Don Hall and Qui Nguyen direct Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid and Jaboukie Young-White in this Walt Disney animated sci-fi adventure where a family travel to the dangerous, bio-organic centre of their planet to find out what is affecting their civilisation’s key power source.

Just Stop Oil. Daddy Issues. Woke representation. The big The Day After Tomorrow reunion / revival! These are all fine and worthy additions to the Disney canon. The weird biodiversity of the secret planet within a planet is well conceived and lends itself to pleasingly tight action set pieces. Yet even if it’s heart is in the right place I’m not sure Strange World is memorable beyond its attempt to repackage hot button issues in a way that is palatable for the family market. A week after watching and I had to have a long hard think whether I had anything worth saying about it… and that is pretty damning evidence. I hope time proves me wrong.

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Perfect Double Bill: Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

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