Synopsis
An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
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Cast
- Frances McDormandMomma (voice)
- Raymond OchoaArlo (voice)
- Jeffrey WrightPoppa (voice)
- Steve ZahnThunderclap (voice)
- Sam ElliottButch (voice)
- Anna PaquinRamsey (voice)
- John RatzenbergerEarl (voice)
- A.J. BuckleyNash (voice)
- Marcus ScribnerBuck (voice)
- Peter SohnForrest Woodbush (voice)
Recommendations
- 90
TheWrap
First-time helmer Peter Sohn and screenwriter Meg LeFauve (“Inside Out”) have created a fantastic and frequently exhilarating feature that showcases Pixar’s greatest strengths: technical brilliance, emotional texture, crossover appeal, and an impish sense of humor that takes the utmost advantage of the animated form. - 80
Screen Daily
It might be a given that Pixar’s movies are visually spectacular, but The Good Dinosaur may be the studio’s most purely cinematic, the richness of the design and the emotional power of the widescreen compositions stirring deep, almost primal feelings about childhood, the loss of innocence and the untamed ferocity of the natural world. - 80
The Telegraph
It makes you wince at the fragility of life while simultaneously welling up at the wonder of it – and that unexpected mixing of the sentimental and the existential left me feeling what can only be described as aww-struck. - 70
Variety
Cross-species bonding may have its limits, but it’s hard not to find beauty in a boy-meets-beast saga that, by the end, has made it hard to tell which is which. - 70
Village Voice
It's smart in surprising ways, daring in a few minor ones, moving in the right ones. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
While the story attempts the moves that a Pixar film typically makes—nonverbal storytelling, death, a bittersweet ending—most of The Good Dinosaur’s punches land soft, made worse by the disconnect that exists between the overly cartoonish style of the characters and the photorealistic landscapes. - 63
RogerEbert.com
A film that has some promising elements and which often seems as if it is on the verge of evolving into something wonderful but never quite manages to turn that particular corner. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
The Good Dinosaur emerges as a visually breathtaking work of computer-generated animation that is ultimately unable to compensate for a disappointingly derivative script.
