'Strange World' Disney's 2022 Animated Film

[Tony the Tigger]

Because there are members of this forum who may well watch Strange World in the months ahead and want to share their thoughts on it. I for one would be interested in what they have to say.

I read this post and said, “What the heck” and finally put it on.

If I didn’t enjoy it, I never would have watched it all the way through. (To wit: Inside Out. Sorry not sorry.)

I didn’t love it like Coco, but it hooked me early and was not a waste of time. Fairly predictable.

Nothing was objectionable, so I can now stand firmly on the side of, “People finding this objectionable have no real basis.”

I can see how certain kinds of people would watch the first 10 minutes and say:

1. Interracial couple
2. 3 legged dog
3. Gay kid
4. Asian woman like Star Wars
5. Dad OK with gay kid

And to those people I say, “Welcome to reality.”

And there was plenty of toxic masculinity and humiliating the less obviously masculine guy for the old school Neanderthal viewers.

The “other world” seemed like an underwater, outer space Avataresque thing with some interesting creatures. The environmental message was a bit much and oversimplified, but fine for the kiddies.

Any hoopla over it was silly.

 

[Jedijax719]

Can't wait until tomorrow night/Monday morning when there will be a lot of new movies to discuss and let this dead dog die peacefully.

 

[LittleBuford]

I read this post and said, “What the heck” and finally put it on.

If I didn’t enjoy it, I never would have watched it all the way through. (To wit: Inside Out. Sorry not sorry.)

I didn’t love it like Coco, but it hooked me early and was not a waste of time. Fairly predictable.

Nothing was objectionable, so I can now stand firmly on the side of, “People finding this objectionable have no real basis.”

I can see how certain kinds of people would watch the first 10 minutes and say:

1. Interracial couple
2. 3 legged dog
3. Gay kid
4. Asian woman like Star Wars
5. Dad OK with gay kid

And to those people I say, “Welcome to reality.”

And there was plenty of toxic masculinity and humiliating the less obviously masculine guy for the old school Neanderthal viewers.

The “other world” seemed like an underwater, outer space Avataresque thing with some interesting creatures. The environmental message was a bit much and oversimplified, but fine for the kiddies.

Any hoopla over it was silly.

It was difficult for me to focus on your review after reading your Inside Out revelation. How could you give up on Bing Bong?! I urge you to give it another try!

 

[Ghost93]

It was difficult for me to focus on your review after reading your Inside Out revelation. How could you give up on Bing Bong?! I urge you to give it another try!

I really like Inside Out, but Bing Bong was my least favorite part as he seemed like a character specifically designed to make people cry and I thought it was too manipulative.

 

[LittleBuford]

I really like Inside Out, but Bing Bong was my least favorite part as he seemed like a character specifically designed to make people cry and I thought it was too manipulative.

He’s definitely meant to pull at the heartstrings (I cry each and every time I watch that scene), but I don’t view that as manipulative. To me, he symbolises that part of your childhood that you inevitably move on from but that, at some deep level, is fundamental to who you are.

 

[TP2000]

What I said at the time was true.

What you said at the time was a lie.

You should go stand out on Buena Vista Ave. in Burbank and tell the laid off employees that as they get walked out this month.

"Back in November, these weren't actually going to be layoffs, we were just going to call them staffing reductions! This is fine!"

 

[MisterPenguin]

You should go stand out on Buena Vista Ave. in Burbank and tell the laid off employees that as they get walked out this month.

"Back in November, these weren't actually going to be layoffs, we were just going to call them staffing reductions! This is fine!"

This would sting me to the core if for a second I thought you cared about any of those laid off.

 

[doctornick]

I liked it, but I find Inside Out to be overrated. I feel like a big part of the appeal of it was that it was finally a new concept after Pixar had released a number of sequels, as well as Brave and Good Dinosaur (which was after Inside Out) which are among the worse ever Pixar films. Up to Inside Out was a 6 year gap.

 

[BuddyThomas]

You should go stand out on Buena Vista Ave. in Burbank and tell the laid off employees that as they get walked out this month.

"Back in November, these weren't actually going to be layoffs, we were just going to call them staffing reductions! This is fine!"

You said Burbank again! Hurray!

 

[Disney Irish]

You said Burbank again! Hurray!

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Take a shot.....

 

[TP2000]

You said Burbank again! Hurray!

Just out of morbid curiosity, where do you think the Walt Disney Company has been headquartered since 1939?

 

[TP2000]

This would sting me to the core if for a second I thought you cared about any of those laid off.

These are not layoffs! They are only staffing reductions. And they aren't even happening.

Well, we'll see from social postings all these non-layoffs layoffs that people think are going to happen.

 

[BuddyThomas]

Just out of morbid curiosity, where do you think the Walt Disney Company has been headquartered since 1939?

You missed the point. Surprise.

 

[Ghost93]

I think to appease TP2000 and to prevent him from continuing to beat a dead horse, Splash Mountain should be rethemed to "TP2000's Burbank Adventure!"

The ride follows Bob Chapek on the run from a random animatronic Chihuahua who keeps popping out of nowhere to remind him of Disney's box office failures. His catchphrase — repeated 20 times in the ride — is "Burbank can't be happy about this!" As you go up the lift hill, Bob Chapek yells to angry shareholders "Please don't throw me out of the Walt Disney Company!" The drop symbolizes Chapek being thrown out of the company. The "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" segment at the end is replaced with shareholders celebrating Bob Iger's return and Avatar: The Way of Water's box office success. Despite the celebration, the random Chihuahua gets one final punchline, "but what about merchandise sales!?! I don't see any kids dressed as Na'vi for Halloween!"

After the ride, at the former Briar Patch shop, children can buy T-Shirts, plushies and mugs with the Chihuahua shaking a martini with the tagline "Burbank!"

 

[BuddyThomas]

Halle Berie’s recent quote about her playing Ariel in The Little Mermaid also applies in this thread:

“Halle, speaking about the significance of playing Ariel, said, “I know what it would've meant to me as a little girl to have been able to see a black Ariel when I was younger, she says. "If I would've seen that, it would have changed my whole outlook on life.”

Same applies to me and many others if we had seen anything like Strange World when we were kids.

 

[celluloid]

It is a good thing she did not, she likely would not get to play her now.

 

[Chi84]

Halle Berie’s recent quote about her playing Ariel in The Little Mermaid also applies in this thread:

“Halle, speaking about the significance of playing Ariel, said, “I know what it would've meant to me as a little girl to have been able to see a black Ariel when I was younger, she says. "If I would've seen that, it would have changed my whole outlook on life.”

Same applies to me and many others if we had seen anything like Strange World when we were kids.

Some of the posters in this thread have taken the position that race (unlike same-sex relationships) isn’t a blip on anyone’s radar and hasn’t been for 40 years. What prompted that quote by Halle, I wonder?

 

[DKampy]

Halle Berie’s recent quote about her playing Ariel in The Little Mermaid also applies in this thread:

“Halle, speaking about the significance of playing Ariel, said, “I know what it would've meant to me as a little girl to have been able to see a black Ariel when I was younger, she says. "If I would've seen that, it would have changed my whole outlook on life.”

Same applies to me and many others if we had seen anything like Strange World when we were kids.

Agreed 100 percent…I have a nephew who recently came out but knew he was gay in high school… he has mentioned how tough it was to have a crush on a fellow student but not able to talk about it with anyone… the more exposure to different people the better