Journey to a place where nothing is as it appears!

Starring: (the voice talents of) Jake Gyllenhaal, Jaboukie Young-White, Gabrielle Unioin, Dennis Quaid, Lucy Liu, Karan Soni, Alan Tudyk, Adelina Anthony, Jonathan Melo

DML Rating: ★★★★★★☆☆☆☆ - above average

"Those mountains aren't my legacy; you are." – Jaeger Clade to his son, Searcher Clade

Why watch this? This is a nice adventure about the pressures of your parent's expected legacy.

Plot Summary: In fictional Avalonia, a famous explorer, Jaeger Clade, and his son, Searcher, discover a green plant that emits energy. Searchers returns home, but Jaeger angrily presses on alone... and is missing for 25 years. When the plants, called Pando, start to die, Searcher, with his son Ethan, must set forth to find out why.

Dad's Preview: This Disney offering is visually stunning and full of high-quality chases, encounters with new life-forms, and relatable characters. What I liked MOST (and probably why this film is underrated) is the fact that one of the lead characters, Ethan Clade, is gay. Here's the shocker: everybody in the film simply treats him like a normal person. That makes the setting a Strange film indeed. We need more films like this, and frankly, a world that behaves like this.

Walt Disney Animation Studios; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures