This article is almost the Disney movie. For the ride of the same proper noun, see Dinosaur (attraction).
For the TV series of nearly the same name, see Dinosaurs.

Dinosaur is a 2000 American live-activity/computer-animated adventure drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation with Clandestine Lab. The flick was released by Walt Disney Pictures on May xix, 2000 and is the 39th movie and the commencement computer-animated motion picture in the Disney Animated Catechism. At officially $127.five million, it was the most expensive theatrical movie release of the year.

While the main characters in Dinosaur are computer-animated, nigh of the moving-picture show's backgrounds were filmed on location. Several backgrounds were establish in Canaima National Park in Venezuela; diverse tepuis and Angel Falls too appear in the picture.

Plot

The film opens with a female Iguanodon keeping a close watch on her eggs. A young Parasaurolophus accidentally wakes upwards a Carnotaurus who started chasing subsequently the herd, and eventually kills a Pachyrhinosaurus . So an Oviraptor takes the surviving egg then information technology was taken by a Pteranodon . The Pteranodon drops the egg past accident onto an Island chosen Lemur Island. Three Lemurs: Plio, Yar, and Zini found the egg when information technology hatched and and so named the baby Iguanodon Aladar.

Years on, Plio has had a daughter named Suri and the family takes part in mating flavour which Zini fails to accomplish and goes without a mate. Moments later on the mating flavor ends, a huge asteroid destroys the island and leaves only Aladar and his closest family members confirmed to be alive. The family move on and after beingness pursued by a pack of Velociraptors , come across a herd of various dinosaurs, led by another Iguanodon named Kron and his lieutenant Bruton. Other herd members include elderly Baylene the Brachiosaurus, Eema the Styracosaurus, the doglike Ankylosaurus Url, and Kron's younger sis Neera.

Aladar and the lemurs accompany the herd beyond a desert to reach a nearby breeding basis the herd has visited before. However, they are being followed past the Velociraptors and after by a pair of Carnotaurus , referred to as "Carnotaurs" in the film. After a day and a night of marching, the herd stops at a lake that appears to be dried upwards, just the water is revealed to be underground, by Aladar hearing it underneath because he had been trying to get Baylene and Eema beyond. Later that 24-hour interval, Carnotaurs brainstorm stalking the herd, sending the herd into a panicked flurry. Aladar, the lemurs, Eema, Baylene, Url and Bruton are all left behind and regroup in a series of caves. The Carnotaurs assail them, but Bruton sacrifices himself to permit the others to flee, burying one of the Carnotaurs in the process. The grouping flee to the back of the caverns, then nail downwardly a wall to reveal a path straight into the breeding ground. Eema spots that the usual entrance has been blocked off, prompting Aladar to find Kron and the rest of the herd.

Kron, Neera, and the herd are on the other side of the blocked-off archway, Kron ordering that the herd climb impossibly over the wall. Aladar arrives and suggests the route through the caves due to a sheer drop on the other side that would kill the herd, which Kron objects to and accuses Aladar of stealing his function equally leader. The two fight for potency until Neera steps in and defends Aladar, deciding to go with him and the herd through his route. The surviving Carnotaur appears, causing the herd to get into a panic. Aladar convinces the herd that the just way they can survive is past standing together. They fend off the Carnotaur and become past it, merely the Carnotaur then notices Kron, who had refused to follow Aladar, and decided he would climb the wall to get to the nesting grounds. The Carnotaur begins to chase Kron downward. Neera notices this and rushes to try to aid her brother, presently followed by Aladar. In the fight that ensues, Kron is fatally wounded by the Carnotaur. Aladar forces the Carnotaur onto a cliff edge that collapses, sending it plummeting to its death. Neera comes to Kron, only it is likewise belatedly. The herd reaches the breeding ground, led by Aladar. Aladar and Neera have children besides as the remainder of the herd, and the lemurs detect more of their kind.

