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, Julianna Margulies, Samuel E. Wright

4 wins & 21 nominations.

Cast

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

lemur | egg | meteor | iguanodon | nesting grounds | 

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Taglines:

You have never seen anything like this.

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Family | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for intense images

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

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 USA:

$38,854,851, 21 May 2000

Gross USA:

$137,748,063

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$349,822,765

Company Credits

Production Co:

Walt Disney Pictures, The Secret Lab (TSL), 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

Walt Disney's third animated film to have a PG rating after The Black Cauldron (1985) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) both of which were released in the 20th century, unlike this film which was released in 2000, the beginning of the 21st century.

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Goofs

The small, lizard-like Longisquama is depicted as a chameleon that's able to glide through the air with two rows of elongated scales coming out of its side. In reality, it most likely wasn't a chameleon-like animal and only had a single row of spikes on its back, meaning it couldn't glide. It also lived in the Triassic, well over 100 million years before the movie's timeframe.

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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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Alternate Versions

The original print included a song by Kate Bush, but this was cut after unfavorable response from preview audiences.

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Connections

Featured in MsMojo: Top 10 Instrumental Disney Songs (2016)

User Reviews

Beautiful!

This movie was shear pleasure to watch. The movie looks visually absolutely stunning and the animation is done nicely. It's true eye-candy and entertaining as well.

The movie has a typical adventurous story and feeling and is at times spectacular as well. Especially the beginning is impressively spectacular. There are some nicely done action sequences that are at times tense as well. My only true complaint of the movie are the characters. There isn't really any character development in the movie and we never really get to know the character or care much about them, this is probably mainly due to the short running time of the movie. Also of course the story itself is somewhat predictable but that doesn't take away any of the fun or entertainment value of the movie.

Dinosaur fans will enjoy this movie as well, unless you're one of those persons who complains about the accuracy of the movie. This movie is entertainment, not a documentary.

The musical score by James Newton Howard fits the movie like a glove and in my opinion he delivers one of his best and moving scores, in his career.

There is much hate for this movie but quite frankly I can't see why. If you simply take the movie for what it is, you'll have a good time watching it. It's beautiful, adventurous and at times truly spectacular.

8/10

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