Movie Review: The Good Dinosaur

So for this week's movie I was able to go watch The Good Dinosaur. In the commercials the movie asks "What if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs missed?". I had a different idea of what might have happened, but I liked this idea as well. But anyways, I hope you enjoy my review of The Good Dinosaur.

The movie starts with a view of the asteroid belt 65 million years ago, and a few of them banging into each other, sending one off into space. As we watch the asteroid hurl its way towards earth, we take a look at dinosaurs peacefully eating away. As flames start to engulf the rock, we watch it miss the earth, and all the dinosaurs look up to watch it fly past. That means the dinosaurs get to live another day.

We then skip ahead a few million years to see Poppa (voiced by Jeffrey Wright) walking through the forest to his home, where he and Momma (voiced by Frances McDormand) have made a farm to live off of. After working hard on planting their crops, it jumps forward a little bit to a point where the crops are very tall. Poppa is working on harvesting the crops when Momma comes over and says that it's time. They walk to their hut where three eggs are about to hatch, and our hero, Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa), is born along with his sister Libby (voiced by Maleah Nipay-Padilla) and brother Buck (voiced by Marcus Scribner).

The story plot was well done, but it had a few elements that felt familiar to other Disney movies, such as the Lion King. A young animal learning his true worth after a devastating accident that killed his father. I'm not saying that it's bad, it's actually a nice, up to date version of one of my favorite movies, with T-Rex Ranchers thrown into the mix as well.

The voice acting was very good for the most part, but I thought that Raymond Ochoah didn't make Arlo sound very scared in some scenes. However, the rest of it was great voice acting on everyones part. I do have to mention though that Sam Elliott as Butch was a huge highlight to this movie. His voice really made the head T-Rex Rancher that much better.

Overall, the story plot had great continuous scenes, and the voice acting was almost always great, but I would have added a few things in place of others. Even though this probably would never have happened in real life, it was a good movie, and I would rate it 8.7/10.