Strange World

In Disney’s Strange World, the Clade family—legendary explorer Jaeger, his son Searcher, and grandson Ethan—embark on a mission to save their land of Avalonia from a mysterious threat to its energy source, a glowing plant called Pando. Venturing into a surreal, uncharted subterranean world filled with bizarre creatures and vibrant landscapes, they uncover secrets about Pando and their family’s legacy.

Strange World Review

Strange World suffers from more than just a category four hurricane of progressivism. Its half-baked plot, uninspired design, unlikable characters, and uneven pacing are enough to sink Disney’s 61st animated feature film.

                   

PARENTAL NOTES

Twinx and Powerbottoms

• A key and repeated theme in this film is the 16-year-old child’s homosexual crush.

Curse Words Are Fun

• What is it going to take to get these studios to stop directly inserting or implying curse words? Obviously, the answer is you spreading the word about us.
  • The dad/grandpa yells at his son, “Maybe you should step out of my aaaaaaa…” Words are merely the vocalized expression of ideas and concepts. Those concepts and ideas are what’s offensive, not the sounds that the words produce when said. Cutting the words off before they are completed adequately conveys the meaning of the entire word. Therefore, truncating a curse word only satisfies MPAA censors.

WOKE REPORT

Pride Goeth

• The 16-year-old boy’s knock-kneed, teen-girl crush on an effeminate male child is a key and repeated theme in the film, even though it has absolutely nothing to do with anything else in the movie. It exists for no other reason than to push Disney’s “not-so-secret gay agenda.”
  • The mother couldn’t be more excited that her son wants to get banged by another dude.
  • The dad couldn’t be more excited that his son wants to get banged by another dude.
  • The toxically masculine grandfather couldn’t be more excited that his grandson wants to get banged by another dude.
• We’re treated to an extended scene of the two characters flirting with each other. Again, this relationship has no relevance to the rest of the program. Latino Lance is mentioned but not seen again, except for 30 seconds at the film’s end.
  • The movie ends with the two snuggling up to one another.

All 26 Characters

• The American Indian airship captain is voiced by a self-described “critically acclaimed and award-winning Two Spirit Xicana lesbian.” Since the personal life of this mentally ill actress never encroaches on the animated character, including the design, I didn’t adjust our Woke-O-Meter score based on it. I only thought it noteworthy.
• One of the practically nameless side characters is an effeminate man. His sexuality isn’t ever disclosed, but he’s voiced by a gay actor who I’ve seen play straight characters in the past (Dopinder in Deadpool) without the stereotypical affectation present in this one.

Little Boy Blue and the Man on the Moon

• The show centers around and is predicated upon a strong and heroic man’s man who everyone adores. However, the film labels him a “terrible” father because he would like his son to share in his discoveries and follow in his footsteps. Satan, right?
  • So, of course, the son wants nothing to do with his father’s chosen profession, and the father ends up being self-absorbed and blind to the feelings of anyone but his own.
    • Strange World goes so far as to show the son making a profound discovery while on an adventure with his father, but the dad doesn’t care about it in the least because it’s not the discovery he wanted to make. So, HE ABANDONS HIS SON (and by extension, his wife) to continue on his expedition instead of celebrating his son’s discovery.

DEIsney

• The genetic diversity of this tiny, self-contained community is off the charts, as is that of the core cast of characters.
  • You’ve got two white guys, an American Indian, an Indian Indian, a black woman, an Asian woman, an openly gay bi-racial teen, an openly gay Latino teen, and a host of silent background characters who are all over the board (minus white).

Putting the Ick in Chick

• Every woman is superior to their male counterparts. In one way or another, all of the men are downright foolish.
  • The president is a butch Asian chick who is bigger, more broad of shoulder, and stronger than any male in the show except for the toxic white one. When attacked by flying creatures, she doesn’t hesitate to leap from the backs of one to the next, dispatching them with her twin daggers like she’s a Jedi Knight.
  • The airship’s captain is a strong and stoic American Indian who must regularly settle a hysterical man on her crew.
  • Gyllenhaal’s character’s black wife is an ace pilot who has to save the airship after its male pilot freaked out and screamed like a girl at an attacking creature. Never mind that until now, her flight experience has been limited to crop-dusting via a plane that can stop and hover mid-air even when out of power (i.e. crash proof). Now, she’s able to pilot the vastly larger and more complex airship through countless mid-air obstacles.
  • Womansplaning
    • As two grown men childishly bicker with one another, a woman breaks it up by saying, “Ok, adult talking here.”
  • Do I need to go on? Believe me, I could.

1st In Show

• Even the family dog is used to score inclusivity points. For no given reason, it only has three legs.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

• The teenage son yells disrespectfully at his father and grandfather, who are arguing (and not particularly aggressively), but no one corrects him or calls him out. In fact, both men laugh it off with a joke about teenagers being teenagers.

Low T

• All of the men are deeply flawed in one way or another: weak, cowardly, blinded by arrogance, etc.
• The lead teen plays a card game (similar to Magic) with monsters, etc. However, its goal isn’t to defeat the monsters but to discover a way to work together to “build a better community.” That’s right, it’s a game about community organizing.
• In the same scene that has the butch and buff chick president leaping on the backs of attacking monsters, we see that the dad throws like a girl.
  • I will say that it’s used as a device to get his estranged dad to teach him how to throw. Whether they meant to demonstrate the importance of a father in a son’s life or not is questionable.

Get Out of The City

• Rural life and its people are referred to as small, while city life is viewed as an adventure.

Did Greta Write This?

• The entire film is an allegory for anti-technology and environmentalism. The film ends with everyone living peacefully without electricity or any other modern convenience.
  • Humans are shown to be separate from the world in which they live, rather than just as integrated as the rest of the organisms. Their prosperity literally kills it.