Onward feels like a pile of prefab story ideas occasionally enlivened by brief flashes of earnestness and invention. BilgeEbiri writes
situates itself in a bland, mundane world that’s lost touch with the magic and mythology of the past. Literally. The characters who inhabit this universe were elves and wizards and centaurs and fawns and manticores once, and now they’re middle managers and security guards and waitresses, their powers withered through eons of disuse and the conveniences of technology.
Our hero Ian is a shy teen elf who never got to meet his father, who died of a terminal illness many years ago. His oversize, blustery older brother Barley only has a few memories of the old man, and seems to have checked out altogether: He spends all day immersed in a fantasy role-playing game, and won’t shut up about how all this stuff was real once upon a time. One day, mom gives the two brothers a gift that dad left behind for them to receive when they grew up.
So, together, the two brothers and their half-dad embark on a quest to find another Phoenix gem (that’s right, it’s another movie with a magic stone, joining the likes of
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