![]() As the Clades settle back into their lives in Avalonia, they’re surrounded by the hot air balloons and other preindustrial tools that they used before discovering Pando. They do start to figure out an alternative energy source at the very end of the film, but what’s significant is that they decide-in a heartbeat-that it’s worth going cold turkey in order to save the world. There’s no compromise, no last-minute solution, just a grim joke about going home to face “no power, cold coffee, and angry masses.” They break open Pando’s hard shell so that the turtle’s immune cells can destroy it. Of course, the other characters don’t like that idea, and the movie gives us the obligatory struggle for control of their airship. The Clades realize that in order to save their world, they have to destroy Pando, robbing their society of the electricity and transportation that everyone has come to take for granted. The underworld is the turtle’s insides, and Pando is actually a parasite that’s killing it. At the end of their travels, they discover that their entire civilization, Avalonia, is perched on the shell of a colossal sea turtle. In Strange World, the Clades (Jaboukie Young-White, Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, and Gabrielle Union) journey to a subterranean world to save Pando, the organic energy source they’ve been farming for 25 years. If you can look past those problems, though, the ending is surprisingly provocative. It has a diverse cast and Disney’s first gay lead in a feature film, but none of the characters are very interesting, and the second act is positively mind-numbing. Overall, the film is a tragic waste of potential. Disney’s newest animated feature film, Strange World, quietly came and went last month, with many moviegoers not even realizing it had been released until they heard that it had flopped.
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