Synopsis
Little Arms With Big Attitude
An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
2015 Directed by Peter Sohn
An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
恐龍當家, El viaje de Arlo, Le Voyage d'Arlo, Dobry dinozaur, Un gran dinosaurio, Untitled Pixar/Dinosaurs Project, Un Gran Dinosaurio, Le bon dinosaure, 恐龙大时代, Den Gode Dinoaur, Hea dinosaurus, İyi Bir Dinazor, Arlo und Spot, O Bom Dinossauro, 굿 다이노, Добрият динозавър, Arlo & Spot - Der gute Dinosaurier, Disney Pixar Klassiker 16: Den gode dinosaur, Hodný dinosaurus, 굿다이노
If you, like me, when watching an animated movie for kids tend to end up on that annoying crossroads of judging the film on its intrinsic qualities and trying to trying to transport yourself to the mindset of the target audience, you'll have a tough time with the Good Dinosaur.
If you, like me, have a five year old son to watch it with and show you which path to take the Good Dinosaur will feel like a warm bath with a strong moral compass.
A simplistic plot with an overbearing message can be really annoying. The Good Dinosaur definitely suffers from that, but in its simplicity and dime-a-dozen thematic arch it manages to appeal to a universal sense of…
83/100
The Good Dinosaur is infused with failure. In terms of critical and audience reception, it seemed predestined from the very beginning, with production troubles selling uneven construction and Inside Out setting the bar so unnaturally high for the 2015 cinematic year. It's also a film that literally begins with failure, setting the themes for an unusually quiet and delicate piece of plotless beauty. Showcasing a proud dinosaur couple awaiting the hatching of their three eggs, the viewer witnesses the birth of the first two young dinosaurs, but the third, surrounded by a massive egg shell, doesn't even break out until his brother comes along and knocks the shell with a stick.
It is this tender, almost "gee-whiz" dash of…
This sure looks great, but I distracted myself pretty badly trying to figure out just how a bunch of giant lizards with no tools or thumbs developed an agrarian society. This is the kind of practical stuff that cartoon premises ignore all the time (and with good cause, kids don't care) but that drives my faulty brain totally up the wall with questions. At one point a tyrannosaur is playing a bug like a harmonica (sure, fine) and then when he's done he just eats it. This made me think of Wilma Flintstone butchering the record player for dinner, and that got me really wound up. Freakish and unpleasant.
...and you want to tell my in all honesty that this is seriously a pixar movie?
While the year of 2014 was the first in nearly a decade that didn't feature any film from Pixar Animation Studios, 2015 marks the first time that this pioneering studio has released two movies in the same year. The first was Inside Out which signalled the much-awaited return to form for Pixar after their quality slump in the past few movies. The second arrived just recently in the form of The Good Dinosaur that employs Pixar's signature thinking process that begins with the idea of "what if…" and is a technical marvel but purely from storytelling perspective, it's one of their least impressive works.
Set in an alternate timeline in which the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs missed Earth, The…
The Good Dinosaur has gorgeous animation and moments of creativity, but the derivative, lightweight story deprives it of the opportunity to be considered anywhere near the level of Pixar's finest works. Watchable, but very unremarkable.
The Good Dinosaur, just like the name suggests, is surely on the 'good' and rather safe side on the entirety of the Pixar animation spectrum of films, though I did quite enjoy this much more than the lengthy line of not so sweet reviews throughout the interwebs.
It is definitely the weakest out of the entire Pixar films I've seen so far, with some of the story throughout being a little iffy, but I can't lie to you all that I absolutely enjoyed the friendship relationship between Arlo and Spot, and it hits hard in the end once their journey is finally complete. The animation was also another thing I appreciate as well with there being many beautiful shots throughout the film.
I watched this purely so I could make a list ranking Pixar...
* By Pixar standards, it was a disappointment. But I had a lot of fun and there were some touching scenes. The concept itself was very interesting and profound. Lot of laughs too.
* The main problem for me was the lack of harmony. The action sequences kept coming one after another, it felt ridiculous after a point.
* But it was also obvious that it was not a normal animated comedy. There was that Pixar touch initially and at various moments. But bad writing undid a lot of that later on.
the rendering is absolutely amazing but the story... it’s okay just... underwhelming. and the dinosaur character design was just kind of unsettling and off ngl.
It almost felt like Pixar was just experimenting with photorealistically animated scenery together with characters that are animated in a more conventional Pixar- style, I say this because the story and how it handled its themes felt far from original. None of the characters felt interesting enough either. I'm indifferent about the animation but there were some pretty exciting scenes and the movie is by no means bad, just very average.
Apart from the scene with the sticks (which is an amazing scene), this really never became got going for me.
It looks amazing, but our two main characters never really gripped me at all, so when the characters aren't working and all you're left with is a by the numbers kids movie then it's easy to become quite bored by this.
when they showed that cute raccoon and then he gets fucking devoured by a cult-leading pterodactyl called Thunderclap, thats when i lost faith in the world
My main problem with this movie is that it has no direction. The end isn't built up to well and the story is kind of pointless. None of the other characters in the movie are there for any reason other than to move the plot that is barely even there. Good animation can really only make up for so much of a lame story.
The SIXTEENTH film in the Pixar-athon!
This was the film that I was corrected about when I stated that 'Cars 2 was the worst Pixar films' and I'd have to say I whole-heartedly agree. This movie is pretty boring. I didn't like the voice cast, I didn't like the plot. I HATED how the kid/child/baby/human acted like a dog. What. This was pretty bad. Easily the worst of the Pixar films. I never want to watch this movie again.
Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
2 Corinthians 10:12
Feels like the product of a second-rate animation studio that goes out of business shortly after its release. It feels nothing like a Pixar film. It also violates one of the primary rules of screenwriting, which is to give your protagonist a clear goal (something one of my six-year-olds expressed frustration with, even if she phrased it differently).
After reading about the development of this film, it makes perfect sense why it ended up the way it did. it’s just mind-boggling that they didn’t pull the plug on it somewhere along the way.
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