Arlo the dinosaur and his pal Spot are attacked by pterodactyls in "The Good Dinosaur." (Disney-Pixar) In “The Good Dinosaur”—the stellar new Disney-Pixar digitally animated feature film debuting in ...

“The Good Dinosaur” is Pixar’s most trippy and tripped-up film: a wayward tale, uncertain of its steps, about a Gumby-green young dinosaur lost in prehistoric forests that are rendered in lushly ...

The Good Dinosaur is Pixar’s best offering at the cinema this year. That’s right, Peter Sohn’s story of a young Apatosaurus named Arlo and his human dog, Spot, is the all ages movie of 2015. Despite ...

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The production history of Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur was marred with delays, a producer/director change, and a complete refurbishment of the story, with a total of six writers credited on the final ...

Pixar’s “The Good Dinosaur” sure knows how to push all the usual children’s movie buttons. A dead parent. Check. A plucky kid who gets lost and struggles to find his way home? Yep. A cute sidekick who ...

“The Good Dinosaur” too often goes through the storytelling motions. The animated comedy-adventure, set in a mountainous, prehistoric American West, is a beautiful sight, but its recycled storytelling ...

The degree of difficulty keeps getting higher for Pixar Animation Studios. Following their exploration of the competing moods inside the head of a pre-teen girl after a move to San Francisco in ...

What if the asteroid that brought about the extinction of all dinosaurs never hit Earth? How would these creatures evolve over millions of years and how would humans fit into this equation? These are ...

Every new Pixar film bears the weight of great expectations. In the context of classics such as "Finding Nemo," "WALL-E" and this year's "Inside Out," "The Good Dinosaur" is a mild disappointment.

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