Up With Pixar

[elflore]

Rachael, her mom, and I saw the new Pixar movie "Up" this afternoon, and definitely are pointing all our thumbs that way. It starts out wacky and gets increasingly zany as it goes (so by the end it's a perfect melding of Looney Tunes and action movie), but also has a really beautiful melancholy throughout. I can't remember another kid's movie that brought tears to my eyes so many times (including the Potter films)--but in a good way. It actually reminded me of Doctor Who, in that it's a story for children, yet pervaded by a sense of loss: we lose, we remember, we go on, and find new adventures, make new family, learn to live with our ghosts.

I don't know that I'm making a lot of sense or doing this movie any justice, but it's well worth seeing, even in plain old 2D.