Strange World Proves Disney Is Out of Ideas
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- Опубліковано 26 тра 2024
- Disney just released Strange World out on Disney+ so I decided to watch it. Unfortunately it wasn't very good and was a huge flop. Here are my reasons why Strange World is such a huge disappointment and why Disney Animation is on the decline.
Time Stamp:
Intro: @0:00
Beginning of Strange World Plot Summary: @1:16
The most common Disney trope: @1:39
How Strange World depicts generation trauma: @3:17
Why I think Strange World is Ugly: @5:13
Why Strange World is not appropriate for kids: @7:33
Why the twist in Strange World doesn't work: @8:25
My overall review of Disney's Strange World: @9:34
Why modern Disney movies are bad: @10:25
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Disney's biggest problem nowadays is that they try so hard to pander to so many demographics, instead of focusing on making a great movie. That's why phase 4 of the MCU has been mid, especially the TV shows
That's a great point! THATS EXACTLY THE PROBLEM. Trying too hard to appeal to everyone but wind up appealing to no one.
Their approach to diversity is very checklisty, and it comes across as pandering… diversity means that their overall portfolio of movies should be diverse… but not every movie needs to be a perfect vertical slice of diversity. You can have movies primarily focusing on one identity factor, and movies that are more intersectional.
This isn’t necessarily always true…I personally loved Encanto and they pulled off the generational trauma story quite well and the diversity felt quite organic. Raya on the other hand was much less diverse within its own world and it floundered. At the end of the day, story should be top priority. If you have a good story that truly resonates, it doesn’t matter as much what identities one’s characters embody.
Also thought the flirting with Diazo was kind of cringe.
How Disney thinks gay teens do romance: Strange World
How gay teens ACTUALLY do romance: Luca
Since I brought up Raya, Strange World comes to mind as yet another example where the world building overshadowed the story… so much creativity went into the Avalonia city, and wish we had spent more time in it. Strange World and Raya should have been series…. Spending an episode in one location focusing on a few characters at a time, but both movies felt bloated with too many characters and too many substories…
Also: not sure how diverse ethnicities even make sense in Avalonia…
1. UNLESS humans are not from Avalonia and found themselves there through however the fuck, Avalonia is not big enough for humans to evolve such a wide range of phenotypes (ethnic diversity)
2. Given how long they are implied to have been in that valley… assuming time immemorial given NOBODY remembers humanity before being on a giant turtle, one would expect whatever diversity there was would have mixed to the point where they’d be homogenous AND endogamous. It’s like the Human Zoo from Steven Universe… 5000 years of captivity in an alien space station and the population of humans was still visually diverse. Made no sense.
I use to be defensive about phase 4 cause how they making the formula and the creativity different from other phases however then I realized after she hulk, they probably didn’t really have a plan for a the story or what it’s gonna set up specially for the multiverse, cause I’m still trying the process the whole situation about the multiverse.
Disney needs to bring back villains…family trauma is old and boring now
When was the last time Disney had a good villain? That’s a great point
@Brittney Reacts The movie lion king 😱
@@erenjaeger1738 Bruh nah I hated the villain in Lion King, I thought it was too cheesy
To be honest, I don't know if I agree or not. I don't like watching family trauma all the time but I hate the old Disney villain stereotypes. My favorites were Teen Beach movie and Enchanted because they were so self aware with those dumb old classics (sorry, I'm a 2000s girl here and I wasn't a Disney kid) and they were kind of making fun of the stereotypes from the old Disney movies (examples like, everyone singing, and the villains being characters you just wanted to punch)
Has no one watched Wreck-it Ralph???
And at the same point, DreamWorks and del toro make two masterpieces : Disney should be ASHAMED
They’re certainly falling off
DreamWorks hired the animators that Disney fired back in the day. So I love the justice here 🫢🤭
Which ones?
@@EGV88 Pinocchio and Puss in Boots 2
@@EGV88 Puss in Boots 2 and Pinnochio
We're never gonna get an adventure movie as good as Atlantis ever again from Disney
Atlantis is one of my favorite movies. I would love if Disney made movies like that again.
LITERALLY THOUGH AND ITS KILLING ME
Or Treasure planet. I loved to rewatch this movie. The characters are likable and funny especially Morph the cute blob and Doctor Delbert, the action is cool and exciting, the music is epic, the animation is beautiful. This and Atlantis are my favorites Disney movies. I also adore Mulan, Lilo and Stitch and Alladin 😀
@@ladypool1404 omg I love treasure planet so much I could go on and on about how amazing everything is.
We can if people aren't cynical but apparently every film has to be epic or it's not worth making
Not a big fan of Pixar’s recent art style. Always feel like they’re obsessed with large noses for some reason, like most of these characters’ noses are so big, you can make buttplugs out of them.
I think Disney needs to seriously reconsider their art styles. I think part of the reason people are tired of Disney, animated movies is because they all have the same look.
Yeah every lead male looks like Linguini. Skinny, long head, big nose, wide centered eyes.
This movie feels like the ten years-late response to Arthur Christmas; which was also criticized for the character design.
Except the rest was smart and fun.
@@pennyjpie And a lot of the girls look similar to Mirabel/Mei, but I think that’s because the same people are working on these films, so they’re just drawing what they know. Like how John Bluth only knows how to draw two types of male characters and one type of female character.
*Safety Warning*
Readers of this comment should note that it is not advisable under any circumstances to use another person's nose as a butt plug, however suitably shaped.
It feels like Disney has this new generation of animators and writers who just want their parents to say sorry
Well yeah I think a large part of us want to buddy
as a victim of childhood abuse in a deep process of healing I now know that I dont need my parents apologies to heal, but it makes me feel seen, heard and gives me a template of the kind of parent that I want to be. One that is able to recognize and apologise for my mistakes.
My kids didn't ask to be born, nor did I. If I pproject my trauma onto them that ain't their fault, it's mine. And in turn it wasn't my fault my parents projected theirs onto me, it was theirs.
With time you learn that people who don't recognize their mistakes, or who are a bit too egotistical to do so, seem to be the more troubled ones. I've found great peace in apologizing, recognizing and working with my loved ones to be better.
I wish everyone experiences this kind of healing love that Im lucky to feel and have all around me
Underrated comment here
a lot of people do and there's nothing wrong with that
So?
The main flaw I found was how utterly childish this movie was.
I remember loving Encanto exactly because of how bleak it could be. It had moments of silence, pain, character exploration, subtlety, symbolism and just plain grief. Even more so with Moana: I cried during the reprise.
Some of my favorite Disney movies growing up - The Rescuers, Hercules, Robin Hood, Snow White, MULAN - had similar situations. They could be funny, they could be downright hilarious, but they had moments of grandeur, dread, solemnity and pain to balance it out.
People have remembered Disney for being a heart-tugger since day one: I found none of this in Strange World. It’s an endless barrage of slapstick, screaming, slipping, weird creatures being weird, over the top reactions, chase scenes and yammering. Even when it looks as if they failed to save the world it’s not explored enough.
