'Strange World' Disney's 2022 Animated Film

[CaptainAmerica]

Yeah, still not a lifestyle.

Homosexuality is not a lifestyle. Drag is absolutely a lifestyle, come on.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Thanks so much for letting the Queer community know the limits on your willingness to tolerate different types of people in the world.

Huge numbers of the "queer community" are heterosexual cisgender zoomers exploiting the rainbow flag and making up fake pronouns for social media clout.

You guys are being played.

 

[The Mom]

People, please stop arguing about what should or shouldn't be shown in a Disney films. Every argument for or against anyone's POV has been given - ad nauseam. Enough.

Perhaps people who have actually seen the movie could give their own reviews.

And the arguments about social issues have got to stop right now.

 

[DKampy]

life·style
/ˈlīfˌstīl/

noun

1. the way in which a person or group lives

A person is not deciding to live who they are… they just are

 

[BuddyThomas]

I wonder if on the discussion boards of "Minions: Rise of Gru" and "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" are there 50 pages of debate about alternate lifestyles and the impact on children? Wonder on those boards if there are pictures posted of the lead child voice actor in drag for those movies?

Nah, it has nothing to do with the performance of the film, just a coincidence. Never mind.

Like Mother said, come back and discuss when you’ve seen it. Until then, comments such as the above are totally and completely meaningless.

 

[BuddyThomas]

People, please stop arguing about what should or shouldn't be shown in a Disney films. Every argument for or against anyone's POV has been given - ad nauseam. Enough.

Perhaps people who have actually seen the movie could give their own reviews.

And the arguments about social issues have got to stop right now.

Seems to me that this thread is going the way of the black mermaid thread and the handicapped Small World dolls thread. If it wasn’t about to be released on Disney+, there would sadly no reason to keep this going because it has devolved . It’s all pretty sad that this is where we are as we approach 2023.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

Just finished it on D+ and my overall impression was this was not a story driven movie, it was a message driven movie they wrote a story around.

It felt like a committee came up with a list of messages they wanted to convey first, and then they sent it to the writers and said write something to check everything off our list.

The overall message being...

Our planet is alive
Our source of power is killing the planet we live on
We need to sacrifice our source of power, even if it means going back to horses and candles, in order to save our planet

and while giving that primary message we may as well have the main couple be interracial and have the son be gay purely for inclusion reasons. It doesn’t add to the story in any way but it also doesn’t detract from the story in any way.

The gay thing made me laugh because I kept waiting for the big controversial ”gay moment“ and it was so minor it barely existed. They could have left out the son meeting his crush, the conversation with the grandpa, and the 1 second cuddle at the end and absolutely nothing would have changed in the story. It had absolutely no impact on the movie at all other than it added a gay character. The idea it‘s somehow grooming is laughable.

I get why they movie didn’t do well, it was basically a 2 hour environmental ad, (and the big surprise was clearly evident shortly after they fly into the hole) but the woke controversy doesn’t exist (imho).

Edited to add… I don’t think I laughed once during the entire movie, in fact I don’t think I felt any emotion during the entire movie, not a good sign when you don’t connect emotionally in any way with a nearly 2 hour Disney film.

 

[TP2000]

Box office numbers are out for Strange World on its final day of Non-Disney+ availability. It closed poorly, to say the least.

 

[Heppenheimer]

Just finished it on D+ and my overall impression was this was not a story driven movie, it was a message driven movie they wrote a story around.

It felt like a committee came up with a list of messages they wanted to convey first, and then they sent it to the writers and said write something to check everything off our list.

The overall message being...

Our planet is alive
Our source of power is killing the planet we live on
We need to sacrifice our source of power, even if it means going back to horses and candles, in order to save our planet

and while giving that primary message we may as well have the main couple be interracial and have the son be gay purely for inclusion reasons. It doesn’t add to the story in any way but it also doesn’t detract from the story in any way.

The gay thing made me laugh because I kept waiting for the big controversial ”gay moment“ and it was so minor it barely existed. They could have left out the son meeting his crush, the conversation with the grandpa, and the 1 second cuddle at the end and absolutely nothing would have changed in the story. It had absolutely no impact on the movie at all other than it added a gay character. The idea it‘s somehow grooming is laughable.

I get why they movie didn’t do well, it was basically a 2 hour environmental ad, (and the big surprise was clearly evident shortly after they fly into the hole) but the woke controversy doesn’t exist (imho).

Edited to add… I don’t think I laughed once during the entire movie, in fact I don’t think I felt any emotion during the entire movie, not a good sign when you don’t connect emotionally in any way with a nearly 2 hour Disney film.

So, Captain Planet meets Fantastic Voyage? With no Rachel Welch-type character wearing an oddly impractical yet revealing uniform?

 

[Phroobar]

So, Captain Planet meets Fantastic Voyage? With no Rachel Welch-type character wearing an oddly impractical yet revealing uniform?

The days of Jessica Rabbit are long gone.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

So, Captain Planet meets Fantastic Voyage? With no Rachel Welch-type character wearing an oddly impractical yet revealing uniform?

