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Dinosaur is a feature film released in 2000 by The Walt Disney Company. It combines the use of live-action backgrounds with computer animation of prehistoric creatures, notably the titular dinosaurs, done by a special CGI unit that predated the creation of Disney's "Secret Lab" computer-generated imagery department.

Tagline: You have never seen anything like this.

Plot Summary

An iguanodon egg is stolen from its nest by an oviraptor, which starts it on a journey that ends it up on Lemur Island, an island inhabited by lemurs and other creatures. The baby iguanodon Aladar soon emerges from the egg, to the fear and delight of the tiny mammals. The lemurs are initially cautious about the dinosaur, but they nonetheless take him in and raise him.

Not long after Aladar has grown up, disaster strikes. A tremendous meteorite falls from the sky, landing in the ocean. The resulting fiery shockwave destroys Lemur Island, but Aladar and his adopted family are able to escape.

They soon are attacked by a pack of velociraptors, but are rescued when a herd of dinosaurs crosses their path, scaring the predators off. The herd is heading for their traditional breeding grounds, believed to have been spared from the meteoroid's blast. Kron, the leader of the herd is a merciless iguanodon with a strong belief in the survival of the fittest. He leads the herd at a strong pace, showing no mercy for the weaker dinosaurs. This causes strong tension between him and Aladar, which is only emphasised by Aladar's attraction to Neera, Kron's sister.

While the herd travels, they discover that they are being pursued by two large predatorial dinosaurs called Carnotaurs
. Aladar, the lemurs and several weaker Dinosaurs get left behind as the herd picks up it's pace. The group struggles with several hardships, but eventually finds their own way to the breeding grounds through a cave. Once there, they see that the original route to the breeding grounds has been blocked by a landslide, leaving the herd without a way in. Aladar leaves to tell the Kron of the alternate route.

Aladar discovers that the herd is following the leader, Kron, in a perilous attempt to scale the wall into the breeding grounds. Aladar tells them of his discovery, but Kron won't listen. One of the Carnotaurs, who had been following Aladar, corners the herd. The hungry carnivore is discouraged from a meal by the combined efforts of the group (lead by Aladar), but then spots Kron climbing the wall, and follows him up. Neera and Aladar follow to save Kron. The resulting battle kills both the Carnotaurus and Kron, but Aladar and Neera survive, and usher the herd through the cave into the nesting grounds. The movie ends with one of Neera and Aladar's eggs hatching, showing the dinosaurs' peaceful life in the valley.

Box office

US Gross Domestic Takings: US$ 137,748,063 :+ Other International Takings: $216,500,000 = Gross Worldwide Takings: $354,248,063

Voice Cast

D.B. Sweeney
- Aladar
Alfre Woodard
- Plio
Ossie Davis
- Yar
Max Casella - Zini
Hayden Panettiere
- Suri
Samuel E. Wright
- Kron
Julianna Margulies
- Neera
Peter Siragusa - Bruton
Joan Plowright
- Baylene
Della Reese
- Eema

Trivia

Iguanodons, like Aladar and Neera, did not have lips, but hard beaks. The artists found it difficult to create speaking Dinosaurs with beaks, so they added lips. The beaks act as pseudo teeth in the resulting characters.
The film was originally intended to have no dialogue at all, in part to differentiate the film from The Land Before Time
, with which Dinosaur shares many plot similarites. Michael Eisner, however, insisted that the movie have dialogue in order to make it more "commercially viable." Ironically, a similar change was early in the production of The Land Before Time, which was originally intended to feature only the voice of a narrator.
It was the most expensive movie of 2000, costing $130 million (although unofficial estimates put it around $200 million).
The Countdown to Extinction attraction at the Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park was re-named and re-themed to the movie, and is now known as DINOSAUR (upper case intended).
Timothy Albee worked on Dinosaur before he made Kaze Ghost Warrior.

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