This doesn’t feel like a Disney movie. This feels like a Blue Sky movie during their dark age - and even then, there’s more emotion in the scene in Rio where they show the favelas (just for the guts of a kids’ movie going there) than in any moment of Strange World.
The hideous character designs (mostly on the men, Meridian looks cute), Searcher’s lack of charisma being paired with Jaeger’s at time downright cruel behavior and the sporadic jabs at dark humor that don’t fit (one of the explorers DIED, did no one address this?), as well as the immature humor of Splat, which I hated, didn’t help the case.
Also the gay couple was fine and casual and respected but can’t hold a candle to the great Disney romances. They didn’t even try to give us queers something to bite.
I thought the gay representation was lacking. You could cut it out of the movie and nothing would change
@@Brittney_Reacts_same for me.
I wanted a sweet romance like the Hets do, not the thousadth stuttering teenager who’s in love with an extra.
@@Brittney_Reacts_ So like all of Disney's gay "representation."
@@Brittney_Reacts_ personally i liked it, the love story wasnt the focus of the film. Its better that they show a queer character and not make a huge deal out of it. But i can see why other people in the queer community didnt like it though. I personally loved the movie and thought it was just a fun adventure movie. I agree Disney needs better Queer representation
@@Stormyweatherthetrueyoutuber Yeah, I can see both sides.
i think strange world’s problem is it wants to say something, without really having anything to say. Encanto had a strong thesis about intergenerational trauma and took a very realistic look at high expectations from family, similarly Turning Red covered those as well as the conflict between modern individualism and traditional values, both movies having Colombian and Chinese culture respectively deeply ingrained into them too. both of these movies clearly had a driving passion to tell the story they did, while strange world feels like the sort of plot i might cobble together from nothing cause a 1-hour creative writing test question needed me to.
I knew the movie was missing something, and this was mostly it.
I liked how Encanto covered the black sheep of the family and Turning Red covered the perfect child who did everything she was told and how the families respond in turn to their individualism
@@MistyLunaLotus Yeah, at least those two movies were sort of different aspects of generational trauma, I don't even know about strange world
I thought strange world had multiple beautiful messages in a fun story! Not everything is as it seems, sometimes the greater good is one you have to sacrifice for! Human progress is not more important than the well being of the creature (earth) we live on!
I didn’t know anything going in, and came out pleasantly surprised.
sooo.....disney had several great movies and one not so great. "oh no, disney's downard spiral"
I really appreciate the way you criticize Disney. It's nuanced and specific. And I don't hear that sort of critic very often.
Wow thank you very much!
I completely agree with you about how the world was confusing and visually unappealing. And yes! Disney was once full of groundbreaking animated movies, but it's been taken over by greedy corporate businessmen who only care about making Hollywood money, and who don't care about making high quality films. Plus they bought a bunch of other networks such as Fox and Marvel, and with all that under sir belt, Disney has lost its distinct brand.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who found that world off putting
@@Brittney_Reacts_ Considering this being insides of a turtle basically...isn't it basically empty? Why would such a creature need so much empty space inside of itself? Is there really only one? How was it even created, I mean it is clear that it is a living being since it can get sick...
Yeah there are just so many questions
Disney is now an insatiable beast; it must consume all media companies or it will DIE! It also can't try anything new; it must only make derivative junk or it will DIE!
That, however, was under Iger's handpicked successor Chapek. Chapek's boring corporate attitude was considered so toxic and harmful to the brand that they recently kicked him out and brought back Iger. That guy apparently is never allowed to retire, and the company relying on him so much is going to become a problem.
❤️
I actually like the world. It’s called “Strange World” after all. I honestly get tired of world creating where the world HAS to imitate our world in some way.
I personally thought that the world was pretty cool. I watched it after watching your video, and so i already have the spoilers for it. I think the “gobblygook” makes way more sense considering all of it mimicks parts of the organelles inside the body (the ‘splat’ is a white blood cell, the red floating guys are red blood cells, the trees are bronchii, etc).
I think the humor is really goofy but i did laugh a few times, and i think Splat is really cute
I'm glad you enjoyed the movie though!
it wasn't that the creatures with tentacles are the white blood cells?
For me, the issue was purely execution and not premise. The premisew as fine, but needed to simplify some elements and give more time for the characters to play out
Yeah, that’s how I feel. I wouldn’t make the blood cells and everything else look too realistic cuz then it wouldn’t rlly be a kids movie at that point 😂.
@@undeadgaming6845 Honestly the worldbuilding was fine... I just think the way the transitioned the story from one beat to another was clunky with no breathing room in between.
My problem with this movie is the lack of direction, like you said, they try to talk about three different themes, and end up being super shallow, just focus on two of them; A family going on an adventure in this weird, yet marvelous environment and facing the unkow, a family friend version of skull island if you will lmao.
And Disney, honey, please try other art styles, it's not like this is bad, is just too generic..
Super agree about the art style. It’s tired
@@Brittney_Reacts_ I wish they would do stuff like spiderman into the spiderverse! that animation is incredible and the visuals are one of my favorite parts of animated movies so more cool ideas and innovation would be amazing
I beg of you to put Treasure Planet on your watch list, it’s one of Disney’s biggest animation failures because my god it was done so dirty. It deals with generational trauma so freaking well, and it’s actually a fun action adventure film that kids and adults love.
It was a passion project for the producers (the same producers of The little mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Moana, and many more classics) for over 20 years and when it was finally finished it was flipped on its back and shoved off a mountain by the marketing team so they had concrete proof that it was time to cut 2D animation (and it worked, they finished the other two 2D films they were working on at the time then didn’t go back to it).
Treasure Planet is everything strange world tried to be, the crazy space-pirate-alien-steampunk-cyberpunk world seems so believable yet bizarre and the characters make the movie as amazing as it is with a villain “type” that I’ve never seen in another movie, and Treasure Planet came out 20 years ago! I could go on and on about this movie but long story short, it’s amazing and you should watch it.
One of my favorite movies of all time! I will forever be sad it never got the sequel it deserved. Now I kind of hope Disney never touches it, because I know they can never live up to the expectations that the audience has. I've seen how they animated 2D recently, and I have to say it's so lazy. Not to mention the story may not be as well developed or fascinating. Disney is producing too much too quickly nowadays. They should start taking their time with projects. Honestly, one movie a year would be good enough for me. If they have a "break year" I wouldn't be mad. But anyways, I continue to forever be sad over the lost potential of Treasure Planet.
Yessss I cannot stress his enough! Treasure Planet was done so dirty, if it were released now it would be the next big fad. It's so amazing and ahead of its time, and clearly has passion and love poured into it. Strange World couldn't hold a candle to it.
I loved Treasure Planet! It didn’t make it big in the theater, but it was beautifully animated and the story was great 💜
I watched it for the first time a few months ago. Tbh very mid.
