Parents in Spielbergian suburb (Anne, Ewan) have two kids (one played young Aubrey Plaza in My Old Ass, the other played young Oscar Isaac in Frankenstein aka the young twins in The Monkey). The girl is really into Carl Sagan – Cosmos came out in 1980, so when the power goes out those flashlight batteries aren’t gonna last long. And the power goes out because their street gets time-warped into the dinosaur age, and dinos start eating their neighbors.
“Will you stop being so damn optimistic? This is not going to be okay.” Cut to a wide shot with the rooftop blood spatter that used to be their annoying neighbor (acupuncture casualty PJ Byrne of Final Destination 5) is great enough, then I laughed so hard when Ewan got eaten that it’s probably best I didn’t see this with an audience. Ewan had been Tokyo Sonata-ing, secretly delivering pizzas for cash, but now capitalism and pizza don’t exist anymore. The survivors discover a pulsating black hole and jump into it, arriving back in their home era with twenty minutes left to alert anyone worth rescuing before the dinopocalypse repeats. Mitchell’s movies seem more watchable than ever, but less worth taking seriously as time goes on – we’ll see if It Still Follows turns things around.
