I LOVE onward. I was literally weeping at the end when he’s remembering that his brother checked his boxes.

My brother’s dog happens to be a tripod. Love that little guy.

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Sometimes that’s good enough. When my kids were 4 and 5 anything that could get them to stay calm for the length of a movie was heaven sent.

Weird. Around here here there was like 2 pictures and I saw like 1 ad on YouTube.

Right? I actually liked how all of the different elements were there, but they weren’t plot point or a character’s singular characteristic.

Fair enough, but I’ve never heard “it is what it is” used for something they thought was a good thing. No one ever says “hey free ice cream, it is what it is!” It’s usually used for something people resign themselves to accept.

Totally agree with you. It was enjoyable and ok. Sometimes that’s fine. Especially when you can watch it for free.

That’s a pretty good philosophy.

It’s funny, people call them “tropes” but it represented my family almost perfectly. It’s funny how people think that’s a bad thing 🤷🏾‍♂️

Oh, absolutely.

Hahaha. Oddly specific, but ok.

I could see how they were falling into the uncanny valley a little bit.

Ha! Probably.

Man, I must be the weird one. I loved the board game scene. The grand dad and son yelling “what do you mean there’s no bad guy?” Was funny as hell. Then my daughter looked over and said, “that’s the same energy like trying to get you and Pop Pop to understand tik tok and instagram.”

Ha! Yeah. It was like they tried to bury their own movie.

Yeah, the dog was underutilized. The whole closet scene was stupid. Should have just had splat do it.

Yeah I kinda get that, but I think this movie did a pretty good job of being diverse without diversity being the point. It’s just like, these people exist the way they are and that’s it. I think there is a difference between when a movie or show has someone’s difference be defining characteristic and the only thing that makes them interesting and it just being a part of who they are.

Like I personally like that the kid being gay or the mom being black wasn’t a plot point at all or even mentioned. The kid could have been straight and the mom could have been white and it wouldn’t have changed the story. That isn’t being “woke” just inclusive which I generally think that’s a good thing.

😆😆😆 yeah, probably.

You probably won’t believe this, but my brother also has a three legged dog that lost it to cancer named Simba that we just spent Christmas with.

I will probably never see a move that more accurately represents my family than this one.

Could have been.

I mean, I’m a black guy with a white wife and a mixed bi kid, so… yeah it represents our family. Is my family not worthy of being represented on screen? Would seeing us out and about offend you or just seeing us on tv?

Edit. Sorry, you might have struck a nerve with the family that happens look like mine was “forced” on you comment.

Oh man. I was gonna say got a bad wrap, but switched it to isn’t as bad as the hate. Damn.

Yeah, totally, it wasn’t up there with the best of them.

I just missed saying the “it” before “was fun”. I’m not sure what’s so confusing about the rest of it. Are people really that uptight about perfect grammar and spelling?