I haven't seen it, but the impression I always got was that it just wasn't well thought out?

Kind of like Cars?

They can't pay Brad Bird to make ALL of their good movies, now can they?

But we are. Admit it.

That's not the threshold of stupidity. Stupidity has the ability to use words.

And to claim it isn't stupid.

Okay then... >A> Not gonna get into an argumentative debate over this so

you've not studied the evolution of humans, have you? humans as a species didn't just pop into existence and start building rocket ships XD

Some weird stereotype that cowards are somehow also idiotic. I would actually argue that cowards assess their situations, running through all eventual possibilities thus scaring themselves, so a rather intelligent if not logical trait.

SO I DON'T KNOW WHY? Why are people dogs?

There was so much about this movie that didn't make sense. It hurts to recall it.

Because they tried to make a cartoon way too realistic looking and gross.

Because "The Good Dinosaur" wasn't an exercise in storytelling or character design, it was an exercise in landscape generation. The story/characters were filler to be able to sell tickets to see it.

yup. exactly.
I was stuck like 'WOW THESE LANDSCAPES ARE BEAUTIFUL
what IS this character crap tho.'

So MANY reasons. I was so excited there was going to be a movie about dinosaurs by Pixar... Then that's the turd we got...
I hated his DUMB KNOBBY KNEES! D:< And how the T-rex family acted like they were saying gitty-up to themselves????
Just real disappointing. Character designs, the story, everything.

"We RIDE!"
what
you ride WHAT??!!!

At that part of the movie I was like "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh????????????"
I was really NOT into it.

because the characters looked like rejected mascots for children's toothpaste

fact.

Pixar has given us a lot of good movies - makes sense they'll have some that will fall through.

But! I watched a video on this at one point actually.
And, assuming the information in that was legit, the good dinosaur was in development for many years, so long in fact, that most of the original production team left, including the director, I believe? I know from that video Arlo's original voice actor was also older and Arlo himself was supposed to be older. Basically it was summarized that a lot of the rendition that came out was, in fact, completely different than the original ideas that the original production team had done. Arlo was more-or-less aged down, and while I'm sure the same basic story was probably there, things were changed. Or, at least, that's what I remember the video saying - and I think it was a fairly legitimate video.

Of course, I mean, that's the more legitimate answer - a new director and new production team caused changes.

If we're looking for humor.... well I don't really have any jokes. So
Still a better love story than twilight?

My roommate (who is way big into dinosaurs) had a lot of salt towards it because they had allegedly hyped up the movie saying they were going to have accurate feathered dinosaurs in the movie (dunno how accurate this statement is though since I hadn't really followed it as much as she did) and then they just turned around and just kind of glued feathers onto the raptor characters and left it at that

We didn't hate it but we didn't really like it much either. Landscapes were pretty, character designs were meh but pretty uninspired. I really disliked the kid though, wish they wouldve just stuck with a strictly dinosaur story and not had humans in it (but that's a personal preference) it was just awkward.

The amount of times that dinosaur bruised his knees though made me quite uncomfortable tbh

ah yes, the redneck hillbilly raptor. legendary.

uuugh god, the backgrounds were amazing. jaw dropping.

the entirety of the of movie, else wise, was just a disaster, and frankly disturbing af for a kid movie nowadays*. (*i feel this way anyway)
I dunno. The character designs were just so awful. so awful in contrast to the backgrounds.


*****


SPOILERS AHEAD (also, i got opinions)





It just followed that over-done dead parent issue, but weakly, and not much else of the story made ANY sense, i mean, unless you just take it as it is. lmao
But the dad dying was just.. :| saw it coming from like 7 years ago. (truth be told, i only saw this movie once, and it was several months ago, so i am sure i am missing much more juicy critique that i had back then) And when the son dreamt about the dad and it was.... eerie af.
Also talking about just smashing humans in the head with a rock/stick/ect. idk. Very disturbing. I didn't think they needed that callousness? I know the point was to kinda learn about these "pests" but it was just lame and weak. "OOOOO BUT WHAT IF IT WAS THE OTHER WAAYYYYYY OOO~~~""" booo. hiss. Watered down booboo boo. I was so disappointed. SO DISAPPOINTED. damn. The effects in the movie were breathtaking but the character designs shat all over it and then throw an also OVER-DONE and WEAK story, and POOR character developing and the characters there were not too like-able or unique for me... i mean. maybe i am taking it too personally.
Just wtf WHY dinosaurs???? WHYYYY??? WHy. and if dinosaurs, WHYYYYYYY this. WHY.

