The Good Dinosaur (2015)
An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
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Pretty Good
Just perfect...
A brilliant film that helped define a genre
Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.
The film starts off with a comical meteor head fake which gave me a chuckle as the movie starts out being funny on two levels. Unfortunately that was my last real laugh. This was the age when talking dinosaurs with knowledge of agriculture and architecture lived with feral humans. Think Dino and the Flintstones in role reversals. Arlo is the runt of his siblings wanting to make his mark. He is tasked with killing the varmint eating their corn...a human. Oh yes they live in temperate zone America...or so it seems. He is a scared Brontosaurus type who is awkward and has trouble killing the human, eventually named Spot, who acts like a dog. The film didn't turn interesting again until Sam Elliot enters the scene, but by then it was too little too late.I am sure the younger kids will like it while older ones may crave something else. It is something for family night.
The Croods meets The Lion King. I was not impressed with the story and the characters were also very bland. The animation was inconsistent. The story itself was melodramatic at times and downright silly when it was intended to be funny. This might appeal to a young age demographic.Otherwise, give this one a skip.
I'm not someone who cries often when watching sad movies, but the tears were streaming down my face and there was nothing I could do about it.Cute characters and an overall well made movie. Even though the end is not very original.
This movie wasn't terrible, but it didn't present anything new or special. It was basically a soap opera with dinosaurs, with a tragic element that didn't fit with what people think of when they think of dinosaurs. The movie was somewhat like watching superheroes seeking psychotherapy. It humanizes dinosaurs by making them thoughtful and intelligent lizards that struggle to make sense out of the cruel world around them.Now, as I said, it wasn't awful, and not the worst of the Pixar flicks, but it didn't work, ultimately. Most of us wanted to see dinosaurs struggle with dinosaur issues, not struggle with human issues. We got enough of that from Brave and the daughter-mother relationship problems.