The Good Dinosaur - The Dinosaurs Need to Stay Extinct, Pixar

[J.McMillen]

What's really sad about this movie not being very good is that the cartoon short before the movie, 'Sanjay's Super Team', is amazing and now many people will probably not see it. I got to see it at SDCC and was hoping that the movie would be worth buying just to have a copy of it. I guess I'll have to wait till they do another Pixar shorts collection.

 

[RealRT]

So, I think it's safe to write Pixar off as "has-beens" when it comes to producing quality movies. Good thing I was sticking with Dreamworks all these years.

 

[MonsterCrit]

So what you're sayiong is this is poxar's version of 'A Troll in Central park'

 

[Fox12]

My biggest fear for The Incedibles 2 is the movie trying to throw in as many heroes as possible in an all-out brawl to save the world or some shit like that... Basically, just like in the third Spy Kids movie but somehow worse by extension...

My biggest fear is that Brad Bird isn't going to put his heart into it. Which seems justified as apparently he's only doing it so that he's allowed to make some other movie by Disney. That's what I heard anyway.

And seeing as the enjoyment of the first film came from watching these characters slowly come out of their shell (again), and form a cohessive super hero unit, I doubt a sequel will be as engaging. They'd also have to deal with Jack-Jack, who's final revelation in the first film was a fun joke, but who's presence in the sequel would totally break any tension. That is assuming they're going to set it some 5 to 10 years later.

That would be massively disappointing, given how much I love Brad Bird. Unless the other film is 2d, the trade off doesn't seem worth it. Not that it matters, Disney would make the movie anyway, and the only person I trust at Pixar anymore if Pete Doctor.

OT: I saw this coming when I saw the trailer. They're really pushing the nostalgia angle hard. Every trailer I've seen has talked about every Pixar film except The Good Dinosaur. "We swear, this movie just as subtle and awesome as all the movies you grew up with! We swear!" Then it turns out that the guy who made Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs made it, and I lost all faith. When Pixar is pilfering Dreamworks for talent, something has gone very, very wrong.

 

[Amir Kondori]

I enjoyed the movie. Kind of reminded me of Old Yeller. It is a coming of age movie and a bit of a tearjerker. Also, the family at the end is not related to the boy, they are adoptive.

 

[Freedom153]

This is a Pixar movie - the second of 2015, after Inside Out, which was amazing - and, therefore, our expectations are automatically higher than with films from other studios.

Aside from disagreeing about Inside Out being amazing (which it wasn't - the only character I liked and felt was rounded was Bing Bong), I'd say the exact same for The Legend of Korra, which had its one-year anniversary recently. If it had come from overseas, from some studio and writers that I had always associated with hack or mass production works, it would have been very good or even amazing. As a follow up act to Avatar: The Last Airbender? Not so much.

Only difference here is that the last best Pixar movie that I've seen was Brave(haven't seen Monsters University just yet).

They face ... not much danger, really. And they learn ... almost nothing until the very end

That could just as easily describe Inside Out. Almost all the lessons are shunted towards the end. It's shown in the final part that the "islands" can regenerate(thus retroactively lessening the "danger" there was), that it was all a part of growing up, running away isn't a good idea and that sadness has a purpose and place in a healthy individual.

I think I already saw the decay of Pixar with their film Inside Out. Which, actually, wasn't very good. But at least Inside Out still had the creative ideas.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks Inside Out was a strike out for the most part. Bing Bong was as good as it got, considering I've heard rumors(just rumors) that Pixar got the basic idea for Inside Out from somewhere else and didn't credit them - just like with Finding Nemo. [http://www.cracked.com/article_20025_5-world-famous-products-that-are-shameless-rip-offs_p2.html] I know Inside Out is very similar [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Numskulls] to some already existing things [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman%27s_Head].

Just for the studio's sake, I had hoped The Good Dinosaur was going to be good. Sounds like it's not - I just hope The Incredibles 2 doesn't get flubbed up.

Edit: On dinosaurs not changing. I doubt they would have made them evolve, as that may have made a lot of what's supposed to be what go over audience's heads. A lot simpler to have them static than evolve in crazy ways like in this hypothetical evolution book by Dougal Dixon [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Dinosaurs](available from a Russian "online library" - not posting a link because I don't know the legality of such a thing).

 

[the.chad]

Just saw this on boxing day and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Admittingly I went in with low expectations after reading this review.

But the wife and I drew direct comparisons to

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The Lion King

Definitely had some big feels in the movie ;p