The Good Dinosaur
Prehistoric Pixar family adventure following the friendship between Spot, a young human boy, and Arlo, a giant friendly Brontosaurus.
Pixar veteran Bob Peterson (Up) was previously set to direct, but troubles with the third act saw him falling out of the project. A total overhaul in the story and its direction meant The Good Dinosaur never made its original release date, thus 2014 never saw a Pixar film. The world shed a single tear that year…
- Director:
- Peter Sohn (feature debut)
- Writer:
- Enrico CasarosaBob Peterson
- Cast:
- Raymond OchoaFrances McDormandJeffrey WrightJack BrightA.J. BuckleyAnna PaquinSam Elliott
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Liam Maguren
flicksAfter ditching its original director, its voice cast and basically everything else a few years ago, Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur has gone through quite a bit of damage throughout its development. You’d hope the studio would have been able to find the diamond in the rough. Unfortunately, the end result feels more like a diamond-shaped lump made out of rough.
It was cute :)
Variety
pressCross-species bonding may have its limits, but it's hard not to find beauty in a boy-meets-beast saga that, by the end, has made it hard to tell which is which.
Time Out
pressSun-dappled streams, swaying trees and an almost palpable sense of weather shock with their photorealism-if this is what animation has become, the computers have won.
The New York Times
pressCharmingly different, but its oddness sneaks up on you only after the filmmakers lay out some storybook bona fides.
The Guardian
pressHowever much it may delight on a scene-by-scene basis... never comes together as a coherent whole, a crucial flaw for a film by Pixar, which has always put story first.
Los Angeles Times
pressAntic and unexpected as well as homiletic, rife with subversive elements, wacky critters and some of the most beautiful landscapes ever seen in a computer animated film.
Hollywood Reporter
pressA visually breathtaking work of computer-generated animation that is ultimately unable to compensate for a disappointingly derivative script.
Empire Magazine
pressShows the marks of a rushed production - though not the landscape and environment design, which is gorgeous - its central pair have enough heart to make the film's shortcomings fade away.
Flicks, Liam Maguren
flicksAfter ditching its original director, its voice cast and basically everything else a few years ago, Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur has gone through quite a bit of damage throughout its development. You’d hope the studio would have been able to find the diamond in the rough. Unfortunately, the end result feels more like a diamond-shaped lump made out of rough.
Variety
pressCross-species bonding may have its limits, but it's hard not to find beauty in a boy-meets-beast saga that, by the end, has made it hard to tell which is which.
Time Out
pressSun-dappled streams, swaying trees and an almost palpable sense of weather shock with their photorealism-if this is what animation has become, the computers have won.
The New York Times
pressCharmingly different, but its oddness sneaks up on you only after the filmmakers lay out some storybook bona fides.
The Guardian
pressHowever much it may delight on a scene-by-scene basis... never comes together as a coherent whole, a crucial flaw for a film by Pixar, which has always put story first.
Los Angeles Times
pressAntic and unexpected as well as homiletic, rife with subversive elements, wacky critters and some of the most beautiful landscapes ever seen in a computer animated film.
Hollywood Reporter
pressA visually breathtaking work of computer-generated animation that is ultimately unable to compensate for a disappointingly derivative script.
Empire Magazine
pressShows the marks of a rushed production - though not the landscape and environment design, which is gorgeous - its central pair have enough heart to make the film's shortcomings fade away.
It was cute :)
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