ICBN for Disney's Dinosaur
One preview showed a sequence with an egg (presumably the title Dinosaur) being dropped in a river. Eggs usually need warmth so they can survive & hatch. River water is usually cold. Add in the previous shaking & handling, & also the battering that being dropped & carried in a river brings, it seems unlikely that it would survive.

Other commercials show some kind of talking mammal accompanying the dinosaur. What's the point of trying to create lifelike looking dinosaurs if you're just going to give it a lame Land Before Time style script?

Hello? Hello? echoes back...

What the hey, as long as no one else has bothered to point it out...

Grass. Grass didn't develop until the tail end of the Cretaceous. I think the decision to show it was deliberate, in spite of artists' knowledge that it was incorrect. Still, the valley looked nice onscreen, especially considering the grass was CGI, using the same program as the lemur fur.

Which reminds me of another nit: lemurs. Although "primitivised" for this film, they're a few million years too early.

I could get really picky and point out that the last sauropod, which included brachiosaurs (such as Baylene), died out at the end of the Jurassic/start of the Cretaceous, and wouldn't have been around in conjunction with most of the other dinosaurs seen in the film.

Don't get me wrong; I thoroughly enjoyed this film, in spite of these three fairly large nits. I could even get pickier, I suppose, but I'd have to watch the film again to see what I could come up with. (Besides, at least nobody broke into song like most Disney films!)

Yes, it did have that going for it...

I gotta say, I was hugely disappointed with the limited imagination in this one.
I mean, given the tools at their disposal, and the literally earth-shattering, world-spanning nature of their subjects, I was expecting something - epic, you know? Vast in scope. Something like the Stravinsky sequence in Fantasia, only of course with even more stunning animation.

Instead, all we get is one more unassuming Disney hero - only bigger. On your standard Disney quest to discover the strength within - only with far less genuine wit in the wisecracks, because they feel so obligatory by now, and because they cheapen this particular subject so obviously. They took the animation opportunity of a lifetime and made a kiddie matinee movie with it! Aargh! (Erm, can you tell the lost possibilities raised when I saw the trailer still rankle a little? )

I knew I was really in trouble when the basic idea for the quest turned out to have already been covered on several dozen Land Before Time videos. Seriously, can we please move on from the 'journey to a new home' thing sometime soon?

Wow, kerriem, that was so understated of you. I haven't any idea how you feel about his film.
Seriously, though, you raise some interesting points. But what if the viewer hasn't seen the Land Before Time series? Sure, Dinosaur still isn't the most original story, but to a younger audience, it's a fairly straightforward story, with a short running time that won't have kids bouncing around waiting for the end to get here already!

Speaking of Land Before Time, when does The Land Before Time XIV: Aren't We Extinct Yet? come out?