After Monsters University, I thought Pixar lost their magic touch. But then, on June 19th, 2015, Pixar's fifteenth animated feature, Inside Out, premiered in theaters and got very good reviews. But that wasn't over; This year, 2015, happened to be the first year Pixar released two films in the same year. Pixar's other feature, The Good Dinosaur, which premiered today, asks a question that has probably been asked before: What would happen if the dinosaurs didn't go extinct? A few million years after the meteor that destroyed the dinosaurs misses the Earth, the dinosaurs learned how to farm vegetables and get along with rodents, canines, and ungulates. The movie tells the story of a young apatosaurus named Arlo, who happens to be youngest and smallest of a batch of three. When his father gets swept away by a rainstorm, Arlo becomes upset. When Arlo gets lost from his family, he meets a man cub who has been stealing from the corn garden. Arlo tries to kill it, but the man cub was quick. He finds food for Arlo, and instead of killing it when he had the chance, Arlo brings the man cub along for the ride home. While other CGI movies like Disney's Dinosaur, Meet the Robinsons, and Ice Age 3 had dinosaurs very realistic-looking, the dinosaurs in Disney•Pixar's The Good Dinosaur looked slightly unrealistic, but still believable, a similar approach Brian Henson, Michael Jacobs, and Kirk Thatcher did with the TV series Dinosaurs. DreamWorks did a similar approach with The Croods, but the flora and fauna looked and acted too Pokemon-ish for a Prehistoric world. In conclusion, The Good Dinosaur is proof that two animated movies from the same studio released the same year can achieve exceptional quality, if done right.
Rating: 4 out of of 5 stars
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