This is not a usual movie review - this is more of a warning to every parent. Remember Bambi's mom and Old Yeller? That's nothing compared to the scarring your child will receive after watching the first minutes of this movie.
If it was PG 13 that would be fine. I enjoy shocking and would have laughed, but to hear the children in the audience crying from start to finish was too much even for me.
What could be that bad you ask? I never do spoilers but here I will give away most of the plot to let you know what your kids will be in for.
The first 20 minutes were a montage starting with two adorable young children that are impossible not to like. They have the same childhood hero, fall in love, marry and buy the house they met in while saving money for their South American adventure.
But life happens and they can't afford it, so they decide to have a baby. They're all smiles as they paint the baby's room. Then it fades to just music while the woman hunches over crying in a doctor's office. This is where the kids in the audience lost it, with many asking, "Where's the baby, Mommy?"
Oh, but that's just the first 10 minutes, it gets better as the montage continues with them aging and he finally buys the tickets to South America.
On his way to give them to her she ends up in the hospital and dies. Here many screams of "Where's the grandma Mommy?" can be heard.
The montage ends with people threatening to bulldoze his house, so he uses balloons to lift it away. These beautiful, brightly-coloured balloons are used in all the film's advertising to children, and they stop crying for a few minutes.
The other thing on the poster is a kid. He's the one collecting merit badges because then "hopefully my Dad and new Mom will want to talk to me." The uplifting part of this film is when the old man has to kill his childhood hero. And it's called UP?
Oh, and get this, UP is available in 3-D - yeah, because showing a woman being told she's infertile is way cooler in 3-D.
That said, it is a great film and it's fantastic to see a "kids movie" that was completely unpredictable. I would probably have loved this film if I couldn't literally hear the children being scarred beside me.
If you do take your kid to this, you have been warned sweet dreams and good luck.
