Onward OSP ft. Matti of The Movie Marathoners! - He's Both Heavy AND My Brother - Ep 281

We review Pixar’s Onward with Matti of The Movie Marathoners, & he helps us answer some big questions for our first OSP of 2020. Does the film live up to Pixar’s high standards? Will it contend for a Best Animated Feature Oscar? We have all kinds of fun speculating. What Is An OSP?/Episode Format - Top of Show Our Guest - 2:12 Matti From The Movie Marathoners Podcast! NONSPOILER REVIEW: Production Profile - 3:33 INTRODUCING MATTI + HIS SOCIALS/CREDENTIALS - 9:00 Plot Premise/Expectations - 9:54 Production Values: Sight - 14:33 (or “Telling an A+ Student ‘Good Job’”) Sound - 18:47 (or “Three Deaf Mice”) Performances - 20:23 (or “Which Lead May Be a Let Down?”) Script Thoughts - 26:27 (or “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”) Oscars Lens - 29:41 Watch or Not? - 32:27 SPOILER WARNING DANCE BREAK - 33:37 SPOILER-FILLED REVIEW: Crybaby - 35:00 Lowlights/Worsts - 38:42 (The Great Cheeto Lie of 2020) Highlights/Bests - 45:32 Walking the Genre Tightrope/Finale Talk - 50:52 FINAL GRADES - 55:05 Where to Find Matti’s Work + Socials Again - 58:10 Your Homework/LEAVE US 5 *’S - 59:11 What’s Next From MMO/Words of Wisdom - 59:55 Pixar’s Onward is our first Oscars Sprint Profile of 2020/21, which if you’re new to our program, that’s the playlist where you can find all our movie review episodes on what we think can be award contending films. But this Onward show also belongs on another MMO playlist, “The Films Of Pixar,” which you can find by scrolling down the “Playlist” tab on our Soundcloud feed. Now we are no strangers to Pixar’s production history or rules of storytelling, both of which we documented in last year’s re-watch series. So we needed a guest host who could bring a similar love to the film, a guest who just studied the films throughout a pod series of his own, and we found that man in Matti of The Movie Marathoners Podcast. Matti had AlsoMike on for his episode 29, the Top 5 Best Picture Nominated Films Of The 2010’s, which was part of his Best of the Decade series. Since then, The Movie Marathoners Podcast has churned out great shows on 1917 & Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, and he’s planning more great episodes including a Pixar Ranking episode coming soon. So do check out Matti & friends at moviemarapod on Twitter and find their show on Podbean, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, etc. In this episode, Matti joins us Mikes for the full OSP treatment with a non-spoiler section that builds to an Oscar Lens, where we debate how Onward ranks amongst the last few years of Animated Feature noms. Then we break down all of the best & worst scenes, plotlines, and themes in a particularly fun spoiler section. As always, we wanna know your thoughts on Onward. We’re at MMandOscar on Twitter, and we are on Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Gmail. You can subscribe / rate / review / like / share / & listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Stitcher, Google Play, Tune In, Spotify, and just about wherever you might listen. We’re Mike, Mike, & Oscar, and we’re making awards season year round, without the stuffiness. Thanks for listening.