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This morning we started out with a signature and good intentions. It didn’t turn out quite the way we expected.
A few weeks before my daughter’s second birthday, my wife told me that her folks wanted to build my daughter a sandbox for said birthday. Apparently her father had built her and her siblings one when they were children and that open faced wooden structure spparently held the secrets of childhood happiness within its walls. Given four children, that’s nothing to sneeze at.
I’m not going to say that the sandbox is the reason we decided to renovate our backyard. It was just one of many, not the least of which was that a stone garden is kind of a deathtrap for toddlers. It was, perhaps the reason that we pulled the trigger this year.
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So AM & I went to see Pixar’s Up! this evening on our first date night in…forever and a half it seems.
I’m not one of those people who goes for the massive spoilers or anything, so let me just cut to the chase: it was good. Really good. It might just be my new favorite Pixar film, displacing The Incredibles
for it’s complexity and ability to evoke emotion.
But it just might be too good about evoking emotions.
Let’s put it this way, my wife’s measure of success for this movie was not being able to sit through the film despite the giant cola drink (remember, pregnant!), but for getting through the first ten minutes without audibly sobbing.
It was a very intense film. Much more so than other Pixar films we’d seen. Most of the Pixar films have that one or two moment where they make your breath catch in your throat and make you fear being seen crying at a children’s movie.
Up! had…a bunch. One big one at the beginning of the film, and several that followed, each building on the emotions and scenes that had gone before.
It was very good, but I left the theater thinking that this was a child’s cartoon for grown-ups, rather than a children’s cartoon that grown-ups can enjoy or a children’s cartoon with grown-up stuff planted in to keep the adult audience occupied.
Maybe it’s just me.
I liked it. I’d recommend it. Just…bring tissues.
