'Onward': Film Review | Berlin 2020

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Chris Pratt and Tom Holland voice elf siblings on a magical quest to spend one day with their late father in Pixar's fantasy adventure Onward from 'Monsters University' director Dan Scanlon. Read the review here:

The biggest hurdle in the path of every Pixar film's success is Pixar's own outstanding history. Beginning within 1995, the animation studio set the bar high and has repeatedly raised it in the decades since with ingenious storytelling, imagination and wit, spinning emotionally rich tales often centered around themes of love, family and personal growth with insights that speak as much to adults as to kids., but the majority of Pixar's films are special for one reason or another.

While his mother Laurel is strong and supportive, Ian is convinced that growing up with a father would have made him the bold, confident man he dreams of becoming. A strategically timed gift Wilden left behind for the boys gives Ian the opportunity to test that belief, with a wizard's staff, a magic stone and a spell that will bring their father back for one day. But the spell only half works, conjuring Wilden just from the waist down.

This is nicely played by the voice actors, with Pratt dropping his signature goofball irreverence to reveal the hurt when Barley learns that Ian thinks of him as a screw-up, and Holland's endearing earnestness acquiring depth once he realizes how much reckless Barley, despite his propensity for chaos, has given him.

 

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