Cast

• D.B. Sweeney as Aladar, a brave and compassionate Iguanodon who's been adopted into a family of lemurs and does what he can to make sure that the onetime and weak aren't left behind during the herd's migration. He serves equally the main protagonist of the picture show.
• Alfre Woodard every bit Plio, a lemur (Coquerel'south Sifaka) matriarch who cares for her family.
• Ossie Davis as Yar, a lemur patriarch whose occasional gruff demeanor is only a front end covering his more than empathetic interior. He is the father of Plio and Zini and the gramps of Suri.
• Max Casella every bit Zini, Aladar's stepuncle and wisecracking sidekick, Yar's son, Suri's uncle and Plio'south brother.
• Hayden Panettiere as Suri, Aladar'southward stepsister, Zini's little niece, Plio's daughter and Yar's granddaughter.
• Samuel E. Wright equally Kron, an Iguanodon leading a herd of dinosaur survivors who is characterized by a strict adherence to social Darwinist theory. He believes in survival of the fittest, which repeatedly clashes with Aladar's merciful mode. Apart from the Carnotaurs, Kron is the secondary antagonist of the moving-picture show.
• Julianna Margulies equally Neera, Kron's sister, who ends up falling in love with Aladar because of his compassionate means.
• Peter Siragusa as Bruton, Kron's domineering right-hand banana. He is betrayed and left for dead by Kron, and ultimately gives his life to kill i of the Carnotaurs to relieve Aladar, the lemurs, and the weak dinosaurs.
• Joan Plowright equally Baylene, an elderly and nice Brachiosaurus (technically a Giraffatitan due to her identification as B. brancai).
• Della Reese as Eema, a wizened, elderly and boring-moving Styracosaurus, and Url's companion.

Throughout the film, Velociraptors and Carnotaurus make appearances, merely are not given voices. Early on, a Carnotaur attack precipitates the events that lead to Aladar'south adoption by Plio and the lemurs. After on, a group of Velociraptors chase Aladar down and afterward stalk the herd until they are scared away by a pair of Carnotaurs, who consistently stalk the herd in their search for nutrient. The showtime Carnotaur was killed by Bruton, who sacrificed himself to save Aladar and the others during a cave-in. The second and last one was killed during a fight with Aladar on a top of a cliff, where information technology starts to intermission under its weight, causing it to fall to its death.

Boosted voices

• Matt Adler - Bruton'due south Watch
• Sandina Bailolape
• Edie Lehmann Boddicker
• Zachary Bostrom
• Catherine Cavadini - Female Lemurs
• Holly Dorff
• Greg Finley - Male person Lemur
• Jeff Fischer
• Barbara Iley
• David Allen Kramer
• Susan Stevens Logan
• David McCharen
• Tracy Metro
• Daran Norris
• Bobbi Page
• Noreen Reardon
• Chelsea Russo
• Evan Sabara - Young Zini
• Aaron Spann
• Melanie Spore
• Andrea Taylor
• John Walcutt
• Camille Winbush
• Baton Due west

Product

While a dinosaur-related computer-blithe film had been contemplated for over a decade, the moving picture finally went into production when it did, equally "the technology to produce the stunning visual effects" had come up about - a few years before Dinosaur'due south eventual release in 2000. The CGI furnishings are coupled with "real-world backdrops to create a 'photo-realistic' look". The crew went all around the earth in order to "record dramatic nature backgrounds" for the film, which were and then "blended with the calculator-animated dinosaurs". Disney said that the over-$100 million visual furnishings "brand the film an 'instant archetype'".

The concept for the film was originally conceived past Paul Verhoeven and Phil Tippett in 1988 and was pitched every bit a terminate-motion animated motion picture with the title Dinosaurs. The film's original master protagonist was a Styracosaurus and the primary antagonist was originally a Tyrannosaurus Male monarch . The flick was originally going to be much darker and tearing in tone and would finish with the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, which would ultimately result in the deaths of the moving picture'due south characters. Paul Verhoeven and Phil Tippett pitched the thought to Disney, only to have the idea for the film shelved abroad with the onset of the Disney Renaissance until the mid-1990s. The film was originally supposed to have no dialogue at all, in part to differentiate the moving-picture show from The Land Before Time with which Dinosaur shares plot similarities. Michael Eisner insisted that the film have dialogue in order to make it more than "commercially feasible". A similar change was as well made early in the production of The State Before Time, which was originally intended to feature simply the voice of a narrator.

The picture's score was composed past James Newton Howard. Pop vocaliser/songwriter Kate Bush reportedly wrote and recorded a song for the film merely due to complications the track was ultimately not included on the soundtrack.^{[ citation needed ]} Co-ordinate to HomeGround, a Kate Bush fanzine, it was scrapped when Disney asked Bush to rewrite the song and Bush refused; even so, co-ordinate to Disney, the song was cut from the film when preview audiences did not respond well to the track. In Asia, pop vocalist Jacky Cheung's song Something Just Beloved Can Do, with versions sung in English language, Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese, was adopted equally the theme song for the flick.

The Countdown to Extinction attraction at the Disney'due south Brute Kingdom theme park, was renamed and re-themed to the movie. It is at present known as Dinosaur merely the storyline was ever intended to necktie in with the flick, because the usage of a Carnotaurus as the ride's antagonist and Aladar as the Iguanodon that guests rescue from the meteor and take back into the present, seen wandering the Dino Institute in Security Photographic camera footage seen on monitors in the attraction's unloading area.

