Gaming With Noah

Let me start off by saying... this movie isn't as woke as people think it is. Turning Red is WAY more woke. First of all, Ethan's homosexual relationship with Diazo is so seldomly brought up or shown that it's not even worth mentioning. If those four scenes were removed, the film literally wouldn't have changed at all. They were just shoe-horned in because of woke capitalism. Second of all, aside from the forced gay relationship, the film doesn't even get woke until around the 70-minute mark. I'll get back to that. The second act is actually... dare I say... fantastic! The plot is interesting, the character interactions are great, and the titular "strange world" looks lively and very creative. In the first 15 minutes, the pacing is too fast and the dialogue is overly simple and cliché, but after that, the film gets really interesting. SPOILERS BELOW - Searcher Clade finds a green plant while mountain-climbing alongside his family of explorers. Clade thinks this energized plant will help fix Avalonia's (LBP2 would like to have a word with you, btw) energy problem. However, his dad wants to continue climbing over the mountain that nobody in Avalonia dares to climb. This is when the cliché "I'm not you, dad" moment happens. 25 years later, all of Avalonia is powered off this plant (named "pando"); they were able to invent radios, refrigeration, cars, ext. that run off it. However, the president of Avalonia goes to Searcher to tell him that pando all across the continent is dying. They theorize that all pando can be traced to "the heart of pando", which is being poisoned somehow. Eventually (around the 70-minute mark), they discover that Avalonia is actually on a giant creature and that pando is the creature's immune system (during an overly simple and rushed chat between Searcher and Ethan outside the continent). The people of Avalonia have been taking pando, allowing the underground animals to get into the creature's heart and kill it. After saving the giant creature, they tell Avalonia to stop using pando, thus reverting it back to an undeveloped continent. Seem familiar? Yeah, it's environmentalist message is hardly subtle. Giant creature = Earth Pando = Greenhouse gases Immune system = Earth's atmosphere This movie being propaganda is one thing, but pando suddenly dying doesn't even make any sense. It's like this movie wasn't even supposed to be woke, but was changed in post-production. Like... it's never explained why the creature's heart suddenly stopped pumping pando throughout it's body. I can't really think of a real-life equivalent. Even with leukemia, the body still pumps white blood cells. Also, if pando is the creature's immune system, how is it "poisoning" it? Movie can't even propaganda right. I actually believed this would be Disney's best movie since Big Hero 6. Missed potential; 5/10