Dinosaur is a feature film produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and released to movie theatres in 2000. It combines the use of live-action backgrounds with computer animation of prehistoric creatures, notably the titular dinosaurs, done by a special CGI unit that predated the creation of Disney's Secret Lab computer-generated imagery department. The Disney's Secret Lab department of the Disney company is now closed. Image File history File links Dinosaur DVD cover Source: Amazon. ... Walon Green (b. ... Daniel Bernard Sweeney (born 14 November 1961 in Shoreham, New York) is an American movie and television actor. ... Woodard as Betty Applewhite on Desperate Housewives. ... Ossie Davis in The Green Pastures, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1951 Ossie Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an African American film actor, director and social activist. ... The Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group is a collection of affiliated motion picture studios, all subsidaries of The Walt Disney Company. ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (140th in leap years). ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A reel of film, which predates digital cinematography. ... Walt Disney Pictures logo (2006-present) Walt Disney Pictures is an American film studio, with off-shoot studios in Japan and other sites in the United States. ... A typical megaplex (AMC Ontario Mills 30 in Ontario, California). ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. ... Orders & Suborders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Thyreophora Ornithopoda Marginocephalia Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. ... Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the application of the field of computer graphics (or more specifically, 3D computer graphics) to special effects. ...

Tagline: You have never seen anything like this.

Plot summary

The film begins, showing a mother Iguanodon watching over her nest. A young dinosaur wanders up and looks into the nest, but the mother shoos it away. The young reptile follows a small, winged lizard into the forest, only to come upon a large Carnotaurus. The Carnotaurus chases him out of the forest, and soon the whole herd of dinosaurs is on the run. The Carnotaur tramples most of the Iguanodon's eggs, but one survives. Species (neotype) Iguanodon (meaning Iguana tooth) is the name given to a genus of ornithopod dinosaurs, which lived roughly halfway between the early hypsilophodontids and their ultimate culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs. ... Binomial name Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte, 1985 Carnotaurus (kahrn-oh-TAWR-us) meaning meat-eating bull, referring to its distinct bull-like horns (Latin carn = flesh + taurus = bull) was a large predatory dinosaur, similar to a Tyrannosaurus rex with a head distantly resembling a bulls. ...

The surviving egg is stolen from its nest by an Oviraptor; the Oviraptor fights with its mate over the egg, which falls into a river; a Koolasuchus tries and fails to eat it; Talarurus are distracted by its passing; Pachyrhinosaurus nearly trample on it; a Pteranodon takes it over the ocean, and loses it in a struggle with two Ichthyornis. It lands on Lemur Island, an island inhabited by lemurs. The baby Iguanodon Aladar soon emerges from the egg, to the fear of some and the delight of others among the tiny mammals. The lemurs are initially cautious about the dinosaur, but they nonetheless take him in and raise him. In most birds and reptiles, an egg (Latin ovum) is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. ... Binomial name Oviraptor philoceratops Osborn, 1924 Paleo Template Project Oviraptor was a small Mongolian theropod dinosaur, first discovered by legendary paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, and first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1924. ... Koolasuchus was a large Cretaceous amphibian that lived on the continent of Australia. ... Binomial name Talarurus plicatospineus Maleev, 1952 Talarurus (Maleev, 1952) is an ankylosaurid ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of southeastern Mongolia. ... Species Pachyrhinosaurus ( thick-nosed reptile) is an ornithischian (bird-hipped) dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of North America. ... Species (type) Pteranodon (from Greek πτερ- wing and αν-οδων toothless), from the Late Cretaceous (santonian-campanian, 85-82 million years ago) of North America (Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota) was one of the largest pterosaur genera, with a wingspan of up to 9 m (30 feet). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Superfamilies and Families Cheirogaleoidea Cheirogaleidae Lemuroidea Lemuridae Lepilemuridae Indriidae Lemurs are members of a class of primates known as prosimians and make up the infraorder Lemuriformes. ...

