Disney's "Strange World"
Jan. 1st, 2023 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigidWe finally set aside a chunk of time to watch Disney's "Strange World."
Like a lot of people in my age group I'm a fan of pulp fiction, including those stories about brave and bold explorers finding weird underground chasms full of weird biomes, plants, and animals that nobody has seen before. Or maybe they get shrunk down super small and enter a human body and find out where the soul is located. Or maybe there's some cavemen, or dinosaurs are still hanging out.
It was pretty neat to see a movie with such a pulp feel to it.
The opening animation was really nice and I wish we had more movies in that style but I'm not sure it would have suited the strange flora and fauna of the underworld that Searcher, Ethan, et al explore. It's a squishy springy and sometimes translucent place.
And coming from a personal place here... it's a movie where the moms are alive. Searcher's mom is alive (she's 60 and married to a hunk). Ethan's mom/Searcher's wife is alive, and is on the trip with them. And for all Ethan is like Searcher, and Searcher is like Jaeger... he's also like his mom. As a mom this means a lot to me.
It's a good movie, it's a fun movie, it's got a bunch of dorks running around and having an adventure and learning things about themselves and each other and also about the environment. There's a cute dog that loves to give kisses. I laughed a lot while watching this movie and it was really nice to spend the first day of 2023 laughing.
It's a little predictable but I'm an adult. This is aimed more at the tween/early teen crowd, I think, although there's stuff in there for adults without it feeling like a nudge nudge wink wink adult-issues-in-disguise-as-a-kid's-movie (vampire going through a midlife crisis because his daughter gets a boyfriend I'm looking at you).
We spent a lot of time re-watching the same media when my kid was younger and this is absolutely a movie that would hold up to multiple watches.
Like a lot of people in my age group I'm a fan of pulp fiction, including those stories about brave and bold explorers finding weird underground chasms full of weird biomes, plants, and animals that nobody has seen before. Or maybe they get shrunk down super small and enter a human body and find out where the soul is located. Or maybe there's some cavemen, or dinosaurs are still hanging out.
It was pretty neat to see a movie with such a pulp feel to it.
The opening animation was really nice and I wish we had more movies in that style but I'm not sure it would have suited the strange flora and fauna of the underworld that Searcher, Ethan, et al explore. It's a squishy springy and sometimes translucent place.
And coming from a personal place here... it's a movie where the moms are alive. Searcher's mom is alive (she's 60 and married to a hunk). Ethan's mom/Searcher's wife is alive, and is on the trip with them. And for all Ethan is like Searcher, and Searcher is like Jaeger... he's also like his mom. As a mom this means a lot to me.
It's a good movie, it's a fun movie, it's got a bunch of dorks running around and having an adventure and learning things about themselves and each other and also about the environment. There's a cute dog that loves to give kisses. I laughed a lot while watching this movie and it was really nice to spend the first day of 2023 laughing.
It's a little predictable but I'm an adult. This is aimed more at the tween/early teen crowd, I think, although there's stuff in there for adults without it feeling like a nudge nudge wink wink adult-issues-in-disguise-as-a-kid's-movie (vampire going through a midlife crisis because his daughter gets a boyfriend I'm looking at you).
We spent a lot of time re-watching the same media when my kid was younger and this is absolutely a movie that would hold up to multiple watches.
