), a heavy-metal stoner type in a patch-laden denim biker vest and spiked wristband. Their “dog” is a hyperkinetic green serpent, their stepfather is a cop who’s a centaur, the houses on their block all have mushroom roofs, and at school one of the kids is a giant green ogre and some of the other students have a Cyclops eye.
The film’s best joke is that Barley, who alternates between speaking normally and lapsing into Pratt‘s imitation of a Jack Black, is obsessed with the mystic underpinnings of the ancient world … but that just makes him a typical metal-head who has latched onto the music’s medievalist trappings.
Talk about second-hand visions! “Onward” is basically a 1980s Spielberg absent-father reverie combined with Harry Potter-as-a-teenage-American-geek merged with “Medieval Monsters Inc.,” all suffused with a token aura of hobbit-as-suburban-geek Tolkienism.
The reason they’re on the journey, incidentally, is that the Phoenix Gem got all used up , so only one-half of Ian’s dad came back to life: thehalf — as in, he’s a walking pair of legs who needs a torso and a head. The bring-back-my-dad plot is a wisp of a MacGuffin, though the way it’s finally resolved, with Ian coming to see who his caretaker really was, is touching. By the end of “Onward,” you’ll have chuckled and maybe choked up, and enjoyed a conventional ride.
Isn't that the scepter with the tesseract!
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