Also, aside from me just being utterly disappointed, it was not memorable. lol

I seriously wasnt ready for the dad to advocate smashing critters to death with sticks. very confused. XD

fuckin seriously! xD
I was just "OHHHHH SH-"
idk. there was so much in this movie that had very dark undertones, but it wasn't done in a good way like, Secret of NIHM / Watership Down. It was just thrown in there, like no tact. lol

honestly I haven't even seen it. probably never will.

refused to just because the character designs were SO bad. I don't think I could deal with that for 1.5+ hours. //shudders//

my immediate 5 minute reaction was ' I dont know if I can watch this with their heads looking like that' like WTF. you cant have that amazing scenery and then SQONK a head like a block of cheese.

right? I HATED the T-rex designs. why are their heads so big??

why were Arlo's legs so knobby and his feet so big??

whose idea was this???

I knew it wasn't recieved well nor was it a very good story but I watched it 100% for the quality of animation.
God it was so impressive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ophfRYpthW8

you know how many of these things we screamed while watching it. oh my god.

I came in, looking for this exact reply.

So, there you go. It's not bad, The Good Dinosaur is comedy GOLD!

I feel like I'm the only person who LOVES it. It's just a super chill western with dinosaurs, I can 100% get behind that. And the music is dope af

I liked it too! lol
I especially loved the T-rex's running around like they were riding horses. The movie itself was just beautiful.

Boi

DO YOU DARE QUESTION THE LOGIC OF DISNEY MOVIES ?

*sprays you with a spray bottle*

Bv

Yeah something was off about that one definitely

I describe it as a Pixar tech demo. Fluff and little substance

At its heart, it's a coming of age movie, but I can't honestly remember if the main character really matured or learned anything concrete.

I rather liked it...

The character design in general could have been so much better. But i just think it was a fast paced jumble of fuck about kids getting lost and finding themselves. It's cliche. It's supposed to show off their animation skills while trying to entertain kids and make them feel like being afraid is ok but it shouldn't stop you.

I have similar gripes with Frozen though. How the story seemed a bit too fast paced and forced too me. I just think as we grow older we over analyze stuff and have a soft spot for movies we loved as kids and tend to not criticize those in the same way as we do new movies. At least that's how i've come to see it XD haha!

I hated the design of the characters. The way they talked and acted. The way they portrayed humans. Like, I get the whole "role reversal"thing they tried, but honestly, it was just poorly done.

If the movie had been marketed towards teenagers and adults, I probably wouldn't have been nearly as bothered, but there were scenes I, frankly, found disturbing in a kids movie. Three stuck out to me that shocked me.

1. Spot ripping the bug's head off. It was so sudden, and the bug was clearly alive, and even though "bug guts" isn't new to kids movies, it wasn't played for laughs (I don't think), and is just too "realistic."
2. The nyctosaurus eating the furry creature. It wasn't the flat out eating it that shocked me, it was the other ones fighting over the tail while it was still in the first one's mouth. I could not imagine a kid seeing that and not being scared.
3. Spot ripping the hole in the nyctosaurus' wing. It's not like feathers being ripped out, it was SKIN being bitten and torn open in front of kids watching the movie.

Now I'm not a baby when it comes to mild violence and gore, but like, if I had been a kid that would have traumatized me to some degree. Those scenes just weren't done appropriately.

Oh and the berry eating scene. Having eyes pop up on his head freaked me the fuck out (I have a fear of things like that), and it was 30 sec of weird hallucinations. It wasn't interesting like the Pink Elephants scene from Dumbo, nor was it even funny like other drug trips can be. It was just weird.

The scenery was absolutely gorgeous, but meshing it with super cartoony creatures wasn't a good move. Nothing about it is interesting to me, and did nothing to serve the movie. And the sheer amount of bruising Arlo receives (plus general injuries) is just depressing. When the movie was done, I felt sad as fuck. The movie pummels you with emotions and the ending just isn't enough to cheer you up.

I also would have liked the movie much more if it had no humans and just focused on dinosaurs. Somehow the human element just made me not as into it.

Anyway, that's a long enough ramble.

EXACTLY
BODY HORROR GALORE

and yeah, I kept wondering 'why could this not have been a story about a real human and a real dog. WHAT WAS THE POINT OF MAKING HIM A DINOSAUR'

They went through like five different writers all clashing in ideas. I was most bugged by how unlikable Arlo was in character and that he was blatantly designed to be sold as a toy more than a character. His plush has a special hatred in my heart for past job reasons.

