The experience is as luxuriant and intoxicating as a theme park ride; more remarkably, it feels like a real movie.
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Dinosaur (2000)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:19
Rotten:10
Average Rating:5.9/10
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: Separated from his own species as a hatchling and raised on an island paradise by a clan of lemurs, Aladar's life is plunged into chaos when a devastating meteor shower forces him to join a group... [More]
Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Julianna Margulies, Samuel E. Wright, Ossie Davis
Director: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag
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Reviews for Dinosaur
Top CriticOne Dinosaur that won't soon be forgotten.
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Top CriticThe plot couldn't be more stale if it wafted from a sarcophagus.
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Top CriticIf storytelling is the creative equivalent of water, I should point out it's no surprise these dinosaurs find themselves trekking over endless expanses of dusty, dry terrain.
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Top CriticOffers $200 million in special effects and a script worth about 2 cents. Still, that won't bother the picture's target audience.
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Top CriticIt wouldn't have hurt to spend some of that money to tell a story as original as the movie's design -- though I'm sure I speak for millions in thanking Disney for not including any stupid songs.
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Top CriticEven though the traditional aspects of cinema are lacking, it's hard not to be impressed by the package as a whole.
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Top CriticDinosaur is a fable, and a hugely and sometimes wondrously watchable one, even if its emotions retreat to certain levels of programmed predictability as the film proceeds.
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Top CriticDinosaur cuts a bland, compliant figure, its narrative and characterizations subservient to splashy feats of CGI legerdemain.
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Top CriticDinosaur astonishes and disheartens as only the most elaborate, most ambitious Hollywood products can.
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Top CriticPure Disney formula.
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Top CriticA visual breakthrough in realistic computer animation that should delight kids -- and adults, at least for the first half-hour.
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Top CriticFor a story that takes place some 65 million years ago, Dinosaur is awfully reliant on recent recycled parts.
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Top CriticWell, Bambi meets Godzilla again in the new computer-cartoon epic Dinosaur, but the results aren't so witty.
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Top CriticOne thing is certain: Disney has thrown down the gauntlet to the wave of animated competition coming this summer.
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Top CriticA serenely pleasing kiddie movie that invites little ones to sink into their dinosaur dreams.
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Top CriticIf the devil is in the details, then this is one devilishly delightful film.
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Top CriticCommendable weekend fare for the small fry.
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Top CriticIf studios are going to be paying out hundreds of millions of dollars for these films, shouldn't some of that money go to writers whose imaginations match the visuals?
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Top CriticA feast for the eyes but a rather routine entry in the respectable folio of great Disney animated movies.
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