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Dinosaur (2000)
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Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 67
Rotten:39
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Consensus: While Dinosaur is lacking story-wise, the great visuals and atmosphere make up for it in spades.
Theatrical Release:May 19, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $135,606,304
Synopsis: With DINOSAUR, Disney breaks a new stride in the technological revolution of computer animation: combining computer-animated characters with digitally enhanced live-action landscapes. The effect is... With DINOSAUR, Disney breaks a new stride in the technological revolution of computer animation: combining computer-animated characters with digitally enhanced live-action landscapes. The effect is literally unbelievable and the clarity, realness, and definition of the pictures easily make the once surprising effects of virtual reality seem like the dark ages. A dinosaur egg is stolen from its nest and passed along by various birds, animals and other predators each hoping to eat it. Fumbled into a community of kind and nurturing lemurs, it cracks open and Aladar, a baby dinosaur emerges. He lives happily and peacefully among the lemurs, who raise him into adolescence. However, when a natural disaster occurs, wiping out the beautiful rainforest that was their home, teenage Aladar joins a dinosaur pilgrimmage--and discovers his true ancestry--in order to bring his lemur family to safety. Far sweeter and much more realistic than recent dinosaur movies like JURASSIC PARK or even classics like THE LAND BEFORE TIME, these new digital dinosaurs are surprisingly human with emotional eyes and expressive voices that make the magic nearly tangible. [More]
Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Julianna Margulies, Samuel E. Wright, Ossie Davis
Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Julianna Margulies, Samuel E. Wright, Ossie Davis, Joan Plowright, Alfre Woodard, Max Casella, Della Reese, Hayden Panettiere, Jonathan Harris, Peter Siragusa
Director: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag
Director: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag
Producer: Pam Marsden
Composer: James Newton Howard
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
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Jan 30, 2001
Reviews for Dinosaur
It's the small details, like dino-skin, that Blu-ray really brings to life.
The movie follows a rather dull tale similar to the 1988 animated film The Land Before Time.
Dinosaur mixes state-of-the-art visuals with bottom-of-the-barrel scripting.
By the time "Dinosaur" offers us the sight of seemingly hundreds of homeless dinosaurs moving wearily across the desert, it's likely you will have forgotten the creations you're watching are not real, living, breathing creatures.
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