This big spoiler marked section here at the beginning of my review – ignore it if you only want to read an actual review about the movie itself and not a vent from me because of those that came away from watching this only whining, “but political agenda!” Which shouldn’t have to feel even remotely necessary. People suck.
It greatly annoys me that I had to go into this looking for signs of “woke garbage” because that’s all I’d repeatedly heard about it. Anyone who complains that it’s full of that is more likely to be a conservative Christian type or is just being too damn picky due to their obsession with the leftist side of extremist politics. I’m somewhere in the middle by the way.
There was an interracial couple. There was a teenage boy who had a crush on another teenage boy. That was the bulk of it really, as far as anything I could discern as potentially being deemed “woke.”
Dudes, those things don’t make or break a story.
Trading out those details for a couple/family of the same race and for a heterosexual love interest instead of a homo one would have resulted in the exact same damn plot. If you were to read a book where the skin color and gender of the characters weren’t ever mentioned or revealed through context, then what the fuck would it matter as long as you were entertained by the story? Seriously, come on.
As far as the interracial couple goes, I actually do kind of understand a certain low level of grumbling from some. Because I have noticed nearly every time I watch something new in the past like, I don’t know, 2 years-ish from watching this, there is one. Often it’s a white man and a black woman with a great afro or similar. It’s become the new norm. I get that much.
I am completely fine with various forms of representation in the media. I’m not against it. For example, I remember thinking it was so beyond cool when I saw a wheelchair bound character introduced in the animated show, Goldie & Bear. Thinking back though, I don't actually find interracial couples to be anything especially new. They’ve been represented throughout media for many years now. It’s the fact that there’s been this uproar and so much talk about certain happenings and perspectives that is driving more content making people to add this specific representation and more into their media creations. So, it at least makes sense why it’s happening. Simply put, it’s popular to do so right now. It’ll probably balance out again in time. In the meantime, we need to look past it and focus on the stories themselves and not judge all this new media based on the color of people’s skin in it. That’s what was supposed to be at the heart of it anyway, right? And I’m talking both ways, to be clear. Judge a movie based on the story, not whether or not it does or doesn’t contain an interracial couple or an LGBT one.
As far as homosexuality goes, that’s perhaps been represented a bit less than the interracial stuff over the years, although it definitely has been. It was going on in the 90s far more than I realized at the time, but I wasn’t paying much attention. I didn’t watch all the popular TV shows containing gay love until years later, far past their debuts. It’s been being normalized and it’s continuing to be! I have no problem with it showing up in animated media, because two of the same gender crushing on each other has no more to do with sex than two of the opposite gender. If the teenage boy in this movie had had a crush on a teenage girl and it wouldn’t have been considered scandalous, then a boy liking a boy is no more so.
Anyway, it makes me a bit angry that any amount of time is being spent discussing this movie outside what it’s actually about. Maybe I shouldn’t be and should instead just talk about how cool and fun it is and ignore the rest, but the fact that it has lower than a 6 on IMDb is telling and I feel the need to point out the stupidity of low ratings based on such bogus bullshit. If you were able to change those aforementioned details and then would give it a higher rating, you’re being a horrid human being.
Strange World is a family action/adventure sci-fi meld. The sci-fi aspect is cool as all heck too! The visuals are mesmerizing! The creatures and the landscapes are really cool.
I personally really loved and respected that race or sexual orientation were never brought up as issues for those particular characters to deal with, as they often are used as an easy way to inject conflict into media. Like, it’s become such an expectation when it comes to those things, that I kept wondering if it would come up that someone had a problem with either of them, but nope. They just existed and that was that. It did have a Utopian feel to it, so people living in harmony despite their differences fits the mood of the movie. It also managed to have a dystopian feel to it though, funnily enough!
Review by Bunny HarvestmanBlockedParent2023-12-19T17:28:49Z
This big spoiler marked section here at the beginning of my review – ignore it if you only want to read an actual review about the movie itself and not a vent from me because of those that came away from watching this only whining, “but political agenda!” Which shouldn’t have to feel even remotely necessary. People suck.
It greatly annoys me that I had to go into this looking for signs of “woke garbage” because that’s all I’d repeatedly heard about it. Anyone who complains that it’s full of that is more likely to be a conservative Christian type or is just being too damn picky due to their obsession with the leftist side of extremist politics. I’m somewhere in the middle by the way.
There was an interracial couple. There was a teenage boy who had a crush on another teenage boy. That was the bulk of it really, as far as anything I could discern as potentially being deemed “woke.”
Dudes, those things don’t make or break a story.
Trading out those details for a couple/family of the same race and for a heterosexual love interest instead of a homo one would have resulted in the exact same damn plot. If you were to read a book where the skin color and gender of the characters weren’t ever mentioned or revealed through context, then what the fuck would it matter as long as you were entertained by the story? Seriously, come on.
As far as the interracial couple goes, I actually do kind of understand a certain low level of grumbling from some. Because I have noticed nearly every time I watch something new in the past like, I don’t know, 2 years-ish from watching this, there is one. Often it’s a white man and a black woman with a great afro or similar. It’s become the new norm. I get that much.
I am completely fine with various forms of representation in the media. I’m not against it. For example, I remember thinking it was so beyond cool when I saw a wheelchair bound character introduced in the animated show, Goldie & Bear. Thinking back though, I don't actually find interracial couples to be anything especially new. They’ve been represented throughout media for many years now. It’s the fact that there’s been this uproar and so much talk about certain happenings and perspectives that is driving more content making people to add this specific representation and more into their media creations. So, it at least makes sense why it’s happening. Simply put, it’s popular to do so right now. It’ll probably balance out again in time. In the meantime, we need to look past it and focus on the stories themselves and not judge all this new media based on the color of people’s skin in it. That’s what was supposed to be at the heart of it anyway, right? And I’m talking both ways, to be clear. Judge a movie based on the story, not whether or not it does or doesn’t contain an interracial couple or an LGBT one.
As far as homosexuality goes, that’s perhaps been represented a bit less than the interracial stuff over the years, although it definitely has been. It was going on in the 90s far more than I realized at the time, but I wasn’t paying much attention. I didn’t watch all the popular TV shows containing gay love until years later, far past their debuts. It’s been being normalized and it’s continuing to be! I have no problem with it showing up in animated media, because two of the same gender crushing on each other has no more to do with sex than two of the opposite gender. If the teenage boy in this movie had had a crush on a teenage girl and it wouldn’t have been considered scandalous, then a boy liking a boy is no more so.
Anyway, it makes me a bit angry that any amount of time is being spent discussing this movie outside what it’s actually about. Maybe I shouldn’t be and should instead just talk about how cool and fun it is and ignore the rest, but the fact that it has lower than a 6 on IMDb is telling and I feel the need to point out the stupidity of low ratings based on such bogus bullshit. If you were able to change those aforementioned details and then would give it a higher rating, you’re being a horrid human being.
Strange World is a family action/adventure sci-fi meld. The sci-fi aspect is cool as all heck too! The visuals are mesmerizing! The creatures and the landscapes are really cool.
I personally really loved and respected that race or sexual orientation were never brought up as issues for those particular characters to deal with, as they often are used as an easy way to inject conflict into media. Like, it’s become such an expectation when it comes to those things, that I kept wondering if it would come up that someone had a problem with either of them, but nope. They just existed and that was that. It did have a Utopian feel to it, so people living in harmony despite their differences fits the mood of the movie. It also managed to have a dystopian feel to it though, funnily enough!
One of my favorite lines: