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The Pixar has pushed the envelope of CGI once again, this time with the good dinosaurs. Literally and technically.
Sitting through it, I find myself absorbed in this lavish, gorgeous, lush, dizzy and almost realistic, Yosemite-like landscape with such a touchable texture so much so that it could be an ambitious & egregious boast of cutting-edge animation technologies in the field.
Back to story, in an alternate universe where the asteroid didn't crash earth (hence, all dinsaurs survive, live and prosper like humans, they grow corns and have their rituals amazingly), we follow our Arlo the baby dinosaur's embark on epic homecoming journey with his human sapien friend Spot, a cliched story we could find either in BBC's chunks of natural documentaries or in Disney's chops. Even turbocharged with state-of-the-art technologies, the movie may lose some sheen to the documentaries.
And the visual effects successfully steer away the production team into a flat storyline through which we see our irresistibly & adorably cute Arlo spending almost half of running time being lost and keeping making flops in a dim-witted and lame way. Even other supporting characters in 3 dimension upstages him by helping him growing flesh and blood. I grow some empathy for the ill-fated little boy. I don't know why it's scripted that way.
Unlike realistic recreation in Walking with Dinosaurs, our Arlo reeks of minimalistic cuteeeeness with flexible muscles (remember the BTS of Walking with Dinosaurs?), however, a hyperanimate Spot is portrayed in anthrologopogically metaphorical sense of humans like a pet dog, compared to Arlo like a human. I know it's just animate movie, it's sort of weird though .
Arlo is essentially an irony on the title. He's a helpless coward needing help from others but doesn't learn the tricks of growing up. Probably the character setup dilutes his resonance within audiences.
Whenever there's no noticeable story arc going, Michael Dayna's dynamic score , a supple touching blend of Irish, country music (scoring the duo running on the vast plain like Rango) and even some Chinese folk music flavors saves some grace, delivering a melodic contrast to leaden storytelling.
Unlike its predecessors of kids-friendly inclusivity, this movie has some dark elements revealing harsh brutality in nature which might scare kids.
But, it has the most hilarious moment that comes when Arlo and Spot get drunk upon eating rotten fruits. The surrealistic sequences cannot help me laughing out loud tears. In some way, that could buffer some poignancy that follows.
The good dinosaur is basically Pixar quality-safety work empowered the amazing animation and soundful score, though it has some intrinsical imperfections. It curves up some possibilities of a best visual effects runner-up for the Award season.
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