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Dinosaur (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 105 Fresh: 66  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.
 

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Runtime: 82 mins

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 literally unbelievable and the clarity, realness, and definition of the pictures... 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]

Genre: Action/Adventure

Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Julianna Margulies, Samuel E. Wright, Ossie Davis, Joan Plowright

Director: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag
Producer: Pam Marsden
Composer: James Newton Howard

DVD Info

Release:

Sep 19, 2006

[DVD Details]

Blu-ray Disc Features:

  • Blue BD Case
  • Widescreen -1.85

Audio:

  • DTS 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital Surround Sound 5.1 - English, French, Spanish
  • Subtitles - English SDH, French, Spanish - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Commentaries - 1. Ralph Zondag - Director, Eric Leighton - Director, Neil Eskuri - Digital Effects Supervisor, and Neil Krepela - Visual Effects Supervisor
  • Featurettes - 1. "The Monster Cloud - An In-Depth Look at the Comet Impact Scene"
  • 2. "Blu-scape: 'Origins'"

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7/10

It's the small details, like dino-skin, that Blu-ray really brings to life.

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09/19/06
James Plath
DVDTown.com
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01/26/06
Time Out
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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
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2.5/4

The movie follows a rather dull tale similar to the 1988 animated film The Land Before Time.

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07/02/04
Judith Egerton
Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)
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01/13/04
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05/22/03
Eugene Novikov
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05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly
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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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12/08/02
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12/02/02
Leslie Felperin
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2/4

Dinosaur mixes state-of-the-art visuals with bottom-of-the-barrel scripting.

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11/12/02
Jon Niccum
Pitch.com
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10/30/02
Josh De Haan
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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
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3/4

...don't expect much more than eye candy.

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10/09/02
David Nusair
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08/02/02
Betty Jo Tucker
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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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06/23/02
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
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06/18/02
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
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06/05/02
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