Yes, and unfortunately not as entertaining as either, I really enjoyed Captain Planet as a kid, I can’t see my 16 year old self voluntarily tuning in to watch a Strange World style story every week.

I think that was Strange Worlds downfall, it’s not fun, they made an adventure movie (with great visuals) somehow boring.

 

[Heppenheimer]

Yes, and unfortunately not as entertaining as either, I really enjoyed Captain Planet as a kid, I can’t see my 16 year old self voluntarily tuning in to watch a Strange World style story every week.

I think that was Strange Worlds downfall, it’s not fun, they made an adventure movie (with great visuals) somehow boring.

Maybe we finally have the reason for the lack of advertising. Disney just realized the film wasn't fun and not worth throwing good money after bad.

 

[brideck]

Edited to add… I don’t think I laughed once during the entire movie, in fact I don’t think I felt any emotion during the entire movie, not a good sign when you don’t connect emotionally in any way with a nearly 2 hour Disney film.

Based on the pulp adventure frame story, I would guess that they were going for wonder and adventure more than a wisecracking/comedic tone. Not trying to specifically paint you with this brush, but I will die alone on the hill of not understanding why everyone needs big, obvious punchliney jokes in all of their entertainment. Most Marvel movies (as an example) are terribad abominations of this type. Having said that, my spouse and I found plenty to laugh at as we watched it -- probably mostly from the classic Disney animal archetypes, which always entertain us.

I think anyone who has never felt seen for who they are by a parent should find plenty to connect with emotionally in the movie, and that's established as early as the prologue. I would actually consider that the core of the story, as opposed to the environmental allegory. I've somehow managed to see two of Qui Nguyen's (the screenwriter) plays recently, Vietgone and She Fights Monsters, and I can definitely say that forging connections in family, even when difficult, is a recurring featured element of his work.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Just finished watching. I liked the movie. The characters’ arc were all fine; fathers wanting they sons to follow in their footsteps and the sons wanting to follow their own path and all the characters growing and learning this and accepting that, and everyone living happily ever after.

Yes, I want to see this in movies. I have plenty of harsh reality in my daily living.

The backdrop for this movie was just as the movie title says “strange”

By the end of the movie we see the agenda; the plant providing the power was killing the host, just like in real life, fossil fuel (ironically, that came from prehistoric plants) is killing the earth and must be eradicated to save the earth.

The movie was ok. Nothing wrong with any of the characters, I loved the three legged dog and splat who saved the day.

One thing that was a glaring error was… gas stoves?

 

[Disney Analyst]

Now that more people are finally seeing this.

Spoiler

I really loved the reveal at the end. Turtle island.

Very much an homage to the Indigenous story.

 

[brideck]

Now that more people are finally seeing this.

Spoiler

I really loved the reveal at the end. Turtle island.

Very much an homage to the Indigenous story.

Agreed. It made me think of

Spoiler

Terry Pratchett's Disc World, which I've never read, and the Hindu myths that it in turn cribbed from.

 

[Ghost93]

Our planet is alive
Our source of power is killing the planet we live on
We need to sacrifice our source of power, even if it means going back to horses and candles, in order to save our planet

and while giving that primary message we may as well have the main couple be interracial and have the son be gay purely for inclusion reasons. It doesn’t add to the story in any way but it also doesn’t detract from the story in any way.

I feel like Avatar delivered the same message in a more entertaining fashion.

Anyway, I'm glad people who are actually seeing the film are now realizing how absurd the controversy surrounding the movie was. Strange World hasn't really been trending since going to Disney Plus, but at least it's not getting a lot of hate, either.

 

[Phroobar]

Agreed. It made me think of

Spoiler

Terry Pratchett's Disc World, which I've never read, and the Hindu myths that it in turn cribbed from.

Spoiler: spoiler

Exactly! All it needs is elephants on the turtle's back supporting the disc.

 

[Phroobar]

Agreed. It made me think of

Spoiler

Terry Pratchett's Disc World, which I've never read, and the Hindu myths that it in turn cribbed from.

You should read it. It's very Monty Python British silliness.

 

[DisneyHead123]

Saw it on Disney+ while packing for holiday travel yesterday. I thought it was in the “just ok” range. The problem, to my mind, was a lack of compelling emotional hook. Typically in a Disney movie we meet a character who yearns for something with all of his or her heart, and we vicariously fee the payoff when they finally get it. Here, the central characters had pretty content lives and what they yearned for they either couldn’t have (the dad wanting his son to follow in his footsteps) or wasn’t particularly out of reach to begin with (I mean Ethan’s crush clearly already liked him.) Grandpa had the only traditional arc in that sense but it was minor. The rest of the time what the characters wanted was transitory and reactive (wanting to get away during a chase scene, for example.) I guess they wanted to save the pando but that storyline popped up quickly and morphed just as quickly.

Also thought the final metaphor was too much. It’s been done better and more subtly in other movies so I didn’t see the need to redo it here.

The family interactions were probably the best part but would have been more suited to a heartwarming Netflix show geared towards adults. For a Disney movie I thought it lacked a strong sense of purpose.