{"id":8296,"date":"2020-03-06T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T17:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8296"},"modified":"2020-03-06T12:55:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T17:55:39","slug":"review-onward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8296","title":{"rendered":"Review: ONWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/onward-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8425\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-8-10-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8081\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After proving that there was more \u201cToy Story\u201d to tell last year and winning the golden statue for the best-animated film of the year, Disney Pixar takes risks in 2020 with two original stories. \u201cOnward\u201d is the first release, and \u201cSoul\u201d comes to us this summer. As an original, stand-alone project, \u201cOnward\u201d is a welcomed departure from rehashed old material. It\u2019s a movie that should capture kiddie imaginations and bring a tear to the eyes of parents.<br><br>\u201cOnward\u201d is set in a fantasy world that has abandoned magic in favor of the convenience and reliability of technology. So, in this strange but familiar land, unicorns have become like our garbage-diving raccoons, and pixies no longer remember how to fly. But when two teenage elves get a wizard\u2019s staff as a belated gift from their long-departed dad, they embark on a quest. If they are successful, they will be able to spend the better part of a day with their resurrected father.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-8426 size-large\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/onward2-1024x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8426\"\/><figcaption><em><strong>Brother elves voiced by Tom Holland and Chris Pratt.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Ian Lightfoot (voiced by Tom Holland) is the younger of the elvish twosome. He\u2019s just turned 16, and his social anxiety prevented him from asking anyone from school to have cake to celebrate his birthday. His nerdy, ne\u2019er-do\u2019-well older brother Barley (voice of Chris Pratt) tools around in an old conversion van he calls Guinevere. He\u2019s enthusiastic about his little bro\u2019s big day, but his bombastic behavior proves to be embarrassing.<br><br>Their responsible, fun-loving mother, Laurel (voiced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus), recognizes that Ian is feeling a little down. She decides to give the boys a gift that she\u2019s been hiding until both of them are 16 or older. It\u2019s this present, a wizard\u2019s staff, that promises to give Ian and Barley a chance to make new memories with their father, who died when they were little.<br><br>Read the rest of Jonathan&#8217;s review online and in print in the Times-Herald: <a href=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/2020\/03\/06\/onward-pixar-goes-small-to-tell-big-hearted-story\/\">https:\/\/newnan.com\/2020\/03\/06\/onward-pixar-goes-small-to-tell-big-hearted-story\/<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney Pixar&#8217;s latest is great family entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[999,499,213,294,1004,1553,1561],"class_list":["post-8296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-animation","tag-chris-pratt","tag-comedy","tag-disney","tag-family-movie","tag-pixar","tag-tom-holland","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8298,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions\/8298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}