Dinosaur

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Summary: Its not your DVD player its the DISC
Review: I saw recent reveiws where people say that its a problem with the player. I work at circuit city, and out of the 11 DVD players we have, it only worked on one. I have over 100 movies and i only have problems with 3. Dinosaur, the Kid, and Scary movie.The 3 movies i listed are all made by buena vista home video hhhhmmm! No problems with Paramount, fox, newline, warner bros,or Universal. So dont run out and get a new player, because its the disc and they know it or they wouldnt be making another. If you complain long enough buena vista will send yu a free Tarzan DVD.

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Summary: Often stunning and captivating family film
Review: Dinosaur

Score: 83/100

Okay, I can admit that Disney's much-hyped release Dinosaur may relate a little too much to The Land Before Time series. It's not the most original piece of reptile work ever, but the $200m Dinosaur is still a fascinating adventure into the prehistoric world, and it's the most plausible to come out of the Disney studio in a long time.

Long before humans appeared on the planet, dinosaurs ruled the earth. On a little off-coast island, a clan of lemurs finds a dinosaur egg, hatching. Since there are no parents, the lemurs take care of the newborn, Aladar (voiced by D.B. Sweeney). Years later, a medium meteor goes down close to the island and the shockwave forces its inhabitants to flee to the continent. There, Aladar and his family meet other dinosaurs for the first time as well as real dangers. The destruction caused by the meteor here has also forced a herd of different herbivores to move to a remote valley that can provide food and protection against the carnivorous predators following after. Since Aladar grew up with a different understanding of the ways of the world, his way of helping others first isn't accepted within the herd, but soon it is proven that reason may be better than panic.

It may have slight flaws in its script, but Dinosaur's enchanting story and striking animation style is truly flawless, making the film a pleasant experience for both kids and adults. If there are best scenes in the movie, enough though there is too many, the egg's journey is marvellous and eye-catching and the meteor crash is a truly horrifying sequence, one that you'll actually have to be holding your seat and your heart to keep the blood pumping through your veins. In fact, the title says it all - You have never seen anything like this. That's absolutely true, I have never seen such a captivating and amazing animated film that is based on dinosaurs and doesn't go too sugar sweet. The film can be dark and moody, and it can be bright and sunny, either way, it will continuously please the large audience it receives.

There are a couple of faults which stop Dinosaur from suiting to everyone's taste, but it kept me entertained with a fascinating style. If you agree with my other reviews of animated films, Dinosaur is an absolute must-see.

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Summary: Not a classic but excellent nevertheless.
Review: Many of the previous reviews have already said what I'm writing here. Stunning animation, great sound, weak storyline. My two kids both love it (and, after all, it's them I bought it for. Honest!). The extras on the second disc are well worth the money and will provide much additional pleasure (though, in this case, kids have little interest in director's commentaries and the like).

Enjoy the visuals and don't get hung up on the storyline. You'll enjoy it.

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Summary: Bad "remake" of "The Land Before Time"
Review: This movie is really terrible. It is a cheap knock-off of Don Bluth's far superior "The Land Before Time." The story involves a bunch of dinosaurs who, because of meteors blowing up their habitat, must undertake a dangerous journey to an untouched, lush valley. Sound familiar? If you've seen "The Land Before Time" it will, since this is the exact same story, except with a few annoying lemurs (or some sort of monkey) thrown in. The single worst moment in this movie which has many of them, is a strange lemur mating ritual that leaves the self-proclaimed "love monkey" all alone swinging on his vine. The only good thing about this movie is the nice score by James Newton Howard.

In terms of animation, the CGI is decent and sometimes impressive when in the recreation of prehistoric times with herds of dinosaurs roaming around and great looking scenery (filmed mostly in California). Then, the dinosaurs start talking and the annoying lemurs appear and the movie goes downhill really fast. Only the first 5 minutes are worth watching, and you can get that in the Tarzan DVD too.

The extras are okay, but the many features are all very short, so that if you add up all the minutes of extras, it's not very long at all. The interactive menus are really HORRIBLE though, just like in the Toy Story Ultimate Toy Box extra features disc. The menus take SO long to load that you will be infuriated by the time the next menu appears. Why do they do this? Who enjoys wasting time so that they can see animated menus? It's really very annoying. Luckily, the movie was so terrible that I had no regrets in selling this DVD set right after watching it.

AVOID THIS ... MOVIE AT ALL COST!!

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Summary: I LOVED IT!
Review: I bought this dvd for my daughter because I saw the commercials and thought it looked amazing. Boy, was I right!!

