Jesper Brun Actually, I had expected a lot more from this. I remember seeing the trailer for this back in the day, and recently I finally managed to watch it. The visual style is well made and the designs of the dinosaurs was really good... most of the time. That was until I heard them speak. That was unexpected, but I continued without minding it too much to begin with, but the dialogue was all too current for the prehistoric setting, and that was really distracting and at times it made me cringe. There was this monkey who had this slacker attitude to him and called himself "the professor of love" and "the love monkey". That was really where it hit the bottom. The dog-like dinosaur is also pretty dumb.I think it could have been SO much better without this really ill- fitting dialog to it. It is a shame that such a visually beautiful movie should ruin such potential.

datautisticgamer-74853 Dinosaur is a merely passable movie, but it isn't necessarily disposable. The main issue that I have with it is the story, as the humor doesn't hit half the time and it is very easy to get distracted from some scenes, including the ones that are supposed to be perilous. With that said, though, I took immediate notice of how well the soundtrack was done in mixing with the scenes and amplifying the reactions. The animation is landmark for 2000 and actually holds up today, even against films like the 2016 remake of The Jungle Book, though there are some spots where the rendered characters don't mix well with the live-action scenery, such as characters entering water and not appearing visibly wet. The characters are bearable and in enough cases likable, having good heart and being able to get some sporadic smiles, and the story was written in a way that the voiceovers could be justified. Of course, though, it simmers down to another polarized Disney movie that mixes major boons with major flaws to give us something that is worth your time viewing. Think of it as Walking With Dinosaurs with better, more necessary voices, better humor (if marginally), and less obnoxious.

OllieSuave-007 Disney's 39th full-length animated feature film and almost follows the same plot device as The Land Before Time, where the dinosaurs journey through the desert in search of the green and luscious nesting ground following a meteor attack.I believe this is the first Disney full-length animated feature to have CGI effects. Though I am partial to the much vibrant and much more colorful hand-drawn animation, the visual effects here are very realistic and detailing compiled, making it look like it is a live-action film versus an animated one. The story starts off quite intense with an attack of a carnivorous dinosaur on a herd of peaceful plant-eaters. But, the plot then becomes quite slow with the uninteresting subplot about the lemurs raising an orphaned Iguanodon named Alidar, and them playing matchmakers to the younger lemurs. Once the animals start to talk the plot is bogged down by the modern-sounding dialog, which is very distracting since the story takes place in the prehistoric period.The journeying-to-the-nesting-grounds-while-avoiding-carnivores plot is the main plot of the film and is at times thrilling and exhilarating, producing some intense scenes and heartfelt moments, particular where Alidar stays behind the traveling herd to help older dinosaurs Baylene and Eema and where the stern-hearted Bruton fights the Carnotaurus to protect Alidar and company. However, the film has a rather routine story due to predictable moments and very few emphasis on other dinosaurs.Overall, it's an average Disney film with some exciting moments. It can be appealing to children, though.Grade C+

therealadrian I loved the opening to this movie, which was one of the most interesting 10 minute openings I have ever seen. It reminded me of Milo & Otis, but all of the excitement and interest wrapped up in a mere 10 minutes, instead of an entire movie - and Milo & Otis was good too! The animation was so lifelike that I was regularly unsure what was computer generated and what was real. And this came out in 2000? Seriously, but for the 3D elements, this was a lot better graphically than Avatar - and this was some 9 years earlier! Truly a masterpiece of cinema. The story was very interesting though it lost a couple of points for: 1) unnecessarily making the dinosaurs appear a bit too much like humans and 2) in many ways the story ripped off The Land Before Time - though not entirely. It wasn't a big hit at the box office and if you watch it, you can see why. They tried to make the dinosaurs relatable by giving them human-like features, including their front legs looking and acting more like hands than they should. They even had some dinosaurs that acted more like dogs! Perhaps this is justifiable in a sense but it isn't actually realistic. The story was a good moral lesson for kids and generally I think would be great for kids to watch but it also had something in it for adults, and adults could enjoy the lessons. The story was genuinely interesting and not at all predictable. While there were violent elements, I would still think that children could enjoy it. Overall, a very good piece of entertainment.