Review of The Good Dinosaur (2015) by Brunovn00 — 11 Apr 2019

What an underwhelming film. I guess that the fact that I hated this movie when I first saw it it's because I had REALLY high expectations, as a couple months earlier, Inside Out, one of the best animated movies of the decade was released. This is honestly the second worst Pixar movie ever and maybe the worst Pixar movie that wasn't a cash grab. This movie had a very troubled production and maybe Pixar lost faith in this movie and instead of cancelling it, they rushed it, released it and gave almost no marketing to it, because this movie feels so...Rushed.

Now, "rushed" feels its writing, because the animation definetly doesn't feel rushed, it's STUNNING. All backgrounds feature beautiful photo-realistic landscapes and those breathtaking vistas are the best part of this movie and maybe the only good thing, because everything else is so bad.

The plot is generic and now I know that that could not have been a bad thing as Pixar has proven to turn generic stories into masterpieces because of the wonderful way those stories are executed and this movie lacks that: A good execution of its story. This is a very boring movie, with almost nothing interesting happening the whole movie. The characters are non-existent, besides Arlo and Spot, every other character is just a pile of rocks, their only purpose are being plot devices, so this movie doesn't really have any conflict.

There's almost zero humor, nothing truly emotional, nothing truly inspiring, this is a big pile of nothing.

The third act might be one of the worst a Pixar movie has ever had. The climax feels SO forced and there are no stakes and no tension, it made me feel nothing, just like the rest of this movie (If you've seen the movie, you might know what I'm refering to).

I actually feel sad for the animators of this movie: They invested so much time and hard work to make the landscapes look gorgeous and visually impressive, but they wasted their talent in a bland, forgettable and boring story.