2021 · animation · comedy · family
Extinct
Directed by David Silverman1h 24m2021
Op and Ed, two adorable donut-shaped animals - flummels - accidentally time-travel from 1835 to modern-day Shanghai. There they discover traffic, trans fats, and worst of all, that flummels are now extinct. It's up to this bumbling pair to save themselves and their species...and, just maybe, change the course of history.
Our read: Extinct (2021) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive animation · comedy · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle animation / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
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