Review of The Good Dinosaur (2015) by Drewsreviews — 12 May 2016

The good Dinosaur is the first original movie by pixar that isn't a sequel/prequel that we can consider a bomb compared to other hits. There's WAY too many cliches compared to their previous movies and a whole lot of nothing. The good dinosaur is a step back in the direction of previous works but let's talk about that.

Essentially it's a world filled with dinosaurs that act like humans if they were a little smarter than cavemen, and they essentially farm the land. Yes, I know, this is already sounding like a bad setup in general, let alone the fact that it's a plot to a pixar movie, but trust me when I say it gets worse. To be fair though, the plot itself doesn't matter because nothing really happens in the plot. It's essentially a reverse plot of Finding Nemo where the smallest dino gets lost and has to make it back to his family instead of his family trying to go find him.

So what are the problems with that? Well for starters: It's repetitive. Now It's one thing to have similar storytelling to other movies, but it's a similar plot to one of their own movies making it a lot more boring to watch. We know what's going to happen: dino gets back to his family. Other than that, the adventure of him trying to get back should be interesting but it isn't. The characters aren't specifically interesting and at some points don't make sense. Like the Pterodactyls are the bad guys in this and T-Rex's are the good guys for whatever reason.

So those are the main things that are wrong with it, but is it still worth seeing? Well for one thing, the plot gets old and quite boring but it's not that bad. It's not like it's a complete rip off of Finding Nemo in any way, just too similar. I wouldn't recommend this movie to kids though because it has some pretty violent outbursts and they aren't goofy or silly, they're just straight repulsive to watch. The only REAL good thing that came out of this movie are the background works. The backgrounds and environments in this movie are WAY too good for it. In a way, it makes the movie worse because you can't stop focusing on the out of place characters are in such realistic environments. All in all, I would not recommend buying this movie on any service or DVD but if you have an hour you want to waste on a lot of nothing then I'd say go ahead and watch this movie. Otherwise go watch Finding Nemo again because it's most likely a lot more enjoyable than this snore.