Review of The Good Dinosaur (2015) by Hanneguacamole — 23 Dec 2015

Being Pixar, The Good Dinosaur was a must-see. This new take on dinosaurs was interesting to see play out, but the movie seemed to get lost at the point where it is so focused on Arlo earning his mark and becoming a part of the family. That is where the magic was lost.

With unexpected frights and turns mixed in, the movie retained some quality. It was scary enough for the kids in the theater to whimper in distress. I just wonder why Pixar felt the need to follow this stereotypical storyline and arc of returning home and proving one's self worth.

Spot being a human was not as much of a surprise or oddity as the creators would have liked us to believe – this is an imaginative world, after all. Anything is possible, but instead we are sticking with the beings that we are – and a world that we know has never existed. Humans and dinosaurs do not exist together. I would say that nobody even wants to see a world where such a relationship exists, but I am not the target audience of this film. What the audience wants to see is not my choice.