It has a good idea and it wasn't terrible. But it simply doesn't have enough time to make a good story with such a short run time.
The MC and the Pirate forming such a relationship made no sense. This guy has pillage, destroyed, and probably raped and murder all for the treasure. Yet he will give it up for some welp he met less than a week ago.
It is beyond unreasonable and unrealistic. Barely had any time to form any sort of connection at all. You don't just change your life for some random kid you meet in the span of like two days.
That is why treasure planet is so nostalgic
Good point about the Strange World being "gobbledygook". As a designer I have always thought that good design should be about what is familiar or barrowed and what is new and unexpected good design is a balance of these two without that balance it feels jarring and brings you out of what game designers call "the zone of proximal development".
I’ve never heard that phrase before! I’ll look it up. Thanks!
I imagine the "strange world" design plays better once you know they are kn the lungs, stomach, etc. From that stand point it does have elements that are familiar "forest" mixed with other elements (biology/lung) that are familiar in innovative ways. It's far from a perfect film, but I think it benefits from a second viewing, especially if you like the reveal conceit.
@@timothygenewong i feel the same, once there is the reveal everything strange and or random becomes purposeful
What an unimaginative take given you have peak technology at your hands to make a completely unseen, unheard concept.
@@hittingyouoverthehead i am curious, what would you deem a good example of a animation movie where they used all the peak technology to make a completely unseen, unheard concept? Your comment feels flat without examples
I liked the movie. The family moments were a little too much. You could have a drinking game for how many times DAD was mentioned. At least they didn't kill of the mom, I was waiting for that.
Yeah, I think a drinking game where you drink every time they say Dad would kill you
Same.
If you try to be everything to everyone, you end up being nothing to everyone.
Like, Disney just needs to pick one audience, one lesson, one plot, and run with it. You can't please everyone, and if you try to, you'll just fall flat and disappoint everyone.
Ooo I like this 👏
Case in point? Eternals.
I actually plan to watch this and Turning Red pretty soon and I noticed that my delay (despite growing up on this animation studio) is very much 'I'll get there when I get there' when their projects used to make me feel like I just _had_ to see them immediately. The people I do know that have seen it, seem to feel different variations of 'meh' or 'it was fine' about it. Just based on your summary, it does seem like it might be doing too much with a lack of focus possibly. It seems like it should have picked 'family adventure film about [insert one (1) thing],' but I def will give it a watch soon.
Yes! I think it would have been better if they stuck to one theme instead of multiple. I hope you likes these movies more than I did tho!
Same the last time I loved" a Disney film was in 2009. And that was Princess and the Frog. That came out 13-nearly 14 years ago. And every film since then has felt...off.
Turning red is massively better than this shit show. Strange world
Turning Red in my opinion is actually very good. While some may understandably say that it’s not for very young kids (give there is a euphemism for periods about 20 to 30 minutes in, I like it as a work of transformation fiction and it succeeds where last year’s “Raya and the Last Dragon” failed due to poor dialogue. I honestly wanted RATLD to succeed and I was thoroughly disappointed once I saw that movie. I can’t even begin to bring myself to see it again. Its opening line spoken by Kelly Marie-Tran is ripped straight from the Tom Selleck insurance ads of the late 2010s: “I know what you’re thinking.” “Encanto” wasn’t interesting enough for me so I didn’t see it and it’s well touted musical number couldn’t bring me any closer to watch it. As for “Strange World” the politics didn’t drive me away from the film it was the blandness as I saw from the trailers which were released around August and September and readily spammed across UA-cam.
@@briandaniels603 I like your take on it. What’s you think of them releasing that spirit one? ‘Soul’The dead jazz guy the that had potential to be a theatrical release with success I think but this was so bad
Seems like it’s years late was kicking in the basement and they rushed polished it and sent it out. I love turning red. I grew up in Toronto so that could be a bit bias playing into it for the sky dome and my daughter actually got her period around same time as movie so we had her Red party with that. My nephews liked it as well and all my older sisters loved it All for funny stuff and cuddly monster. But then also the parents and tweens for other reasons…. My kids and my nephews just couldn’t relate to anyone. Not a single character in this Strange world one. Even just like finding someone Cool. Or funny Everone of the characters was forgettable. No character feels flushed out at all.
This movie proves that there is such a thing as TOO fluid animation. That first clip at the beginning of the video was so fluid with the expression it legit grossed me out-
YES! I will argue this until the day I die. As an animator, myself, part of the art is the very subtle choppiness. It adds character. I think that the lack of perfect fluidity is a large part of why it's so unique. When I saw the animation for _Strange World,_ I was impressed, but weirded out. It feels like when someone takes a person (with a perfectly good voice) singing and adds 6 layers of autotune. It's off-putting. It feels unnatural, and it ruins the art of the piece.
@@SuchitaBhattacharya as a animation student, I totally agree. To me the contrast between fluidity and roughness is what makes an scene be more memorable/pleasing to the eyes. Sometimes less is more
@@SuchitaBhattacharya Could you provide an example film/ Tv series? Curious to know what's your favorite animation using imperfect fluidness? (That last sentence sounds so weird 😅). I love watching real acting, so your brain sees something different than I.
@@dj_nyx8903 I think puss in boots the last wish is an example because the characters move at less fps
@@dj_nyx8903Not an animation expert, but I think Into the Spiderverse is a good example! When Miles is first learning to become Spiderman, he is animated at 12 fps while the other characters and surroundings stay at 24 fps. It’s not noticeable as you watch, but it gives his movements a slight awkwardness, and choppiness compared to the other spiders. As he matures, he advances to 24 fps animation and it adds more grace into his moves.
I agree. These days it feels like just the princess company. No princes or strong male leads or any interesting stories just in general. Not to sound ignorant but some of Disney "centric" scripts be they sequels to films like Sleeping Beauty are probably better.
😅😭Which is funny as it is just sort of sad.
Also the whole parent/child/family toxicity is getting generic very quickly.
Yes! I would be very happy if we never got another parent/child disagreement story. At least for a while
@@Brittney_Reacts_ I mean it could a subplot it would be fine. But the main focus?
@@Brittney_Reacts_ Here comes Inside Out 2: The Rebellious Teen Years. Lol just kidding. But yeah, in all seriousness watching your review on the film just made me think the whole time on the movie How to Train Your Dragon, the same plot beats all sound the same with the father and son.
@@ellim4259 Except better?
You mentioned that this film probably appeals more to "Disney Adults" than kids or the whole family. I imagine parent/child conflicts will be popular for kid viewers, not to mention it's central place in the hero's journey as a part of the individuation process. I think if we make traditional "hero stories" or stories for kids, parent/child conflicts will likely persist.
The concept of the turtle having “life/universe” on its back it’s a mythical aspect of many cultures (like Hindu) so I found it pretty cool to be put into some cartoon tbh. And that’s also why I can’t find myself agreeing with the aesthetic of the strange world. As you said, Avatar’s forest, for how weird it is, can still be recognized as a forest, but the strange world is not an environmental habitat, it’s the internal organs of an animal. I didn’t find anything particularly striking with the movie itself but regardless I could enjoy it for what it is.
