“The Good Dinosaur” then has two missions: get Arlo home, and get him past his fears.
When Poppa leads Arlo into the mountains after Spot, a flash flood intervenes, and Poppa is killed.Īrlo blames Spot for his father’s death, so when the feral child continues to pillage the family crops, Arlo chases him into a nearby river, which sweeps the two of them miles from home. The pest turns out to be a human child named Spot (Jack Bright), who behaves like a dog (and oddly, doesn’t speak, unlike the rest of the characters in the movie). He is determined to make his mark on the world, but his fears continue to get the best of him.Īrlo’s mettle is tested early on when Poppa (Jeffrey Wright) puts him in charge of fending off a pest that has been stealing the family’s corn. The third is a runt named Arlo (Raymond Ochoa), a knock-kneed goofball who can’t quite keep up with his siblings. Two of their kids are normal, rambunctious dinosaurs.
We join them at their homestead on the day they become parents. At the foot of what appears to be the Tetons, somehow a Brontosaurus couple has developed the ability to tie ropes, build shelters and farm crops.
“THE GOOD DINOSAUR” - 2½ stars - the voices of Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Maleah Nipay-Padilla, Raymond Ochoa, Jack Bright PG (peril, action and thematic elements) in general releaseĪ meteor streaks past the Earth in the opening sequence of “The Good Dinosaur,” briefly disturbing some grazing dinosaurs and setting up the film’s premise: What if the dinosaurs never went extinct?įast-forward a few million years and we get our answer: domesticated dinosaurs.