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  Review by James (Schaffrillas) ★½ 15

  ...at least it's pretty.

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  Review by DirkH ★★★★ 15

  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…

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 20

  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…

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  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.

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★½ 1

  I can think of at least one thing wrong with that title.

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  Review by justmiaslife ★★½ 5

  ...and you want to tell my in all honesty that this is seriously a pixar movie?

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  Review by James Healey ★★½ 2

  I guess The Mediocre Dinosaur doesn't have the same ring to it.

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  Review by NickyD316 ★★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.

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  Review by CinemaCl🎃wn ★★★ 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…

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  Review by liam f ★★★ 1

  how is this film about a small dinosaur the most brutally violent thing Pixar has released so far

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  Review by David Sims ★★½

  saw this in an empty theater so felt comfortable saying "dinosaurs farming corn? that's a movie?" out loud.

  the scene with the sticks really worked. the rest felt like a demo tape for something better. never got to remotely cut loose.

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  Review by Danny Webster ★★★ 1

  The Alright Dinosaur.