Dinosaur 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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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.
Runtime: 82 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
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
Reviews for Dinosaur
Dinosaur cuts a bland, compliant figure, its narrative and characterizations subservient to splashy feats of CGI legerdemain.
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An unbelievable visual feast.
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This film just felt dry.
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Dinosaur, although still impressive, just misses being a great, truly revolutionary film.
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The film is such a visual feast that it's often easy to ignore its narrative failings.
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...too saccharine, too undemanding, and all too brief to satisfy.
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The voice work is merely adequate, with Marguiles, Sweeney and Alfre Woodard (Love & Basketball) particularly unstriking.
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A quick blast.
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Dinosaur astonishes and disheartens as only the most elaborate, most ambitious Hollywood products can.
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Top CriticThis big-budget marvel raises the bar for the animation community, even if its script doesn't have the spark and sheer entertainment value of recent Disney cartoon features.
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Pure Disney formula.
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The script has lines adults will appreciate, mixed with howlers.
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The story is from familiar fairy-tale turf in the ways of good vs. evil, and every bit of it is thrilling to look at.
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A visual breakthrough in realistic computer animation that should delight kids -- and adults, at least for the first half-hour.
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Plot? What plot?
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Plot? What plot?
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This film is packed with wonderful eye-candy. The first ten minutes, or so, are dialogue free. They play so well that it is a complete disappointment when the dinos begin to talk.
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For every kid everywhere, and for every adult still a kid at heart, the dinosaurs are the thing, and here, finally, Disney does justice to our dreams.
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