Review of The Good Dinosaur (2015) by Guidevault — 22 Mar 2016

I don't know why Pixar released a movie like this or why it could classified as PG but this movie is both bad & improperly rated.

This movie is filled with cheap forced personality development with little to no reason shown such as is the case with Spot & Arlo. It also feeds into the overused plot of a character down on their luck until someone they love is killed, in this case the father in an exact copy of the Lion Kings Mufasa death with river replacing the stampede with Arlo watching from above (like I said exactly the same).

The movie also has in my opinion to much abuse for a PG movie from the father telling his son to murder the intruder to Alto being slammed around in a river resulting in very vivid bruising.

Another peeve of mine is the scene in which Arlo & Spot eat mushrooms which turn out to inflict a shroom-like effect on them both. Definitely not PG since this include drug abuse.

Overly violent murderous dinosaurs bragging and/or insinuating about how they murder others showing so much more violence than is neccessary for a pG.

Boringly painful storyline to watch, cheap character personality involving teaching kids being murderous is awesome as is the case with the T-Rex family, religiously infused dinosaur becoming murderous or solving your problems with murder & abuse. If they were trying to create a horror film for kids then this would be it as it has too many frightening elements for them.

The only thing I can say positively about this movie is the detail to environmental design otherwise not worth paying to watch either at home or at the theatre.