Not long after Aladar has grown up, disaster strikes. A tremendous meteorite falls from the sky, landing in the ocean. The resulting fiery shockwave destroys Lemur Island, but Aladar and his adopted family are able to escape. Willamette Meteorite A meteorite is a natural object originating in outer space that survives an impact with the Earths surface without being destroyed. ...

They soon are attacked by a pack of Velociraptor, but are rescued when a herd of dinosaurs crosses their path, scaring the predators off. The herd is heading for their traditional breeding grounds, believed to have been spared from the meteoroid's blast. Kron, the leader of the herd is a merciless Iguanodon with a strong belief in the survival of the fittest. He leads the herd at a strong pace, showing no mercy for the weaker dinosaurs. This causes strong tension between him and Aladar, which is only complicated by Aladar's attraction to Neera, Kron's sister. She is the first female of his kind he has ever seen. Binomial name Velociraptor mongoliensis Osborn, 1924 Velociraptor (IPA: RP , GA ; meaning swift thief) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 83 to 70 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. ...

While the herd travels, they discover that they are being pursued by two large predatorial dinosaurs called Carnotaurus. Aladar, the lemurs and several weaker dinosaurs (a Brachiosaurus, a Styracosaurus and her "pet" Ankylosaurus) get left behind as the herd picks up its pace. The group struggles with several hardships, but eventually finds its own way to the breeding grounds through a cave. Once there, they see that the original route to the breeding grounds has been blocked by a landslide, leaving the herd without a way in. Aladar leaves to tell Kron of the alternate route. This snapping turtle is trying to make a meal of a Canada goose, but the goose is too wary. ...

Aladar discovers that the herd is following the leader, Kron, in a perilous attempt to scale the wall into the breeding grounds. Aladar tells them of his discovery, but Kron won't listen. A Carnotaurus corners the herd. The hungry carnivore is discouraged from a meal by the combined efforts of the group (lead by Aladar), but then spots Kron climbing the wall, and follows him up. Neera and Aladar follow to save Kron. The resulting battle kills both the Carnotaurus and Kron, but Aladar and Neera survive, and usher the herd through the cave into the nesting grounds. The movie ends with one of Neera and Aladar's eggs hatching, showing the dinosaurs' peaceful life in the valley. This tigers sharp teeth and strong jaws are the classical physical traits expected from carnivorous mammalian predators A carnivore (IPA: ), meaning meat eater (Latin carne meaning flesh and vorare meaning to devour), is an animal that eats a diet consisting mainly of meat, whether it comes from live animals...

As the film closes, Plio's voice can be heard above the jubilant bellows of nesting mothers, saying "None of us really know what changes, big or small, lie ahead. One thing is certain; our journey is not over. We can only hope that, in some small way, our time here will be remembered".

This seems to be a comment on the idea that, while dinosaurs are extinct, they will never be forgotten.

Box office

US Gross Domestic Takings: US$ 137,748,063 Motto: (traditional) In God We Trust (official, 1956–present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at the federal level; English de facto Government Federal Republic  - President George W. Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence - Declared - Recognized... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...

+ Other International Takings: $216,500,000

= Gross Worldwide Takings: $354,248,063

Voice cast

• D.B. Sweeney - Aladar
• Alfre Woodard - Plio
• Ossie Davis - Yar
• Max Casella - Zini
• Hayden Panettiere - Suri
• Samuel E. Wright - Kron
• Julianna Margulies - Neera
• Peter Siragusa - Bruton
• Joan Plowright - Baylene
• Della Reese - Eema

