'Strays' (2023)
This anti-love young adult movie includes mature topics and dialogue.

Faced with a great evil approaching, a family of quilombolas needs to unite technologies and ancestral knowledge to protect the environment, their roots and their own lives, before everything ends. A feature-length socio-environmental thriller that presents the story of a family of quilombolas who need to combine technology and ancestral knowledge to protect the environment, their roots and their own lives, before everything ends.
This anti-love young adult movie includes mature topics and dialogue.
I suppose you could argue that the story wasn’t what Director James Cameron was aiming for, it was the visuals. The spectacle of it all was the point, and it certainly shows.
A refreshing twist is that all the kids’ powers are…kind of useless. There’s a kid who can only move in slow motion, a kid who has every power in the world but can only use them randomly, and our main character Missy who has no powers at all. The thesis of the film seems to be that it doesn’t matter what kind of powers you have, its the way you use them, which is good for the warm and fuzzies.
The legacy of this movie starts off the film series with a bang of magic, plot twists, and battles.
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So do I recommend that people see this movie, yes 100%, but do I think they are going to come out of it with 80 hot takes, yes 100%.