Turtle island is a theme in multiple Indiginous folklores, too.
This was in some anime or show I watched where there was a chinese lore about turtle islands and they had to get the turtle to move to move the island....I can't remember what it was. But it reminded of this.
I've read a better story with turtle-earth concept. It was literally an earth with the shape of a turtle and carry continents on its back (Bedawang). The story is heavily based of Hindu mythologies, especially Hindu in Balinese culture. I don't think there is any English translation yet, but it's a webtoon called "Mantradeva"
Yeah, I thought it was a tie back to some native american/indigenous cultures. In Ojibwe folklore/theology, Earth is referred to as "Turtle Island." Plus, it looked like several of the characters were indigenous-coded
Haven't seen this yet, but I'll get around to it. Regarding your point, though, about Disney animations being more for adults: I believe that was totally true for Turning Red (which I love, even as a 68-year-old man). I believe Turning Red was aimed directly at Millennials who were early teens in the early 2000s and whose children are just about to enter their own teen years. The theme of Lightyear, learning to accept failure and live in the moment...is for adults. But Lightyear lacks the comedic action and music that Turning Red used effectively to maintain the interest of children.
Great point about light year! That felt directly aimed at older audiences to me
I'm so tired of this animation style, too. All my favorite Disney movies look totally different from each other as far as colors and style and music. Everything they make looks the same, now.
EDIT: Dreamworks knocked it out of the park with Puss in Boots The Last Wish in terms of making it enjoyable for children but also having very meaningful messages for adult viewers. That movie took some big risks and they payed off, including not being afraid to really go there and put very scary imagery for children to make the villain really feel intimidating and serious. Disney is way too corporate now to take those big risks and it's all just soulless cash grabs or a real artistic vision. They need to let their artists and creators off the leash and take risks if they want to make good movies again, a second Disney Renaissance if you will.
I just want drawn animation back. The old stuff was so visually stunning to look at
When it was hand drawn the art was so versatile, like when Pocahontas sang colours of the wind, it was absolutely stunning with the transitions from scene to scene. It's just not the same
Not sure why the strange world being a body was a twist? I haven't even seen the movie but knew from the world and creature design that it was a body. Now I feel like if I watch it and they try to do a big reveal saying it was a body the whole time I'm just gonna shrug my shoulders, cause of course it was!
oh no I got it immediately just from the physics of the ground. Probably helps I watched a video about the flesh pit national park arg thing tho lol
This is so funny, I had no idea about the “twist” but when Brittney was showing the scenes from the world, I literally thought “why have they made it look like the inside of a body?”. So, you definitely weren’t the only one!
Then I saw this comment which just confirmed it!
@@olliewithab1926 Is it bad that I want an adventure movie where these characters explore the mystery flesh pit?
@@wolfkitty42 no wait but that would be so funny
I picked up long before confirmed that it was a body. I dont think it was a twist but more of a lead up to the reveal. Because it really doesn't do much to throw you off. The bigger twist was the power plant being bad for the turtle.
I think it would have been better if the dad never left, but retired with a bit of resentment that everyone else just gave up on leaving, but he didn't want to leave his son. Keep just about everything else plot/problem wise. All of them have a reason to go. The dad for one last adventure, the son to uncover why his plants are dying, and the grandson to take after his grandfather. No generational trauma, but instead a skip in generational interests. Similar, but different.
The movie gives family friendly "After Earth" plot vibes 💀
That's a very accurate description
The plot is not good, but if you’re into biology the strange world is actually really fun because you can tell each bodily function/part it references. Which is what my boyfriend and I ended up doing. We basically zoned out of any dialogue and tried to guess what each thing referenced. That was actually pretty cool. The floating things in streams eating globs and turning red is red blood cells transporting oxygen. The trees are alvioli exchanging oxygen and carbon dioxide (breathing) the big globe that attack ate macrophages trying to eat invading foreign bodies. And the turtle wasn’t sick and causing the plants to die, the plants were actually an infection that was poisoning and killing the turtle. That’s why the pando had to be destroyed, it was literally killing the turtle. The plot is still dull and the characters are forgettable but for someone who likes biology and anatomy it’s fun to just figure out what everything is an analogue to.
I was thinking “this looks like a cell, why did they make it all look like organs?”…. Turns out it’s bc it is organs and cells
The world in Stange World is based on biological anatomy. I really enjoyed seeing all the different manifestations of it, but not everyone without a biology education can pick up on it. It's not gobbledygook, it just SEEMS random.
I'm not the best at biology but I picked up on it too pretty early on in the movie. I thought it was cool.
I was thinking that. I have an education in social work but it definitely was something I picked up and it was confirmed in the end it was the turtle’s insides
With the lion king, the father son relationship is a little bit more interesting, considering unlike most stuff, the son actually does want to follow in the beginning his father's footsteps and only changes his mind after Mufasa's death
Remember how fun and emotional Encanto was? How the hell did that slip through the cracks in current era Disney?!
it’s been very hit or miss but encanto actually gave me hope for future Disney💔
Yet just today they have just announced a Frozen 3 and Toy Story 5 are in the making, as if we need any more of that. Meanwhile Encanto won three grammy awards, was on billboard top whatever for a long time even taking Adele’s spot, and was a global phenomenon yet you don’t hear them talk about Encanto at all 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
@@TheDaniela3112 BROO😭 I mean encanto is practically begging for a series. Toy Story 5 is probably the most unnecessary thing (should have left it at 3) frozen 3 idek what they could do with that like Anna’s queen now and Elsa’s happy as a spirit?? but encanto like you have this whole town established with 12 MAIN CHARACTERS all with dynamics we only see in snippets. There is so much potential with that
Eh. Good idea but they didn’t pull it off.
The “strange world” is supposed to be based off of anatomy hence them being inside of a turtle
I really hope elemental turns out to be good. It gives me inside out vibes and inside out is one of my favorite disney movies 😭
I feel like it will be bad sadly. I hope it surprises me
For some reason elemental looks bad to me - I’m sure it’ll be fine, just the trailer / promo at the moment isn’t giving much haha
The Minions comparison was really weird ngl its really more about having tighter and well thought out stories rather than appealling to what parents want. If Disney would just embrace this unique stories as their own and not rely on old boring movie tropes and beats i think they would already make a decent jump. It just felt really weird seeing you pull the company card so many times just to be hit by a box office comparison
My point was that minions was a much simpler movie where the focus was on just being fun as opposed to dealing with a lot of heavy themes.
The story was very cliché but I really liked the strange world, it kind of reminded me of the old cartoons that explain the human body and the way it works :) also I liked the ending when they renounced to the way of living they were used to keep the giant turtle alive
same! Sure it was pretty basic, but it's still a fun time.
