LittleBuford
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Am I the only one who felt Ethan didn’t look boyish enough? As I mentioned before, the design of his face looked more like that of an adult woman to me.
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'Strange World' Disney's 2022 Animated Film
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LittleBuford
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Splat would love you to adopt him!
Splat Plush – Strange World | shopDisney
Christened by Ethan Clade, Splat is one of the weird inhabitants of Disney's Strange World. Ethan is a member of the Clade family of explorers who embark on an incredible journey to the treacherous land. Now you can bring one of the colorful creatures home in the form of this sparkly blue Splat...
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TP2000
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List 'em. Quote 'em. I have 19 years of posting history to go through, so there's plenty of material for you to work with.
Californian Elitist
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It’s beautiful! Let me know what you think.
TP2000
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It's not just you. Someone else here posted that he looked like Whoopi Goldberg, and from several angles he does in fact look like a 30 year old woman instead of a 14 year old boy.
Weeks ago I posted the original casting call for Ethan's voice actor from several years ago. Disney released initial concept art on what Ethan looked like, and he definitely looked like a teenage boy back then. Somehow he morphed into a more womanly aesthetic.
Californian Elitist
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Yes, I thought the same thing. I’m not sure how old he is, but he looks grown.
This is why I mentioned the hand-drawn artwork at the credits. The hand-drawn version of Ethan looked much more appropriate and pleasing to the eye.
Figgy1
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Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!Splat would love you to adopt him!
Splat Plush – Strange World | shopDisney
Christened by Ethan Clade, Splat is one of the weird inhabitants of Disney's Strange World. Ethan is a member of the Clade family of explorers who embark on an incredible journey to the treacherous land. Now you can bring one of the colorful creatures home in the form of this sparkly blue Splat...
My wish list has just grown by one
LittleBuford
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And it’s free shipping today!Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chi84
Premium Member
I didn’t think that, but I was bothered by the oversized round noses on the characters. They reminded me of clown noses.
LittleBuford
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I recall only Jaeger and Searcher having that nose (Ethan’s is the same shape but not as large). It didn’t bother me; I actually think Searcher is strangely (!) attractive!
Chi84
Premium Member
Here’s another article supporting the theory that people were waiting to watch the movie at home. I can say that after watching the trailer I wouldn’t run to the theater to see it. It’s a decent family movie night movie, but nothing terribly special.
movieweb.com
Strange World Becomes No. 1 Movie on Disney+ After Bombing at Box Office
Strange World is performing much better on streaming than it did in movie theaters.
movieweb.com
Californian Elitist
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The noses are a little distracting.
Animaniac93-98
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I think the character designs of this movie would have worked better with 2D animation instead of 3D.
I find that to be the case for a lot of animated films these days.
Californian Elitist
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And not only hasn’t seen the movie, but has no plans to.
Disney Analyst
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Here’s another article supporting the theory that people were waiting to watch the movie at home. I can say that after watching the trailer I wouldn’t run to the theater to see it. It’s a decent family movie night movie, but nothing terribly special.
Strange World Becomes No. 1 Movie on Disney+ After Bombing at Box Office
Strange World is performing much better on streaming than it did in movie theaters.
Clearly people aren’t boycotting the film, as it’s the #1 movie on Disney+.
Prince-1
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Not shocking at all. Clearly the majority of people did not skip this movie because of any crush a boy had on another boy. The way people are seeing movies are changing and the fact that this honestly didn’t look the greatest and was barely marketed is probably the main reasons why people didn’t go see it in the theater and also knowing that it was going to be on Disney+ in short time helped people make that decision to wait.
mickEblu
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I’m not sure that means much. Home Alone from 1990 is spot #4. Plus, didn’t this just get released last week? What other new content is it competing with? Do you think it’ll be #1 next week or in a month? If people still have Disney + then clearly they re not really the ones boycotting Disney or Disney +. I wouldn’t jump to conclusions based off people subscribed to Disney +.
Prince-1
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Of course you wouldn’t come up with that conclusion because it doesn’t fit your narrative. If the majority of parents were against it they would not be letting their kids watch it on Disney+.
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TP2000
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Are you talking about me? If so...
There was no boycott. What are you even talking about? Hardly anyone even knew this movie existed in the first place, let alone was there enough knowledge of it to mount some sort of silly boycott.
We will never know what caused Burbank execs to abandon this movie in the marketplace by not marketing it, after spending $180 Million to produce it. We will only be able to guess. Through this thread I've read some really interesting points and perspectives on it, and at this current state in the conversation I'm of the opinion that... (Read on only if you are open to educated guesses ranging to wild assumptions bordering on conspiracy theory, but it's all we've got!
)....Burbank execs got scared by summer '22 after the backlash and bad publicity surrounding a very minor Lesbian character mention in Lightyear. And Lightyear did poorly at the box office (not as disastrous as Strange World, but that was in the future still). Knowing that they had doubled-down on putting gay characters into children's animation, they knew Strange World had the teenage boy who was gay and had dialogue and supporting characters to clearly spell it out that he was homosexual. It was unavoidable. And test audiences of boys/men really disliked Strange World, while women were indifferent. So by mid summer Burbank execs think "Uh-oh. If we thought the PR on Lightyear was bad, wait until America learns about Strange World!". So they buried it. They cancelled most of the marketing for it. They pulled the toys and children's merchandise they'd designed and manufactured in advance from open distribution at Target and WalMart and DisneyStores for Christmas. Strange World was purposely buried to avoid as much bad PR as possible. And it mostly worked for them, to their credit! It slid under the radar for most Americans, and never got mentioned by conservative media during its launch because almost no one even knew it existed. It only is getting mentioned now in passing, in a woke-year-in-review type format. On to Disney+ which is burning money even without Strange World!
That's about as good an explanation as I've got, after six weeks on this thread.
It still doesn't explain why Strange World was released in over 4,100 theaters without any real marketing, but that may have something to do with contractual obligations with theater chains. If anyone here knows how that part of the movie business works and how theater slots get divvied up between films, please weigh in here! I'd love to know how that works!
Does anyone else have another theory they'd like to throw out? I'd be interested to hear other thoughts on this mystery.