If you try to rank Pixar movies by how much they make you cry, 2009’s Up is surely somewhere high on your list. There are full-length movies that don’t do as good a job of eliciting emotion from an audience as the first ten minutes of the Ed Asner-helmed flick do. In the first minutes of the movie, we watch as a young Carl Fredericksen (Asner) meets a girl named Ellie. He falls in love with her, marries her, renovates their childhood clubhouse into a home of their own, they grow old together, and just before Carl and Ellie are about to fulfill their lifelong dream of visiting Paradise Falls, Ellie falls ill and dies. Tragic. Well, get ready to feel all the feelings again because Pixar Animation Studios recently announced the heartbreaking plot of their upcoming Up spinoff short film, Carl’s Date. The new short, which we recently discovered will be presented with Elemental, will bring back Pixar’s beloved Carl Fredricksen and give the love story between him and Ellie a bit of closure. However, fans cannot get on the same page about how they feel regarding this plot announcement.
The new short will follow Carl as he faces a new challenge: going on his first date since the passing of his beloved wife. As touching as Carl and Ellie’s story is, it is not surprising that some fans are not into the idea of Carl moving on. Some have even taken to Twitter to let their feelings out. One user turned to the infamous “woman yelling at cat” meme, albeit the cat substituted for the official poster for Carl’s Date, to express their feelings about the plot announcement. You can see the meme for yourself below.
