Pixar draws emotions. They bring us high and they bring us low. Inside Out brought critics high. The Good Dinosaur brings them low.
Arlo’s and Spot’s roles are reversed, and that’s weird as well. Arlo is supposed to be the human in this relationship, but he’s the one who can’t fend for himself. The movie wants Spot to be this wild animal that needs to be domesticated, but he’s the one feeding and defending and taking care of the dinosaur. It seems like they tried to go two different directions at once with this relationship, and it doesn’t work at all. Photos courtesy Walt Disney Motion Picture Studios.
Set in an alternate timeline when the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs missed, The Good Dinosaur follows Arlo (Raymond Ochoa), an apatosaurus born to a family of corn farmers and the runt of their litter, in every imaginable sense of the term. As his siblings grow into their own and quickly start to take over the farm work, Poppa Henry (Jeffery Wright) takes the cowardly Arlo under his wing and tries to teach him how to trap and kill pests. Using a trap that his father set up everything for, Arlo catches a human child, later to be dubbed Spot (Jack Bright), that has been stealing the family’s corn, but doesn’t have the nerve to finish him. Henry angrily takes Arlo up the river after the creature, but is killed in a flash flood. Arlo is knocked out and loses his way, but is thrust together with the human child, who takes a shine to him.
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