Review of Onward (2020) by Kirkender — 26 May 2020
I have always given Pixar the benefit of the doubt that they are legitimately trying to tell good stories and any time I might not like one of their films it just might not be for me. I am after all, a mostly adult man.
But seriously who is Onward for? It's really lazy in story and character. It takes this fantastical premise and setting and makes it super boring. What if dungeons and dragons were real and set in the real world? Sounds exciting right? Well turns out its exactly like our real world but people look different and there's magic but not a lot of magic so it really doesn't mean much.
Cooooooool. It's honestly so freaking boring I can't believe it made it past the script phase, someone at Disney or Pixar should have been like... this is a sitcom episode from the 1950's with elf people.
Do we really have anything to say with this? Omg why do the brothers have so much reverence for their dad when he was literally never around and their mom has zero screen time to actually share why their dad was awesome.
It's just blind male hero worship without introspection. Also why the heck would you chose the bottom half to materialize from a story standpoint??? If the top half materialized then at least you can have some engaging character work and the brothers have to learn how to take care of others (and of course dumb comedy happenings) but instead we get the uncharismatic legs and feet wandering around like a useless plot device.
Sigh. Pixar has really fell from grace.
This review of Onward (2020) was written by Kirkender on 26 May 2020.
Onward has generally received positive reviews.
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