The Good Dinosaur

2015 Directed by Peter Sohn

Little Arms With Big Attitude

An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

Frances McDormand Raymond Ochoa Jeffrey Wright Steve Zahn Sam Elliott Anna Paquin John Ratzenberger A.J. Buckley Marcus Scribner Peter Sohn Maleah Nipay-Padilla Jack Bright Ryan Teeple Jack McGraw Mandy Freund Steven Clay Hunter David Boat Carrie Paff Calum Grant

Alternative Titles

Le Voyage d'Arlo, El viaje de Arlo, Dobry dinozaur, 恐龍當家, Un Gran Dinosaurio, Un gran dinosaurio, Untitled Pixar/Dinosaurs Project, Le bon dinosaure, 恐龙大时代, Hea dinosaurus, Den Gode Dinoaur, 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

animation adventure family

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Popular reviews

Review by DirkH ★★★★ 14

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…
Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★½ 11

...at least it's pretty.
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 19

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…
Review by matt lynch ★★½ 6

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.
Review by Tara ★★★★★ 5

You can't get rid of fear, but you can get through it.
Review by justmiaslife ★★½ 6

...and you want to tell my in all honesty that this is seriously a pixar movie?
Review by CinemaClown ★★★ 6

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…
Review by Nick Da Silva ★★½ 3

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.
Review by Coolnilk ★★★½ 5

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.
Review by Matt Singer ★★½ 1

I can think of at least one thing wrong with that title.
Review by James Healey ★★½ 2

I guess The Mediocre Dinosaur doesn't have the same ring to it.
Review by Will Steele ★½ 4

Good Dinosaur, more like, bad movie!

Recent reviews

Review by Thomask01 ★★

It looks pretty
Review by CallumDoMovies ★★½

Yo the visual is great in this movie. The story is the problem, It is slow-paced and boring. There is some scene that I like so it's not a 2-star movie at least.
Review by lknzn ★★★

A movie that is as beautiful as it is harsh. Family and friends are important.
Review by ⴽ. Ֆ. И በ И Ξ ≷ ★★★½

You can't get rid of fear. It's like mother nature. You can't beat her or outrun her, but you can get through it.
Lovely realistic landscapes, but sometimes the characters get too cartoony. That tree-looking dinosaur was very funny tho.
I really appreciate the What-If scenario, even if it wasn't that great those bastards still almost made me shed a tear. It's somehow very cute but harmless in the greater Pixar library.
At one point it suddenly turns into a western. WTF.
Also, the only thing I remembered was the trippy scene with the berries. WTF.
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My niece gave it 4 stars.
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Review by ebag_3 ★½

Garbage
Review by John Armuizamo ★★½

well it was better than Brave
Review by ZaraGwen ★★½

The animation is so beautiful it almost makes up for the lack of plot
Review by amazingspidey ★★½

It's Pixar's best looking film behind toy story 4, but thats about it
Review by MadLinkReviews ★½

It is pretty. I will give you that. Besides that, it’s just a very bad movie Pixar that could have been more interesting. I can see why it’s one of the worst Pixar films and I totally agree.
3/10
Review by Caelyn O'Reilly ★★★

It’s cute
Review by Liam Knipe ★★★★

This is not an original concept, a standard boy and his dog adventure, but it's a bloody good one! A like that the dinosaurs are more cartoony than the environment, the hell that Arlo goes through would have been a bit harder to watch i think it if was more realistic.
Review by Joseph Skywalker ★★★

"Where am I? Where's home?"