Onward Review: Satisfying and enjoyably adequate
Spoilers ahead Onward was a fantastic twist on quite a few well-worn ideas (though well-worn doesn't necessarily equal bad persay). Onward felt fresh yet familiar. Fantasy creatures in a modern world is great, but fantasy creatures in a modern, boring world going on an old fashioned quest in that modern world? That type of blending in stories and tropes has a lot of potential. It was often predictable in some ways, as many movies often are that follow a certain arc, yet it still somehow found a way to go in a different direction than what I expected. Onward had most of the traditional checkpoints of a story common in Disney/Pixar movies, but it didn't seem too predictable, at least for me. I knew what would likely be coming, such as the call to action, but I did not expect the "quest" to come in the form of bringing back only half of their father and having to search for a way to get the other half. It was familiar yet unexpected, as I said before, and that really ...