Dinosaur

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Summary: Breathtaking!
Review: Disney's next classic for sure...

The animation in this film is so spectacular. From the opening sequence to the music, the characterizations...everything is done in top Disney form.

The animals look and sound as if they are right in your living room and are so incredibly life-like. You can almost feel the scales of their skin in the close-up shots. I was impressed with the quality of the scenes, particularly when they are "on the march." There are a view angle shots that give you an idea of how enormous these creatures were.

This is not a re-hash of Jurassic Park or The Land Before Time. In this movie you can see the skin move when they roar, the delicate lines that form very dry scaly skin as they wander in the desert in search of water.

The story revolves around an iguanodon named Aladar who is raised by lemurs (I thought it was touching when he introduced an older male lemur as his "grandfather").

Aladar experiences a range of emotions and life lessons that we can all relate to: family relationships, loneliness (he is the only dinosaur in "lemur land" at the beginning), survival choices, leadership decisions, and confrontations with both carnotaurs (described as meat eating dinos with "a whole lot of teeth with a bad attitude" by one of Aladar's dino friends), and a ruthless, egotistical adversary (the herd leader named Krone). And to make matters worse, the one "woman" Aladar loves calls him a "jerk-a-saurus" in public (and she happens to be Krone's sister)

The technology used in this film is far superior than other animated dinosaur classics, and the story line is much more engaging.

Very highly recommended.

P.S. The music is spectacular as well!

Cris

Rating:
Summary: Good but predictible
Review: We bought this because our 2 1/2 year old son loves dinosaurs. While this movie has great special effects, lots of action, and a nice story I was confused about the addition of the lemurs who did not exsist at that time. Now I have to explain to my son everytime we watch this that monkeys were not around when the dinosaurs were. The rest is classic Disney and if you can get past the "lemur thing" your family will definatly enjoy this film. However this is not for the sqimish or for children who are easily frightened.

Rating:
Summary: A new and different movie
Review: A new and creative movie that kept me interested from beginning to end. Something for everyone out there by them adults or children.

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Summary: Player problem? Maybe, but disc problem, too!
Review: The problem is clearly related to certain DVD players having trouble reading some information on the DVDs. You can point your finger at the DVD player, but the real question is why did Disney release a disc that clearly is troublesome for so many players. Two different copies did not work on the four DVD players I tried (including the one on my computer, so even that is not a universal solution). Disney needs to fix this problem and provide free exchange somehow. MGM had a similar problem with a James Bond disc (Man with a Golden Gun) which only surfaced on some players - they provided for free exchage through the mail. Disappointing that Disney is not doing the same...

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Summary: Stunning visuals
Review: I want to start out by saying. . . this is not a Disney movie for the entire family. Young children (and even some anxious older children and adults) are likely to be frightened by several of the scenes in this movie. This is because Disney has done a fine job at creating a visually stunning world of 3-D dinosaurs which are very realistic.

It is an entertaining film with a good morale storyline to it, but it is quite violent in places, though never gory. I enjoyed the movie and will watch it many times, though probably never before bed time. :)

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Summary: IN REFERENCE TO THE DISC BEING FAULTY
Review: The disc's of "Dinosaur" are not defective, the problem lies in the players.

The players may have hardware/software incompatibility, similar problems have occured with "The Kid".

Those experiencing problems may want to call the company of the DVD player and explain the problem...they should be able to tell you what to do. Also, Buena Vista Home Entertainment has set up a complaint hotline [phone].

Rating:
Summary: ZERO STARS
Review: Okay let's start at the beginning.

1)The story is pointless, unoriginal, boring, and little to no action or comedy.

2)The animation is bland and boring, the effects are WAY over rated and look very drab and colorless. The dinosaurs look rediculous when they talk, only three were animated very well. (Brontasauras, The triceritop one I forget the name, and that little one named URL who for some reason acted like a DOG because he was smaller than the others which I guess made him stupid?)

3)No lush backgrounds, just dull boring dessert which adds to the depressing feeling the movie had, and added to the dullness of the dinosaurs colors. The only beautiful shots were in the beginning and end, when the jungle was there. Plus alot of Dinosaurs get killed in the film.

4)Everything happened so fast, you get about 10 minutes of jungle and green till it's all desert, and there is no sense of location. Did the whole thing get scorched? how come this ONE piece of land was able to survive?

5)The characters were cookie cut out predictable, the villians were not given voices and just made dumb animals who want to kill. Unlike such classic Disney villians who were intelligent and had great motives for there evil. IE: Scar & Frolo (Hunchback)

6)No highlights, highly forgettable. And its a shameless copy of the Land before time.

Don't waste any money on this, but people are so naive to love everything Disney does, I think the world is under some great mind control. Disney's quality of films have been diminishing greatly, ever since they lost there "Musical-esque" style after THe Hunchback of Notredame.

This was TRASH to the truest extent of the word.

Rating:
Summary: Dinosaur
Review: My Pioneer 737 or Elite 37 won't play the disk. It frozes up at exact spot (19 sec) and also some other spots in other chapters. This is the first disk of my entire collections of over 100+ disks that I have problem with ability to playback.

Don't buy unless you absolutely sure that you could get your money back.

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Summary: Only a "Land before time: Journey to Happy Valley"
Review: I am very disapointed with its poor story and unavoidable advertisements at the beginning. It will be better to put a subtitle of "Land before time: Journey to Happy Valley." I didn't know that Disney and Universal Studio shares the story. The picture was excellent when I didn't know that was combination of real and computer animation. I was wondering how they realized the texture and details of nature on computer. But it was only my ream--most of them except characters were just a digitized image of here and there. Already lots of people have done that and lot of them has good story too. The worst was that the advertisement before you get to the menu. I always hated those and this DVD has about 7 of them. I had to keep hitting skip track button to get to the menu. I paid the money to see the movie without any interruption but they don't allow me. BAD Disney!

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Summary: Good Childrens (and old Adults) Movie
Review: I didn't have the problems with the DVD that some of the others have had. It was similiar to other films of this type but the interaction of live background and animated characters was awesome. I got the special addition. I will say that I got a lot of skipping in the special features disk but the main movie was OK