Everyone is delightfully lost in a softly Lovecraftian Osmosis Jones labyrinth with climate change overtones and lovely faceless critters everywhere, trying to pantomime meaning to these stumbling humans.

| Dec 3, 2022

Strong familial conflict, magical adventures and timely social messaging make this animated feature a bit deeper than most. If Strange World can find its audience, those viewers will be pleased. Why? Because even the trees are cool!

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 30, 2022

Despite the film's rich CGI, it’s only when the humans and their conflicts, big and small, come to the forefront, that the film comes to life.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2022

The director Don Hall and his co-director and screenwriter Qui Nguyen seem to have put all of their effort into gaudy backgrounds, wacky gadgets and strange ancillary monsters instead of into dramatic urgency or conflict.

| Nov 28, 2022

So much of Strange World’s audaciousness is front-loaded into its concept, and so little of it comes through in the execution.

| Nov 25, 2022

Why isn’t this an out-and-out recommendation? It nearly merits that, but the tangled environmental allegory winds up being a royal headache.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2022

Hall and Nguyen deliver these messages with the subtlety of a wrecking ball, but the excellent voice-over work plus the score by Henry Jackman make the preachiness palatable and the film fun.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2022

It’s Disney riffing in ways that are reminiscent of The Emperor’s New Groove and Lilo & Stich, making this Journey to the Center of the Earth-style adventure a visually imaginative treat the whole family is certain to enjoy.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2022

Strange World breezes through a checklist of formulaic plot points and canned emotional revelations with enough style and sensitivity to make it work.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 23, 2022

A rewarding continuation of the studio's recent narrative fascination with overcoming divides rather than evil.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 23, 2022

Strange World has the makings of a fun, pulpy adventure story, and it is, but much of the plot is bogged down in strange, unfunny dialogue and a needlessly complicated storyline.

| Original Score: C | Nov 23, 2022

Energies have been focused on the visuals, and they make the experience worthwhile. That, and an appealing collection of human characters that look a lot more like the real world than usually seen in these films.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 23, 2022

The visual beauty of the film isn’t enough. After all, pretty is as pretty does — and in “Strange World,” pretty doesn’t do much.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 23, 2022

There's a lot of plot in "Strange World," which takes too long to get moving as a result. But the good news is that the characters are lively enough to keep us interested.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 23, 2022

Strange World feels like a new iteration of Disney, one that is more thoughtful and inclusive without sacrificing any of the humor or fun.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 23, 2022

It’s no Encanto, but the family-friendly fun fest offers plenty of ingenious visuals and upbeat messaging.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 23, 2022

The takeaway is the difficulty of collaboration in the face of entrenched beliefs and ways of navigating the world that, ultimately, must be questioned — if not entirely dismantled — if any one of us expects to stick around.

| Nov 22, 2022

A sweet, science-fiction family film with a loud environmentalist message that’s good fun.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 22, 2022

The uneasy marriage of clunky psychodrama and overwrought special effects along with the fact that none of these characters are particularly likable make “Strange World” a chore to sit through.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 22, 2022

Kids will love its primary-coloured wonderland that teems with weird and wonderful beasts, and only the stoniest-hearted grown-up won’t be moved by its inclusive celebration of family across generations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 22, 2022