Dinosaur (2000)

Written by John Harrison & Robert Nelson Jacobs
Directed by Ralph Zondag & Eric Leighton

Oh, Dinosaur. What are you doing? What, what, what are you doing?

This movie is awful

This film is unique, in that it features computer animated characters against real backgrounds. It’s interesting. It’s just...my question is: why? I just don’t understand why it felt it was necessary to do so.

This movie is awful

This film is NOT unique in that it’s terrible. Ploddingly slow, unfocused, and featuring the same plot point repeated ad nauseam, it has all the thrill of watching slow people move through a crosswalk all day (which is, essentially, the plot). It also doesn’t make sense. How does a lemur family adopt an Iguanodon? How do they know it’s cold-blooded (YOU’RE A LEMUR, NOT A DOCTOR). Why is the Brachiosaur British??

THIS MOVIE IS AWFUL

Also, because apparently the filmmakers don’t trust their audience to figure it out, DRAMATIC SLOW-MOTION IS DRAMATIC.

Simply put, great animation doesn’t save this film from being an utter mess.

FINAL GRADE: D