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You know I don't care about the story,I know the story is weak but I don't care about it and people don't like the Dinosaur that start talking,so what!,look at other disney cartoon movie like The Lion King and Tarzan,they talk too.Watch BBC walking with Dinosaur instead they don't talk on the movie. I like this movie and is good and I enjoy it,my younger brother enjoy it too.

I bought the Dinosaur 2 disc special edition,I've play both of the disc on my old 16 month Panasonic A120 DVD player and it play fine.There no freeze on some part of the scenes I watch and I watch the supplemental material,no problem there too.I've watch Dinosaur fifth time already and the disc work good on my dvd player,strange hey that Dinosaur dvd can't play on those other people dvd player,that not good for people who not get to listen a dts surround sound on Dinosaur,but for me,I've heard it and it's awesome! :-)

A better-looking retread.
First of all, I can't believe this thing is rated PG. "Dinosaur" presents several incredibly intense scenes, including a meteor shower that wipes out a lot of living things, and several encounters with giant carnivors, during some of which they devour carcasses, all at or above the visual quality of the Jurassic Park movies. Furthermore, the somewhat realistic villain threatens several times to kill the hero, and actually tries to fulfill his promise in a later scene.

Outside the realm of stomach-turning realism, this is just a better-looking retread of "Land Before Time 1 & 2". "Dinosaur" shares an incredible portion of its underlying themes with those two animated films, and some scenes and characters just seem to have been cut and pasted. "Dinosaur" is an especially heavy-handed lecture on the virtues of sensibility, leadership, and hope at any odds.

We find Aladar the talking iguanodon crossing a huge desert with the rest of his plant-eating kin in search of the pristine Nesting Grounds. While the herd's inhumane leader, Kron, pushes to speed up the pace ("only the strongest survive"), Aladar helps out the exhausted stragglers who are at risk of being left behind - Baylene the brachiosaurus, Eema the styracosaurus, and a dog-like ankylosaurus who can't talk (sound familiar?). Furthermore, the herd is being stalked by two huge predators.

In most cases, the voices never really seemed to suit the photorealistic dinosaurs. The only characters who seemed to be natural speakers were the family of lemuroids. They also prove to be the most enjoyable. The film doesn't really take advantage of its incredible level of graphical sophistication. Except for some colorful scenes at the beginning, the rest of the film takes place in a brown wasteland. All the dinosaurs are one color - a muddy yellowish grey somewhat reminiscent of elephant skin.

Lastly, Dinosaur is surprisingly short, which is hardly a loss in its case, since it's short on plot and character development.

The Land Before Trash Like This
What a joke. Before I trash this movie let me just say the only thinkg keeping this from 1 star is the interesting idea to use real backrounds with the CGI characters. I can't tell if it was an act of genious or lazyness. But either way it came out pretty good.

Now for the reason it got 2 stars. Disney has sunk to an all time low. Not only have they made a silly attempt to copy the success of Pixar films, but they went so far as to shamelessly rip off The Land Before Time. I mean, they didn't even try to make the story original. The opening scene copies the opening scene in the TLBT almost directly. What's worse is that I went into the theatre expecting this to be the best movie ever. I came out wanting to throw up from digust of this trash. I thought the whole movie was going to be like the promo trailer and nobody would talk. It would just be a visual art piece. But then I heard them talk and I was appalled. Another thing that drove me crazy was the fact that a lot of the characters just weren't lovable. I'm going to spoil something right now. 80% OF THAT MONKEY FAMILY DIES AND THE REMAINING DON'T CARE AT ALL!! Sure they cry for one second then they just go back to being comic relief. It's just not a good movie and I can't recomend it.