An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sanctuary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sanctuary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sanctuary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 22 nominations
D.B. Sweeney
- Aladar
- (voice)
Julianna Margulies
- Neera
- (voice)
Samuel E. Wright
- Kron
- (voice)
Alfre Woodard
- Plio
- (voice)
Ossie Davis
- Yar
- (voice)
Max Casella
- Zini
- (voice)
Hayden Panettiere
- Suri
- (voice)
Peter Siragusa
- Bruton
- (voice)
Joan Plowright
- Baylene
- (voice)
Della Reese
- Eema
- (voice)
Matt Adler
- Additional Voice
- (voice)
Sandina Bailo-Lape
- Additional Voice
- (voice)
- (as Sandina Bailolape)
Cathy Cavadini
- Additional Voice
- (voice)
- (as Catherine Cavadini)
Holly Dorff
- Additional Voice
- (voice)
Greg Finley
- Additional Voice
- (voice)
Jeff Fischer
- Additional Voice
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaInitially, Directors Eric Leighton and Ralph Zondag were to use the popular Tyrannosaurus rex as this movie's antagonistic predator, but at around the time of production, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) was released, which depicted a somewhat softer, motherly side to the classic dinosaur. Thus, a Carnotaurus was used. However, they changed the Carnotaurus' size to be even larger than Tyrannosaurus rex, close to 17-18 m long, when real Carnotaurus were only 8-9 m in length, about the same size or even smaller then the film's hero Aladar.
- GoofsThe movie takes place in prehistoric North America, yet the Carnotaurs, the main antagonists were actually South American dinosaurs. The characters do claim that they haven't been seen "this far up north" before, however this doesn't rectify the mistake, since North and South America weren't connected back then. The Carnotaurs would have had to swim through the sea to reach North America, which would have been impossible.
- Crazy creditsThe film opens without any opening credits, which other than the production logo and the title of the film.
- Alternate versionsThe original print included a song by Kate Bush, but this was cut after unfavorable response from preview audiences.
Featured review
I honestly don't see why people are so upset whit this movie. Yes, there is talking dinosaurs, but how are you supposed to understand them otherwise. Mute dinosaurs walking around wouldn't be interesting at all and remember, this is a kid's movie. And yes, the animation might not be as good as in Jurassic Park, but this is a fully animated movie, JP used a mix of animatronics and CGI inside an otherwise live action movie, and in a interview I saw, Spielberg (or if it was a special effects guy, I don't remember) said that they would use the animatronics when ever possible and only cover up rigs and refine movement with the computer 'cause the CGI models looked like crap in comparison the robots. And yes, the story has been used before, but so has the story in most films we're watching today, only in varying degree and in different mixes and it's not like Disney is known for their originality story wise. As good as everyone of their Classics are based or inspired by other works.
Personally I love this movie. The CGI is still good, and at times more realistic than many rushed animations we see today, the characters are fun to follow, unlike Land before Time were they were unbearable and made me hate the movie (even as a kid the first one was never my favorite) despite a similar story to Dinosaurs', which I by the way like, and the moral of it is a really good one.
Personally I love this movie. The CGI is still good, and at times more realistic than many rushed animations we see today, the characters are fun to follow, unlike Land before Time were they were unbearable and made me hate the movie (even as a kid the first one was never my favorite) despite a similar story to Dinosaurs', which I by the way like, and the moral of it is a really good one.
- felix-bergman
- Apr 7, 2015
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Khủng Long
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $127,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $137,748,063
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $38,854,851
- May 21, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $349,822,765
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
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