An eclectic family of explorers is forced to confront old rifts once a routine mission beneath their own home turns into the strangest journey of their lives.
What is Strange World about?
The Clades have spent generations charting the unknown, and this adventure sends three generations of the family — grandfather, father and son — into a bizarre, unexplored world hidden beneath their own region. Old friction between father and son resurfaces at the worst possible moment, just as the group needs to work as one to protect their community's energy supply and find a way back home. Along the route they run into creatures and landscapes unlike anything in the family's previous expeditions, and each Clade is pushed to reconsider what kind of explorer — and what kind of relative — they actually want to be once the trip is over.
About the cast
Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid lead the family's two patriarchs, with Jaboukie Young-White, Gabrielle Union, Lucy Liu and Alan Tudyk rounding out an ensemble voice cast that carries the film's mix of large-scale set pieces and smaller, quieter scenes of family friction. The animation leans on this lineup to keep the generational story grounded even as the world around the characters gets stranger by the scene.
Context & significance
Directed by Don Hall, Strange World borrows the neon-lit, subterranean imagery of old pulp adventure serials and pairs it with a present-day story about three generations of one family struggling to actually talk to each other. The genre mix — action, adventure, fantasy, comedy and family animation all in one release — is built for an audience that wants a big-screen adventure the whole household can sit through together, rather than a film aimed at just one age group.
Watching Strange World on Ktime
Strange World streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Farsi subtitles, so a household can pick whichever version suits the room that night. A free K-Time account login is all that's required to start watching, and the platform's interface itself is built in Farsi first, for the Iranian diaspora audience it was designed to serve.