Thinking a disney movie won't be woke is what truly shocks me. I want to watch the china cut of these movies so its watchable

I literally only learned of this movie's existence today.

Just look at CoCo, no stupid agenda just explaining family is important and to cherish them while they’re here and to remember them once they’re gone.

Wall-E is a great example of a movie that takes *A* social issue but it is surrounded by a beautiful score, a coherent plot, and clever humor. This is just sad.

Congratulations Lauren, you are 1 of 3 people that actually saw this movie.

I'm so glad I grew up in the 50's & 60's when Walt was in control.

They insult their audience while simultaneously expecting the audience to throw money at them. It's ridiculous.

The sad part is they had a really interesting idea with the world being on top of a turtle. A couple edits and it’s a magic school bus type adventure to help the turtle/world feel better and get their power source back. Could have been a cute and educational “you help the Earth and it will take care of you message” but of course they couldn’t resist making it preachy and anti-human

You mentioned meek male characters. Meek male characters who were done right in my opinion. As their kindness is what led to bigger strengths. Hiccup in How to Train Your Dragon and Milo Atlantis the Lost Empire.

Oh, and one more thing: It _is_ possible to make an animated movie with an 'environmental' message and still make it good. Watch almost any one of Hayao Miyazaki's movies; movies such as "Ponyo," "Nausicaa," "Laputa" or "Tonari no Totoro." Each of these movies expressed a strong, clear theme of respecting the natural environment, but they did so with _subtlety_ and _nuance,_ without beating it over a viewer's head. (Hell, even Pixar's own "Wall-E" had an environment message without being heavy-handed about it.) So it _can_ be done. It just requires someone with actual talent & skill rather than an 'agenda.'

It's actually hilarious how much Callisto looks like Gina Carano. Whom Disney fired.. for being a strong woman.. who thinks for herself.

They mention the Lion King as if it doesn't have a full movie montage sexualizing two LIONS in a heterosexual romance... Why is it only okay to have romance in a kids movie when it is between the opposite sex?

The only thing I have heard endlessly about this "movie" is how progressive it is, how it triggers conservatives like me, and how the mixed-race lead is the "first gay lead" and all I simply ask why I, as a non-gay black man, should be interested in this movie and character. What are his personality, quirks, what makes him interesting (besides his sexuality), how is the world? What's the plot? What arcs does he undergo? What challenges does he overcome?

They didn't market it because they knew it was a stinker and were counting on uninformed viewers going to see it. Taking the democratic approach

This is quite possibly the first Disney animated film that absolutely, definitely was made for an audience of critics, not an audience of families. It has no reason to exist otherwise.

There is nothing wrong at all with have an interracial couple, a gay character, a strong female and other ""woke"" things in films. Although the problem and the reason why lots of people roll their eyes when they see it in movies is because 9/10 times it's to push an agenda into the viewer.

“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” - Walt Disney I hope that Disney will learn from their many recent kicks in the teeth but I feel like they’re more likely to just double down on the woke bs. They’ll never admit that they’re wrong, it will always be everyone else’s fault.

I find the stark contrast between Strange World and Encanto, two movies released around Thanksgiving Weekend fascinating because you can tell that the team behind Encanto put their heart and soul into telling a great story that people will come back to for years first and any woke agenda (I'm pretty sure there was none) came afterward. For Strange World, it's clear they were ticking boxes on the Woke/Diversity checklist and didn't care about anything else, and look how that turned out. Just another example of "Go Woke, Go Broke".

"His sexuality comes up alot?" There's literally only 4 scense where his sexuality comes up totalling less than 5mins worth of the 1hr 45min movie Did you actually watch the movie?

Woke? 😂 That’s what y’all calling this? 😭 so hilarious

Remember when Disney made kids movies that had an underlining lesson for children? The OG Pinocchio is a really dark movie with its message that a whole generation of parents approved of. (don't lie, Don't act like an ass, Be brave when needed.)

