Strange world gay character

Less talk about saving the planet, more talk about how awesome dads are! That the film centers an gay couple dad Searcher, voiced by Jake Gyllenhaaland mom Meridian, voiced by Gabrielle Union and their queer son, Ethan Young-Whiteshould feel less exciting than it is; by real-world standards, this could be a regular-degular American family.

Very much not par for the course, though, is the other Disney movie with a queer hero playing this weekend. Searcher and Jaeger have been estranged ever since. When Lightyear was released just two months ago, the conversation centered on a same-sex kiss between two female characters.

An early scene shows Ethan flustered as his crush flirts with him; Searcher shows up and tries to wingman for his son. In the scene, which caused great controversy and saw the movie banned from several countries, two women in a long-term relationship give each other a welcoming, loving and.

Either way, bigots are unhappy. Especially ones from Disney. Simply put, Strange World is the most boring movie Disney has released in years. The cringe of the "exclusively gay moment" might actually be behind us as "Strange World" features a gay teen character who is not tormented by his queerness.

Ethan and his dad reconcile their differences while staring into a gigantic eyeball. He only makes this discovery, however, after going against the wishes of his explorer father, Jaeger Dennis Quaid. This is a movie with a legitimately epic scope to play with.

Everyone is rooting for Ethan and this nice young fella to get together, including his otherwise stubborn grandpa. Strange World boasts not only a queer teen lead, voiced by IRL queer comedy icon Jaboukie Young-Whitebut that queer teen is also biracial.

Instead, the biggest studio in the world has released a new feature film with character zero fanfare. He befriends a life size bacterium, who saves Ethan from world consumed by sentient tentacles. He jumps off their spaceship and sails into the unknown upon the backs of a school of extraterrestrial fish creatures.

It toys with a strong environmentalist message toward the end, with a late-state reveal raising questions about ethical consumption of natural resources. Gotta love the influence of investors on the creative process!

Strange World' s Ethan Clade (voiced by Jaboukie Young-White) is among the first out gay characters in a Disney animated film. Which is why under the Hollywood system, Strange World counts as spectacularly diverse. The dispiriting explanation could be that Disney, fearing uproar from all matters of the right, has eschewed any big promo its more homogenous films receive.

The directors and cast of "Strange World" discuss the inclusion of a biracial, openly gay character in the Disney strange feature. Between the explicit queerness and the interracial family at its center, Strange World is shockingly progressive—well, as far as Hollywood family films go.

In the film, Ethan is already accepted and loved for who he is in ways that we are forced to consider remarkable: Ethan likes one of his male friends, and his friend likes him back. This damaged father-son relationship comes to the fore when Searcher must journey to the center of the planet to help eradicate whatever has been draining the Pando they need.

Disney's new animated movie 'Strange World' focuses on a family of explorers, but the real exploration comes in the form of Disney's first openly gay character. For all that talk about what makes it exciting, the movie itself is incredibly formulaic.

Yet Strange World has landed neither with a bang nor a whimper. When Searcher encounters Jaeger on that mission, they reunite and have to learn to accept each other for who they are.