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Storks (2016)

★ 6.7 · 2,492 ratings on TMDB

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Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl...

DirectorDoug Sweetland, Nicholas Stoller
CastAndy Samberg, Anton Starkman, Danny Trejo, Jennifer Aniston, Jordan Peele, Katie Crown
GenresAdventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
The emergence reading

In Storks, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “stork delivery world”. The story fights on E9/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing culture, corporate, family.

↷ animalsUSculturecorporatefamily
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6deliverystorks are biologically capable of physically delivering human infants worldwide (biology · universal)
Also inConsciousness hiding in animalsFilms about familyFilms that alter a rule of realityFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)E8/E12 · rare rung · culture, familyMeet Joe Black (1998)E8/E10 · corporate, familyBlue Beetle (2023)E8/E10 · corporate, familySpeed Racer (2008)E8/E10 · corporate, familyAustin Powers in Goldmember (2002)E8 · culture, family

Also bends a rule of reality

Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.

Turning Red (2022)alters at E6 · same rung · looseFido (2006)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorousWar for the Planet of the Apes (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorousGhost in the Shell (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · looseEncanto (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · looseBeetlejuice (1988)alters at E6 · same rung · loose

Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

Rio 2 (2014)consciousness in animals · amazon bird sanctuaryScooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico (2003)consciousness in animals · talking-dog mysteryGeorge of the Jungle 2 (2003)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic jungleDragons: Gift of the Night Fury (2011)consciousness in animals · dragon-archipelagoKung Fu Panda Holiday (2010)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic valleyPeter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic garden

Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)consciousness in monsters · culture, familyThe Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning (2008)consciousness in aliens · culture, familyBao (2018)consciousness in objects · culture, familyMy Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)consciousness in aliens · culture, familyIncantation (2022)consciousness carried elsewhere · culture, familyThe Legend of La Llorona (2011)consciousness in the dead · culture, family

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Neighbors (2014)dir. Nicholas StollerNeighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)dir. Nicholas StollerForgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)dir. Nicholas StollerPresto (2008)dir. Doug SweetlandToy Story 4 (2019)Jordan PeeleHotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)Andy Samberg