Magic school bus type of thing?
@@johnindigo5477 literally when i was watching it i was thinking of the magic school bus 😹
Avalonia being set on a small part of a turtle's back reminded me of a whole country or whatever being set on a huge elephant's back in the One Piece series. Weird, maybe thats where Disney got their idea from. The Lion King also has a lot of similarities to the Japanese animation, Kimba the White Lion, thats not just my opinion either.
I'm glad you reviewed this movie with a full breakdown. Saved me some time from watching what looks to be another disappointment.
I'd be interested to know if you think there's still some content that Disney has made recently that's actually on par with their golden age films. For example, I, for one, loved Encanto. It's original, it's cohesive, and it's appropriate for all ages. I'd say it actually gave me hope that Disney could still make some decent stuff these days. Even if you disagree, I'd like to hear your thoughts on which movies and/or shows were better executed and more impactful.
I’ve liked soul, incredibles 2, and encanto!
I love Coco better I know that's Pixar but it's Disney owned. I literally cried like a baby when Coco remembered the song 😭
You nailed it. I find myself so upset after watching disappointing animated films like this. There are SO many talented people working on these projects, but at the end of the day it feels like they're just a cog in the machine used to churn out some messy product that was brainstormed by a committee of studio execs.
You're damn right they're out of ideas. They took one line from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and made a feature length film out of it. "We could all be in a turtles dream in outer space!"
it's a reference to a book called Discworld
@@FairyRosee_ Which is based on the Akūpāra from Hindu mythology...
@@dominicgunderson yeah and lots of Native American mythology has a similar idea - it’s not a new thing at all
Or maybe tons of centuries old mythology? 💀
Loved your breakdown of the film. I'm really hoping Disney can find new and compelling stories to tell rather than following trends.
Unfortunately their lineup is full of live-action movies. We’re even getting a live-action Lilo and Stitch which I’m not looking forward to seeing what the CGI for that will be considering what we got for Pinocchio.
Im terrified that hollywood will run out of ideas for movies
“Minions made a ton of money, so Disney should make simpler movies” is a horrible argument.
The plot of the movie wasnt too interesting for me personally. But as someone studying biology at university, it was really cool to see the organelles and cells inside the giant turtle creature mimmick real life ones. I can appreciate the research they put into microbiology to accurately make these creatures based of real cells and such.
If the parents in disney movie isn't busy dying, they instead busy fighting/arguing with the kids 😂
i may not like the art style, but i actually liked the twist because the reveal that it was a turtle island and the themes of generational trauma and environmental messages catered perfectly to the lessons given by family who are all first nations/indigenous people. we felt seen in what we were saying and every living thing should be treated with care because if we don't treat our earth right, we're basically disrespecting our mother who allowed us to live in her house.
They could not possibly be indigenous people and do not know the passages in and out of the mountains or know that they are living on a turtle all this time? Get real please.
@@markusgorelli5278 i'm saying MY indigenous family related to the messages in this movie. i never said that the family in it was indigenous,,, does that change ur comment, or are you just insufferably racist?
I liked Strange Worlds, the worldbuliding was really cool even if we didn’t get to see a lot of it- it reminded me of a stim box. I would love to have stim toys based off of the creatures in the movie. I do think it felt short, and that Disney’s being recycling a lot of themes and concepts. I know the next Pixar movie is a Romance, which we haven’t gotten from an animated Disney movie for awhile, so hopefully they’ll stay away from family tropes for it so we can get something a little different.
stim toys from the movie is a genius idea!
It still shocks me they straight up murdered the og pilot, like he was eaten and the main cast never cared or brought him up again.
same, it made me laugh tbh. my best guess is that the crew were used to expeditions having casualties and the writers thought it was fine so long as it wasn't the main main focus of the scene (like the initial scene where someone almost got crushed under ice, they couldn't have gotten away with it there).
You know, if they actually had put in REAL EFFORT into faithfully adapting Artemis Fowl, I'm 85% sure it would started off a series equal to that of Unfortunate Events or Harry Potter or Hunger Games hype. The books of Artemis Fowl is filled with adventure, complex characters, strong female characters, and a rich kid gets punched lol nah but it's really a story that I think could've touched many peoples hearts especially those who had to grow up in a home being the parent despise having parents but you were forced to grow up fast for the sake of survival. We could've had that, and Disney would've been okay for a while making money since that's what they care, but no we got a sh1t show of a movie 😭
This makes me worried for the Percy Jackson adaptation by Disney
I quite liked strange world to be honest. It's cool how disney has been experimenting a bit lately and this movies twist at the end was unpredictable and cool. The only real issue with this movie in my opinion is how under advertised it was
I know, I didn't know about it until I saw a UA-camr talking about how under advertised it was! Decided to check it out out of spite toward the lack-of-marketing, and I adored the Strange World from the get go. It only got better as the film progressed. How often do we see cartoon characters realize they are inside a creature that isn't disgusting and/or evil? Osmosis Jones, I guess? Though I do remember being grossed out by that movie, and it wasn't nearly as pretty to look at.
Yeah, it’s a shame. I usually know about movies coming out months in advance because I’m a bit of an animation nerd, but this one? Hardly heard about it.
It's rough. they canceled my favorite movie series(tinker bell) the series had a lot of potential but instead of exploring the world,that was already there, they canceled it and said yanno lets make a live action instead of animation because of money. its sad and very dissapointing.
Disney has been making a lot of bewildering choices lately.
@@Brittney_Reacts_ hahaha not even just Disney like the choices DC is doing is rough too
I've watched the movie with a friend of mine and we saw the turtle (or them being in the insides of something) twist coming super early on. We noticed how the things inside of the strange world are like organs and bllod cells and things like that, so for us the strange world made more sence cause we saw the simularitys to the real insides of a body. Also my friend works in a medical lab in a hospital so she even recognized more XD
Also the plants were the cause of the sickness (the plants were like a parasite to the turtle), which is why they had to find a different source of energy in the end of the movie, I feel like you kind of missunderstood that part.
I think it's great that Disney also did a movie that is not targeted towards kids in the main focus. Animation is for everyone, so it's good that they didn't only had kids in mind. And the reason the movie wasn't successful was also cause Disney didn't even promote it, they gave the movie a Treasur Planet treatment... Which is just sad and no movie deserves that, I'm sure the people who made this movie worked really hard so it's a shame that their movie didn't really get a chance...
The movie wasn't my favourite movie of 2022, but I think it was ok and I had fun watching it with my friend ^^
Thank you! I'm generally part of the crowd that complains that animation does not have to be for children only (or at all), so it kinda sucks that Minions was chosen as the standard for future animated films. I could not disagree MORE with this entire video, from the complaints about world design to my favorite trope "world is a turtle" 😭and yeah, I think she misunderstood. The plants were hurting the turtle---I thought it was an environmental message, like subliminal Lorax or something
"they fixed what was wrong with the plants" no they fixed what was wrong with the living being that they were unknowingly taking advantage of and killing. personally i don't think that the world wasn't grounded in reality, as there's clear nods to plant life, ocean life, and symbiotic relationships between animals in nature.
