Movie Review: UP
Nothing Brings Me UP like a Depressing Story
Just in time for summer, Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures have released the feel-good movie of the year, "UP". I don't know about you, but watching an animated young couple fall in love and yearn for adventure but then end up childless and then unfulfilled in all their dreams because all their money is spent on mundane emergencies and then they just grow old and she dies and then the city wants to send him to a retirement home so they can tear down his house in order to have the property to build a skyscraper on just lifts my spirits like nothing else can.
Add to that a mother bird who is separated from her crying babies and can't return home, a murderous child hero, menacing dogs chasing you towards your doom, and then throw in a young boy from a broken home with an absent father and I'm thinking this movie will surely win the Most Uplifting Movie of the Year award.
When I think of "entertainment" I obviously think of paying money to go see a children's animated movie that basically reenacts the nightly news, in all its realism. Why would anyone want to see a movie that delves into light-hearted topics that make you smile and laugh? Unfortunately this movie did throw in the occasional laugh and giggle (calling the little chubby boy a "small mailman," and having a talking dog who gets distracted by possible squirrels) but luckily these are just very small parts of this movie, the writers choosing to focus instead on the more important, sad, aspects of the story as the main theme. For this I am very grateful.
So, if your children are begging you to take them to see a great movie - "UP" is the movie to see! It's too bad that for most youngsters the depressing portions will probably go straight over their heads, but if nothing else, the vicious dogs will scare the living daylights out of them. For the grown-ups in the theater, they will get to enjoy the full impact of this wonderfully uplifting story.
For me personally, I bawled big baby tears starting from approximately minute 10 and then throughout the entire movie, so most of the scenes were a little blurry to me. I will have to go see it a couple more times just so that eventually I will be able to recreate all the sadness clearly in my memories and to provide fodder for my nightmares.
C'mon kids! As an encore, let's watch "Schindler's List"!
Published by Lorelei Logsdon
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4 Comments
Post a CommentWell, yes it was a sad movie, and I think perhaps could be accurately stated, not uplifting and silly and lacking of make believe reality. I was hurt by the reviewers comments that stated "watching an animated young couple fall in love and yearn for adventure but then end up childless and then unfulfilled in all their dreams because all their money is spent on mundane emergencies and then they just grow old and she dies", lacked the vision to see the love they had along the way, and as I and the love of my life, sat, without a young one, with complete understanding of the need to put dreams aside, is a reality, yet we love each as deep as Carl loved Ellie, and love isn't always, yellow brick roads and having refrigerators that never break, it's picnic's under tree's, and as her book showed the things we do day in and day out are the true adventures. I agree, it was in no way a fun movie, it was deep, rich in metaphors, lost love, found love, reallocated respect, and letting go of thin
Thanks for the review. I think I'll pass!
Sophie
I thought the movie was okay-could have been a little sillier for the young kids:)
Your review is excellent, I wished I read it before I bought the tickets today. The movie was so depressing! Even the ending, the SAD music in the end kept running in my head. No one even clapped their hands after the movie was over (the people usually do). Disney could have just skipped some of the depressing parts and added more of the "fun and adventure scenes". I imagined a more exciting and fun movie from what I seen in the previews.