"Every day the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it... well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time." - Sally Jupiter (Watchmen)

I disagree that gay relationships and straight relationships can't be "interchangeable." What on earth is it that makes gay couples so different from straight couples (besides being able to have biological kids, of course)? Like, they're not "more sexual" than straight couples. They aren't inherently pornographic by just existing. Only someone who holds prejudice would think that. This movie was nothing to write home about, and the romance was forced for woke points, but it wasn't "child inappropriate" at all.

Lauren twisting herself into a pretzel to avoid saying "homosexuality is perverse and bad."

Let me get this straight, you have a small totally isolated country whose inhabitants can't leave because of an encircling mountain range--and yet it has a diverse population that looks like our UN. Right. Good job Disney writers!

my 14 year old son just walked into our kitchen where i am watching this on my pc and said "did she just say a handicapable dog, and why is it a character in a movie?" "it's disney, son" "I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN" was his response. so sad; disney meant so much more once.

„teaching homosexuality to children“?? I‘m sorry what? You probably tell them that they‘ll get married and have kids later which is just as sexual.

"I have no problem with biracial families" Proceeds to complain about biracial people existing

Disney will lie to themselves about why this movie is tanking. Some sort of non-sense about CEO shakeup. They are to idealistic to admit it's just the message. People go to the movies to be entertained and escape reality for a few hours, not to be marketed with this or any type of message.

My wife and I took our 3 year old out to the theater on a whim to surprise her. She's only been to the movies a few times in her life and loves going. We went in not knowing anything and were gobsmacked at the amount of woke stuff in it. Like you said, actual quality took a total backseat to the agenda beatings. My wife and I felt held hostage at the theater honestly. We didn't want to leave since we brought our kid. She didn't really seem to be enjoying it either though tbh. It's too bad nowadays that we have to screen even animated movies that would have felt completely safe to see in the past. My wife grew up a disney girl that loved the princesses and so it's hard to get rid of disney plus but I've been gradually working on her to get rid of it. We already own the classics she loves and all the new stuff is mostly garbage anyway. Great video though, you hit the nail on the head. Strange World is basically an animated woke checklist, when stripped away of all that is bereft of any substance at all. It's literally the entire movie.

My daughter's teacher played this for their Friday movie and she hated it. She said it was boring and just pulled out her sketch book and drew instead. She's in 2nd grade.

What is with some parents? Do you really think that A) Kids are not capable of understanding things only because they are young? You explain things to them concidering their age and there is not a thing you are unable to explain if you are a solid parent. B) You are a master of your kid and you can shelter it from everything until "it is the right time"? Sorry not sorry - kids have all different kinds of experiences - on the playground, in preschool, in school, in friends house. You should not be so afraid about having conversations with your children. They can see a gay couple on the street. Their school buddy could use a word "gay". Helicopter parents who treat their kids like they are stupid, unobservant and depentable are just so toxic... By sheltering yoir kids you make them weak, afraid, dependent on you (and YOU are not going to live forever to guide them all the time).

I'm a Black male baby boomer and retired engineer after 45 years in corporate America. I've been through decades of disrespect and benign neglect from Society, such is life and life goes on. I grew up on Disney, it was one of my few joys as a child. This recent effort by Hollyweird via Disney has been more systematic and heavy handed then any time that I can remember. I mean we had the cross-dressing comedians from Flip Wilson to Jamie Foxx but these recent shove-it-in-their-face efforts by Disney are frightening. I survived the Woman King, can't wait for Black Pantherette 2 to shutdown but afraid of what's in the works by Disney

Holy!! This is the 1st movie review out of 4 I watched on KZfaq that actually talks about the movie, all the others ones that were knocking it didn't even talk about why, maybe too many code words. I'm getting tired of people to scared to talk about the subject they are covering that they make up words and skirt around the topic without even covering it because they might get demonitized. Way to be controlled people, good job.

