Pixar's 'Onward' - Review Thread
Review embargo just lifted for Pixar's Onward. Reviews are pretty good but not extraordinary. Nothing like any of their classics but still sounds heartwarming/sweet/cute. Good-not-great, it seems like. Pretty low scores for Pixar (comparable to The Good Dinosaur).
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 78% - 37 Reviews - 7.23 Average Score
Rotten Tomatoes Critics Consensus:
It may suffer in comparison to Pixar's classics, but Onward makes effective use of the studio's formula -- and stands on its own merits as a funny, heartwarming, dazzlingly animated adventure.
Metacritic Score: 63/100 - 22 Reviews - "Generally Favorable Reviews"
Not a total misfire, but in terms of the Pixar canon, backward. The majority of Pixar's films are special for one reason or another. Which makes the generic bro humor and familiar Dungeons & Dragons role-play vibe of Onward a let-down.
By the end of “Onward,” you’ll have chuckled and maybe choked up, and enjoyed a conventional ride. Which kind of places the movie among the bottom third of the Pixar canon.
Even if the film lags narratively, there’s enough flash and dazzle to keep viewers engaged, with Holland and Pratt providing a genuine balance of sibling love and aspiration for each other.
Onward is a decent, well-paced, well-animated, moderately enjoyable film. It’s got a good message, an emotional third act, and some pleasantly surprising jokes. Onward is…OK. The problem with Onward is that Pixar’s original films are incredible. OK is, simply, just not good enough.
Pixar returns with a great big power-chord of a movie — heart-pumping, resonant, and positively harmonious.
"Onward" goes on and on, but it barely moves forward. Long before its 114-minute running time has elapsed, it has overstayed its welcome.
It's got heart, it's got laughs, it's filled with inconsequential little touches you are sure to miss on first viewing. Yes, it's a little bit familiar, but familiar works more often than not.
Onward is a good, but not great Pixar movie, with a heartfelt, if emotionally manipulative storyline, and plenty of film magic to propel it forward.
Onward doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but spins it so well that it conjures a spell of its own as a new decade dawns with the Pixar touch intact. Yes, Pixar’s blend of fantasy and father-son drama will make you cry.
The animation’s good, lovely but not dazzling.
While Onward begins as a story of bereavement, it soon turns to celebrating the payoffs of positive thinking.
Beneath the bro-friendly, fantasy-art trappings, Onward finds a little bit of that old Pixar magic.
As is the case with most Pixar offerings, Onward will make you laugh and it will make you cry... a lot.
Plot:
Set in a suburban fantasy world, Disney-Pixar's "Onward" introduces two teenage elf brothers who embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.
Director:
Dan Scanlon ('Monsters University')
Release Date:
March 6, 2020
Starring:
- Tom Holland
- Chris Pratt
- Julia Louis Drefys
- Octavia Spencer
- Ali Wong
- Lena Waithe
Runtime:
103 Minutes
Submitted February 22, 2020 at 12:06AM by BunyipPouch https://ift.tt/39P8XEw
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