What is so sad about "Up"?

Re: What is so sad about "Up"?

• lilpiglet

  December 2009

  I'm a bit confused also.. Is there two "UP" movies?? We got DS the movie "UP" for christmas and the cover of it says it's hilarious...

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• shopgirl78 member

  December 2009

  Not sad to children, only adults will get it.   There is a scene that goes through the ups and downs of life...its is quite a tear jerker. 

  
  

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• Mrs.Tony

  December 2009

  I would love to know too as I bought it for my 4 year old.

  

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• michaeltrish

  December 2009

  I wish I knew.  DS made it halfway through at the theaters and then shouted, "I wanna go home" when he was finished eating his popcorn.  I never saw the end so was planning on buying it this month.

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• EMT member

  December 2009

  shopgirl78:

  Not sad to children, only adults will get it.   There is a scene that goes through the ups and downs of life...its is quite a tear jerker. 

  Well put.  I love it and so does DD.

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• Bride2b2004 member

  December 2009

  We saw it in the movies with DS.  He enjoyed it, though it seemed to go a little long.  

  Warning** Spoiler**

  I was expecting only humor from previews, but that isn't the case (though DS wasn't affected b/c he didn't understand).  The couple meet as children and then get married.  They want children and try for a long time, but are unable to have any and for anyone coping with losing a baby (which I was) or infertility it is especially sad.  Then the wife dies.  The elderly man is all alone and then befriends the little boy in the movie. 

  I also bought it this year, but DH and I think we will give it to my sister instead of keep it for DS.  He is only 3.5 and we would rather he watch something without the backstory that Up has. 

  Fortunate to be a SAHM to my 3 musketeers (5/2006, 5/2010 & 12/2011). Soy & dairy free for the 3rd and final time.

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• KoriBrett

  December 2009

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  Kids don't really get it, but DH & I sobbed through the whole thing.  It's a good movie, just sad.  They meet as kids, they plan for all these adventures and travels they want to do, but real life gets in the way and it never happens, then she dies.  He spends the rest of the movie trying to have an adventure for her/in her honor.

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• kittycarr

  December 2009

  I bawled like a baby too.  AND in from of MIL of all people.
  

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• ellemoney:) member

  December 2009

  I wondered about it, too. ?Imagine that, the woman dies.. how odd, that never happens in Disney movies.....

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• femmegem member

  December 2009

  It definitely has some sad undertones, but kids will never notice it. The wife's death happens in a montage and is represented subtly enough that a child wouldn't know what was going on. DS had no idea.

  I loved it. So did DH and DS.

  
  Alex (11/14/06) and Nate (5/25/10)
  "Want what you have, do what you can, be who you are." - Rev. Forrest Church

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• DevonPow member

  December 2009

  It is very poignant - we watched it over Thanksgiving with all the adult relatives, and almost everyone was crying after the montage of their life together. I thought it was wonderful.

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• Bellisimo

  December 2009

  I can't watch the beginning.  If you can get past that part, you're golden.  DS is completely oblivious...and DH is too much of a realist for it to affect him. 
  

  
  
  
  

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