Dinosaur (movie)
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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 Disney's "Secret Lab" computer-generated imagery department.
Plot Summary
An iguanodon egg is stolen from its nest by an oviraptor, which starts it on a journey that ends it up an 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 meteoroid 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 by a herd of dinosaurs heading for their traditional breeding grounds, believed to have been spared from the meteoroid's blast. While the herd travels, they discover that they are being pursued by two large preditorial dinosaurs called Carnotaurs. The predators often meet up with the herd, and several dinosaurs are killed.
As they finally reach the walls surrounding the breeding grounds, they discover that a landslide has blocked their only way in. Aladar and some others discover an alternate route through a cave and enter the fertile valley. Soon, however, they discover that the rest of the herd is following the leader, Kron, in a perilous attempt to scale the wall into the breeding grounds. Suddenly, one of the Carnotaurs corners the herd. The hungry carnivore is discouraged from a meal by the combined efforts of the group, but then spots Kron climbing the wall, and follows him up. The resulting battle kills both the Carnotaurus and Kron. But Aladar survives, and ushers the herd through the cave into the nesting grounds, where the eggs are laid and soon hatched.
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
External Links
- Official Dinosaur Website (http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/dinosaur/dinomain.html)
