Dinosaur (2000)

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Directors:

Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag

Writers:

Thom Enriquez (story), John Harrison (story),

Stars:

D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Samuel E. Wright

4 wins & 19 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
D.B. Sweeney	...	Aladar (voice)
Alfre Woodard	...	Plio (voice)
Ossie Davis	...	Yar (voice)
Max Casella	...	Zini (voice)
Hayden Panettiere	...	Suri (voice)
Samuel E. Wright	...	Kron (voice)
Julianna Margulies	...	Neera (voice)
Peter Siragusa	...	Bruton (voice)
Joan Plowright	...	Baylene (voice)
Della Reese	...	Eema (voice)
Matt Adler	...	(voice)
Sandina Bailo-Lape	...	(voice)
Edie Lehmann	...	(voice) (as Edie Lehmann Boddicker)
Zachary Bostrom	...	(voice)
Cathy Cavadini	...	(voice) (as Catherine Cavadini)

Storyline

During an attack on a pack of Iguanodon, an egg is separated and ends up with the possession of a group of lemurs. The lemurs care for this egg and the young creature born from it, which they call Aladar. When a meteor shower hits earth, Aladar and his family must leave their homeland. Away from home and as close to danger as they have ever been, they meet up with a huge group of dinosaurs, led by Kron and Bruton. All together they are trying to reach the nesting grounds, but it's not going to be easy.

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Plot Keywords:

dinosaur | lemur | egg | meteor | iguanodon | 

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Taglines:

You have never seen anything like this.

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for intense images

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

19 May 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Dinosaurio

Filming Locations:

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$127,500,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$704,976 (Sweden) (17 November 2000)

Gross:

ESP 1,535,407,982 (Spain) (29 June 2001)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Feature Animation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One original concept for the dialogue in the film would have seen the characters not moving their lips and beaks to talk but rather as voice-overs, similar to Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey.

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Goofs

When Baylene is running to jump in the lake at the Nesting Grounds, she is shown to run right near the water's edge. After three shots, she is back where she started to run.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Plio: Some things start out big, and some things start out small, very small. But sometimes the smallest thing can make the biggest changes of all.

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Connections

Spoofs The Land Before Time (1988)

User Reviews

Wonderful

Finally Disney has created an animation that isn't sugar-sweet!

What usually bugs me about Disney's films is the constant bursting-into-song sequences that clog up the stories, and the comic side-kicks that keep making bad jokes. No such thing in Dinosaur! It's a serious movie that is very sad and partially cruel: a wonderful tale of courage and survival, told with respect for the audience, with unpresidented animations. The dionsaurs merge seemlessly into the real surroundings, and they move and look absolutely real. Finally, computer animations have reached the stage where it doesn't look animated anymore!

I was also very touched by Aladar's attempts to save the old dinos, and although I'm a grown-up, I jumped in my seat when the carnotaurs emerged. There was violence in this film: cruel battles between carnivores and herbivores. And surging through it all there is a feeling of sadness and loss, for a world that is about to fade away into the pages of history.

Thus, it's not for the smallest children, but it's a great story that treats it's audience with respect and pays homage to that great lost Earth that was buried in the dust millions of years ago.

9/10