George Scribner was the original director of the film. Scribner spent 2 years on it and left to join Walt Disney Imagineering. Only fundamentally, the story was pretty much the same after he left.

Though Eric Leighton, one of the directors, spoke almost his team "want[ing] to larn every bit much virtually dinosaurs equally possible", he as well admitted that they would "crook like hell" because they were not creating a documentary. A Disney press kit revealed that the film "intentionally veers from scientific fact in certain aspects". In reality, the film cheated in multiple ways regarding how the "dinosaurs are depicted" and how they "are presented in an evolutionary context".

Dinosaur combines the use of live-activeness backgrounds with reckoner animation of prehistoric creatures, notably the titular dinosaurs, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation'due south Estimator Graphics Unit of measurement that was later merged with Dream Quest Images to create Disney's The Secret Lab department. The Surreptitious Lab department airtight in 2002.

Vision Crew Unlimited provided the live-activity special visual effects.

Reception

Critical response

Dinosaur received more often than not favorable reviews from critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 65% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 122 reviews (79 "Fresh" and 43 "Rotten"); with an average score of 6.2/ten. The overall consensus on the site was: "While Dinosaur's plot is generic and deadening, its stunning computer animation and detailed backgrounds are enough to make it worth a wait." Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of iv praising the flick's "amazing visuals" only criticizing the decision to brand the animals talk, which he felt cancelled out the try to make the film and then realistic. "An enormous effort had been spent on making these dinosaurs seem real, and and so an even greater endeavour was spent on undermining the illusion" was his final consensus. The overall rating of Dinosaur on Metacritic from critics is 56%, with 15 critics giving positive reviews, 12 giving mixed reviews, and five giving negative reviews.

The lemurs depicted in the movie strongly resemble the sub-species Verreaux's sifaka. Biologists have raised concerns that the movie is misleading and could potentially confuse people, every bit it suggests lemurs (in their present evolved country) co-existed with dinosaurs over 65 million years ago. All modernistic strepsirrhines including lemurs are traditionally thought to have evolved from 'primitive' primates known as adapiforms during the Eocene (56 to 34 mya) or Paleocene (65 to 56 mya).

In an analysis of the film, done as part of EmpireOnline'south Your Guide To Disney'due south fifty Animated Features, on the opening sequence it said "much of the scenery is skilfully-composited live-activity, including shots of the tepui mountains that would captivate Up's Carl Fredrickson". However, information technology spoke negatively about the unrealistic talking dinosaurs after the opening, describing it as a "nose-dive". It said they "sound[ed] more like mallrats than terrible lizards" and that although no-one knows what dinosaurs sound like, they definitely don't audio like that. It also disliked how the meteor hit Earth in Act 1, making the majority of the film set "in greyness gravel-pits rather than the lush landscapes we were sold". It said "the animals [are] cute enough, but the script, characters and dino-activity are all plodding kiddie fare", but added these faults are made up through "James Newton Howard'southward imperial score". Information technology cited similarities to the 1988 dinosaur-themed Don Bluth film "The Land Before Fourth dimension", and the more than successful prehistoric Bluish Sky Studios film Ice Age (which it described as "sassier"), and added that the "images of desperately migrating dinosaurs hark back to the far greater Fantasia". The picture show was also deemed "inferior" to the work of Pixar.

Phil Tippett who had pitched the idea was disappointed with the final product. And he called the movie "awful" in a interview with SYFY.

Box part

Dinosaur was a box-office success. It opened at #1 making $38,854,851 in its first weekend from 3,257 theaters, for an average of $11,929 per theater, beating DreamWorks' Gladiator on it's opening day, and the company's third best opening e'er at the time, before it was overtaken by Paramount'southward Mission: Incommunicable 2 on it'south second weekend. It had a terminal gross of $137,748,063 domestically which covered its product costs. The moving picture was eventually accepted overseas earning $212,074,702 for a worldwide take of $349,822,765, becoming the fifth highest-grossing movie of 2000. Simply although nowhere near a flop, the loftier production and marketing costs meant that the motion picture did non come shut to breaking even during its theatrical release. Further more, the BBC documentery miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs wich used the aforementioned technique with using CGI dinosaurs in live-activeness backgrounds had aired in the Us on the Discovery Aqueduct a calendar month before the pic'south release, which somewhat cause disentrest to the film.

