...at least it's pretty.

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?

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

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

I watched this purely so I could make a list ranking Pixar...

Pixar Ranked List
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* 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.

breathtaking animation!

Them landscapes🤤

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.

i hate this movie with a passion. WAY to sad for a little cancer like me.

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.

Guys....Good Dinosaur isn't good...