
Searcher and the rest of the expedition team decide to return to Avalonia with the plant while Jaeger angrily continues his mission alone. While trying to traverse the mountains, Searcher discovers a green plant that gives off energy. In Avalonia, a land surrounded by an endless wall of mountains, Jaeger Clade and his fifteen-year-old son Searcher are adventurers who brave the wilderness to explore new worlds. However, it was a streaming hit on Disney+, where it became the number one film being streamed for 19 days. The film was a box-office bomb, with projections of as much as a $147 million loss for Disney it also being the first box-office bomb for Walt Disney Animation Studios since 2007’s Meet the Robinsons. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the animation, visuals, and voice acting, but criticized the screenplay. The film was noted for introducing Walt Disney Animation Studios' first openly LGBTQ lead character. Strange World premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on November 15, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 23. While the film is predominately CGI, the film does incorporate 2D animation from Randy Haycock, with additional 2D animation by Eric Goldberg and Mark Henn in certain scenes. To communicate non-verbally, several animators worked to create the movement of the character Splat. Strange World draws inspiration from pulp magazines, Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Jurassic Park (1993) and King Kong (1933).


The film follows a legendary family of explorers, the Clades (Gyllenhaal, Quaid, Young-White, and Union), who must set aside their differences as they embark on a journey to a mysterious subterranean land inhabited by surreal lifeforms, in order to save a miracle plant Pando that is their society's source of energy. It is Disney's seventh animated film to tackle the sci-fi genre, after Big Hero 6 (2014). The film stars the voices of Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Jaboukie Young-White, Gabrielle Union, and Lucy Liu. The 61st film produced by the studio, it was directed by Don Hall, co-directed by Qui Nguyen, and produced by Roy Conli, from a screenplay written by Nguyen, who also conceived the story with Hall. Strange World is a 2022 American computer-animated science-fiction adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.
