The concise critics

The Good Dinosaur

Year : 2015 Director : Peter Sohn Running Time : 100 Genre : , ,
Movie review score
3.5/5

What’s it about?
An Apatosaurus named Arlo becomes lost and during his adventure home makes an unlikely human friend.

What did we think?
In itself  The Good Dinosaur is a wonderfully simple and heart-warming tale but it’s this simplicity that is both its strength and weakness. It suffers mainly because we have come to expect so much more from Pixar. Adults won’t enjoy it as much because there’s no intricate multi-layered story with jokes for different ages. Instead we have likeable characters without any real depth and only two emotional scenes to really connect with us. There’s nothing really wrong with the ‘find your way home’ story other than there’s nothing more to it. But the most important thing is that the children WILL enjoy it.

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