Yeah I completely agree- I recently decided to not watch Marvel or Disney movies in theaters or just in general unless I actually hear Disney has decided to actually listen for once and pull themselves together because DAMN I feel like they’re just going through a phase and they just need a wakeup call to just tell them that being Disney is not going to magically make their trash ideas good ideas
I agree with you! I think Disney is getting lazy and it as a parent of a young child I can tell you we didn’t even waste the time because I know she wouldn’t be into it. I remember seeing a trailer and thinking , yea that works looks too weird. Great video, I’m glad I found your channel!!
Disney doesn't seem to understand that the vast majority of people don't care about "Disney." They care about the characters and stories Disney owns. As much as they market themselves with those characters and stories their new properties don't have anything new to add besides being a "Disney movie" which have been pretty much played out to death over the last 80 years.
It's called strange word for a reason - it didn't need to mimic the real work (the forest example you gave us) or be beautiful. Although this world did mimic something real - an organism and I did find it beautiful. And the turtle universe is pretty popular among fantasy fans so it made sense to a bunch of people.
Agreed the story was a little weak, and too much was unexplained. The movie was rushed. You can feel it with hoe unbuilt it felt. Its the same issue over and over. The movie itself was criminally under marketed and shoved on the shelf - "here, new movie" and i feel like this movie would have done better with 1. different animation 2. if it was a series and not a film.
I dont know. It felt empty.
Anyways! You sound great!! love the new mike set up and I'm glad to see your channel growing! keep it up!
Thanks! It seems like you and I have the same issues with the movie. The lack of marketing I think was because Disney knew the movie wasn’t good
The giant turtle comes from ancient tribes who believed that the world rode on the the back a giant turtle. Heck, it plays a key role in the novels It and The Waste Lands by Stephen King
Wait wait wait!!! Small secluded town of a giant turtle in the middle of the ocean…. sounds like they took this idea from One Piece 😭😭😭 no way!
apparantly you didn't get part of the movie because the reason the electric plants were dying was NOT because the "planet" was sick, the plants WERE the "sick" of the planet
I'm SO glad none of your criticism was about Ethan being gay or that it had diverse characters. I feel like I've seen those "criticisms" EVERYWHERE--meanwhile, the movie was bad for literally every reason but that?? Idc that Ethan is gay or that the mom and dad were an interracial couple, none of that made the movie flop. The movie flopped for the reasons you mention in the vid; it tackles too much, reused the same broken parent-child dynamics, isn't all that fun for kids tbh, wasn't even fun for adults, the plot felt like things just HAPPENED and the characters weren't really doing much to move the story forward, the world building was half-assed, etc etc etc.
Yes!! This was necessary criticism, most of the others I’ve seen try and pin the quality of this movie on its diverse characters and it’s not giving what they think it is
Even if everyone there was white the movie would feel just as empty…
i'm SO GLAD that films like Pinocchio (del Toro) and Puss In Boots 2 came out bc it was a breath of fresh air, free from the bland Disney chokehold. Pinocchio (Toro) was an intense film that rly had me crying. i know it's not a fully animated film, but Marcel The Shell With The Shoes On is another incredible film. Spiderverse 2 and the Mario movie are rly gonna change stuff this year. both have incredible animation and are unique despite them both being adaptations of other well established works. the competition in western animation is really ramping up and Disney is falling behind, which is a shame esp for Pixar bc they have potential.
Overall, this is a great video that tackles a lot of these pitfalls Disney regularly falls into, but I do want to bring up the point about the world not being grounded in reality. Regardless of whether or not this film did its world justice, I do think there is value in having fantasy worlds that explore surrealism and things that are disconnected from reality, whether that be in films, animation, games, etc. I think a lot of the fantastical elements are quite fun, and if supported with the proper story, can be really good, but surrealism can certainly be challenging to pull off at times.
I thought the world was really unique, and I found that when I wasn’t sure what I was looking at I appreciated it more. It was like art. It reminded me of the book out of the silent planet by CS Lewis. I didn’t necessarily like the book but I thought the imagery was really cool. I like that it broke the boundaries of typical world building. It didn’t have defined rules because it was new to the characters. Just as it was new to us.
You just never miss with your breakdowns, do you?
I'm so mad that this movie got people believe that bad marketing and queer representation was what made it flop completely. The story just wasn't it for the most part, really.
Exactly! It does everyone a disservice when you have representation in a bad movie.
As a black and bisexual individual, I believe this movie devoids from good storytelling to pander to minority audiences (which isn’t bad) and recycle the same generational trauma formula told from the years of late 2021 and early 2022 :/.
Encanto was the first modern media from Disney that I’ve seen to do representation correctly without making it the center of attention.
After a while, these quick cash grabs become exhausting and quite predictable. Dreamworks is taking risks along with other creators, I would only hope Disney would do the same before people begin to lose interest
I liked the beginning of the movie but I fell asleep in the middle. It was awful.
Same! I actually thought the first act was the best part of the movie
I thought that this movie was super cute. This movie was unique in the worldbuilding aspect and beautifully designed, the world its self is based off of the insides of a giant mythical turtle that carries the world, so the animators had so much open space for creativity to imagine the way the insides of this animal might work so of course its not going to look or relate to our own world. I feel that you may have judged quite harshly but it also might just be the fact that simple movies with beautiful and unique world design are fun to watch for me.
Holy cow, a negative review of this movie that wasn't just 20 minutes of ranting about the evil gay agenda.
I thought the movie was solid. I had a good time with it, but its definitely not the strongest we have seen from Disney Animated Studios, not by a longshot. I thought the world looked cool and personally feel like the weirdness of it was important to the overarching twist. I don't think it would have worked as well if it were just "Oh yeah, this forest is actually the internals of a turtle" because.. ITs just a forest. It *needed* to be bizarre.
The end twist would’ve worked a lot better if they had a lot more set up and foreshadowing
Agreed!
oh true. its not clear enough that its bad and more little hints would've improved the twist a lot.
I mean, the plant literally hurt anything that wasn't from outside the turtle. It was used as a weapon multiple times. And Ethan's obsession with Final Frontier, a game about making friends with all the creatures ever to maintain balance and peace, as well as the fact Splat became besties with the characters... I think it was hinted well enough that the energy plant was a big bad. Unless by twist you mean the turtle, in which case, I think it's pretty obvious in retrospect (just looking at the imagery). Which is how twists work. Otherwise it's not so much a twist as it is a slow-burn reveal.
When they made the "I'm not like you dad" speech like 5 minutes into the movie I dropped it.
The movie in a nutshell: Will you stop arguing FOR JUST FIVE MINUTES?!!