What pisses me off the most is the bait and switch. There's no mention of gayness or sexuality in the trailers. They just sort of blindside you and your kids with it midway through watching it. Yet they claim it's super important to represent people and that it's super important to the story. If it was so important, why didn't they mention it in the trailer? It's almost like they are too ashamed/embarrassed to put it in the trailer. This is how they handled the gay guy in Frozen too. He was just briefly in the background for 0.36 seconds for no reason other than to mark it off on their "woke points" checklist.

After it showed the electric plants failing, the plot of the movie was an open book. The only thing i found surprising was how the "bad guys" stopped being bad for no reason at all.

The fact that they used Pando as an allegory to Oil is cleverly woke. It’s also not surprising, the moment I heard you point out that the writers probably used the twist as a horrible allegory “getting rid of oil is a great idea!” it made me reek in disgust. At the end of the movie, it is a year after the events of most of the movie before Yeager tried to get past the mountains, we never get to hear the Avalonian population’s response to the destruction of Pando, they just willingly accept that Pando was a terrible source of energy for no reason.

I mean they said they'd do this, anyone thinking profits are the motive hasn't been paying attention.

It’s really sad to see this is how people think. To see their mindset is so negative they make a review on how “woke” a movie is because it has a gay character

Can you imagine telling people in the 90s that in just a few decades Walt Disney itself would become the Christian film industry?

When your dad was talking about old Disney movies that had a good message. I immediately thought of the Mulan movie, which is a great story about honor, respect and family values. I dunno when will Disney realize it is on the wrong track?!

Way to go Lauren!!! Finally an honest review of this film. Thank you for telling it like it is. The way we explain things to kids should be left up to the parents. Not Disneys job to do it.

Anything with inclusion is labeled "woke", it speaks to how sleep the world still is.

Thank you so much for your honest opinion. We need more families to voice these concerns.

Sad part is I cared way more for the giant turtle continent and the dog than any other character in this movie. I have far and away more empathy and emotional connection to the friggin’ continent than any of the human characters.

Disney's "Not At All Secret Gay Agenda", stikes again.

Strange World is "the worst movie ever made"?? Honestly, with all the horse shit they've been rolling out recently (with a few bangers, credit were credit is do) that almost sounds like they should be proud of it. It's very difficult to do worse than CG lion king and Lightyear. I haven't seen this movie yet and don't plan too. Lightyear effed up have LGBT characters already. I'm a lesbian. I don't appreciate gay characters existing for the purpose of pandering. You could just tell the lesbian character in Lightyear wasn't actually written to be a lesbian; everything surrounding that just felt so forced. I was HIGHLY put off by that. You want random gays? Onward did it right. Legend of Korra did it right (too frequently though). Doctor Who did it right. The Last of Us did it right (with multiple lgbt characters - 2 gay men, 1 lesbian, and 1 bi woman). There's A LOT more too, including in Disney. *That all being said...why do so many people think they need to talk to children about sex and genitalia when a gay couple exists? Sex ed stuff is the ONLY real difference between homosexual couples and heterosexual couples. It's really not that complicated. Either exclude ALL romantic themes from kids films "to protect the children" or allow all forms of romantic themes (not sexual, romantic) to genuinely protect the children. Deal with being a gay child listening to what you say about homosexuality and children, and you'll understand what lgbt people are saying on this topic.*

7:14- So...they just give it up cold turkey? No compromise, no meet in the middle, no just use less of it, no anything. Huh. So,. what did they decide to use instead?

I don't care anymore It's a cult vibe

Thank you for being honest about gay relationships. The truth is, if you tell a child “mommy and daddy had a baby” they just think ok and move on. If you tell a child mommy and mommy had a baby or daddy and daddy had a baby, they’re just confused and have so many questions. Even though they don’t know anything about sex, it still doesn’t make sense to them.

At this point, you should know that anything put out by Disney is crap

Strange World sounds like a jumbled collage of rejected disney ideas glued together.

I’m sure China and the Middle Eastern countries will enjoy this storyline very much. 😉

Disney is a joke.

