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A14 PEOPLE & ARTS
Thursday 24 November 2022
‘Strange World’ explores big themes in bold colors

By JOCELYN NOVECK moving, plot-wise, when
AP National Writer she arrives at Searcher’s
Is Searcher Clade the most front door in her pando-
millennial dad in all of ani- powered airship with a
mated moviedom? He has stark warning: the pando
that telltale hipster beard. crop is failing. Everywhere.
A sensitive voice sorta like Searcher must come help.
Jake Gyllenhaal. And he Now.
feeds his kid avocado Reluctantly, the homebody
toast, with an egg on top. Searcher hops aboard.
Oh wait, that IS Gyllenhaal Someone on the ship asks
in “Strange World,” Dis- him immediately if he can,
ney’s pleasantly entertain- like, forge an autograph
ing, gorgeously rendered from his more-famous dad.
but slightly heavy-handed This image released by Disney shows, clockwise from foreground center Meridian Clade, voiced Aargh. In any case, the
meditation on climate by Gabrielle Union Searcher Clade, voiced by Jake Gyllenhaal, Jaeger Clade, voiced by Dennis ship travels down to the
change and father-son dy- Quaid, Callisto Mal, voiced by Lucy Liu, Ethan Clade, voiced by Jaboukie Young-White in a scene roots that power pando.
namics. The actor charm- from the animated film “Strange World.” Meanwhile, Searcher soon
ingly voices a character Associated Press discovers that Ethan has
drawn to look so much like seem to be lit up, glowing is still lionized in town with nor is it a sneeze-and-you- stowed away on the ship,
him, you almost expect an from an unseen energy. a large statue attesting to miss it moment like, for ex- eager for his own adven-
animated Swiftie to come What is this magical crop? his exploits. But Searcher ample, that quick glance ture (and more Jaeger-like
around, asking for that infa- Searcher argues that they tells Ethan that despite his in “Beauty and the Beast” than Searcher would want
mous scarf back. (Sorry, but need to bring it back to fame, Grandpa was a ma- in 2017 that was heralded to admit).
it’s been a Taylor Swift kind Avalonia, where it could jorly absentee dad. as the first Disney “gay mo- Meridian has followed, and
of month.) serve many uses. But Jae- Let’s pause to consider the ment.” It’s just a given that now they’re on a family trip.
The very name “Searcher” ger (voiced with appro- themes at play. We have when Ethan talks about his And who should turn up
sounds vaguely millennial, priate gruffness by Dennis climate change issues in crush, he’s talking about but Jaeger himself? He
too, but actually it’s a refer- Quaid) refuses to turn back. the form of “pando,” the Diazo, a boy, and nobody, has some explaining to do.
ence to both the blessing He tosses his young son his crucial energy source that not his parents nor his crusty Turns out he got stuck in a
and the curse of the Clade compass and continues by Searcher now farms and old granddad, bats an stunning, scary, strange un-
family, a storied clan of ex- himself. Twenty-five years has modernized Avalonia. eyelid. It’s also refreshing derworld. And it’s beauti-
plorers. In a prologue, we go by. And we have three gener- that the Clades are a bira- ful. Directors Don Hall and
see the young Searcher set Wait, what? Dad stays ations of men: the very dif- cial family, and that too, is Qui Nguyen have created
out on a family expedition away for 25 years? This is tru- ferent Jaeger and Search- not discussed. a stunning universe of psy-
led by his dad, burly Jaeger ly deficient parenting, and er, a boomer and a mil- The movie, it must be said, chedelic colors and crea-
Clade, whose life goal is to it’s no wonder that when lennial if you will, and then is definitely about men, de- tures, most memorably in
find what’s beyond the for- grownup Searcher has his young Ethan, trying to find spite the welcome but un- hues of deep pinks and
bidding mountains that ring own son, Ethan (an ador- his way. There’s much dia- derused presences of Ga- purples. Wondrous crea-
their homeland, Avalonia. able character sweetly logue here about breaking brielle Union as Searcher’s tures emerge, and also
But before they get there, voiced by Jaboukie Young- from expectations to forge wife, Meridian a fearless one of the cutest little blobs
young Searcher discovers White), he’s a helicopter your own path. pilot and Lucy Liu as Cal- you’ve ever seen, the apt-

something shocking. parent, doting on the boy But maybe that’s the point listo, president of Avalonia, ly named Splat, who be-
It’s a group of plants that a bit too much. Grandpa if it’s not a major plot point, It is Callisto who gets things friends Ethan.q

‘I don’t dance’: Daniel Craig nonetheless has moves in ad

By SIAN WATSON with him for a couple of character with the British Kathryn Hahn, Jessica Hen- rical release this week be-
Associated Press days,” Craig told The Asso- actor saying he works as wick and Madelyn Cline, fore screening internation-
While promoting his lat- ciated Press. “I just went for hard as he can to get back will receive a limited theat- ally on Netflix on Dec. 23.q
est movie, “Glass Onion: A it. You don’t get chances into the headspace of the
Knives Out Mystery,” Daniel like that very often.” Southern sleuth. Especially
Craig said dancing doesn’t “In for a penny, in for a given Blanc’s trademark
come naturally to him but pound” he added. accent.
he couldn’t resist a pitch His latest acting project, “I’m on it all the time, all the
from “Thor: Love and Thun- “Glass Onion,” follows a time,” he joked. “I have to
der” director Taika Waititi. party of sycophants and work really hard at it, but
The pair collaborated on friends of billionaire Miles once it’s in, it’s in and then
a recent Belvedere vodka (Ed Norton) who find them- it is part of me.”
ad, which was the James selves trapped on an island And does this include slip-
Bond actor swinging his with a murderer on the ping into character and
hips and shimmying down loose. adopting Blanc’s Southern
hotel corridors while show- As with the first “Knives Out” drawl round the dinner ta-
ing off tattooed biceps movie, director Rian John- ble with his family which in-
and a devastating pout. son has assembled an all- cludes wife Rachel Weisz?
“It was hard work because I star cast including Janelle Not a chance.
don’t dance. So, the fact is, Monáe, Kate Hudson, Leslie “My family’s not that nice, This image released by Netflix shows Kate Hudson, from left,
we had an amazing chore- Odom Jr., and Dave Bautis- I’m not allowed to do that,” Jessica Henwick, Daniel Craig and Leslie Odom Jr. in a scene
ographer to JaQuel Knight ta.Craig’s detective Benoit he laughs. from “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.”
who came in and I worked Blanc is the only returning The film, which also stars Associated Press