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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nDisney\u2019s latest animated offering follows a family from a town completely surrounded by unpassable mountains. Explorer Jaeger Clade (Dennis Quaid) makes it his life\u2019s mission to conquer the mountains, at the expense of his relationship with his son Searcher (Jake Gyllenhaal). The two have a falling-out when Searcher abandons the mission in favor of bringing energy-conducting plants called Pando back to the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Twenty-five years go by. Searcher is hailed as a hero for discovering Pando, and starts a successful farm with his wife Meridian (Gabrielle Union) and son Ethan (Jaboukie Young-White), but Jaeger never returns from the expedition. Problems arise with Pando that call for Searcher to go on a mission deep under the surface to try to restore it. Meridian and Ethan tag along, and before long they all encounter the long-lost Jaeger. Adventure and family dysfunction ensue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The family dynamic is about what you\u2019d expect from Disney (minus anyone dying in the first act, thankfully). Everyone has their flaws, everyone realizes they need to adjust their way of thinking, everyone learns a lesson. The actors give heartfelt performances, but there\u2019s not much heart in the way the characters are written. The film has an impressive visual style, even more notable after the missed opportunity that was \u201cLightyear,\u201d though I have to wonder why the characters are human when their world\u2019s ecosystem is so different from ours. \u201cStrange World\u201d is a feast for the eyes, if not for the brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grade: C<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cStrange World\u201d is rated PG for action\/peril and some thematic elements. Its running time is 102 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n Back in 2019, \u201cKnives Out\u201d introduced the world to southern-fried super-sleuth Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) in a much-heralded revitalization of the \u201cwhodunit\u201d genre. Now Blanc is back, ready to solve a murder at the private island residence of billionaire mystery-lover Miles Bron (Edward Norton). Bron has invited his friends to come and solve his murder. Is Bron about to be murdered? Is someone else about to be murdered? Has someone already been murdered? Those are all legitimate questions, and they bear answering before the \u201cby whom?\u201d part can really kick in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bron\u2019s guests include a governor in the midst of a Senate campaign (Kathryn Hahn), a world-renowned scientist (Leslie Odom Jr.), a disgraced fashion icon (Kate Hudson) and her harried assistant (Jessica Henwick), a men\u2019s rights activist (Dave Bautista) and his scheming girlfriend (Madelyn Cline), and a mysterious woman (Janelle Monae) with no interest in playing Bron\u2019s games. It\u2019s implied that these characters are \u201csuspects,\u201d but for there to be suspects, there has to be a crime, and as with the first \u201cKnives Out,\u201d it\u2019s a mystery as to what the crime even is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can drive yourself crazy trying to \u201csolve\u201d whatever crime may or may not be committed, or you can just enjoy the ride. Craig, Norton, Monae, and especially Hudson give great comedic performances. I could watch these characters for hours, and frankly this movie could have used another hour so we could get a more satisfying conclusion. I suppose that like the film\u2019s theatrical release window, we should just be grateful that we get as much as we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grade: B<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGlass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery\u201d is playing in select theaters through November 29. The film arrives on Netflix December 23. The film is rated PG-13 for strong language, some violence, sexual material and drug content. Its running time is 140 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bob Garver Like the \u201cWorld\u201d of a certain movie, the holiday weekend at the domestic box office sure was \u201cStrange.\u201d It\u2019s not so strange that \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":56274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[1951],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56276,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56273\/revisions\/56276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-1-1-699x1024.png\")
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