I don't mind if a movie features LGBT+ or minorities, I just hate it when they're so self congratulatory, like if all the marketings only talk about how progressive and brave they are for including LGBT theme in the film, reminds me of the newest Doctor Who actor, instead of talking about his acting biography, they just keep saying "OMG THE DOCTOR WILL BE PLAYED BY A LGBT ACTOR" As an Asian myself, I still refuse to watch Shang Chi because it's just too cringe for me, I even felt second hand embarrassment for black people when I watched Luke Cage. Case and point, both Sailor Moon and Sgt. Frog features gay main character, but it's just part of the show/character, and not the focus, and thanks to that I grew up not thinking homosexual is weird because it felt so natural, all of these marketing and self congratulation actually made LGBT feels abnormal, and having them in a film is a huge deal because they're so unnatural

There was no marketing for it because someone sabotaged it, seems like someone at Disney is actually sane.

I hate the argument that “well you wouldn’t be mad about the relationship in the movie if it were straight” but there are literally countless examples of people hating on all kinds of forced relationships. People generally don’t like them when they feel forced. Non-traditional relationships just happen to be a little more difficult in kids movies because implanting certain ideas into kids heads at an extremely young age is dangerous. Really, there shouldn’t be any kind of heavy handed romance in kids movies if you ask me. A little bit is fine but half the time it adds nothing to the story.

They bring up the gay kids relationship three times. 1) when we meet the teen boys and Ethan's dad embarrasses him (3 minute scene). 2) When Jaeger gives his grandson advice about talking to this boy (another two minute scene). 3) And we see Ethan with this boy at the end of the film. This is 5 to 6 minutes of a 1 hour and 40 minute film.

Perhaps the A team at Disney doesn’t want to work on woke films so the quality suffers.

Papa Chen: I just wanted to see a good movie :( That basically sums up the absolute state of modern cinema and the audience reaction...

Anyone with an ounce of intellectual honesty knows that gay and straight relationships are not the same.

disney forgot who they are making movies for. its straight people who literaly MAKE the audience for these movies. but now somehow we need children movies for gay people!? well guess what gay people usually dont make children. also the whole idea on how disney now thinks it has a right or place to educate children on sex and gender politcs is just rediculous.

“Toxic masculine” (or real man) is the real protagonist. Neo-Gastonism is the future

i hate political messaging but how does Hayao Miyazaki environmental stuff so well when Disney does it it sucks and its political?

Remember when movies used to be written well and made well and weren't propaganda films?

It's not a movie, it's a propaganda piece. If we wanted that, we could have moved to the Soviet Union. Before it collapsed.

Treasure Planet and Dr. Seuss's The Lorax are better alternatives than Strange world. 🤭

Mutilating the arts is part of the demoralization process

Tell me a homophobic without telling me your homophobic

Why do they need to advertise sexuality in a kids movie anyway.

Lauren, the worst thing about this is that unless something changes, this is the garbage you have to look forward to as a mom to wade through trying to make sure your child watches something decent.

If the movie was about how a Dad was pushing his daughter on some boy, it would be derided as creepy

The movie was not good, but the fact that people freak out over an interracial couple and a gay teen makes me wonder whether the SJWs of society do have a point. I say who gives a fuck, if the movie was good( in this case it wasn't)then the rest shouldn't matter, kind of disappointing that this is a crucial talking point in your review.

The movie is about a son, his father, and grandfather reconnecting, the 16 years old being gay has no real impact on the story, or is it an arc in the movie, it's not a coming out movie, and let's face it, interracial relationships are more and more common, as is the acceptance that there nothing wrong with being gay, so it doesn't bother me at all that the father is white, and that the mother is black, or that the son is gay, I don't see this movie as being woke, I only see this movie as a reflection of a more and more mixed and open society, IMHO only bigot snowflakes will have a problem with this movie!

It makes me sad I won't be able to take my kids to see a movie without wondering if it's something I'm not comfortable with them seeing

I bring this up not because of your family's ancestral ties, but because of its relevance. Mao Tse-tung in 1960's China unleashed what was known as his Cultural Revolution. He rampaged against Chinese norms & traditions. Anything that smacked of pre-Mao Chinese cultural history was denounced. Mao, due to his wokeness, allowed a lot of pain & suffering to ravage China.

