Up and Toy Story 3

I cried watching both movies. I got this from the NYT.

"Of course many more children will already have asked themselves the same question about “Toy Story 3.”The pathos in that film is rich and various, but as “Up,”the clever heartstring pullers at Pixar have zeroed in on a phase of the life cycle not generally associated with children’s entertainment. In “Up” the handkerchief moment came early on, as the long, loving marriage of Carl and Ellie Fredricksen was chronicled in a montage that located the film’s emotional heart simultaneously in boyhood and senescence. In “Toy Story 3” the equivalent moment comes near the end, when Andy’s mother, an unsung stalwart of the franchise voiced by Laurie Metcalf, looks around his empty room and wonders where the time went.


It’s a touching moment, evoking the universal heartbreak of parenthood, but the movie does not stop there. It follows Andy, not all the way to college, but to a stop on the way, the house of a little girl named Bonnie who will inherit Buzz, Woody and all the other toys who have guided Andy through childhood. He does not just drop off the box, but stops to introduce Bonnie and her current toys to the new arrivals."


My son is going to college, and we saw the Toy Story trilogy together.


When the first one came, two strong emotions took over me, the first was the quality of computer images. I felt that a new era of cinema had started. Steve Jobs rode that wave all the way to the Bank. The second was the memory of my toys.


Until the day she died, my mother was full of emotions, I don't see why I won't be.