Film Review - Species

Species is a dramatisation of that period in the eighteenth century when so many of the earth’s creatures were found, identified and then classified. It’s really just a load of professorial types umming and ahhing before saying, “It’s a type of gibbon,” or something similar.

The denouement is a half-hour scene featuring three different experts disagreeing about a duck-billed platypus. Eventually, they class it as a type of spoon and agree not to tell anyone else about the creature, in case they get found out.