So many terrible lizards are out to prey upon the slow-moving dinos that some of them are reduced to Tyrannosaurus wrecks. Yet the fierce-fanged, snarling predators could intimidate youngsters. For anyone older, some substantial thrills await. Not the least of the hair-raising aspects of the film is the look of its creatures, so real they border on the miraculous. Individual hairs on the lemurs bounce and wave in the breeze.
Shadows dapple their faces.
They look fluffy, cuddly - and perfect for a merchandising blitz. The scaly skin of the dinosaurs looks authentic - at least to those of us who haven't yet met our first brontosaur at the neighborhood fern bar. Their translucent-lidded eyes are deep and expressive. By the way, the computers involved in the film needed some 3.2 million hours to process the equivalent of 70,000 CD-ROMs worth of information. Rated PG for intense images.