Yeah, I personally felt like the father/son dynamic was kind of shoehorned into this movie which caused me to lose a bit of respect for it. Not only that, but it seemed so inconsequential to the characters. I mean, the Jager Clade simply walks away in the beginning and 25 years later, Searcher just doesn't seem too phased by it, having moved on and started a family.
I just didn't have the respect for the whole father/son dynamic as I did for it in "Finding Nemo" or "The Lion King" or even (going outside of Disney) "Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs."
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs was amazing! Not really a fan of Lion king, but I didn't grow up with it like most people, so I kind of cringe at it now (I watched it for the first time as a teen and I loved it even back then). If you want a movie with a really wholesome father/son dynamic, "Barnyard" is a cult classic (from the 2000s, and it's a paramount movie, and "Rock Dog" is an adorable Tibetan-American movie about a dog that goes after his dream of becoming a rock star instead of a sheep protector.
Omg thank you. What’s so upsetting is Jaeger is supposed to be wrong in that beginning, immediately after he:
1. Saved Searcher’s life
2. Trained his team to do a very specific job for the community which was to find what’s over the mountain
I first thought they were portraying Jaeger as a GOOD father; he takes his son adventuring with him, asks if he’s ok or too tired to go on, and has a positive demeanor throughout all the obstacles.
But then there’s this random fight between him and Searcher because Searcher wants to look at a plant? No tension had been set up between that for that situation to escalate like that. And THEN, Jaeger’s entire team sides with Searcher, a child??
It was so inauthentic and rotten story-telling. It made me sad for Jaeger and I went in thinking they were the bad guys for letting him walk away alone.
Searcher is a cry baby, and is only after his own interests and to me, THAT is bad parenting. This should’ve been an Ethan/Jaeger buddy movie. Searcher was the villain in my book.
@@Jules2439.5 another thing is that folks like to talk about the whole "gay agenda" but the problem is that the gay character's love interest wasn't central to the plot. You could literally remove that character and it wouldn't change the movie in a meaningful way. Now, there could have been a way for Disney to have a gay agenda but they don't dare do this; what if the story centered around Ethan Clade and his interest in the game 'Quality Culture?' What if the "Strange World" was a sort of representation of him going into the world of the game and that is where he meets his gay love interest. A native of the world. Could Disney have made the audience like the gay love interest and become emotionally invested in the mission to protect the world? Who knows.
See, nothing felt very consequential in that film.
@@tjsmith5276 omg absolutely agree! Your idea has better potential than whatever they did in Strange World.
I was excited to see how they’d handle his crush, but what a miss. It was bad because it was textbook tokenism. They made him gay so they could mention it like 3 times and never run with it. It was completely meaningless representation.
How did Diazo know that Ethan was a searcher rather than a farmer? Maybe have a sequence of them playing the game as childhood friends with Ethan being gifted at the exploring aspects of the game and Diazo loving him for it. We get no back story as to why they like each other. Diazo quite literally drops in for 2 seconds with their friends and leaves with barely any context or exposition as to why. Yes, he’s telling us Ethan is a searcher but SHOW US why.
Also, that would’ve worked two-fold by serving as a great world-building opportunity to see them interact in school or the playground playing the board game, and seeing how his community talks about his missing grandfather.
TJ I could talk about this for hours lol I went on a rant on Letterboxd. If you have one feel free to follow: boxd.it/3xcXET
I seriously disagree with the part about how the Strangle World looks. As the title implies, it’s “strange”. It doesn’t have to abide by the laws of reality, it can look totally alien if it wants. That being said, parts of the Strange World still resemble real-world ecosystems, whether large biospheres like forests and sinkholes, or [SPOILERS] parts of the human body like lungs, the stomach, or the bloodstream
Plot is giving How to Train Your Dragon 😭
I liked it well enough. It’s not something I’ll likely watch again, but it was decent. I think the turtle is a nod to the myth of the world being on the back of a turtle (which is pretty interesting that several people from different parts of the world came up with that story). And the plant that was killing the turtle was a metaphor of us killing our earth through emissions
Growing up gay in the 90's, I never looked for (nor even wanted) any kind of 'representation' in tv or movies, I was just happy to have great stories and animation to take me away from the worries of the world for awhile.
Now it's like, the woes of the world are constantly shoved down our throats in practically everything...and I've pretty much given up on any new media because of it.
This isn't to say of course, that I wouldn't want to see gay characters in movies...but let them have a GOOD story, don't just shoehorn them into things to check a box, or make their sexuality the focal point of their entire character. There's nothing different between a gay person or a straight or whatever, and it's like...these companies are incapable of writing anything decent that features them, because they treat the characters as if they're in fact 'different' from the start...and they're not.
Love is love.
Perhaps gay was shoehorned, perhaps it's only our concept of gayness being shoehornable that made it seem shoehorned, because the only thing that was really shoehorned was our teenage protagonist having a crush (totally believable) on a character that barely appears (unnecessary romance, but that was hardly the focus of the film). Also, Ethan had plenty of personality. He was basically Ariel but for turtle innards instead of life above the ocean.
'Generational traumas become boring ', well, still better than minors falling in love with adults.
Yea I get you but we already have enchanto and turning red showing the issues with it so I don’t really see the need for a third version of that
@@Sillygoose3000 Well, the plots are different. I don't mind seeing more generational traumas in animations.
@@Jinglism8 yea I get what you mean but it being a central plot in 2 recent Disney movies already means it wasn’t really something they haven’t spoken about yet like other similar issues yk?
Yeah like there’s a reason it’s popular and that’s because there’s a lot of tension between younger and older generations at the moment
Everyone can, to an extent, relate to misunderstandings between kids and parents, and caring but not being able to express or work it out properly. I see how people find it a lot recently, but personally I’m just glad to get a break from drawn out creepy romances lol
If I had to summarize this movie in one sentence: it's Osmosis Jones meets Fern Gully.
I found the dicovery in the end of the movie extremely sad and depressing - they were trying to get beyond the mountains looking for a new world, but found nothing but an ocean and no continents. And what if the turtle dies of old age?
The fact that I didn't even realise this movie existed😭
I really like this video! I found that without the vibrant world, they were exploring, the story was very basic, and the conflict was resolved too quickly and conveniently. Your point that it felt like a Disney movie made for adults is SPOT ON.
I will say, though that some of the complaints about the world-building (how weird everything was in the strange world, the giant turtle twist) it's not really supposed to make sense or be explained. The movie is heavily inspired by pulp comics/magazines such as Valerian and Laureline, or Buck Rogers. But within the movie, it does seem to be a detriment, like they are mostly focusing on how weird everything is, and putting the characters and their relationships second.
Anyways, great video! I might have to go ahead and subscribe!
Dang I kinda wish I watched this now, I've never really seen an animation talk about generational trauma from a dad's perspective.
That's what I was thinking when she mentioned Turning Red. Like, what? Can't the boys have their own trauma dump? Also, can't guys be Disney Princesses now? Tell me Ethan wasn't the epitome of a Disney Princess version of the Lorax
I agree 100%! The topics were a mish-mash and the feel of the movie felt small and stuck. Similar to the feeling from Ice Age, without the cute story.
