The story doesn’t matter much when a movie looks this good, and it’s a breakthrough of technical achievement.
Dinosaur (2000)
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Reviews Counted:121
Fresh:79
Rotten:42
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: While Dinosaur’s plot is generic and dull, its stunning computer animation and detailed backgrounds are enough to make it worth a look.
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.
Parents, you may enjoy the scenery but remember the dinosaurs talk, so bring your earplugs.
It is the next generation of high technology that further blurs the lines between reality and fantasy.
The movie follows a rather dull tale similar to the 1988 animated film The Land Before Time.
The audience is left with a beautiful setting populated by predictable and largely uninteresting characters.
Visually, it's even more astonishing than the high-profile trailers made it look, an astonishing blend of real-life backgrounds and computer-generated characters. It's a shame that the script seems to have been wholly computer generated as well.
It is an awsome experience, visually; on the story side it's a tad thin.
Sadly, there is little sign of the benefits of evolution in the storytelling itself, which sticks too closely to a narrative template seemingly dating back to the Mesolithic era.
Dinosaur mixes state-of-the-art visuals with bottom-of-the-barrel scripting.
Utimately it is the look of the film that makes an indelible impression.
As a result of its breathtaking visual effects, Dinosaur is a landmark film.
Directors Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton deserve high praise for their innovative blend of filmed settings and CGI wizardry.
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.
The real reason to go to this film is the animation, which places these ultra-realistic, digitally created characters with "real," live-action backgrounds that have been digitally doctored.
A skillful blend of old-fashioned Disney storytelling and newfangled computer animation makes for an effective and frequently spectacular summer family film.
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