In Disney's new animated adventure, Strange World, a family gets lost in a mysterious

land underground.

It's a story about discovery and intergenerational conflict with a cast that includes Jake

Gyllenhaal, Gabrielle Union, Jibuki Young White, and Dennis Quaid.

I'm Stephen Thompson.

Today we are talking about the movie Strange World on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

Joining me today is Ronald Young Jr. He's the host of the film and television review podcast

leaving the theater welcome back Ronald.

Hello Stephen, thanks for having me.

It is great to have you, so at the opening of Strange World, we are told about the

CLAID family and its patriarch, a legendary explorer named Yeager Claid.

He's voiced by Dennis Quaid, his son, searcher voiced by Jake Gyllenhaal, was supposed

to carry on in Yeager's tradition, but searcher is more interested in farming.

Both professions turn out to be important to their isolated homeland of Avalonia.

Yeager is always looking for a world beyond the mountains that surround Avalonia while

searcher uses farming as a way to modernize his community thanks to a mysterious plant-based

power source.

Soon, the whole CLAID family gets swept up in a quest when the aforementioned plant-based

power source is threatened.

Searcher is joined by his wife Meridian, a bold pilot voiced by Gabrielle Union, and

their son Ethan, a queer teenager voiced by Jibuki Young White.

Ethan finds himself torn between farming and exploring when he's not fretting over his

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