Am I the only one who found this movie fascinating? Only one who saw the meaning of the whole story?
SPOILER AHEAD!!!!!
The way they find out they’re living on a giant living organism, they find out their world is just one organism - and that the thing making their lives easier is what’s killing it. Every creature, every “biome” in the strange world, is representative to an actual body; the streams of those little flying fish type things is actually the blood stream, the reapers and splat’s kind are parts of the immune system, the soft outer biome is the skin, and as explained, the windy biome was the lungs, acid ocean was the stomach, and the heart - self explanatory. The ENTIRE movie is a representation of how humans and our inventions/discoveries are killing the world. It’s not the best movie ever, but the art and portrayal of everything is pretty cool
I actually started watching Klaus as my go-to annual Christmas movie instead of the new Disney movies tbh.
omg I love Klaus. the scene where he walks into the forest and then his "spirit" reappears on Christmas always makes me cry.
The twist and your confusion of the forest are pretty tied together. It was pretty clear to me from the onset that it was going to be the inside of some sort of giant lifeform just because the animations and character designs reminded me alot of educational specials and being inside the body.
Don't get me wrong though it did still confuse me a few times on how the scale of the world worked and how crossing the mountains could be such a big deal when we finally see the relative size of the world. Still several areas reminded me of children's animations where we see moving fibers inside the lungs and the stomach being a dangerous acid area made since in retrospect. I dunno maybe I just remember Magic Schoolbus a bit too well lol.
The movie was fairly mediocre I don't know if I agree with all of your reasons or not. I think maybe a focus could've helped though what I would've wanted for an action piece wouldn't really be Disney. For me I've mostly always found Disney to be on the tame bland side so it makes it trickier to say what would make it work better, usually I'd say songs but I don't think every Disney film needs to be a musical.
You mixed Pixar in with Disney films and they're theoretically supposed to be separate brands. I think traditionally Pixar is more character/emotions based which fits for some of the slower character talky moments. Disney used to be mostly fairytales but they have broken from that several times so I really don't know.
I have a fear of complaining too much when Disney feels very focus group produced anyways, I don't want them to learn not to try things I wish they'd let the animators and writers choose more projects even if they fail. I just love weirdness. Which is why I suppose Strange World disappointed me, it wasn't even weird enough as a failure.
They are quite an advanced civilization. Too advanced for people who don't know how the world is like, not even the place where they live. This alone makes the whole thing fall apart.
I had to turn this movie off because I really wasn't trying to have "that" convo with my 5 year old and also I got so tired of listening to the toxic dad.
Wait! The start of the video was voice acting from the actual movie. I thought you dubbed/got voice actors to dub it over as a joke....Aw man...Disney :(
"Disney needs to make movies everyone can enjoy." Just what I have been saying! If it's all about messaging, it's not fun anymore. And frankly, I don't trust them anymore- can't assume it's family-friendly because it's Disney.
Imma be real and say; can’t we just have a traditional villain again? I feel like they are just keeping things safe and aren’t trying to have a REAL conflict.
I feel like after the success of Frozen; Disney started to fall off and focus on family trauma…I just want a traditional villain again.
"I'm starting to think Disney has something against dads" 🤣🤣🤣 clearly they're tryna pander to ppl with daddy issues
I have to agree that it wasn't amazing from a story perspective. There are definitely many reused tropes, and i agree there!
However, I think I liked it a bit more than you did (based on the way i understand this video). I think the reason I may have liked it a bit more is that I started to suspect that they were in something's immune system pretty early... the first time the river of blood cells showed up, I said to my daughter, "That reminds me of a circulatory system" and after that i started to notice that the scary killer things resembled immune system killer cells, and the little blue blob guy is an immune system scout cell... once I was on to that, I remembered that to get into this area, they punched through a barrier that was probably the skin. After that, I just kept seeing all the similarities... and my daughter was frustrated that I was pointing them out! So when the plot twist showed they were inside an animal and that this was all the different bodily functions, I felt vindicated and not at all like it came from left field.
I know this movie wasn't your favorite... but if you ever re-watch it, keeping this in mine, you will see that it's not out of left field at all. From the moment they punch through the skin, these are all normal bodily functions that exist inside most (if not all) mammals. It's not out of left field except that they don't tell you what it is until much later when the characters figure it out.
Came here for the Velma episode reviews, but then I magically found this video on my feed. I've finally decided to subscribe because your input is based on a constructive and fairly neutral view. Not only do you point out the flaws, you also give credit when something positive is done despite how difficult it is to view a bad piece of media as having a redeemable quality. Looking forward to view the rest of your catalog.
Regarding the movie, the lack of cohesion and recycling of plot tropes are not the main issues. It's the delivery that bothers me about this film. Chaotic films and recycled plots CAN be done good, but that's because there's a narrative WITHIN the chaotic mess, and something new is done with the plot trope itself. How about make a sibling rivalry instead of parent-child disagreement? Damn, why not make it child VS parent and one of them has to go? How about the dread of dealing with relatives that directly contribute to a character's demise? Encanto did this and look how well it did. Or maybe even just spousal conflicts that threaten the relationship and maybe it ultimately does? I wanna see THAT, not the overdone "dad/mom doesn't like what I do so imma rebel" plot. Also, When viewers are left confused and bored of the story, the film company has failed to deliver a message and make good movie and/or good plot
All this and we still don’t have an African Disney. Or a black ANIMATED Disney princess who want an animal for like 85 % of the movie
Yeah, this movie looks like all the ideas ended up on paper but never got revised enough to make a good story. Also, I dislike how unappealing the art direction and character design is.
I think you're right that Disney is out of ideas. Just look at the Elemental movie trailer.
Exactly!
Disney remakes have been dividing a lot of fans however I was hoping that wouldn’t be the same for animation but after raya and the last dragon including other animated movies made worried about the future of Disney animation. God I miss the golden age of Disney animation
As someone who loves Turning Red for these same reasons but didn't feel the dad/son thing in Strange. I get where there should be wider spectrum for different demos of Disney kids.
OMG THEY PLAGIARIZED WINX
Ok, maybe not plagerized, but there’s a show called winx that had the same cast concept of the plants are dying but it’s arcusully a giant turtle island.
The planet dying is a common trope in recent writing in general and the idea of the world being on the back of a giant turtle is as ancient as humanity itself. Many, many cultures around the globe, in their mythologies, explain the Earth as being on the back of a turtle.
While I agree with basically the rest of the video, I think that at 6:43 it can be seen as familiar because it is just anatomy. As soon as we saw the creatures on the inside i was able to understand that we we in lungs. However this requires an understanding of anatomy that not everyone has and they didn’t execute it the best. Further supporting your idea that it was meant more for Disney adults. The turtle carrying the wold is also a very popular world wide mythos thing that is seen across cultures. Otherwise great video!