Talk:Dinosaur/@comment-25097798-20160331101658/@comment-25692211-20160401103756

Well, I still like TLBT better than Dinosaur, mainly because of the lessons it teaches about life and death. That's the reason why I don't like Lion King as much as other people, because as soon as the character dies, they fill a powerful story with fart jokes and uplifting songs that tell the kid to forget the dead character ever existed, while Land Before Time actually shows us the consequences of losing a loved one, and it's handled so maturely.

Compare that to a movie like Lilo and Stitch 2. The message of Lilo and Stitch 2 is that love is more powerful than death. You'd expect that to mean that if you still love the person you lost, they're never truly gone, right? But no, instead it shows us that love cures death, which basically tells kids that their loved ones died because you didn't love them enough.

And now, back onto Dinosaur. Let's compare this to another movie that originally had no dialogue: 2013's Walking With Dinosaurs. That movie has amazing visuals and looked like a great dinosaur documentary, but then 20th Century Fox decided that the animals had to talk, so they got Sid from Ice Age and Alvin from the Chipmunks to comment on everything that goes on without any subtlety. I mean, at least in Dinosaur the decision to make the animals talk happened early in production, wheras WWD made that decision so late, the dinosaur's mouths don't even move. Although, I did see another, much better version of the movie that had no dialogue and was about 20 minutes shorter, with narration by Benedict Cumberbatch of all people.

But the problem with the making the animals in Dinosaur actual characters is that most of the characters are one-dimensional and the ones that aren't are kind of unlikeable. Aladar's a bland teen, Kron gets treated like a bad guy despite making more sense that most of the others, and Neera exists solely to have Aladar's kids at the end.