Jake Gyllenhaal

Dennis Quaid

Jaboukie Young-White

Gabrielle Union

Lucy Liu

Alan Tudyk

Jonathan Melo

Abraham Benrubi

Karan Soni

Adelina Anthony

Nik Dodani

Francesca Reale

Emily Kuroda

Reed Buck

Katie Lowes

LaNisa Renee Frederick

Dave Kohut

Alice Kina Diehl

Larry Wu

Jonny Hylton

Teny Issakhanian

Sean Creveling

Brandon Holmes

Stephen Dahler

Steven Crowe

Ryn Soorholtz

Tyler Durham

Steph Gortz

Mia Calderone

Clio Chiang

Nora Rogers

Jose Francisco Martinez

Michael Franceschi

Pedro Daniel García Pérez

David E. Fluhr

Don Dougherty

Grace C. Kim

Ozan Basaldi

Janel Drewis

Carrie Liao

Abby Boyce

Nathan Dillow

Mehrdad Isvandi

Andrew Feliciano

Kitty Fung

Pete Devlin

Ian Gooding

Chrisy Baek

Bob Bennett

Taylor Gessler

Gabriel Guy

Ryan Green

Tom MacDougall

Paul Aichele

Manar Al Tawam

Anthony DeRosa

Ben Girmann

Eric Goldberg

Laura H. Han

Jason Figliozzi

Haengsook Oh

Zachary Rahman

Jonah Sidhom

Gregory Verreault

Mitchell Jao

Boris Maras

Naoko Mizutori

Nicklas Puetz

Malerie Walters

Gina Warr

Deborah Carlson

Adam DesCombes

Michael Weissman

David Badgerow

Kim Hazel

Hannah Leung

Mitja Rabar

Shay Stone

Oscar A. Ayala

Chris Carignan

Andrew Kinney

Thai Bettistea

Chatrasal Singh

Jonathan Lin

Wes Storhoff

Caitlin Low

Krista Rogers

Mikee Sevilla

Andrew Jennings

Andrew Lawson

Paula Benedicto Martinez

Albert Rubio

Amy Henkels

Seth Hippen

Anthony Durazzo

Theresa Adolph

Ken Kaiser

Kevin MacLean

Justin Sklar

Hector Godoy Garcia

Vitor Vilela

Dave Hardin

Megan Kreiner

Olga Parshina

Louis Jones

Alexander Snow

Tony Bonilla

Jason Herschaft

Yohei Koike

Michael Anthony Navarro

David Stodolny

Trevor Young

Masahito Yoshioka

Lisa M. Tse

Ash Ogasawara

Rebecca Vallera-Thompson

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Strange World

Walt Disney Animation Studios

United States of America

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monster

coming of age

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farmer

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alternative world

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CinemaSerf

The last fifteen minutes or so do redeem this to a certain extent, but otherwise it is a curiously disjointed story that seems drawn from "Island at the Top of the World" (1974) with bits of "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" (1959) and "The Lost World" (1960) thrown in for good measure. We start with the legendary explorer "Jaeger Clade" who is determined to find a way past the enclosing mountain peaks of their community. Like many a father, he drags along his unwilling son and when things come to an head, he proceeds alone leaving the younger man "Searcher" with his newly discovered crop of radioactive Brussels sprouts. Twenty-five years pass, and he has now grown up and successfully developed a farm of these particularly useful vegetables. He even has his own statue! Suddenly, though, the plants start to die and it falls to him and his own young son "Ethan" to embark on a perilous mission to the heart of the plant's root system and save it before it dies. These escapades are nicely and creatively animated with some fun to be had along the way, but there is simply too much sentiment, familial discord and cheesy dialogue to sustain this - as well as a dog that really annoys after a while. The characterisations are really undercooked and just about every box you can imagine is ticked as the story ultimately concludes with a bit of a nod to Oriental mythology. It is certainly watchable, but there is no need to shell out on a cinema ticket for it. Disney+ will do fine in due course when you can safely leave the kids to watch.

