A room full of big frozen steel tanks fed by vacuum jacketed pipes pumping liquid nitrogen. The Frozen Zoo itself is even less glamorous. The institute is like any other academic building: low-slung, quiet, smells of cleaning supplies. It's unassuming, the Frozen Zoo-just north of San Diego, deep in California inland nothingness, where it is housed at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research. Then they go into the Frozen Zoo to be saved. Nevertheless, more boxes-full of deer, ibis, flamingos, desert tortoises, rhinos-arrive every day. There are rules about this sort of thing, shipping whales across national borders. “And you know how hard it is to get a sample of a whale, legally?” It's hard. Oliver Ryder removed the vial containing the whale from the package. Or something.A few weeks ago, a humpback whale arrived in a FedEx box.
With some help from the professor’s fluffy white dog (Ken Jeong), Op and Ed end up in some abstract realm, outside of time and space (but essential to the plot), where they are joined by other extinct species on a quest to go back and save their fellow flummels from extinction, and find the professor.
A Chinese professor was researching these time-travelling blooms, it turns out, but then went missing. Cast out by the other flummels for their accident-proneness, Op and Ed are sucked into a mysterious flower that catapults them through to modern-day Shanghai (the film is Chinese-produced). All except two flummels, that is: brother-and-sister heroes Op and Ed (why those names? Who knows?), voiced by Adam Devine and Rachel Bloom. But the entire species is wiped out in the 19th century, just moments before Charles Darwin arrives to discover them. The doughnut creatures are called “flummels”, and they exist on a remote Galápagos island, rolling around like wheels and picking flowers. Even if you can get over the inherent weirdness of furry little doughnut-shaped creatures with holes in their middles, there’s a lot to puzzle over with this family animation, which manages to be both surreally baffling and wearyingly derivative.
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