I think adults will find it more emotionally affecting than children (as usual with this sort of movie). If Em liked Coraline, she can definitely handle this.

One of DH's critic friends called it Where The Emo Things Are, which I think is about right. But in a good way.

I think adults will find it more emotionally affecting than children (as usual with this sort of movie)

Totally. Joe and I were pretty much sobbing during Up while Em just sat there asking when she could have her own Kevin.

Totally. Joe and I were pretty much sobbing during Up while Em just sat there asking when she could have her own Kevin.

Heh. Lillian, when not screaming in terror, was busy asking all sorts of questions about why Ellie died, and did she get sick, and did she have a cancer.

This went on for weeks, by the way. I think all she really focused on in the movie was Ellie and Death.

This went on for weeks, by the way. I think all she really focused on in the movie was Ellie and Death.

Huh. So was she sorta' working out the idea of mortality?

Huh. So was she sorta' working out the idea of mortality?

She is constantly working out that idea.

"Is this chicken we're eating dead?"

"Who killed it?"

"What would happen if it wasn't dead?"

Huh. How old is she?

She sounds like my nephew (now in college) when he was about 4 or 5. He became very concerned when he found out that his grandma's parents had died before he was born. "Grandma, where are your mommy and daddy?" "They're in heaven, Clayton." "But, why?" I don't know why he didn't have the same question for his grandpas.

She's four and a half. Closer to four when we saw Up, but she's been all death-fascinated for a while now.

Four is totally the Age of Understanding Death. IME.

More kids' books that should be made into movies, according to Nerve.