Year:
2000
Studio:
Walt Disney Pictures
Movie: 3/5
DVD:
2/5
Movie
The first thing that strikes you with this movie is how great it looks.
Jurassic Park was
all great and all and set standards for realistic-looking dinosaurs.
But Dinosaur has dinosaurs
that look alive and emote. Nowadays when I think of Disney animation I
think of the last few flops and that Disney cut its animation studio in
half. Dinosaur harkens back
to the old days (of only four years ago) when the Disney animation
studio was a force.
This is a movie about Aladar (DB Sweeney), a young dinosaur who,
through an improbable journey seen in the opening montages of the
movie, ends up being raised by a family of lemurs on their island.
Instead of the big ferocious herbivorous dinosaur he is supposed to be,
Aladar is a nice dinosaur with ideals and playfulness — a dinosaur of
action.
The lemur's idyllic world is destroyed by a crashing meteor. Aladar and
his lemur family flee to the mainland. There they meet a great
migrating herd, led by dinosaurs like himself. Aladar and family join
the herd and join the great struggle to reach the Eden-like
destination. Meanwhile Aladar's unconventional ideals jar with the
other dinosaurs. Can one idealistic dinosaur change the world?
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DVD
The DVD has about 10 minutes of featurettes detailing various special
effects, another 15 minutes of rather educational dinosaur facts, and
two dinosaur games. One is a matching game where you look for the
hidden dinosaur body parts to complete the target dinosaur. The other
is a more virtual world where you wander a simple cavern system to find
your friends, water, and the exit. Both games are for young kids.
Recommendations
It's a rather typical Disney kids feel-good movie. Although nothing
new, it does have good animation and it's a safe bet.
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