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Ian Lightfoot, center (voiced by Tom Holland), and his brother, Barley (voiced by Chris Pratt), unleash some wizard’s magic to bring back their deceased father for a day, in Pixar’s adventure tale “Onward.” (Image courtesy of Disney / Pixar.)

Ian Lightfoot, center (voiced by Tom Holland), and his brother, Barley (voiced by Chris Pratt), unleash some wizard’s magic to bring back their deceased father for a day, in Pixar’s adventure tale “Onward.” (Image courtesy of Disney / Pixar.)

Review: Pixar's 'Onward' is set in a land of elves and orcs — and in Pixar's world of humor and emotion

February 25, 2020 by Sean P. Means

The folks at Disney’s Pixar Animation Studios take their inner Dungeons & Dragons-playing nerd out for a walk in “Onward” (opening March 6), mixing sword-and-sorcery themes with the studio’s established gifts for clever humor and heart-tugging emotion.

“Long ago, the world was filled with wonder…” begins the movie’s narration, uttered by Barley Lightfoot (voiced by Chris Pratt), an oversized elf who knows by heart the history of dragons, wizards and other fanciful folk in New Mushroomton. But the creatures there now have freeways and cellphones and suburbia, so the magical arts are less important and largely forgotten to everyone except Barley.

Read the full review at sltrib.com.

February 25, 2020 /Sean P. Means
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