T-Rex - Back to the Cretaceous (1998)
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Reviews Counted: 20
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 6
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Average Rating: 6.6/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 2
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Brett Leonard directed this 3-D Imax short feature (running 45 minutes) about a famous paleontologist's teen daughter, who's able to enter into the world of the dinosaurs. In Alberta, Canada, Dr. Donald Hayden (Peter Horton) and his assistant Elizabeth (Kari Coleman) find a Tyrannosaurus egg. Donald's daughter Ally (Liz Stauber) hopes the egg will prove her theory that dinosaurs were ancestors of present-day birds. Back at their museum, Ally knocks the egg on the floor, loosening some strange
Oct 23, 1998 Limited
Jul 3, 2001
$47.8M
IMAX Corp.
Cast
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Peter Horton
Dr. Donald Hayden -
Liz Stauber
Ally Hayden -
Kari Coleman
Elizabeth Sample -
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Laurie Murdoch
Barnum Brown -
Tuck Milligan
Charles Knight
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All Critics (25) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (6) | DVD (10)
It represents the pinnacle, so far, of 3-D filmmaking, and even apart from the technology, it's a very watchable little movie.
Top CriticInstead of giving its eponymous protagonist center stage to strut and fret and sit in the audience's laps, it spends its best energy throwing a watered-down, imitation-Spielberg story in your face.
The film is the sort likely to whet active young minds to know more about the past.
The Imax 3-D format continues to evolve toward narrative maturity, without bothering to ask whether viewers want it to.
Has a pleasant narrative that's impressively elevated by the IMAX 3-D process.
Leonard seems confused about his mission: amusement-park ride or educational film? He tries for a little of each and ends up with a hodgepodge.
It is for all of us who have wondered about this amazing period in our history.
T-Rex may be dumbed-down science and indirect educational material, but there is a lot going on in this 45-minute movie. And it isn't ever boring.
Dynamite 3-D dinosaurs invade an Afterschool Special-style story.
The tepid story line sinks this 45-minute, big-screen film right into the tar pits.
For those who marvel at dinosaurs, this is an absolute must-see.
A rousing 3-D dinosaur adventure.
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Foreign Titles
- T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (DE)
- T-Rex Back To The Cretaceous (3D) (UK)
