Onward (2020)

possible tearjerker

I laughed at the Unicorns feeding out of the trash. If the movie can continue that kind of humor through out, it might be a good one.

this movie was boring as hell, i wanted to like it a lot since it sounded interesting from the trailers and it features 3 actors I love - Julia Luis Dreyfuss (Veep), Starlord, and Spiderman - but there is just nothing here. I dunno if its some new disney mandate or something but there are no villains, no real heroes journey, no real challenge/adversity, no one tested or enduring hardship. Its just mostly people talking about their feelings and how they accept each other which is like the new Disney trope.

There is a short ~5 minute Simpsons short before this movie featuring Maggie with no voice acting and that was more fun and interesting than this whole movie.

Sorta like Bright, Will Smith's "Orc Cops Bad Boys", the world this movie paints is really interesting and cool but they do almost nothing with it. What a shame.

Don't go out to theaters and risk Corona Virus to see this boring turd

spronk said:

this movie was boring as hell, i wanted to like it a lot since it sounded interesting from the trailers and it features 3 actors I love - Julia Luis Dreyfuss (Veep), Starlord, and Spiderman - but there is just nothing here. I dunno if its some new disney mandate or something but there are no villains, no real heroes journey, no real challenge/adversity, no one tested or enduring hardship. Its just mostly people talking about their feelings and how they accept each other which is like the new Disney trope.

There is a short ~5 minute Simpsons short before this movie featuring Maggie with no voice acting and that was more fun and interesting than this whole movie.

Sorta like Bright, Will Smith's "Orc Cops Bad Boys", the world this movie paints is really interesting and cool but they do almost nothing with it. What a shame.

Don't go out to theaters and risk Corona Virus to see this boring turd

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it doesnt even look like something from Pixar.

Maybe we would know what to expect if they used the tagline "From the writer/director of Monsters University" (Dan Scanlon)

MU was not MI but it was better than the last handful of live actions.

grumblethorn said:

Monsters Inc is top tier Pixar.

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Fixed that for you.

This was...meh. One funny scene (sending off the van). Overall like a C for Pixar.

Yeah I don't know. This was fine, i guess. For a kids movie. Definitely wasn't the standard I was expecting from Pixar.

I kind of went into this expecting more of a DnD come to life vibe but instead got a kind of standard sibling buddy movie.

I disagree that it didn't have stakes or a "hero's journey" element or challenge etc. I actually like the idea of doing these kinds of movies without any real villain. But the movie still has to be engaging and have a good story and exciting scenes. They could have done a lot better with this one. They didn't do a good enough job with explaining why magic wasn't used, that scene was horseshit, getting working electr5icity to every living person's home would not, in any way, be easier than magic. And the Manticore's entire existence didn't make sense. Why the fuck did she pivot to food service? Why did she pivot back? It's just random.

The one part I actually liked was how they handled the dad's few moments on Earth. Keeping that between him and the older brother was cool. I feel like they could have been a bit more subtle about the younger brother's revelation rather than just havinng a montage mid dragon fight and having him say explicitly that his brother took care of him etc. Not bad, but not good either. Just a low effort movie all around.

Qhue said:

They need to pull the rip cord and toss this to digital ASAP. Aint nobody taking their kids to a movie theater in the midst of this. If they switched to Digital delivery they could at least benefit from the current marketing.

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definitely, they just opened Disney+ , if they cant use that as a vehicle to rake in some dough on new releases then they are really not good at business. If it were me i would open the fucking disney vaults as well as their Fox vaults and let everyone vedge out for the next few months and get stinking rich in the process. but they're like , nah dawg, make them go see it in theaters!

They released Frozen 2 early to Disney+, wouldn't be surprised to see more to drive subscriptions.

Subscription money might in theory make up for disc sales and rentals but I could only see Onwards being released to cable VOD. The mouse will try to squeeze every dollar.

Chiming in to say I hope they release this on-demand. I don't have Disney+, but I would subscribe if that meant getting to see this with my kids. I'm sure I'm like most people when I say I won't be going to a theater anytime soon.