2020 · animation · family · fantasy
Onward
Directed by Dan Scanlon1h 42m2020
In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.
Our read: Onward (2020) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded animation · family · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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How Onward feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a heartfelt brother quest with magic and gentle grief about missing dad.”
Skip it tonight — You need pure silliness tonight without any parental loss or goodbye tears.
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