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Calamity
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10-18-2001

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 - 9:22 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Starts this Friday, May 29 - I can't wait!!! There's supposed to be some surprises with the plot so I've been on spoiler alert and tried not to read/hear too much about this film. But I do know the short preceding the movie is called "Partly Cloudy".

This weekend my niece, nephew, their cousin and I kept cracking each other up by saying "SQUIRREL!" and then someone else answering, "Hi there!". (I'm really not a grown-up, lol.)

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Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 6:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I'm taking my little daycare "daughter" tomorrow.

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
We're seeing it tonight!

squirrelhithere

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 10:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
We saw the previews in the theater and this looks like a really fun movie.

LOL - We were doing the squirrel thing too.

Rissa
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03-20-2006

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 3:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rissa a private message Print Post    
Not at all what I had expected. No fall down laughs (well.... SQUIRREL!! LOL). It's just this really sweet movie, a love story at it's heart. We all enjoyed it immensely (17, 12 and dh and I), not sure if there is enough action for really young kids. The animation of the balloons is amazing, I could have sat through hours of just that.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 3:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
One of the sweetest movies I've seen in ages. If you don't get teary-eyed, you probably have no heart. We all loved it. (Me, my 23 year old daughter and 8 year old daycare child.) The images of the house with the balloons were so cool. Really, really good film.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 6:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
It's on my must-see list. :-)

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Friday, May 29, 2009 - 8:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
We're hoping to go Sunday (if I can squeeze it in between 300 papers to grade and 6 open houses)!

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 6:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Thoughts on it for a 3 year old and a rather hyper 9 year old?

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 8:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I don't know about a 3 year old but my daycare 8 year old has a hard time sitting still but she did and I was surprised.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Saturday, May 30, 2009 - 10:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Am I going to be hated if I say it wasn't one of Pixar's best? It was a bit sad here and there, which affected the older people but bored the younger people. Funny bits in places but I thought it was a bit mixed, like they were appealing to children and adults separately, instead of making everything/most suit both.

We had a whole row of children in front of us this afternoon (age 5 or 6 maybe) and they got a bit restless.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 12:30 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
We saw it today and loved it, but there was a small child in front of us who was terrified by the dogs and the storm. Parents really should check out PG movies before taking kids who are only 2 or 3 to them!

Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 7:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
I wonder if this is Pixar's first PG movie? Definately adult themes in it. I loved it, was teary eyed the first minute in! I love that Pixar can create a film without a lot of rude humor. I loved that there are quiet moments where the story is just continuing, not non-stop action and noise and chaos.

I do agree that small, small kids might be bored with the slower parts, but then again it is PG. DD, 7, loved it and said she wanted to buy it.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 8:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
I wanted to add that I LOVED the intro movie - "Partly Cloudy"! So very cute - and not one single word! (and really - haven't we all had days where we had thunder coming out our rears?!?)

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 8:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
Just because I was interested, here are the movies Pixar has done. One other one was also PG.
Toy Story
A Bug's Life
Toy Story 2
Monsters, Inc.
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles (this was the other PG)
Cars
Ratatouille
Wall-e
Up (the 2nd PG of the bunch)

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Monday, June 01, 2009 - 1:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
We saw it in in 3-D and the computer animation was just spectacular (but I'm still a fan of traditional hand-drawn 2-D animation too). And I loved the score, might have to get the soundtrack. Such a wonderful, lovely story.

I think Carl and Russell's respective sadness were conveyed honestly, not sentimentally, but reckon others might think it was all a bit melodramatic. Dug may have had a collar that enabled him to talk but he was a real dog - "I was hiding under your porch because I love you.". I had to hug my own doggie after getting back from the movie. Kevin and her babies were adorable. A lot of the humor was understated, like when Carl and Russell were calling out "red car/blue car" and Dug pipes up with "grey car". The prologue chronicling Carl & Ellie's marriage was exquisite.

The only parts that bothered me a bit were Alpha's chipmunk voice and the dogs being chefs and pilots (just seemed like cheap jokes although the poker scene was funny and the squeaky bone on the plane cracked me up), the trailer having given away that Muntz would be there, and not seeing more of what was around Paradise Falls.

Our stupid theater hadn't downloaded the short "Partly Cloudy" and so we didn't it see it but those who went to the regular (not 3-D) showings did. So, of course, we have to go again to see the short. And I'll probably love Up even more.

