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How would you like to see a direct-to video sci-fi movie that is a loose rip off ''[[Blade Runner]]''—except it stars [[Whoopi Goldberg]] and [[Barney and Friends|Barney]]? You wouldn't? Oh.
Whoopi Goldberg only completed
You know that ''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Brothers]]'' movie? ''Theodore Rex'' is very similar—and ''worse''.
According to an [[Opening Scroll]], the story is set in a [[Darker and Edgier|Dark and Edgy]] [[Cyberpunk]] city "A long time ago in the future" (really), where humans coexist with [[Petting Zoo People|anthropomorphic animal-people]]. It's a [[Buddy Cop Show|buddy cop]] movie with ''[[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]]''.Theodore is an anthro ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]'' who wants to be a cop. He gets his chance when he is partnered with
Then [[It Got Worse|things get weird(er)]].
An extensive review, with links to other reviews, can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20130307144507/http://madnessmonster.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/theodore-rex-review/ here]. While the film isn't the best quality, the [[Non Sequitur Episode|confusion and sheer randomness of the onscreen action]] is actually kind of impressive. Just when you think the movie can't get any more inane... it ''does''. It '''really''' does. That helps it stand alongside ''[[Santa Claus (film)|Santa Claus]]'', ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'', and ''[[The Room]]'' on the very thin border between [[So Bad It's Good]] and So Bad It's Horrible.
Compare ''[[Howard the Duck (film)|Howard the Duck]]''. Not to be confused with a notable biography of ''[[Theodore Roosevelt]]''. Not to be confused with ''[[Anonymous Rex]]'', which is a [[Better Than It Sounds]] book series that, coincidentally, is about a dinosaur detective solving crimes amongst humans.
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{{quote|"The genetic code [is] the map of our destiny, and we are all slaves to our DNA".}}
* [[The Big Board]]: You can clearly see in the background for a scene at a police station that it tries for some neopunk style version of the giant battlemap with young waifs pushing units around with croupier rakes. However the overblown size and odd dress code means that it looks more like the Olympic curling team are pushing around Hershey's Kisses.
* [[Non Sequitur Episode]]: Where to start with this one...▼
* [[Carnivore Confusion]]: Apparently, anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurs subsist entirely on... milk and cookies. He calls himself a "recovering carnivore", going under the type where carnivorism in talking-animal land is akin to alcoholism.
* [[Da Chief]]: The Commissioner.
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* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: Um... this is actually one of the more notable exceptions.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Humans don't like the anthropomorphic animals. Just because [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|they aren't human]], we guess; it's never really explored in the movie.
* [[Gasshole]]: Theodore Rex did not just [[Blatant Lies|butt trumpet]].▼
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Drusilla]] is one of Kane's scientists.
** Oh, and the fact that THERE'S JOHN [[Shaft]] AND HE'S TALKING TO A FUCKING DINOSAUR!!!
** And while you may not recognize it at first, that is [[Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children|Sephiroth]] (and [[The Other Darrin]] for [[Justice League (animation)|Superman]]) as the titular character.
* [[Lions and Tigers and Humans, Oh My!|Ceratosaurs and Tyrannosaurs and Humans, Oh My!]]: Incidentally, don't look forward to there being any explanation as to why there are anthropomorphic animals. In some scenes, it appears that they may be [[Intelligent Gerbil|aliens]], and they have their own society and culture. But in others, it is implied that Theo and friends were grown in a lab or something.
▲* [[Non Sequitur Episode]]: Where to start with this one...{{context}}
▲* [[Gasshole]]: Theodore Rex did not just [[Blatant Lies|butt trumpet]].
* [[Random Events Plot]]: It starts with a pretty butterfly exploding in an anthro's face and just gets stranger.
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: Adverted with Theodore Rex and Molly but unintentionally played straight with some of the [[Nightmare Fuel]] inducing dinos in the club.
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