Onward: No One Cuts The Onions Quite Like Pixar

Spoiler Alert: I will be going over certain plot points in Onward. You’ve been warned.

I was not expecting this. All of the teasers and trailers related to Onward did not suggest that this was the film to make you ugly-cry at home in your sweatpants.

And yet, Pixar did just that.

Pixar has long embraced nuance and variance. They never seem to give you exactly what you want, at least not exactly what you think you wanted. Their stories are multi-layered and their payoffs are rarely unequivocally sad…