"Strange World" is a high-concept spin on a "Journey to the Center"-like adventure, one interested in digging into father-son relationships and in saying something to us about how we treat the environment.
The often breathtakingly beautiful work of Walt Disney Animation Studios also is concerned with coming in at a reasonable running time — it's about an hour and a half of actual movie. As a result, given all it has going on, it can feel a little rushed, with high-speed thrills coming at the cost of major emotional impact.
That doesn't change the fact that "Strange World" is consistently entertaining and, more often than not, pretty clever.
