'Onward' is great if you've never watched a Pixar film

Fri, Mar 13th 2020, 09:01 AM

It’s contagious! No, not “you know what”! (Although that is indeed highly contagious!) Rather, it’s the themes that seem to insinuate themselves in most Pixar films. And like most things that are contagious, the continuing spread of these features isn’t a good thing. In fact, this repetitiveness is greatly diminishing the once-magical Pixar experience. Familial connections seem to be at the core of Pixar pictures. Often, storylines revolve around a child or teenager in challenging relationships with a parent, or simply grappling with ways to find their place in the world, or conversely, parents struggling to reach an aloof child. Think “Inside Out” or “Brave” or “Coco”. A case could be made that there are similar takes on the themes with masterpieces like “Up”, “Toy Story” and “WALL-E” and even “Ratatouille”, even with their slightly different demographics and genetic makeup (i.e. toys, robots and rats in the latter three, respectively) of some of the main characters in those flicks.

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