Movie Review - Onward

(February 28, 2020)

No extra scene at the end!

It's tough to do to tongue-in-cheek modern fantasy. References are either too vague or too specific, which gets fantasy fans wary. Pixar's Onward mostly pushes those elements in the background, which makes for Swiss cheese world building, when you look at it too closely.

No worries though, since the story is about kids and their parents (yes, it's NOT just about their dad. The mom has her time too). But then it's also not. It's about clinging to a fantasy, even the illusion of hope, and having to let it go in the face to reality.

Yeah, even with the comedy (the bridge scene had the audience howling), I still cried. Once with tears (not at the expected part though) and twice with vision just getting blurry.

When Onward tells you to feel the magic, it's really the magic of feelings. Darn you, Pixar, you did it to me again. (Just don't ever let me down the way The Good Dinosaur did.)

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