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Extinct (2021)

★ 6.3 · 183 ratings on TMDB

The end is just their beginning.

Extinct poster★ 6.3

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.

DirectorDavid Silverman
CastAdam Devine, Alex Borstein, Benedict Wong, Catherine O'Hara, Henry Winkler, Jim Jefferies
GenresAdventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
The emergence reading

In Extinct, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “animal time‑travel adventure”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, extinction, time, culture, species.

↷ animalsCNprejudiceextinctiontimeculturespecies
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0timetime is navigable through flower seeds, permitting arbitrary jumps to past or future (physics · local)
Also inConsciousness hiding in animalsFilms about prejudiceFilms 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.

George of the Jungle 2 (2003)E8/E9 · culture, prejudiceDragons: Gift of the Night Fury (2011)E8/E9 · culture, prejudiceShark Bait (2006)E8/E9 · culture, prejudiceRise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)E8 · prejudice, speciesThe Jungle Book (2016)E8/E9 · prejudiceShrek 2 (2004)E8/E9 · prejudice

Same subject, different rung

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

Species III (2005)E6/E10 · rare rung · prejudice, speciesWarcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · culture, prejudice

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.

Star Trek (2009)alters at E0 · same rung · looseWreck-It Ralph (2012)alters at E0 · same rung · looseMr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · looseScooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · looseWicked City (1987)alters at E0 · same rung · looseDonnie Darko (2001)alters at E0 · same rung · loose

Also hides consciousness here

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

Dumbo (1941)consciousness in animals · circus animal societyRio 2 (2014)consciousness in animals · amazon bird sanctuaryOpen Season 2 (2008)consciousness in animals · wild‑pet resortGeorge of the Jungle (1997)consciousness in animals · jungle-animal worldSmallfoot (2018)consciousness in animals · mountain sanctuaryMowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)consciousness in animals · jungle society

Same subject, different mask

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

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)consciousness in the dead · culture, prejudiceCowboys & Aliens (2011)consciousness in aliens · culture, prejudiceMaleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)consciousness in monsters · culture, prejudiceHellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)consciousness in monsters · culture, prejudiceEnemy Mine (1985)consciousness in aliens · culture, prejudiceTinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2014)consciousness carried elsewhere · culture, prejudice

Same people

Shared director or cast.

The Simpsons Movie (2007)dir. David SilvermanThe Simpsons in Plusaversary (2021)dir. David SilvermanThe Bad Guys (2022)Alex BorsteinJoker (2019)Zazie BeetzSpider-Man: No Way Home (2021)Benedict WongDoctor Strange (2016)Benedict Wong