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Trivia

• Iguanodon, like Aladar and Neera, did not have lips, but hard beaks. The artists found it difficult to create speaking Dinosaurs with beaks, so they added lips. The beaks act as pseudo teeth in the resulting characters.
• The film was originally intended to have no dialogue at all, in part to differentiate the film from The Land Before Time, with which Dinosaur shares many plot similarities. Michael Eisner, however, insisted that the movie have dialogue in order to make it more "commercially viable." Coincidentally, a similar change was early in the production of The Land Before Time, which was originally intended to feature only the voice of a narrator.
• It was the most expensive movie of 2000, costing $130 million (although unofficial estimates put it around $200 million).
• The Countdown to Extinction attraction at the Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park was re-named and re-themed to the movie, and is now known as Dinosaur. The storyline was always intended to tie in with the movie, considering the usage of a Carnotaur as the ride's antagonist and Aladar is the iguanadon that guests rescued from the meteor shower and take him back into the present, seen wandering the Dino Institute in Security Camera footage seen on monitors in the attraction's unloading area.
• Timothy Albee worked on Dinosaur before he made Kaze Ghost Warrior.
• Pop singer/songwriter, Kate Bush reportedly wrote and recorded a song for the film but due to complications the track was ultimately not included on the soundtrack. According to HomeGround, a Kate Bush fanzine, it was scrapped when Disney asked Bush to rewrite the song and Bush refused; however, according to Disney, the song was cut from the film when preview audiences did not respond well to the track.

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Animals featured

• Iguanodon (Aladar, Neera, Bruton, and Kron. Medium-sized ornithopods with a quadrupedal stance and spikes on the inside of their "hands.")
• Lemur (Aladar's "family," small primates)
• Oviraptor (gangly, crested, beaked dinosaur that steals Aladar's egg)
• Velociraptor (a pack attacks Aladar and the lemurs until the herd scares them away, follow the herd throughout the film)
• Carnotaurus (main "villains;" large, red theropods with devilish eye horns)
• Koolasuchus (tries to eat Aladar's egg)
• Talarurus (are seen in a roaring match as Aladar's egg floats downstream)
• Parasaurolophus (Large, mottled-green hadrosaurs with a protruding crest in the back of their head, traveling with the herd)
• Longisquama (a gliding lizard-like animal that distracts a young Parasaurolophus in the beginning of the film)
• Pachyrhinosaurus (Large, green ceratopsians with thich bosses, seen throughout film)
• Pteranodon (grabs Aladar while still in egg and tries to feed the egg to its young)
• Ichthyornis (briefly seen harassing the Pteranodon, forcing it to drop Aladar's egg)
• Brachiosaurus (Baylene, the only sauropods in the film)
• Struthiomimus (bipedal, beaked, plum dinosaurs, traveling with the herd)
• Microceratops (tiny, red frilled dinosaurs, traveling with the herd)
• Stygimoloch (small, spiked pachycephalosaurs, traveling with the herd)
• Styracosaurus (Eema, robust orange ceratopsians with large, prominent nose horns)
• Ankylosaurus (Eema's "pet")
• Meganeura (seen briefly at the nesting grounds)