Did you... WOKE up well? When a white straight man is the protagonist, no one bats an eye. The movie has a gay character, and that's "woke".

I love how they put an environmental message in a movie but yet Disney has so much trash and pollution coming from their resort in Florida alone. They removed A WHOLE LOT of native species from the area they used to create Walt Disney world. Nit talking about the gator removal of Disney some years ago (I get a child got eaten but why remove ALL OF THEM. They were here before us yk?)

People keep saying that it's really a movie about going into a turtle's anus. I'm here to tell them, it's NOT! It's about going into the anus of a giant tortoise. Big difference.

When was the last time Hollyweird made a show or movie with a good dad?

Thanks for the review. So hold up, if the main character crushes on someone of their gender it should be a parental concern for young children even though main characters crush on people all the time? I don’t get it. Have extra conversations with kids. They gonna see Kelly with two dads at the PTA bake sale anyways. I don’t think families should hide themselves because parents in other families don’t want to have the extra conversation. I didn’t see so many things wrong with this film that seem to have a lot of people uncomfortable. And so what if the Indian character consumes a lot of soy? Soy is a big part of some people’s diet because of their culture. Plus, yeh there were some concerning things about him, but his masculinity or his taking responsibility wasn’t one of them. He flat out admitted piloting wasn’t his strong suit rather than letting his ego doom the team. I work with men. The least toxic ones are like that. You feel better working with them rather than it’s their way or the highway nine times out of ten.

Bruh I stopped watching that shit after the kid blew up cause they didn’t play the card game right 💀

I was tempted to see Strange World because it was giving off similar Treasure Planet sci-fi adventure vibes. Watching your review of Strange World just made my heart break. I really wanted to give this movie a chance. I’m better off watching Avatar II even though it’s not even my top priority.

you can have a message in a movie as long as the movie is still entertaining. people seem to forget that these days. entertainment first, message second and preferably subtly, blatant messaging even begins to annoy the people who agree with the message eventually.

Writing? Where we're going we don't need writing!

I can understand why she got red flags from seeing an interracial couple. It's not a bad thing but it's usually lumped in with other representation and woke culture like it's the same thing.

Canceled my Disney plus when Bob went after my Governor Ron. Even though I have A-List I will not go to these Disney movies. If they release movies that aren't woke I will be happy to go to them.

This movie checked all the boxes... It had interracial families, a gay relationship, a handicapable dog and an environmentalist message. 10/10, most movie ever... I especially loved how merchandisable their mascot was. They didn't even need a story, that's how good it was! Plus the gayness kept a small enough blip that it could be easily removed for foreign markets, that's how forward-thinking Disney is! Totally brilliant use of the virtue signals people crave without so much meaningful substance to it that it actually affected the story to where it can't be quickly removed to get those bigot dollars... Brilliant!

Ma'am with due respect, your English pronunciation is crystal clear. English is my second language, and your pronunciation is as good as venessa English. I randomly get to your channel .

my only problem with new animated films is that the creators remember they have to be "inclusive" and so they just make one of the characters be as many minorities as they can fit. never seen a gay white dude in any of these films.

First openly gay character... Beside live action LeFou from Beauty and the Beast, Oaken in Frozen, McGregor Houghton from Jungle Cruise, Officer Specter from Onward, Greg from Out (a short entirely focused on coming out), Alisha Hawthorne from Lightyear, and on and on and on... Rainbow Capitalism is nothing new for these groomers... However, it's clearly not being done for the profits, so what is ACTUALLY going on?

What else is new this is disney indoctrinating children with woke alphabet content and treating male characters like trash which is two of my biggest pet peeves

I was hoping the female leader character would betray the team by the end and be the real villain(something like in Atlantis), but that sort of character complexity wouldn't fit their agenda.

The only advertisement I seen was on KZfaq and a few ads on the TV. It's like they wanted the film to fail.

