2000 - Rated PG - 1 hr 22 min
Directors: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag
Starring: DB Sweeney, Julianna Marguiles, Samuel E. Wright, Hayden Panettiere, Della Reese
Disney went waaaaay old school for this movie, but animated it with a blend of CG and hand-drawn cels if I remember correctly. And for those who were worried about him, D.B. Sweeney did get work after The Cutting Edge. Right here. As Aladar, the dinosaur. Now that's a resume...
Anyway, this one's okay. Kinda dark for a kids' movie, with lots of weird allusions to dinosaur.... um, intimacy. You almost miss them. So, not my favorite Disney movie, but one that is definitely pretty to watch. The animation is superb, the storyline is a little tired (Land Before Time anyone?), but the kiddies will like it. And they won't get the jokes, since Disney has child-proofed them.
Hooray.
The big deal was that all of the backgrounds were actual filmed locations shot live and the characters were CGI animated, to make it all seem more real. At this point it stands an interesting experiment and not much more.
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