I’m not sure I would call Pixar-Disney’s new movie, Up!, a kid’s movie, but it sure was a good lift.

The reason I say I don’t know that it was a kid’s movie is that the themes were so dramatically adult – but only in their presentation.

Living life…loving everyday life…loving big…what’s important in life…life is an adventure…who is important in life…it’s never too late…all of these ideas are what we want our kids to know, to live … do we share these messages each and every day? I hope so.

I really loved the movie…everything it stood for…how it was directed and told…the characters…the greater message, especially. I thought, ‘Gosh, am I just really a cry baby?’ but then I looked over and Mark was tearing up too. This movie is a BIG TIME love story. It reminded me of us… and touched me deeply.

When I asked Chance (who is what he thought… he said he liked the characters. When I asked him what lessons he learned from it, he didn’t see the same things Mark and I saw, but he liked the movie anyway.

Real… in a magical kind of way (you know, an 80 year old tromping for days through the jungle with no food or water save a chocolate candy bar), Up! gets a big thumbs up!

I’ve wanted to do the 3-D experience for any number of movies, but Chance doesn’t like the glasses. For whatever reason, I HAD to do 3-D this time, and I learned that some movies aren’t made especially for 3-D, meaning that they don’t have things that whiz out at you and such. Up! would be just fine in non-3-D format. The upcoming G-Force movie, though, looks like it would be GREAT in 3-D!

Oh, and the little cartoon Pixar made as a pre-show is just the cutest thing I’ve seen in years! SOOOOO sweet!

I’m so grateful those guys followed their dream off the back of the napkin all those years ago! If you don’t know the Pixar story… gotta read it – it is inspiring!