Cute, clever, but Pixar's Jurassic lark is a bit lame
The Good Dinosaur (U)
Verdict: Not a Pixar classic
Those clever folk at Pixar have been even busier than usual, delivering not just one film this year, but, unprecedentedly, two.
The first was the brilliant Inside Out. For ingenuity, this one doesn’t compare, but maybe that’s because it is aimed squarely at a younger, less sophisticated audience.
I found it only sporadically enjoyable, but the under-eights will probably love it.
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![Pixar's The Good Dinosaur tells the story of Arlo (pictured), a timid Apatosaurus growing up with his parents](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/27/02/2EBBC58300000578-0-image-a-1_1448589809337.jpg)
Pixar's The Good Dinosaur tells the story of Arlo (pictured), a timid Apatosaurus growing up with his parents
It tells the story of Arlo (pictured below, voiced by Raymond Ochoa), a timid Apatosaurus growing up with his parents and two feistier siblings on a remote farm.
The asteroid that in reality wiped out the dinosaurs has, in Pixar’s version of pre-history, happily missed the Earth altogether. So they co-exist with cave-men, and when Arlo is washed away from his family by a flood, he befriends a grunting little boy.
Together, they try to get Arlo home to his mother (Frances McDormand), his father (Jeffrey Wright) having perished in the flood.
The inter-species relationship is precisely as cute as it sounds, the pair’s adventures brilliantly animated, and there’s a jaunty parallel with old-fashioned Westerns that should keep parents moderately engaged.
On the whole, though, I came away feeling that the mighty computer-animation studio, in exceeding its usual strike-rate of one film a year, has rather let its Tyrannosaurian standards slip.
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