Onward - Pixar (spoilers) What did you think

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I continue to be disappointed that Disney/Pixar can't tell a hero's journey story without the impetus being the loss of parent(s). It's so one note.

I also was irritated by the older brother being so intense. Why is it that the rule following quiet one always has to learnt forgive and sacrifice for the loud obnoxious one?

We watched it last night. half a day later I think I actively disliked this movie.

Gurl. Sounds like a lot of projecting up in here.

[Anonymous]

Kids liked it ok but I didn't. I just didn't find any of the characters likable. They were either over-the-top obnoxious or boring and forgettable. And the story was just 'meh'. I felt like they could have taken the whole story in a slightly different direction and it would have been more enjoyable.

It's probably one of my least favorite Pixar films. I don't ever feel the need to watch it again (and I've seen them all at least 2-3 times).

[Anonymous]

All pixar movies are sad dand happy, except cars which is an inferior series as a result. I always start a pixar movie expecting to cry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I continue to be disappointed that Disney/Pixar can't tell a hero's journey story without the impetus being the loss of parent(s). It's so one note.

I also was irritated by the older brother being so intense. Why is it that the rule following quiet one always has to learnt forgive and sacrifice for the loud obnoxious one?

We watched it last night. half a day later I think I actively disliked this movie.

You mean other than...

A Bug's Life
Cars (1-3)
Monsters Inc (1 and 2)
Wall-E
Toy Story (1-4)
Brave
Inside Out
The Incredibles (1 and 2)
Ratatouille

Pixar has made 22 movies and by my count 17 of them have no death of a parent at all. A few deal with death and loss in ways that are kind of adjacent but only Nemo features the parent death as it happens but the movie is not about grieving the parent at all. It is about grieving a spouse and being a parent alone more than a child learning how to deal with their parent dying. Up has death and is heartbreaking but the parent dying/being absent isn't the central feature or tragedy. Coco, The Good Dinosaur, and Onward revolve around the grief of losing a parent. That's it.

In terms of major Disney animated films. Yes Frozen has the death of their parents, but I'd like to direct you to Moana as an amazing counterpart. And Zootopia and Tangled, the other animated movies Disney has pushed out in the last decade feature no parents dying at all.

So take your trope from the Lion King days and park it back where it belongs, in 1999.

[Anonymous]

We watched it and my DH and I enjoyed it but my 6 yo got REALLY upset at the end. SPOILERS: She is a sensitive kid who is a little pre-occupied with death (my mother passed away before she was born), and she hot really upset that he didn’t get to meet his dad at the end. She has no interest in watching it again. Same with Coco, which I loved, and she got so sad about. FWIW, she doesn't get upset At Frozen or the other Disney movies with parent deaths, so not sure why these two really hit her hard.