Once in awhile a movie like this comes along that blows me right out of the water. Before Time , with the enormosity of King Kong . That's what makes surround sound so important to these new films we get to hear how big the dinosaur is. In Dinosaur , I swear I felt the chair shake with the crash of their steps. Humans have wished animals could tell their stories for an eternity.
Dinosaur walks a fine line between reality and fantasy.
The lemurs come off muppet-like, but the rest of the film looks extremely real. The landscape is phenomenal, and the dinosaurs fit in more realistically with the backdrop then they did in Jurassic Park . Some of the scenes are very intense, and parents should consider the emotional level of the child before allowing him or her to see the film. Though the graphic content is limited to some injured, bleeding and dead dinosaurs, the suspense and carnage that goes along with our little heroes brutally fending off carnivorous meanies is pretty scary, even for me. Children under ten should definitely have a grown-up nearby.