The other DrC and I saw the animated movie "Up" this evening. It is made by Disney/Pixar and has their trademarked excellent animation. The characters are attractive and appealing, and the story line is as sensible as most animated films. The action is fun and for young people it might be an okay choice. However the trailers do not tell you what the film is truly about.
If you've lived happily with another person for nearly 40 years, as we have, this movie is a serious downer. Here's why: very quickly at the beginning of the film you get taken through the lives of two people (Carl and Ellie) who meet, marry, live a life together, and then Ellie dies, leaving Carl a grumpy old widower haunting the home they built together.
Much of the rest of the film keeps rubbing your nose in the fact that one of you will outlive the other and that it will be a very sad business for the survivor. We know this intellectually, but don't need to experience it prematurely. We agree that, had we known the true subject matter, we would not have gone. The film left us just too sad. We were looking for a light-hearted, fun movie and for us this film was anything but.