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Monday, June 01, 2009 - 3:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
I wonder if dyslexics would want to see this.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Monday, June 01, 2009 - 4:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kitt a private message Print Post    
Calamity, if you want to see the storybook, it's at the Pixar site here:
http://www.pixar.com/shorts/pc/index.html

It was very sweet.

eta, whoops! Sorry Calamity, it's not the storybook at all, just pictures with a bit about the design process.

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Tuesday, June 02, 2009 - 7:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Kitt. We're going to see the movie again sometime this week and the short better be with it :-) . Sorry you were disappointed by Up.

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Friday, June 05, 2009 - 8:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
We saw it again tonight and I enjoyed it even more this time, I think. I missed the wonderful depth that the 3-D version had but the brighter colors partly made up for that.

And "Partly Cloudy" was shown - it was so funny and adorable. Now I can look at the link Kitt posted.

Babyjaxmom
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10-20-2002

Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 6:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyjaxmom a private message Print Post    
I enjoyed this movie, although some of the chase scenes were a little intense for me. Surprisingly, my 8 year old son didn't like this movie at all. He's very sensitive and I think it was just too sad for him. The death of the wife, the little boy being abandoned by his dad (he didn't understand that at all) and, surprising to me, the fact that they left the house at the falls and didn't bring it back were all very upsetting to him. He had to come home and watch "Kung Fu Panda" on the DVR to cheer him up. If you have a sensitive child, you might want to think twice about this one. It made me cry, too (especially the infertility part), but I still enjoyed it.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 7:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Twinkie a private message Print Post    
Hubby and I tried to watch this today and it was too much for both of us. Just too much sadness. We were both crying.

Babyjaxmom
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10-20-2002

Monday, June 08, 2009 - 6:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyjaxmom a private message Print Post    
Thanks, Twinkie. I'm glad I'm not the only one who found it pretty sad for a kid's movie. I also didn't like that his childhood hero turned out to be a bad guy and the creepy, mean dogs were a little much for me, too. Maybe I'm just too sensitive for a kid's movie!

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Monday, June 08, 2009 - 7:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Teachmichigan a private message Print Post    
It's probably for those very reasons that it has the PG rating. I definitely wouldn't take a 3 or 4 year old to see it. I might watch it at home w/a child of that age - but then I'd be in an atmosphere where I'd be able to talk about scenes.

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Friday, June 19, 2009 - 1:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
This is a heartbreakingly sad but touching story.

Pixar grants girl's dying wish to see 'Up'
OC Register
June 18, 2009


From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.

After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue.

Babyjaxmom
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10-20-2002

Saturday, June 20, 2009 - 8:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Babyjaxmom a private message Print Post    
Oh man, Calamity, I just read that article on MSNBC.com. It made me cry. I'm glad she and her family enjoyed the movie, even though my kid didn't. I just have an unusually sensitive 8 year old. Funny cause he has no problem with action movies (Star Wars, etc.). It's the sad stuff that gets to him.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Saturday, June 20, 2009 - 9:41 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
MSNBC Article

I shouldn't read this stuff while sitting in a public place.

Jkm
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07-10-2002

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 5:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jkm a private message Print Post    
I found this boring and sad -- not sure why kids would like this movie other than the dogs....

Urgrace
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08-19-2000

Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 11:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Urgrace a private message Print Post    
Have to agree with Babyjaxmom. My grandson is also 8 and he did not really enjoy the movie. There was a couple of chuckles in the upbeat parts, but overall he will probably forget the movie the moment he sees another one. I think all the Pixar movies have been good with this one falling last on the list.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Thursday, July 16, 2009 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Jimmer, I didn't really care for the movie all that much, BUT the article you posted, has my eyes stinging with tears. Thank you so much for finding and sharing it!

Ketchuplover
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08-30-2000

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 10:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ketchuplover a private message Print Post    
There's no menu on the dvd. Not on the RedBox version anyway. The film was decent.

Calamity
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10-18-2001

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 1:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Calamity a private message Print Post    
Even though I don't have a Blu-Ray player, it was cheaper to purchase the 4-Disc Combo Pack (2 Blu-Ray discs plus the standard DVD version and Digital file copy) since I had a $10 off coupon for that. Got it on sale at Target for less than $12 (including tax) and it came with a free "Adventure Journal" too although I don't really care about that. Just more stuff that will likely end up in landfills.

Disney Pixar UP Coupon Offer - for U.S. and Canada

Apparently some people are combining that coupon with another offer for buying Monsters, Inc. and UP Blu-rays together and using some stores price-matching deals and getting both movies for ~$20. I wasn't interested in that though.

Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 3:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Brenda1966 a private message Print Post    
Thanks for posting this Calamity!

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, May 02, 2010 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
I just watched it and really enjoyed myself.