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Summary: You'll love it no matter how old you are!
Review: Disney has made a great film that the whole family will love! The computer animation is worth seeing if your an adult, but you probably wouldn't enjoy the story. But little kids adore it! It's about a dinosaur named Aladar who's egg was stolen when he was a baby. It was taken to an island inhabited by Lemers. The lemers raised him and treated him as one of the family. But when a huge meteor comes crashing down destroying their home, Aladar and his family are forced to join the heard of Dinosaurs trying to reach the nesting ground. The leader of the heard and Aladar are as unalike as they come. The leader believes in survival of the fitist, so he is ready to leave behind some old and slow dinosaurs. Aladr dosn't think that way, so he leads the weak Dinosaurs to a short cut. But The Carnatours are closeley on the trail of the heard, and when Aladar finds out the herd went the wrong way, he has to save them. Kid's love to watch it over and over so buy it today!

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Summary: A New Kind of Disney Movie!
Review: This is finally a Disney film without sugarsweet animations or immature jokes. It does feel more matured,as if it turns to an older public,which is also true. The title may make it sound like an ultimate children`s movie,but it isn`t. This time,Disney has real blood in one scene and violence in another. That shows that this is definitly not a Winnie the Pooh copy. When I saw it,I was surprised of how frightening the carnotaurs looked or how realistic the movements were. I am a great freak of dinos so this movie was perfect for me. But there was one thing that made me reallly disappointed. That was the story. Almost everything was very similar to Don Bluth`s "Land Before Time". The dinosaurs were kids then - now they`re grown up. The sharptooth has changed its name (carnotaur)and the same thing for the valley (The Nesting Grounds). So I think they should have been thinking more of the story than just doing one about a dinosaur herd finding a new home. The film then seems boringly because of the desert habitat which occupies 80 % of the movie. To be really interesting to me,a film requires a good story. But there was many positive things too. The characters are pretty good,like Aladar,a funny heroe,Zini the lemur,the evil Kron and the old Eema. And the effects were about the best I`ve ever seen in any kind of film!And the music was probably the best I`ve heard since Jurassic Park and Star Wars.

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Summary: Absolutley RECOMMENDED!
Review: I saw the film on home video. I was really impressed and learned some stuff. This is so far the only animated Disney film that I have greatly appreciated. Why? Because I believe that this was their first video that is not only for young kids but for everyone. It rejected many of the Disney traditions, like singing in some parts of the film. That's also one of the reasons because I really didn't learn to appreciate their old "tradition". Dinosaur was a big make over! Even my whole family loved it! The visuals were absolutley impressive and the best I've seen so far! The story and plot were impressive as well. It really gave me the idea what it is like in the cretaceous. It's not like Jurassic park, well, it proved that dinosaurs are killing machines, but humans and present day technology were involved so it somehow changes the atmosphere. And in Land Before Time, no humans were involved but compared to Dinosaur, Land Before Time has too many childish content, I really didn't like that one. Dinosaur however, really has showed the viewers that life long ago was filled with ultimate hardships and violence. The movie also shows actual eye to eye scences of death, and it proved that long ago is not what it seemed. The voice actors and actresses were great! The voice of Sweeny fits the traits of the Iguanodon, Aladar. Woodard's voice and the others were as good as the one I'ved mentioned. One thing that I want to thank Disney is that they made the dinosaurs talk. At first I though they didn't because when I saw a short preview of it in Disney channel, I heard no voice, just roars and growls. Them talking helped me understand the situations, what they feel, personalities and what they are like in the inside. Otherwise, how could anyone get even a bit of the story? I also loved the Lemurs! Anyways, I loved the movie! Thank you very much Disney!

I have an answer to why some people like this movie or not. It's because people have different "tastes" when it comes to movies. One thing, I know for some of the viewers, some expect complex plots. In my opinion, life long ago isn't suppose to be complex because the only thing creatures work on is "survival"

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Summary: Standard Edition DVD Won't Play
Review: I had read of problems with the Collector Edition not playing on some DVD players, but the standard edition won't play on my Toshiba SD-2109. This is the only DVD that I haven't been able to play on this player. It can't get past the loading function. Disney is quickly earning a reputation for shoddy quality control, between Dinosaur and the faulty surround sountrack mastering on the standard edition of Tarzan (the left front channel sound was recorded on the left rear channel as well as the left front channel).

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Summary: How can you see a movie that won't play?
Review: My son and I have tried 3 different copies of this DVD on two differrent DVD players. It won't even boot up on mine, which is a year old. On my son's DVD player, the first two copies booted, then froze up later during play. The third copy wouldn't boot at all. This is absolutely outrageous that Disney would put something like this out. No more Disney movies on DVD for me AT ANY TIME.