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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.

Runtime: 82 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

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... 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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  • Join the action-packed adventure of a group of dinosaurs overcoming enormous challenges through courage, loyalty, and hope in Disney's DINOSAUR, a special effects phenomenon! Set 65 million years ago, DINOSAUR tells the compelling story of an iguanodon named Aladar, who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs, including the wisecracking Zini and the compassionate Plio. When a devastating meteor shower plunges their world into chaos, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Along the way, Aladar befriends Baylene, the dignified, elderly brachiosaur with a take-no-prisoners attitude; Eema, the unstoppable styrachosaur; and Neera, a feisty fellow iguanodon. Together, they must stand strong amid food and water shortages, the threat of attacks by carnotaurs, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron. As the trip becomes one pulse-quickening adventure after another, it also forges friendships that no hardship can destroy. A landmark in filmmaking technology, Disney's DINOSAUR is a breathtaking spectacle filled with adventure, fun, and life lessons that the whole family will love!
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    Bob Grimm
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    It's the small details, like dino-skin, that Blu-ray really brings to life.

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

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    Judith Egerton
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    12/02/02
    Leslie Felperin
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    Dinosaur mixes state-of-the-art visuals with bottom-of-the-barrel scripting.

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    Margaret A. McGurk
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    ...don't expect much more than eye candy.

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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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    James Sanford
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