There’s not much to say about this film other than it was a time-killer. You get a great comic sense in the opening sequence and more of that needed to be spread across the rest of the film. We see some great landscapes but I was really hoping for a volcano rather than flood after landslide after flood. The concept of dinosaurs as farmers is almost brilliant but a bit more realism is needed to make them more convincing. They’d be better off with a herd of humans using the dinosaurs as machines; but then they’d be in danger of plagiarising The Flintstones. There’s also a sense of loss as the ferocious Tyrannosaurus Rex is reduced to nothing more than a shepherd. It’s as if all dinosaurs suddenly decided to turn camp or take a vow of celibacy. I half-expected them to attack the whole herd; although that would wreck the story a bit since we’d just been introduced to similar predators. And although Arlo has an epic adventure, I didn’t really feel that he did a deed great enough to help his herd. I blame Debbie. I’ve got no idea what they were trying to achieve with that Triceratops.
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