The individual characters have amazing texture to them that makes them remarkably real. Often, I would forget I was watching computer animation. However, as I said about Titan A.E. , you can only look at a work of art for so long before you need to move on. Looking at the IMDB , I see this movie has already made over one hundred million dollars, so it is by no means a commercial failure. But it is an artistic one.
Dinosaur lacks that soul.
It is a flat film filled with flat characters that are driven by a flat story. There is no emotion there, much as the filmmakers tried to inject some. I ended up leaving the theatre almost unable to remember anything beyond how good the movie looked. The story was a forgettable Tarzan derivative. Given Disney did a rather blah version of Tarzan last year, the last thing I wanted to see was a more blah version of Tarzan that was about dinosaurs.