SINGAPORE - Pixar animation Onward (PG, 102 minutes, opens March 5, 3 stars) opens with a killer premise: Elves, unicorns and fairies are real, except they exist in a middle-class suburban America in which everyone's thoughts revolve around buying latte grandes and making it to yoga class on time.
Then, in an unPixar-like way, this is all wasted on characters and set-ups that feel recycled from 1980s sitcoms, with a dash of a certain film franchise featuring a green, swamp-dwelling ogre.
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