The Mouse Minute (Formerly Brad's Everything Disney Blog): The Good Dinosaur

Sunday, April 3, 2016

(Disney Animated Movie Review #13) The Good Dinosaur 2015 6 out of 10

The Good Dinosaur 2015 6 out of 10

It had to happened eventually. Brave was my least favorite Pixar film before this movie came out. Pixar has made it's first movie that wasn't a huge box office dominating success. The Good Dinosaur limped into movie theaters in November and made the least amount of money of any previous Pixar film. I questioned if this could be Pixar's first flop when I saw the sneak peek at DCA before the film came out. The blog on that sneak peek is here...The sneak peek was good --but not amazing like most of the other sneak peeks. In fact most of the other sneak peeks sent me to the theaters to see the movies ---The Good Dinosaur I waited for on DVD.

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The Good Dinosaur wasn't bad..... in fact the visuals were amazing. The movie featured stunning vistas showing the beautiful world that waslike something straight out of the Disney Nature film "Bears". The movie just seemed to be missing something.

I liked the characters.....

I liked the story of Arlo the Dinosaur and the friendship he forms with the little dog like human Spot.

The action sequences were good especially some of the storm footage that sweeps Arlo away from his family.

Everything about the film was good......but not great.

Pixar films are generally Great and The Good Dinosaur just Good. Despite its top notch visuals the story just wasn't a high concept idea like Inside Out or Toy Story. It seemed like the kind of story you would expect from one of the other animation studios.

I also found myself comparing it to Disney's own Dinosaur from 2000 which also featured a Dinosaur separated from his family that makes a long journey. Dinosaur was 15 years ago and also had photo realistic backgrounds and I personally thought Dinosaur was a much better film and I kind of want to revisit it now as a comparison.

I can't really put my finger on The Good Dinosaur's failing. I know that the film had many production issues and was reworked several times. I guess they just couldn't get the tone of the film right. Maybe the failing was that the concept for the film just wasn't that strong to begin with. My verdict: It is worth a rental---but this one isn't a keeper.

Here is the Good Dinosaur Trailer

Here is the Dinosaur Trailer.

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Monday, October 26, 2015

The Good Dinosaur: A Sneak Peek at the Disneyland Resort

The latest Disney Parks Movie Sneak Peek is The Good Dinosaur currently in the Bug’s Life Theater.

I’m a huge fan of these movie sneak peeks that use the 4-D in theater effects to enhance the movie experience. The Good Dinosaur sneak wasn’t presented in 3-D –but did effectively include the theater effects such as in theater lighting, water effects and an incredible scene which included the seat effects.

Here is a cool picture of some of the characters outside the theater.

This movie wasn’t really on my radar to see in the theaters—but as usual they may have changed after seeing this cool sneak peek.
I was surprised at the cool visuals in the film, since I hadn’t seen anything that cool from the film’s first trailer. It looks great and the 2 main characters are adorable and the sneak peek into the movies story makes it look like a lot of fun. The story is basically a what if the asteroid hadn't killed all the Dinosaurs and follows a boy named Spot and a Dinosaur named Arlo.

Could this be Pixar’s First Flop?

Despite how good the sneak peek was this film had issues during production and was reworked by Pixar that didn’t feel it was good enough at first…..I think Pixar has solved whatever initial issues the film had because it looks like another great Pixar film now. Pixar basically has the best movie batting average ever… They don’t seem to make bad movies---so I’m sure it will be great. My only concern is for the box office future of the flick –between the Ice Age films and Land Before Time and Disney’s own Dinosaur. It just seems like this ground has been stomped on too many times before. The one thing this film lacks that the other Pixar films has is an original story. As a result this particular film may get lost in the shuffle. (Of course I've been wrong before)