Funny story though: The Disney Stores (and Target I believe) got a ton of product of characters that were written out of the movie. Like, at least three of them. Nobody had any idea who they were, but they must have been pulled from the story SUPER late into production to have that amount of toys of them. Needless to say, they were marked down to diddly squat because they wouldn't sell and will forever be the ghost of messy production.

that's amazing XD
and yeah, halfway through the movie I'm asking 'why am I supposed to like this guy???'
that's always a bad sign

Pffft also throughout the movie I kept getting pangs of empathy for parents, knowing that their younger children would imitate spot while playing for a looooong time. Enjoy your now even more reckless animalistic child, parent. Good luck in grocery stores.

LOL RIGHT

The art design alone made me write it off immediately.

Because unlike most pixar movies, it was extremely predictable and an overtold story. The effort put into the background looked really weird against the gumby-like design.

The character design, how irritating Arlo was...I wanted to strangle him a bunch of times. I hated how the T-Rexes galloped instead of ran. I don't care that they were friendly but the galloping? C'mon...It's stupid as hell. I don't like how Spot ran on all fours. I don't care that he was treated like a pet but the running on all fours? Seriously? I hated this movie, it was boring and the characters irritated me.

Probably because they came up with a weird concept, but they couldn't do anything with it other than be weird. Writers were probably chasing their tails trying to give the weirdness of the concept some meaning or payoff, but they got nothing and decided to ship the film to recover losses.

Oh and I never felt any emotion towards any of the characters, never felt sad over Arlo's dad dying either...Wanted to bring his dad back to life just so Arlo would shut up though.

THE CRINGEY PTSD FLASHBACKS AND THE HOWLING SCENE
like no stop

Like seriously...never watching it again. It's a terrible movie.

some writers seem to think the only way to make a character simpathetic is to dumb them down.
one reason i don't watch nor read mainstream.
fiction that's actually about science, engineering, technology, even the 'soft' sciences and art, mostly avoids that problem.
can't say much for what media calls sciffy though, as its seldom legitimately about anything besides human stupidity.

Really didn't feel like Pixar level storytelling.

Also there's the scene where they get high. What was the point of that?

Oh and I know it's a cartoon so there's no reason to get into science, but seriously when the meteor brushes past the Earth WHAT THE HELL does gravity not exist?

for me its because
*the dad is so nonchalant about having his....what like barely even a couple years old kid brutally murdering something?
*the dad had trouble getting up the hill, he had plenty of time to as well and its not like it was raining enough to hinder him or cause the massive flood that kills him
*Arlo blames Spot for it when they could have just let him run off and kept protecting the silo
*the fact that all they seam to eat is corn and yet they had chickens too for no reason, i forget are they even brought up again?
*how it just randomly seems to shift to a western movie
*the weird cult about the storm for flying creatures who....you know if they followed a hurricane wouldnt be able to actually fly
*Spot is just straight up a dog, his new family he gets is just straight up dog people too and yet they all walk like normal humans in their last shot
*they had a getting high scene for no reason other than probably to stretch the movie out another couple minutes
*the brutality in some scenes (the giant bug Spot brings Arlo, Arlo bites through someones wingflap which is made of SKIN)

AND not to mention The Good Dinosaur was a old movie that i think was supposed to be out like 2012 but kept getting pushed back, I remember seeing little nods to it in the Disney animation building in MGM/Hollywood Studios in Disney World at around that time, the designs for the characters are terrible for half the cast (the Trexs are p good tho, just needed slightly smaller heads), its obvious with all the weird half attempts at different stories(Arlo's farm having this weird vibe to it, the Boy and His Dog tired old cliche shoved into the movie, the Western aspects, the forest scene with the guy with all the animals in his antlers, and the fact you could find like 4 or so different toys of dinos not even in the movie but where obviously supposed to be in it.) I feel like the only thing they kept from the ORIGINAL idea for the film was the absolutely stunning landscapes and how the water looked like....real actual water.

I haven't seen it but heres a heart :3

Because the plot was rehashed and background to everything else, including the lackluster humor/characters.

There is a scene though, when (spoilers) the protagonist thinks he's talking to his dad but then he just melts away into the rain/mist, that gives me the chills everytime I see it.

Other than that, meh.