ONWARD
****
Dir: Dan Scanlon (PG, 100 mins)
A comedy action road movie set in a fantasy world where magic has been forgotten, this new Pixar film looks set to have heart as well as laughs. Tom Holland and Chris Pratt voice teenage elf brothers Ian and Barley Lightfoot living in a fantasy world, The Realm, where magic has been replaced by technology. Their father died before they knew him, but with the aid of a wizard’s staff they have the ability to see him one more time for one day. The spell casting doesn’t go well, however, and they only manage to conjure back half of him (the bottom half), so the race is on to get enough sorcery to see the rest of him before their 24-hour window ends. A road trip ensues, peopled with mystical creatures given a grungy spin: unicorns that spit and go through bins like alley cats; a fearsome Manticore who now mostly waits tables, voiced by Octavia Spencer; and centaur police officers who are sticklers for rules. Naturally there’s curse involved too, into which the bantering elf brothers stumble. A fresh, original film from Pixar that is thankfully not a sequel, this could have the heart of Up and Inside Out and the slapstick comedy of Monsters Inc.
Opens Mar 6
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