In Disney and Pixar’s animated film, Onward ... there was enough magic lurking for his boys to bring him back. According to Ian, Barley didn’t always have the best instincts.

Even when a new Pixar movie isn’t up to, well, Pixar’s regular high standards, there is still animated magic to be had. That’s the case with Onward ... rate in the Disney/Pixar universe.

Onward is not among Pixar’s best movies. But it is still a very good animated feature, one that validates Pixar while assuring audiences that there’s still some magic left in the “world.” ...

Directed by Dan Scanlon, Onward is set in a world of elves, centaurs, Cyclopes, satyrs, and pixies, a world that was once full of magic ... when compared to the best of Pixar, its charms ring ...

The digital wizards at Pixar Animation Studios pride ... a timeless fairy-tale trope and something of a Disney narrative specialty, but “Onward” employs the cliché in ways that feel both ...

Dungeons, dragons and tugged heartstrings are on tap in the animated fantasy adventure “Onward,” a Pixar movie that doesn ... one of the twosome, yet the magic goes awry and conjures only ...

A new era at Pixar begins ... on one of the Disney Renaissance classics. “Onward” stars Holland and Pratt as Ian and Barley, two elf brothers in a fantasy world where magic has been made ...