People Who Nitpick A Kids Movie


First off this is a rather good kids movie about Dinosaurs. There is mild violence but nothing too severe, the animation looks good, and blood/gore is nearly absent.

The plot does tend to meander a bit and some things are really off course (eg the disaster that forced them to flee homeland) but nothing too bad. Pity most of the dinosaurs in the film do die.


I just have to write about the people who watch this and seem unable to get over the fact this is a film for younger viewers and are making broad over-assumptions ostensibly claiming they found an error in the film.

"In some scenes, there's no blood present on the jaws of eating dinosaurs, yet in others, there is." - Most scenes have no blood at all. The only real exception to this is the "bad" dinosaur and blood seems to be used artistically to show he is bad.

"Though taking place in Asia, several North American dinosaurs, such as Torosaurus and the main antagonist, a Tyrannosaurus, are inexplicably present." - Torosaurus did live in Asia. There actually is some debate whether Torosaurus is even a distinct species or just a Triceratops fossil. Tyrannosaurus Bataar *IS* a Tarbosaurus and both live in Asia.

"Many dinosaurs that have been known to have been extensively feathered for years prior to this movie (such as Velociraptor and the therizinosaur) are presented as mostly scaly, only having a few feathers." - Many complaints about this but this is my favourite laughable quote. First off the Therizinosaurus. There is NO COMPLETE specimen of this dino in the world. Never been found. So any internet pundit who claims they "know for years" what it looks like are utterly clueless. To further this debate about feathers, scales, fuzz etc I can only put forth the fact NOONE ACTUALLY KNOWS what any dinosaur looks like these are THEORIES of what we THINK dinosaurs look like!

"Many carnivorous dinosaurs hold their hands in an incorrect position, even though studies conducted years prior to this movie have shown that they had a limited range of movement and their palms were permanently stuck facing inward." - ??? Only 2 major predators are even shown in this film, so whoever wrote this I have no idea what they are talking about... he doesn't like position of Tyrannosaur / Tarbosaur hands???

"The ancient mammal Repenomamus are presented as harmless, rodent-like creatures, but in reality, they were surprisingly large and possibly very fierce, known to have eaten small dinosaurs." - Reponomamus in reality max out at around 3 feet. Certainly smaller than most dinosaurs (eg the young Tarbosaurus who would be at least double the size, or adult Tarbo over 10 times the size). The only "small dinosaurs" who would ever have been hunted (possibly) by Reponomamus would be the tiny raptors like Graciliraptor.



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Enjoying the movie with my 12 year old...I think David Krenz (artist & animator for the 'Dinosaur Revolutions' miniseries in Discover Channel) said that Repenomamus fossils had been found with baby psittacosaurus remains in their gut contents. He also narrated an extremely funny storyboard for a Dinosaur Revolutions episode (that was rejected) featuring a small Asian raptor competing for a meal with a Repenomamus (IE: The Honey Badger from Hell...);




Why can't you wretched prey creatures understand that the Universe doesn't owe you anything!?

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Like you said, it is a children's film. I can't see how anyone can be too critical of it. As an adult I really enjoyed it.

If there was anything I could criticize, and I mean really knock the director and creative team for, it would be the mosasaur sequence towards the end. The giant predator (sometimes cannibalistic) sea-monsters weren't given the presence on screen that they should.

But, that really is nitpicking on my part. Otherwise I think this is actually a wonderful film.

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