This abomination is on track to loose a couple hundred million dollars LMAO

I'm not sure, maybe just maybe, there's a legitimate market for such "coming out" stories, which might land well if handled differently and respectfully towards all of the characters. I'm a father of two, we're all straight, and we don't go through such a struggle, but a cousin of mine, and a very good friend of mine as well, both went through a rough phase because of them being (independently from each other) homosexual. I remember my cousin being thrown out by his parents, and he stayed with us, for a time, half a year or so. My mother managed for his family to allow him back, but it was never the same, as they never really accepted him as he was, and his two brothers were rather indifferent to him afterwards, despite of him being in any other way actually a good brother and son. I have mixed feelings about e whole thing, it was quite sad. He moved away, went to Canada actually, and (as far as I know, I'm not all that in touch with any of them due to other reasons) lives with his partner. They kind of tolerate them both, as long as they're mainly away, but it's simply not the same. And the other guy, my good friend, well, he gathered all his strength and came out to me, afraid that I would reject him or rather his friendship afterwards. That was roughly 30 years ago, and I knew him since at least 10 years before. I always knew that he was gay, and I told him as much, and he was a bit surprised. He's the kind of guy whom you wouldn't notice, he hates the lgtbq+ community and their messaging or agenda very much. He despises all of their agenda, and thinks that's its unnecessary and over the top. He's had his partners, he's been in long-term relationships, but it's never quite worked out, but it suffices to say that as he came out to me, I told him that I always knew he was gay, and my love for him as a friend, as a brother even, wouldn't be affected by it, we hugged, and we're still friends to this day. It was very important for him that I knew and that I accepted him, which I had already done and always did way before he took that one very important step for himself. He never knew that at that time, but I had already engaged in some discussions or even a couple of fights in school against bullies aiming their hatred towards him, so I was already defending him long before he came out, and it's one of the best friendships anyone can ever wish for. So, I'm now here thinking, what if they decided to tell such a story, a story of acceptance, friendship, brotherly love, loyalty, and resilience, despite of being different, without making all men bad, all women virtuous, all lgtbq+'s amazing, but instead looking at it through the lens of acceptance, and foremost respect towards everyone! I know who I am, I don't need confirmation from anyone, and I love my family and my kids, and although I'm glad/relieved that they come both after their mum and me, regarding that particular aspect of our lives, I can imagine that some people would indeed need some kind of reassurance or confirmation, of who they are or are allowed to be, (specially in their young years), who would love them, and who are they allowed to love, just as my friend and my cousin. Two very similar stories, with two different outcomes, precisely of the way it was handled and people around behaved towards them. They have a bit more to struggle with, than normal people, as we all are trying to determine who we are, what our place on this earth is, so... I put myself into the position of "what if it were one my kids?", which might not be the case, but just what if... and always think about these two people! I ask myself if instead of pushing such agenda, rather a story like that, should it be necessary, would be well received... By the way, among tens of thousands I've come to know over the years, only very few are like the 2 I just mentioned, and still we get the forced inclusion in every single movie and series, just to make sure we have certain representation, certain quote... Just to point pout the over representation in modern media and pop culture, so maybe we should start concentrating more in quality rather than quantity, which is what Disney and Co. are desperate to do!

I think you nailed it when you said the script supervisor must have been a diversity hire. Unfortunately, placing any priority in hiring above the suitability and skill of the applicant leads to a reduction in the quality of work. In todays emotionally volatile world letting it be known that diversity led hiring is happening does mean that more of your applicants will consider themselves "diverse" and among those with that attitude that might apply knowing they have that advantage there is a high correlation with being radicalised and thus many of these employees find it totally acceptable to push these agendas when most others would place the integrity of the product above politics. As others point out it is possible to produce a film where diversity is normalised but not when the film is being made by people hired for the colour of their skin, religion, sexuality and gender identification and not for their skill at the job role they are filling.

Disney's tragic kingdoom is rapidly becoming n more than slime.

Poor Papa Chen, having to suffer through terrible movies for our entertainment.

Papa Chen was probably alive when Disney was still turning out quality hand drawn animated films!