Pretty simple concept which we've all seen a million times: Annihilation as a coming-of-age story in an animated kids movie. With shape-shifting penguins.

first time I've seen this in maybe 10 years. maybe not as funny and clever as it thinks it is, but still pretty fun. it's also a difficult movie for me to render a verdict on with any kind of appropriate critical distance, since it's associated with a time in my life when I was becoming a movie guy. like, this is my "fight club". anyway, I return to the "now, we are f*cked" freeze frame as a metaphor for the present political situation all the time.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.