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Dinosaur (DVD)

D.B. Sweeney (voice), Julianna Margulies (voice) and Eric Leighton (director)
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Review

Rolling Stone, 6/08/2000, p.132, "...[A] striking blend of computer-generated dinos and live-action backgrounds..."

USA Today, 6/02/2000, p.13E, "...[The movie] takes animation to the next level, an evolutionary progression of genre-shattering proportions..."

New York Times, 5/26/2000, p.E18, "...[The movie] begins with a breathtaking sequence, a visual and sonic extravaganza..."

Chicago Sun-Times, 05/19/2000, p.29, "...The movie is startling in its impact....The visual look of DINOSAUR is a glimpse of wonders to come. The movie sends the message that computer animation is now sophisticated enough to mimic life itself in full motion..."

Los Angeles Times, 05/19/2000, p.C1, "...A technical amazement that points computer-generated animation toward the brightest of futures..."

Box Office, 07/01/2000, p.102, "...Effective and frequently spectacular....A skillful blend of old-fashioned Disney storytelling and newfangled computer animation..."

Title Note

Theatrical release: May 19, 2000.

Although the Dinosaurs are computer generated, the landscapes are real and were filmed in locations such as Hawaii, Florida, Australia, Western Somoa, and Venezuela.

The lemur island, where Aladar grows up, was filmed at the Los Angeles Arboretum.

The computer experts who worked on the computer animation filled 550 work stations and used 3.2 million processing hours. In total the film took 4 years to make. The final product uses 45 terabytes of disc space, which is equivalent to 45 million megabytes or 70,000 CD-Roms.

The movie includes over 1,300 individual effects shots.

There are over 30 species of prehistoric represented in the movie, spanning a variety of sizes and kinds of animals. The gliding lizard measures 12-inches tall, while the Brachiosaur is 120 feet long and weighs over 100 tons.

Says Thomas Shumacher, president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, "Technically it is not a movie that could have been made until now. Having our own digital studio gave us the ability to create living breathing characters in realistic environments with the kind of detailed articulating facial expressions we needed to tell our story."

Distributor Note

Dinosaur

Join the action-packed adventure of a group of dinosaurs overcoming enormous challenges through courage, loyalty, and hope in Disney's DINOSAUR, a special effects phenomenon! Set 65 million years ago, DINOSAUR tells the compelling story of an iguanodon named Aladar, who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs, including the wisecracking Zini and the compassionate Plio. When a devastating meteor shower plunges their world into chaos, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Along the way, Aladar befriends Baylene, the dignified, elderly brachiosaur with a take-no-prisoners attitude; Eema, the unstoppable styrachosaur; and Neera, a feisty fellow iguanodon. Together, they must stand strong amid food and water shortages, the threat of attacks by carnotaurs, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron. As the trip becomes one pulse-quickening adventure after another, it also forges friendships that no hardship can destroy. A landmark in filmmaking technology, Disney's DINOSAUR is a breathtaking spectacle filled with adventure, fun, and life lessons that the whole family will love!

Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

Dinosaur

Join the action-packed adventure of a group of dinosaurs overcoming enormous challenges through courage, loyalty, and hope in Disney's DINOSAUR, a special effects phenomenon! Set 65 million years ago, DINOSAUR tells the compelling story of an iguanodon named Aladar, who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs, including the wisecracking Zini and the compassionate Plio. When a devastating meteor shower plunges their world into chaos, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Along the way, Aladar befriends Baylene, the dignified, elderly brachiosaur with a take-no-prisoners attitude; Eema, the unstoppable styrachosaur; and Neera, a feisty fellow iguanodon. Together, they must stand strong amid food and water shortages, the threat of attacks by carnotaurs, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron. As the trip becomes one pulse-quickening adventure after another, it also forges friendships that no hardship can destroy. A landmark in filmmaking technology, Disney's DINOSAUR is a breathtaking spectacle filled with adventure, fun, and life lessons that the whole family will love!

Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

Dinosaur

Join the action-packed adventure of a group of dinosaurs overcoming enormous challenges through courage, loyalty, and hope in Disney's DINOSAUR, a special effects phenomenon! Set 65 million years ago, DINOSAUR tells the compelling story of an iguanodon named Aladar, who is separated from his own kind and raised by a clan of lemurs, including the wisecracking Zini and the compassionate Plio. When a devastating meteor shower plunges their world into chaos, Aladar and his family follow a herd of dinosaurs heading for the safety of the "nesting grounds." Along the way, Aladar befriends Baylene, the dignified, elderly brachiosaur with a take-no-prisoners attitude; Eema, the unstoppable styrachosaur; and Neera, a feisty fellow iguanodon. Together, they must stand strong amid food and water shortages, the threat of attacks by carnotaurs, and Aladar's run-ins with the herd's stubborn leader, Kron. As the trip becomes one pulse-quickening adventure after another, it also forges friendships that no hardship can destroy. A landmark in filmmaking technology, Disney's DINOSAUR is a breathtaking spectacle filled with adventure, fun, and life lessons that the whole family will love!

Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
2-Disc Set
Keep Case

Disc One: DINOSAUR
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85:1
Pan & Scan - 1.33:1
Audio:
DTS Surround 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Surround - French
THX Mastered Audio
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentaries - 1. Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton - Directors, Neil Krepela - Special Effects Supervisor, Neil Eskuri - Digital Effects Supervisor
2. Pam Marsden - Producer, Members of Production Team
Featurette - "Making-Of"
"Dinopedia" with Educational Material
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Interactive Games - 1. "Aladar's Adventure"
2. "Dinosearch"

Disc Two: Bonus Materials
History and Development of DINOSAUR
Original Story Treatment
Comparison - 3-D Work to Final Film
Featurettes - 1. Dinosaur Designs
2. Locations
3. Voice Casting
Visual Development
Character Design
Animation Tests
Deleted Scenes
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailers
2. TV Spots

Product Notes

With DINOSAUR, Disney breaks a new stride in the technological revolution of computer animation: combining computer-animated characters with digitally enhanced live-action landscapes. The effect is literally unbelievable and the clarity, realness, and definition of the pictures easily make the once surprising effects of virtual reality seem like the dark ages.

A dinosaur egg is stolen from its nest and passed along by various birds, animals and other predators each hoping to eat it. Fumbled into a community of kind and nurturing lemurs, it cracks open and Aladar, a baby dinosaur emerges. He lives happily and peacefully among the lemurs, who raise him into adolescence. However, when a natural disaster occurs, wiping out the beautiful rainforest that was their home, teenage Aladar joins a dinosaur pilgrimmage--and discovers his true ancestry--in order to bring his lemur family to safety. Far sweeter and much more realistic than recent dinosaur movies like JURASSIC PARK or even classics like THE LAND BEFORE TIME, these new digital dinosaurs are surprisingly human with emotional eyes and expressive voices that make the magic nearly tangible.

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