Chris Sawin

Visually wondrous but spectacularly dull, unbelievably unfunny, and lackluster from the inside out in every other aspect, _Strange World_ is a superficially stimulating with the entertainment value of a wet yet adventurous sponge.

**Full review:** https://boundingintocomics.com/2022/12/02/strange-world-review-a-mundane-narrative-nurtured-by-invigorating-visuals/

Nathan

Strange World had the potential to be another Disney classic, but unfortunately, some problems limited my total enjoyment.

From the get-go, I need to mention that the animation is breathtaking, and is probably the best Disney has done so far. The animators got to flex their muscles with the fantastic worlds and interesting creatures. It is so flush with color and energy; it was extremely pleasant on the eyes from start to finish.

The overarching story was fun, and I enjoyed the premise of discovering a technology that is simultaneously progressing your civilization while also destroying it. It has a great message of preserving the world, even though it is extremely heavy-handed at times. The action was great, the exploration was mesmerizing, and the diversity of the world was superb. At a macro level, this movie worked for me in almost every way.

The main issues I had with this film were the characters. Individually they are all interesting and unique, even though some of them are major caricatures. But the connections between them are all over the place. A lot of the motivations the characters have are inorganic and feel forced to push the narrative of parent vs child throughout generations. This left me having very little emotions when the characters clashed in high-tension arguments which limited a lot of the impact of the film.

Although, the blue creature was cute, funny, and perfect! I loved him.
This movie had a lot going on, and it suffers for it. As a kid movie, the plot and themes were all over the place, and it was sometimes confusing for me. Despite that, it is a visual spectacle filled with many laughs and fun adventures.

Score: 67% |
Verdict: Good |
Theater Verdict: See It

Per Gunnar Jonsson

For being a Disney movie made today (2022) this is a fairly decent one. Sure, they have crammed in some of the usual woke nonsense but at least there is not really any of the blatant preaching the more extreme of Disney’s woke mob have managed to cram into things the last couple of years.

It of course helps that it is a all new story and new characters so they didn’t wokeify and ruin some of the old classics.

If one ignores the nonsense the story is pretty decent and so are the characters. Nothing to write home about but adequate. The coolest character is of course Jaeger. I quite liked him even though he sometimes was a bit dimwitted in his single mindedness. Searcher and his son Ethan are more bland and boring with one just wanting to be a farmer and the other one being the obligatory woke element in this movie.

What really makes the movie rise slightly above being bland is the absolutely magnificent scenery. It is a strange world indeed. It is strange, weird, scary and beautiful all at the same time. This creature, Splat, that Ethan eventually befriends was a nice comical element.

It is a shame though that they couldn’t create a better ending. I mean given what this strange world actually is surely there would be plenty of other options for harvesting energy instead of just more or less giving up. If the writers wanted to deliver some rubbish green message they failed miserably.

Anyway, a decent enough movie. I did enjoy watching it.

Really, really good!

I knew nothing about <em>'Strange World'</em> pre-watch, having only very briefly seen the poster(s) a few times online. The quick look I had at the character design from said poster(s) and the fact that I hadn't heard this talked about anywhere meant my expectactions were quite low.

Happily, however, what I saw across the 102 minute run time pleased me. I do think the characters and voice cast could've been improved, but both of those departments are still good. I wasn't immediately keen on the animation style, though honestly I very quickly warmed to it; the world comes alive nicely. The story kept me interested from beginning to end, all that is portrayed is enjoyable.

It obviously could've been greater, yet I still had fun with this. I felt way too much sorrow for Splat in that burn scene btw, it's always impressive how they can make you care for such side characters. Sorry to the little blue fella, <a href="https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Morph?file=Treasure-planet-disneyscreencaps.com-2618.jpg" rel="nofollow">Morph</a> is still my guy though.

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Strange World( 2022)

Journey to a place where nothing is as it appears!

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Written by CinemaSerf on Wed Nov 23 2022

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