Somehow I never liked Disney's movies. Being dragged into the midnight sneak preview by some disney fan, I naturally had low expectations for this. So it did not turn out quite bad. The story revolves about how this male dinosaur ended up in the care of a horde of monkeys and grew up in the jungles with them. (ecological nightmare?) Then some meteor shower came and destroyed their home so they were forced to migrate with this herd of other dinosaurs to some "breeding grounds" where it was untouched by the carnage. Sounds familiar? Yes. You saw it before in "The Land before Time". They just didn't have monkeys in that movie. Good humor, great family fun but not for me, too much cliches (such as our "hero" wins the heart of the big baddie leader dinosaur's sister and it erupts to a jealous struggle for the brother or some bad tempered dinosaur finally realises his "mistakes" when he is injured and the only people to care for him are our "hero" and his company...) The movie also earned a "PG" rating instead of "G". Why? I didn't think that any scenes were violent or top that effect. Maybe they thought that the sight of T-Rexs tearing up their prey was very much over the line. I thought those scenes pop up pretty frequently in Discovery Channel documentaries?
