Weirdly funny animated creatures with a nicely comic narration throughout

Guillermo García Carsí

An array of comical creatures that are not focused on survival, but doomed by evolution to an absurd and comical existence.

Doomed: A Biological Cartoon!

In a new series of nature documentaries a narrator talks us through the beautiful wonder of the natural world as demonstrated by a group of creatures never featured on the show before. As the narrator starts out filled with wonder and excitement of the beauty of creation, soon he comes to realize that none of these creatures will ever live long enough to procreate – whether it be the tragic inverted hedgehogs or the ultimately frigging pointless cube fish.

This animation offers you a series of amusing creatures, none of which appear to have been lucky in the area of natural selection so that all of them are basically doomed. In terms of the animation, although the background is sparse, the creatures themselves are really colourful and creative even if they are ultimately all a bit weird. In and of itself this would have been funny but it is the narrator that makes it a bit funnier. Although it is a Spanish production, the version I saw had narration in English by a guy with an Irish accent (not credited – the narration is credited to a company &quot;Audio Contact&quot;). The narration starts out with the hushed but slightly breathless wonder that one comes to expect from the genre, but as the film goes on his irritation at the creatures comes out more and more, not in a big overblown way, but in a tired, comical manner which I found quite tickling.

The combination of this and the creative animals made the film lightly amusing and entertaining, with several good laughs along the way. Weird, tragic but funny.

In a new series of nature documentaries a narrator talks us through the beautiful wonder of the natural world as demonstrated by a group of creatures never featured on the show before. As the narrator starts out filled with wonder and excitement of the beauty of creation, soon he comes to realize that none of these creatures will ever live long enough to procreate – whether it be the tragic inverted hedgehogs or the ultimately frigging pointless cube fish.

This animation offers you a series of amusing creatures, none of which appear to have been lucky in the area of natural selection so that all of them are basically doomed. In terms of the animation, although the background is sparse, the creatures themselves are really colourful and creative even if they are ultimately all a bit weird. In and of itself this would have been funny but it is the narrator that makes it a bit funnier. Although it is a Spanish production, the version I saw had narration in English by a guy with an Irish accent (not credited – the narration is credited to a company "Audio Contact"). The narration starts out with the hushed but slightly breathless wonder that one comes to expect from the genre, but as the film goes on his irritation at the creatures comes out more and more, not in a big overblown way, but in a tired, comical manner which I found quite tickling.

The combination of this and the creative animals made the film lightly amusing and entertaining, with several good laughs along the way. Weird, tragic but funny.

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