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This year, Pixar Animation Studios resumes the magical moviegoing tradition of pairing their feature film with an animated short—like 2018’s Oscar®-winning Bao that accompanied Incredibles 2 in theaters [sic]. Releasing in front of Elemental is a new short that catches up with Carl Fredricksen (voice of Ed Asner) and his lovable talking dog, Dug (voice of Bob Peterson), who were introduced in Pixar’s Oscar®-winning feature Up.Written and directed by Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® Award winner Bob Peterson and produced by Kim Collins, this all-new short, Carl’s Date, finds Carl reluctantly agreeing to go on a date with a lady friend—but admittedly with no idea how dating works these days. Ever the helpful friend, Dug steps in to calm Carl’s pre-date jitters and offer some tried-and-true tips for making friends—if you’re a dog. (courtesy Pixarpost)
It’s near impossible to forget the opening montage of UP, a film that, before it gets going on its restorative, warm-and-fuzzy adventuring way, rips out our hearts and leaves it beating mournfully somewhere our grief-stricken bodies.
Watching Carl (voiced by the late great and much missed Ed Asner) find true love and then lose it as time does its corrosively deathly thing is heartbreaking but also inspirational because it beautifully demonstrates what real love looks, and just as importantly, feels like.
The idea of Carl finding love might seem a little confronting but when you watch the trailer for Carl’s Date, which will run ahead of Elemental in theatres, you suddenly realise you want this lovely man to find love again, to know what it means to be connected beyond his dog Dug and his surrogate grandson Russell and to find happiness in his twilight years.
He feels like your grandpa and honestly, who wouldn’t want all the joy for them?
Carl’s Date opens ahead of Elemental which premieres in cinemas on 15 June in Australia and 16 June in USA.