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Release Date:
19 May 2000 (USA)
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Tagline:
You have never seen anything like this.
Plot:
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home. full summary | add synopsis
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4 wins
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18 nominations
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(32 articles)
A Night Of Joe R . Lansdale This Fri-sat In Long Island, NY!
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Harrelson! Eisenberg! Zombieland! Wha–?
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Could have been the best. As it is, its the prettiest.
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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 | ... | Additional Voices (voice) |
| Sandina Bailo-Lape | ... | Additional Voices (voice) |
| Edie Lehmann | ... | Additional Voices (voice) (as Edie Lehmann Boddicker) |
 | Zachary Bostrom | ... | Additional Voices (voice) |
 | Cathy Cavadini | ... | Additional Voices (voice) (as Catherine Cavadini) |
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MPAA:
Rated PG for intense images.
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Runtime:
82 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
USA:PG (certificate #37293) |
Iceland:L |
Malaysia:U |
South Korea:All |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:PG |
Brazil:Livre |
Canada:PG |
Chile:TE |
Denmark:7 |
Finland:K-8/6 |
France:U |
Germany:6 |
Hong Kong:I |
Mexico:A |
Netherlands:AL |
New Zealand:PG |
Norway:7 |
Philippines:G |
Singapore:G |
Spain:T |
Sweden:7 |
Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) |
Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) |
UK:PG |
Greece:K
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Water rippling in concentric circles with each footstep of an approaching predator parodies the famous shot in Jurassic Park (1993) and its sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997).
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Factual errors: The Carnotaurs seen in the film were much bigger than their real life counterparts. In realty the were smaller than Iguanodon's (Aladar's species) whereas here they are made as large as some of the biggest Dinosaur predators (like Tyrannosaurus). This is presumably done for dramatic effect and wouldn't be the first time such a change has been made (the Velociraptors from Jurassic Park).
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Quotes:
Bruton:
Why is he doing this? Pushing them on with false hope?
Plio: It's hope that's gotten us this far.
Bruton: But why doesn't he let them accept their fate? I've accepted mine.
Plio: And what is your fate?
Bruton: To die here. It's the way things are.
Plio: Only if you give up, Bruton. It's your choice, not your fate.
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Plio: It's hope that's gotten us this far.
Bruton: But why doesn't he let them accept their fate? I've accepted mine.
Plio: And what is your fate?
Bruton: To die here. It's the way things are.
Plio: Only if you give up, Bruton. It's your choice, not your fate.
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Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#26.6)" (2001)
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When i heard that the original screenplay o this film planned no dialogue at all for the characters, i became even more disappointed at the end result. While a very good film Dinosaur certainly is, it could have been incredible. The visual effects alone are a sight to behold, never more so than in the opening sequence. This is probably the best stretch in the whole film for me; it's unsanitised by talking animals and genuinely feels like a prehistoric world (ignoring the multitude of historical inaccuracies like grass in the Mesozoic era, particular dinosaurs living side by side). Once the animals start to talk the film is bogged down by the shortcomings of the script, which is idealistic and morally exposition heavy, for the sake of the target audience. It also detracts from the illusion the film so effortlessly produces on the screen at the start; it all just becomes so standard an routine when it seemed to be so much more. With a weak script, the visuals no longer arrest like they did before and would have done had nobody talked. Without the amazing cgi, this could have almost been straight to video.
I say almost because despite the shortcomings Dinosaur is a good movie; it's at times thrilling, exhilarating, touching and surprisingly intense, for a movie with a such a routine story. Had it had a better script it could have been great. Had it had no dialogue at all it could have been a classic and perhaps one of Disney's finest. The era of risk taking and inventiveness for the company seems to be at an end, or at least under suppression. Damn you Eisner! They were onto something this time.