Species (neotype) Iguanodon (meaning Iguana tooth) is the name given to a genus of ornithopod dinosaurs, which lived roughly halfway between the early hypsilophodontids and their ultimate culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs. ... Superfamilies and Families Cheirogaleoidea Cheirogaleidae Lemuroidea Lemuridae Lepilemuridae Indriidae Lemurs are members of a class of primates known as prosimians and make up the infraorder Lemuriformes. ... Binomial name Oviraptor philoceratops Osborn, 1924 Paleo Template Project Oviraptor was a small Mongolian theropod dinosaur, first discovered by legendary paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews, and first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1924. ... Binomial name Velociraptor mongoliensis Osborn, 1924 Velociraptor (IPA: RP , GA ; meaning swift thief) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that existed approximately 83 to 70 million years ago during the later part of the Cretaceous Period. ... Binomial name Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte, 1985 Carnotaurus (kahrn-oh-TAWR-us) meaning meat-eating bull, referring to its distinct bull-like horns (Latin carn = flesh + taurus = bull) was a large predatory dinosaur, similar to a Tyrannosaurus rex with a head distantly resembling a bulls. ... Koolasuchus was a large Cretaceous amphibian that lived on the continent of Australia. ... Binomial name Talarurus plicatospineus Maleev, 1952 Talarurus (Maleev, 1952) is an ankylosaurid ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of southeastern Mongolia. ... Species (type) Wiman, 1931 Ostrom, 1961 Parasaurolophus was a genus of hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period (about 76-65 million years ago) of what is now North America. ... Binomial name Longisquama insignis Sharov, 1970 Longisquama (long scales) was a lizard-like reptile of the early Triassic Period 240 million years ago, which lived in what is now Turkestan. ... Species Pachyrhinosaurus ( thick-nosed reptile) is an ornithischian (bird-hipped) dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of North America. ... Species (type) Pteranodon (from Greek πτερ- wing and αν-οδων toothless), from the Late Cretaceous (santonian-campanian, 85-82 million years ago) of North America (Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota) was one of the largest pterosaur genera, with a wingspan of up to 9 m (30 feet). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Species (type) ?B. (Giraffatitan) brancai Brachiosaurus (IPA: ) meaning Arm Lizard, from the Greek brachion/βραχιων meaning arm and sauros/σαυρος meaning lizard, was a genus of sauropod dinosaur which lived during the Late Jurassic Period. ... Binomial name Struthiomimus altus Osborn, 1917 Paleo Template Project Struthiomimus was a long-legged, ostrich-like dinosaur of the family ornithomimidae, which lived in Alberta, Canada during the Late Cretaceous period, about 85 to 80 million years ago. ... Microceratops (meaning small-horned face) was a small ceratopsian dinosaur that lived in the Cretaceous period in Asia. ... Stygimoloch (river devil) was a Pachycephalosaurid that lived during the Cretaceous Period between 68-65 million years ago in what is now North America. ... Species Styracosaurus (meaning spiked lizard from Greek styrax/στυραξ spike at the butt-end of a spear-shaft and saurus/σαυρος lizard) was a herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period, about 77 to 74 million years ago. ... Species Ankylosaurus (pronounced ) meaning stiffened lizard, because of its hard dermal armor (Greek ankylo = stiffen + sauros = lizard) was the last, largest, and most famous of the armored dinosaurs known as the Ankylosaurians. ... Binomial name Meganeura monyi (C. Brongniart, 1893) Meganeura monyi was a prehistoric insect of the Carboniferous period (300 million years ago), resembling and related to the present-day dragonfly. ...

Inaccuracies

• Lemurs did not exist in the Late Cretaceous period. They were added for entertainment's sake, as the filmmakers claimed that the true mammals of the era were "hideous".
• Longisquama and Brachiosaurus did not exist alongside the other animals in the film. In fact, many of the animals were taken from different locations and time periods and mixed around. Velociraptor was from Mongolia, however north america and asia were conected at the time (so a pack of raptors might have migrated), iguanodons lived all over the world and it mentions that carnotaurus "Have never gone this far north before" (Carnotaurus lived in South America).
• There is strong evidence to suggest that both Oviraptor and Velociraptor had plumage. In fact, the initial designs depicted the Velociraptor as plumed animals. However, due to time, technological, and budget restrictions, they ended up featherless.
• Iguanodon had beaks, rather than lips.
• Carnotaurus was not as large as the film depicted it. It was resized for entertainment's sake. In fact, it was smaller than Iguanodon. In the day when the film was made, however, there were reports of findings of a larger Carnotaurus.
• Talalurus most likely would not sleep on their backs, for doing this would expose their armor-less bellies (as well as cause them discomfort by being propped on their spiky, dorsal protrusions, or cause them to become stuck and unable to move.)
• Iguanodons supposedly used their spiked thumbs to fight off predators more often than tail-whipping and head-butting. Kron uses his thumb-spike once, but the creators most likely found it to be too violent to use frequently.
• Longisquama could not fly as it did in the film.
• Meganeura was bigger than in the film, and did not live at that time.

Armour in animals is external or superficial protection against attack by predators, formed as part of the body (rather than the behavioural use of protective external objects), usually through the hardening of body tissues, outgrowths or secretions. ...

Rating

This film was rated PG by the MPAA for intense images. The MPAA Film Rating System is a system used in the United States and its territories to rate a movie based on its suitability for certain audiences. ... The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), originally called the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America, is a non-profit trade association based in the United States which was formed to advance the interests of movie studios. ...

External links

• Dinosaur at the Internet Movie Database
• Box Office Information