This movie is designed for kids and young adults to be enjoyed ‘with’ parents, not the other way around. So all of these adults complaining about how ‘unoriginal’ this film is need a reality check.
This movie has many incredibly important points that our kids should be made aware of, the sooner the better!
Like most obviously, our tendency as humans to over exploit earths resources for sheer convenience and ease of life, leading to mass planetary disease and entropy.
We need to recognize our planet as the living entity that it IS and respect her as such , if we want future generations to survive, let alone THRIVE. Strange world delivers this message in a fantastically beautiful way with its incredible creature and world building aesthetics, sure to entrance the young ones while conveying a deeper message.
And to those who say Disney has no place “teaching kids about romance “( what they are saying of course is non-cis romance), need to realize that young people are going to discover their first crushes, with our without anyone teaching them. I should add that the non binary “romance “ some people are up in arms about, BARELY takes a footnote in this movie. You get about 2 minutes of two young adults (teenagers), flirting in a very mild and innocent way, as we would hope our teenagers would be doing rather than what tends to happen today in our world over over sexualized everything.
I found this element of the movie to be quite tasteful and certainly not “groomy” ….
Gay people exist and they deserve representation, especially the type of representation that doesn’t perpetuate harmful stereotypes.
All in all this film is a great introduction to these important concepts (planetary respect and conservation, forgiveness, family and friends).