We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

Such an bizarre animated movie that wants to be childlike but then have incredibly dark and disturbing moments

We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story is a cute and musically delightful family film from the 90s, boasted with memorable voice acting from John Goodman and others. However, despite its unique charm, it seems there’s a reason why the film didn’t starstruck enough gold that would have ensured its enduring popularity. Needless to say, I’m happy to keep this classic as close to my heart, as a lover of animation. Grading: B-

A weak story and bizarre character designs distract from the high quality animation, soundtrack and voice talent. Its a great throwback to the excellent cinematic cartoons of the 80's and 90's. Somehow the script just felt overcooked with far too many strange ideas crammed into the runtime like the producers got a little bit carried away with themselves. An entertaining if messy film.

We're back a dinosaur story is a great movie from 1993 I give this film a 10/10

One of my best childhood memories. I've watched it more times than I can remember.

30 years later this is another one of my favorite childhood flicks Based on the book by Hudson Talbottt and directed by 4 people if you can believe it A big voice cast involving John Goodman, Jay Leno, Rhea Perlman, and Walter Cronkite An animated movie involving dinosaurs actually coming back in our lifetime! Basically it focuses on a dino named Rex; he tells his adventures to a small bird named Buster while playing golf of all things 65 million years ago Rex along with other dinosaurs were visited by Professor Neweyes, he along with his flying alien Forb buddy came from the future Thanks to some special cereal they're all intelligent learning to speak and think Neweyes wants to grant wishes around the world for children in this case he wants Rex and the others to travel to the future to visit them They arrive and ultimately befriend two children named Louie and Cecilia; both of whom run away from their families to find happiness and freedom Two important individuals they need to be aware of are Dr. Juliet Bleeb who's waiting their arrival at the museum of natural history and Professor Screweyes, a madman magician causing mischief and scaring children with monsters But is the present ready for these reptiles return or is it far too disastrous adding them back into the mix? The movie is super short that's for sure It misses on character development big time But it gets by with amazing animation, a powerful and emotionally sweeping score by James Horner, a catchy song number, and an exciting story of every kids dream come true involving dinosaurs Even giant monsters can be friends is the films central conceit This is the more family friendly version of Jurassic Park but more on a kidsy scale It unjustly slipped into obscurity by critics and box office numbers but really is an underrated gem accruing a passionate cult following Lighthearted, fun, brisk, spooky, and wonderfully animated We're Back has that warm fuzzy feeling we all have as kids wanting to see these long lost animals again

Childhood favourite, I wore out the VHS!

When I was a kid, I loved this movie. Now that I'm an adult, it was okay. Great voice performance, catchy music, hell, I hum at either John Goodman's version or Little Richard's version Roll back the Clock once in a while. I enjoy the animation's theme for the bright colors for the joy and the dark for the terror especially for the professors who are also brothers. A few okay laughs especially from Martin Short though not much with Jay Leno. This is passaable for anyone who grew up with it and want to watch it again for the nostalgia feel and for kids who like to watch a little balance of the energy and the moral and such. 6/10.

I worked on this as an assistant animator and what started as a reasonable idea suffered at the hands of a change in directors part way through and a testing audience that sucked. It was a great laugh making it though. Cracking crew to work with, making it one of the best jobs I've ever had. If they'd made a film of behind the scenes it would have been awesome, particularly the time we drove a naked Action-Man strapped to a remote control car into a directors meeting when Spielberg was visiting the studio, but they didn't and Disney were making Beauty and the Beast for the same release date so it was ultimately doomed to fail. Great wrap-party though and decent pay, so to me it'll always have a place in my heart 😁

I love this movie so much! Except... Watching it as a kid traumatized me so bad 😭. The circus scene was so scary seeing as a kid. Still love it but would recommend it for kids 11+