We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)

Wow! Such a good movie.

Very Cool!!!

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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By the first 10 minutes you'll see how weird and bizarre this acid-trip is! Dinosaurs are taken back to our time period to fulfill the wishes of little kids in New York City who want to see real dinosaurs, and they are fed this Brain Grain cereal which makes them good-natured and intelligent. It was just too much for me. I like bizarre settings and odd couples and I enjoyed parts of the movie, but that alone isn't a saving grace, because the movie had a lot of other problems like a forced romance and a defeat of the villain which makes no sense at all. Two more things are worth noticing. Firstly, We're Back has some quite scary moments when we meet the villainous Professor Screweyes and his Eccentric Circus. I wouldn't recommend it for little children, so don't take the G-rating as a sign of cutesie children's movie with dinosaurs. Secondly, as bad as it is, I think you can get one good message from it. That appearances can be deceiving. Take it for what it is and judge for yourself. Personally, I think it was clumsily handled.

If you thought, "The Land Before Time", was the only animated film with Dinosaurs, guess again. Because on Thanksgiving Day 1993, there was an animated film called, "We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story". The film was a box-office bomb and got a lot of negative reviews (Yes, Rober Ebert did a review of the film and he didn't like it).The animation in this film was very sloppy, the story and the plot were lame, I didn't care for any of the character's, and the movie was more of an acid trip.But I did like John Goodman and Walter Cronkite's voice acting and the song, "Roll Back the Rock (To The Dawn Of Time)"."We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story", is a lame animated film that is not worth watching at all. If you're looking for a good animated film with Dinosaur's in it, watch, "The Land Before Time".

We have reached the ceiling of implausibility with this movie. Basically, Dinosaurs come aboard this ship piloted by some weird old fart named Neweyes(which I needed after I watched this movie). Apparently, Neweyes hears the wishes of children everywhere and decides that he should grant the wish of children that Dinosaurs be brought into modern times to be seen by everybody for shameless exploitation. The dinosaurs eat this stuff that makes them smarter(Too bad the screenwriters didn't have it). By the way, does it seem weird that out of ALL the wishes of the children in the world, Neweyes grants the wish of bringing Dinosaurs to modern times? Why not grant the wishes of kids to stop famine? Disease? War? I mean come on! Doesn't Neweyes have anything better to do with all this power he has??? Finally, when the Dinosaurs get to modern times they start singing, dancing and wrecking havoc(basically the kind of thing you might see on a bad LSD trip, I mean where else could you see a T-Rex playing golf and jumping on a balloon of Spider-man?). They end up in the circus and Neweyes Brother Screweyes(???) makes the kids that have befriended the dinosaurs sign a blank contract. Why? Why would kids sign a blank contract??? Screweyes says that if the dinosaurs take some..."Brain-Drain" That he will let the children go. The dinosaurs instead of tearing apart the evil Screweyes limb from limb, give in and agree to his terms. What?! This is stupid! They could have just menaced him, made him drop the contract, eaten it then walked off with the kids. I think the filmmakers were trying to show that violence is bad, which is a moot point when finally the dinosaurs escape and a bunch of crows envelop Screweyes and apparently completely eat him. Oh yeah, that's not violent at all! We're back makes no sense, it's not fun, it's goofy, it's stupid, poorly written and contains some of the biggest plot holes ever committed to film. Even for a kid's film... this is BAD.

Genre: Dinosaur, animation, New York, time travel, circus.?Main characters: Rex the Tyrannosaurus rex, Elsa the pterodactyl, Dweeb the Parasarolophus, Ooo the Triceratops, a boy called Louis, a girl called Cecilia and Captain New-eyes. ? Actors: John Goodman (Rex), Yeardley Smith (Cecilia), Martin Short (Stubbs the clown), Felicity Kendal (Elsa) etc.?What happens: Four dinosaurs (see above) are fed some "brain grain cereal" and are now cuddly, friendly dinosaurs who are going to be nice to children. They go into New York, with big plans…My thoughts: This is a cute animated film. The animation of the dinosaurs when they go cuddly and friendly is a bit floppy and not-so-good, but they look pleasant all the same that way. I like the dinosaurs when they are cuddly and friendly, they are nice, friendly and good. I like (almost) all the characters featured, especially Elsa and Cecilia, but of course I like the others as well. Overall, I like this film a lot! :-)Recommended to: People who like good children's animated films, people who like dinosaurs, John Goodman and people who think that circuses aren't always what they seem… Enjoy! :-)