Disney-Pixar’s latest film,Onward, is set to open next week — and the reviews are in.
The original animated feature, Disney/Pixar’s first since 2017’sCoco, has been met with mixed reviews from critics, ranging from “inventive” to “one of the less attractive Pixar movies.”
InThe Atlantic, critic David Sims saidOnwardis “a warm, gentle film that doesn’t try to merely dazzle the audience with wild fantasy visuals.”
“Onwardis the kind of movie the studio should be focusing on: an inventive, sweet, and small-scale story that still shows off the usual Pixar hallmarks,” Sims’ review continued. “There’s some nifty world-building, unabashed sentimentality, and a keen understanding of tone, with an ending alchemically designed to provoke tears from parents and kids alike.”
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“Still, 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 exasperation for each other,” Duralde said.
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Film critic Justin Chang provides a similarly nuanced review in theLos Angeles Times, calling the film “pretty good, and sometimes inspired.”
“Onwardis a touching, lovingly crafted oddity — a movie that acknowledges its borrowed elements at the outset and then proceeds to reinvigorate them with tried-and-true Pixar virtues: sly wit, dazzling invention and a delicacy of feeling that approaches the sublime.”
In aninterview with PEOPLEin May, Scanlon saidOnwardwill be both funny and sentimental.
“I absolutely hope that people are laughing their heads off and crying their eyes out,” he said. “My hope is some of the questions that I’m asking in the film will be questions other people are asking about their own lives. And I think that’s what a lot of the times gets us to connect to a movie.”
Onwardhits theaters March 6.
source: people.com
