Dinosaurs: A True Story
2020 · 4m
Directed by Paul-Louis Aeberhardt
Genres: animation, fantasy, sci-fi
In a world where dinosaurs survived, evolved and even stepped on the Moon, a giant asteroid heads toward Earth.
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Takes the tired "what if dinosaurs never died" premise and yanks it sideways into absurdist sci-fi territory—dinosaurs with space programs, asteroid apocalypse treated as comic inevitability. It's the kind of tonal whiplash that makes you realize the premise was always funnier than anyone else was willing to admit.
A playful riff on disaster narrative and natural history documentary, though the whimsy occasionally overwhelms the formal rigor one might expect from animation operating at this conceptual register; the restraint isn't quite there to elevate it beyond clever premise.
The animation economy here is clever—sparse, graphic design-forward—but what *makes* the film work is the deadpan voiceover treating lunar dinosaur colonization with the same tone as a high school textbook, which transforms the whole thing from gimmick into something genuinely arch.