Right, well... go see Up, if you haven't already. The movie's emotionally pitch-perfect, never resorting to being saccharine or maudlin... which isn't to say it doesn't approach emotional highs and lows, just that it doesn't dwell on them needlessly long.
So far as the story itself, it deals with a widower being driven to make a choice... but, rather than take the path society has chosen for him, he decides to go on an adventure that both he and his late wife dreamed of all their lives. Of course, how that translates into him making his home mobile by means of thousands of helium balloons... well, you really need to see the movie to fully "get it", so I won't spoil it for you.
Along the way, he ends up inadvertently kidnapping a young neighborhood boy (and in the process learning that kids aren't all bad), making his way to South America, and meeting a boyhood hero (and getting that hero transformed into the main villian). Mix in a giant bird and some talking dogs (courtesy of collar translators) for plot points and comedy relief, and the end result is a wonder to behold.
Oh, and of course, being a Pixar flick, it's got a short beforehand... in this case, a piece called Partly Cloudy, which takes the old "storks bringing babies" story back to territory I haven't seen since the old Warner Brothers cartoons... namely, where do the storks get the babies? That poor, poor stork... I haven't seen that kind of abuse of a cartoon character in such a short time since those old cartoons, either, and it was just as funny now as then.
So, a great short and a wonderful movie are waiting for you at the local theater... what are you waiting for?
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