Release

Main commodity: Dinosaur (video)

The film has been released onto VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. ^[1]

Other media

Disney Interactive released a tie-in video game on the Dreamcast, PlayStation, PC and Game Boy Color in 2000. To promote the release of Dinosaur, the Disney theme park ride "Inaugural to Extinction" was renamed "DINOSAUR", and its plot, which had always prominently featured a Carnotaurus and an Iguanadon, was mildly contradistinct so that the Iguanadon is specifically meant to be Aladar, the protagonist of the movie, and the plot of the ride is now about a human scientist travelling through time to a indicate just before the impact of the meteor which acquired the extinction of the dinosaurs, to bring Aladar back to the present and relieve his life.

Trivia

• This is the quaternary Walt Disney Blitheness Studios pic not to accept humans in it, following Bambi , Robin Hood , and the The Lion King This is also the showtime PG-rated Disney animated picture not to have humans in it.
• This was the kickoff animated film to be released on Blu-ray, back in 2006 to be precise.
• This is also the first movie since The Three Caballeros to exist a whole original story.
• Disney originally was going to use the all-time famous Tyrannosaurus rex , just instead used the relatively unknown Carnotaurus .
• You can run into one of the early Storyboard sequences of the T-Rex original planned for DINOSAUR on the bonus video "Make your own Dinosaur: With Peter & Andrea Von Sholly" on the video Zone section of Prehysteria! in 1993.
• I mistake in the picture show is the Pterosaur would be too tired to wing all the style from Due south America to Madagascar, or Lemur Island, because Madagascar was the habitat of lemurs. Another error is the meteor landed somewhere near the Gulf of Mexico, not near Madagascar, or Lemur Isle. Likewise, Aladar swam to some other isle, which was probably one near Africa, just later in the movie, they stop up in South America.
  • According to the DVD special feature "Dinopedia" (not to exist confused with National Geographic'southward Dino-Pedia), Iguanodons were plant on every continent (except Antarctica).
• Dinosaur is Disney's commencement CGI movie to utilize existent-life backgrounds.
• The Lion King one½ Gameboy Advance sneak peek in the DVD release of The Panthera leo King 1½ features the small chant "Ooa, ooa" from the "Aladar and Neera" track.
• Pam Marsden, i of the producers of the film, is also the producer for the Sony Animation film Cloudy with a Adventure of Meatballs and its sequel.
• Dinosaur is the outset Disney movie musically composed by James Newton Howard, the 2d being Atlantis: The Lost Empire , the third being Treasure Planet , the 4th being Gnomeo & Juliet , the fifth being Maleficent , the sixth beingness Raya and the Terminal Dragon .
• Dinosaur is the 47th highest-grossing animated film, the 7th highest-grossing Walt Disney film (excluding Pixar), and the 42nd highest-grossing animated film in the "Computer" category.
  • This film is also the 7th highest-grossing dinosaur movie behind Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic Park, The Lost Earth: Jurassic Park, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and Jurassic Park III.
• Baker Bloodworth was too the producer for The Origin of Stitch and Gnomeo & Juliet.
• Dinosaur is the 3rd not-musical animated Disney Characteristic, following The Black Cauldron and The Rescuers Downward Under .
• This film is responsible for bringing many species of dinosaur into the realm of popular civilization; most notably species similar Carnotaurus , Iguanodon , Pachyrhinosaurus , and Oviraptor . Though it should be noted that Iguanodon was present in pop culture for a longer fourth dimension period, probably due to the fact that it was 1 of the kickoff dinosaurs ever discovered.
  • Information technology should likewise be noted that several species of Dinosaurs & prehistoric animals were cut from the final film. Examples include Tyrannosaurus , Maiasaura, Lambeosaurus, Deinosuchus (A Giant Crocodile), Amargasaurus , Pachycephalosaurus , Nanshiungosaurus (a relative of the famous Therizinosaurus), Alvarezsaurus, Allosaurus , Utahraptor, Camarasaurus, Triceratops , Pentaceratops, Corythosaurus , Craterosaurus (a relative of the famous Stegosaurus ), Spinosaurus , Tylosaurus , Pterodaustro , Einiosaurus, Euoplocephalus, and Ornithomimus .
• This movie is similar to The Country Earlier Fourth dimension , every bit both involve plant-eating dinosaurs living in a prophylactic oasis from predators (for Dinosaur, the Nesting Grounds; for The Land Earlier Time, the Swell Valley).
• Dinosaur is not included in the Walt Disney Animated Classics line in the UK, being replaced with The Wild .
• Early articles stated that Kiefer Sutherland was a part of the vocalism bandage. In 1997, it was reported that Kiefer was going to voice a character at the time but he had commitments.
• A brusk prune of this pic where Baylene first passed by Aladar and the lemurs in the sandstorm is featured in two of the Disney Villains mixes included on the bonus features in the DVD release of Mickey's House of Villains .

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References

External links

• Dinosaur on Wikipedia