongly cautioned beyond the suggestion of parental guidance. There is no drug use content in a PG-rated motion picture.

Anyone who would not give a second thought to taking their three year old to a PG movie needs some parental training.

It's a PG movie and you're surprised at some of the topics it addresses?!?!?!?!?

Like a PP said, animation does not equal a kids movie. The Wiggles are live action. I guess that means they are only for adults. I don't think so.

If you don't want to deal with the thought provoking situations that may be portrayed in a PG movie, go see the Wiggles sing about eating your broccoli.

You can dislike Up because you just didn't like it. You can't dislike it because you THOUGHT it was a kids movie when it was never intended to be.

If you thought this was a "kid's movie", or any PG movie is a kid's movie simply because it is animated, you were absolutely wrong.

 

[DizBelle]

FTR - The MPAA says that even a rating of "G" doesn't signify a "children's" movie.

 

[bigtinkfun]

Even though it had some saddening parts, I loved UP!

The only thing that gave me pause was Russell giving chocolate to the bird. Chocolate is actually poisonous for birds (and dogs) and I worry that kids might think that it's okay to give birds chocolate after seeing that movie. I was a bit surprised that something like that made it into the movie because I know that Disney goes to great lengths to keep mistakes like that out of their movies.

I respect the right of the OP to dislike the movie. I think everyone has things that lots of people loved, but that they hated.

 

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

Even though it had some saddening parts, I loved UP!

The only thing that gave me pause was Russell giving chocolate to the bird. Chocolate is actually poisonous for birds (and dogs) and I worry that kids might think that it's okay to give birds chocolate after seeing that movie. I was a bit surprised that something like that made it into the movie because I know that Disney goes to great lengths to keep mistakes like that out of their movies.

I respect the right of the OP to dislike the movie. I think everyone has things that lots of people loved, but that they hated.

Theobromine is the ingredient in chocolate that is toxic to dogs (I don't own birds so I'm not sure about them). Most "normal" american chocolate like Hershey Bars do not contain theobromine at all. The high cocoa percentage chocolates, ie the european ones, do.

Also, the mulch that is made from ground up chocolate hulls is VERY poisonous to dogs and has been pulled from the market in many places-yes, it makes your yard smell heavenly, but it'll kill fido.

We had a poodle growing up that ate an entire bag of hershey's kisses once and was fine. Not that I would advocate for feeding dogs chocolate...

and back onto the Up! topic, I understand that many people can go and "watch" a movie. I go and "feel" movies-I have a difficult time not internalizing whatever emotions are up on the screen and feeling them as strongly as the actors are portraying them onscreen.

For this reason (much like Phoebe on Friends), I enjoy movies that are exciting and upbeat, because those are the emotions I prefer to have saturate me when I watch a movie.

In this respect, Up! did a very good job; because I felt the emotions on the screen VERY strongly, and they weren't even real humans. There were just so many negative, unhappy emotions in the movie it left me feeling miserable and bereft.

I've never been one of those people where "it's just a movie."