Two big problems with this film


Firstly, Woog and Dweeb shouldn't be eating hot dogs. They're herbavores.

Secondly, Professor Screweye's death makes no sense. Is it different in the book?

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You might as well add that time travel is impossible and dinosaurs can't talk. Come on! It was cute! And think of the grateful hot dog industry.

The crows represented fear. When there was no one left for him to scare, fear consumed him. I thought that was cool when I was a kid. Better than them pecking him to death, right? Although that also would have been kinda cool.

Course that was the ninety's and children's innocence was still slightly preserved then, so a gruesome death scene wouldn't have fit. Man, we've gone downhill since then. I mean, in the Lion King you couldn't say fart, and now in Shrek, how many times did they say the word ass?

Aw crap, I got off subject again. So sorry.

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What the bloke said, my good man who doesn't know how to keep his big Realist mouth shut!

Watcher_of_u, I agree with you wholeheartedly!

Ratigan...I think that you are a slimy, contemptible SEWER RAT!

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In my opinion, animated movies in the 80s and early 90s were ten times better than the ones you see today. Most, like this one, were wonderfully dark and usually fairly disturbing.

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C'mon this one isn't THAT bad--compared to "The Black Cauldron"!

Ratigan...I think that you are a slimy, contemptible SEWER RAT!

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It's a animated kids movie. It doesn't have to be how it was when dinosaurs were around.

And like everyone else is saying, it represents fear.

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Hot dogs don't have much real meat in them anyway, so I think Woog and Dweeb will do OK, but your point is valid.

In the book, there was only Vorb, no Dr. Neweyes or Professor Screweyes. Only Vorb and Dr. Miriam Bleeb.

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I believe her name was Julia or Juliette, actually. In the movie, at least. Haven't read the book in a long time.

Ratigan...I think that you are a slimy, contemptible SEWER RAT!

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HOLD ON A SEC! THERE WAS BOOK BASED ON THIS????? OMG...

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The movie was based on the children's book by Hudson Talbott, published in 1987. Dr. Bleeb's first name was Miriam in the original book, but changed to Juliet for the film (and voiced by Julia Child, of cooking show/book fame).

Captain Neweyes and Professor Screweyes were created for the movie only. In the original book, after causing panic at the parade, they simply escape to the Museum Of Natural History, and Dr. Bleeb teaches them to "act like dinosaurs" and freeze still in a diarama display until the jackboots depart.

There were both a children's picture book (We're Back!: The Wildest Show on Earth by Francine Hughes) and a "novelli" (We're Back! by Cathy East Dubowski) produced based on the film's story, as well as a Golden Books coloring book which shows the entire film story through pictures (about 60 pages).

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