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Clarance offers Op and Ed another “time flower” that his scientist owner, the dearly departed Dr. Chung, has been experimenting with. This transports the trio to a place that exists outside of space and time – Dr. Chung’s amazing Time
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Terminal. There, hundreds of time flowers connect, each leading to different points in history. Unfortunately, another Op and Ed accident throws Clarance into a random portal and the little dog is lost in an unknown time and place.

Unsure what to do, Op and Ed meet “The Extinctables” - a family of odd, extinct creatures who live for all of eternity in the safety of the Time Terminal. With their help, Op and Ed must first search for Clarance in order to find their way back to save the flummels. Even as brother and sister squabble, they’re able to find Clarance in 1917’s Antarctica, chained to Ernest Shackleton’s team of sled dogs. They all manage to get back to the safety of the Time Terminal safely, but not without the triceratops Extinctable getting wounded.
Op’s impetuousness almost gets the last dinosaur killed. Ed is furious with his sister and they have a huge falling out. Realizing she’s at fault, Op sadly sets out on her own to return to her 1835 Galapagos home and warn the other flummels about their imminent extinction.
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In the Galapagos, Op tries to convince the flummels about everything that she’s been through. She’s discovered they are all in danger from the island volcano that is about to swallow them. But there’s a surprise for Op, Ed and the others when they learn the true reason flummels went extinct. All hope seems lost as our tiny flummel heroes must try to save their entire species all by themselves. The odds seem insurmountable until the Extinctables show up to help save the day. In the end, Op and Ed become heroes and flummels will go on to live among us today.[5] https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/netflix-hd/c/wumQD5lLRow
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Op and Ed are sister and brother flummels - cute, furry donut-shaped animals who live on an island in the Galapagos in 1835. Ed, a grumpy pessimist, desperately wants to fit in with the community while Op, overly exuberant, constantly creates havoc that makes them outsiders. When Op’s impulsive actions end up ruining the preparations for the upcoming Flower Festival, Op and Ed are banished. Undeterred, Op leads Ed up the far side of the mountain to the forbidden zone in search of flowers so wonderful the flummels will have to let them rejoin the festival. There, to Op and Ed’s amazement, they discover a large, mysterious glowing flower which opens up and, with a magical pulse, sucks both Op and Ed into it. They plummet through a colorful time portal and pop out into a house in… modern day Shanghai.
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In Shanghai, Op and Ed meet Clarance, an adorable little dog. Clarance tries to help them understand where and when they are, and decides he will help them get back. He takes them to a museum where they learn, to their horror, flummels went extinct in 1835 – right after they fell into the time flower. Op and Ed realize they have to return to 1835 and save their species.

Clarance offers Op and Ed another “time flower” that his scientist owner, the dearly departed Dr. Chung, has been experimenting with. This transports the trio to a place that exists outside of space and time – Dr. Chung’s amazing Time Terminal. There, hundreds of time flowers connect, each leading to different points in history. Unfortunately, another Op and Ed accident throws Clarance into a random portal and the little dog is lost in an unknown time and place.

Unsure what to do, Op and Ed meet “The Extinctables” - a family of odd, extinct creatures who live for all of eternity in the safety of the Time Terminal. With their help, Op and Ed must first search for Clarance in order to find their way back to save the flummels. Even as brother and sister squabble, they’re able to find Clarance in 1917’s Antarctica, chained to Ernest Shackleton’s team of sled dogs. They all manage to get back to the safety of the Time Terminal safely, but not without the triceratops Extinctable getting wounded.

Op’s impetuousness almost gets the last dinosaur killed. Ed is furious with his sister and they have a huge falling out. Realizing she’s at fault, Op sadly sets out on her own to return to her 1835 Galapagos home and warn the other flummels about their imminent extinction.
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In the Galapagos, Op tries to convince the flummels about everything that she’s been through. She’s discovered they are all in danger from the island volcano that is about to swallow them. But there’s a surprise for Op, Ed and the others when they learn the true reason flummels went extinct. All hope seems lost as our tiny flummel heroes must try to save their entire species all by themselves. The odds seem insurmountable until the Extinctables show up to help save the day. In the end, Op and Ed become heroes and flummels will go on to live among us today.[5]

Rest assured, those visions aren’t far off, as about 30 minutes in “Extinction,” aliens do randomly start raining a hellfire down on Earth, looking to erase any living being. Even more, there are alien soldiers, with bug-like sounds and green bubbles all over their bodies, that take their hunt to the streets and inside Peter's apartment building.

The main chunk of “Extinction,” then, becomes a full-on alien invasion and escape, full of alien baddies in big rubber suits shooting at human beings like it’s “The Purge,” or spaceships blowing up apartment buildings in the distance like it’s “Skyline” all over again. Either way, it’s a B-movie with a blockbuster attitude, and not in a fun way. The effects are cheap but the action even more so, relying on the numbing spectacle of shoot-outs, while creating a scant sense of dread as Peter and his family try to escape their apartment building safely. In terms of production design creativity, it’s all a step down from the "'Mad Men' of the future" look that "Extinction" has for its pre-invasion costumes and apartment designs, one of its only inspired choices.
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Thrills here come in nugget size: “Extinction” does provide Pena a lead action role to kick, punch, stab and shoot some aliens, injecting a wee bit of gusto into an otherwise very dour little story. Caplan, on the other hand, is given even less to work with, and their two young children who spend the whole time scream-crying (understandably so) even less than that. For fans of Netflix’s “Luke Cage,” Mike Colter is also in this thing, but his presence might be the most baffling, and underutilized, of all. He’s just another actor trying to legitimize "Extinction," even though you can imagine these actors just shrugging at each other when they were done filming each day.

While the movie does feel like it’s going to be only a full-on alien invasion movie, it does reveal its other layers about an hour in. With respect to the filmmakers, including director Ben Young ("Hounds of Love") and screenwriters Spenser Cohen and Brad Caleb Kane, it doesn’t seem fair to discuss what that change is, even though it’s the reason this movie was likely so full-steam ahead on its cheesy concept (let’s just say that it refocuses the script with some timeliness). But just when you think the movie is about to get a little kooky, it only becomes quaint. One wishes that the movie went even further with its ideas, or tried to really discomfit viewers, but, no. Its strangest notion is that it's a family movie, if like with “Skyscraper,” your family can stomach the constant imagery of lots of people being shot.

There’s a tightness that I respect with “Extinction.” It’s not so much a thrill-ride but a movie monorail, with one revelation at the end meant to make us reconsider the entire journey. That speaks to its efficiency as the latest in mindless, if not attention-less Netflix movies. "Extinction" doesn’t seek to be much, but it’s just not all that charming, either.

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