10 Movies That Got Real Dark, Real Fast
6. Up
When you go in to watch a Pixar movie, it’s to be expected that there's going to be a great deal of emotion, and usually more than a little heartbreak. If the studio can make an audience genuinely care about toys and robots, just imagine what can happen with actual humans.
On the face of it, Up looked like it would be a nice, uplifting movie about the relationship between and old man and a young boy. This was very much true, but no-one expected the opening ten minutes to be as devastating and distressing as they were.
Even for Pixar, the opening scenes of Up were tough to take. Carl and Ellie’s relationship was truly special, but in the montage that showed their time together, there were two gut punches that should've at least come with a warning before hand.
The first was Ellie’s trip to the doctor that confirmed she had either suffered a miscarriage or was unable to have children at all, followed by her death. Naturally, this tore Carl apart, and audiences along with him.