Onward (2020)
You know how Pixar loves to tug at your heartstrings? Like: really hard at times? Well, they do so in abundance here, but not in a way you might think. See, this film has probably the biggest trope of any Disney animation in that one of the parents is dead, but along the way you get a story about how you sometimes forget that certain people have been there all your life and you might need to appreciate them more. You also get a fun adventure that will definitely have a lot of wink-wink moments for fans of either fantasy and/or roleplaying games, even though those things usually coincide. Set in a universe where fantasy creatures are very, very real and very, very urban, we meet the Lightfoot family. The father has died a long time ago and Ian Lightfoot turns 16. He's a socially awkward kid with a boisterous and game-obsessed older brother and a mom who is doing her very best. But Ian still longs to talk to his dad, even though he never had the chance. But when he receives a...
