Dinosaur

Dinosaur is a 2000 computer animated adventure film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation as their 39th animated feature. It stars the voices of D.B. Sweeney, Julianna Marguilies, Samuel E. Wright, and Hayden Panettiere.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Incredibly realistic and spectacular CGI animation, especially for 2000 that still holds up to this day.
 * 2) The voice actors do an excellent job voicing their characters, such as D.B. Sweeney as Aladar, Sam Wright (voice of Sebastian from The Little Mermaid) as Kron, Hayden Panettiere (who voiced Dot from A Bug's Life) as Suri, and Julianna Margulies as Neera.
 * 3) The photorealistic live action backgrounds are beautiful.
 * 4) Incredible soundtrack by the legendary James Newton Howard.
 * 5) Much of the characters are likable, especially Aladar, Neera, and Seri.
 * 6) The scenery is wonderful and stunning.
 * 7) Awesome opening sequence.
 * 8) The story it has, while it can be a bit predictable at times, is pretty good.
 * 9) The designs on the dinosaurs are impressive.
 * 10) Baby Aladar is cute.
 * 11) It stood out as Disney's first animated film with animated characters in live action backgrounds, which was so awesome it is definitely something the studio should do more often.

Bad Qualities

 * Url, while likable, can be pointless and somewhat out-of-place for a serious movie like this. And speaking of Url, why does he act like a dog while the other dinosaurs act more like people?
 * 1) *On top of that, Url's personality seems to be a ripoff of Dino from The Flintstones.
 * 2) The Carnotaurs can be rather frightening for a kids' movie.
 * 3) The story, while not bad, can be somewhat boring and a bit predictable sometimes, and contains several elements from The Land Before Time.
 * 4) Kron is a very unlikable and despicable character, as he has been shown to be merciless, selfish, and short-tempered throughout the film (thankfully, he does get what's coming to him).
 * 5) Depending on your view, this film marked the start of Disney's post-Renaissance Era, which would lead to Walt Disney Feature Animation's decline, as it largely abandons most of the tropes that defined the Disney Renaissance (which isn't a bad thing, but still). Though it's disputed if Fantasia 2000 or this film started the era.
 * 6) A few jokes are pretty childish.

Reception
Dinosaur received mixed reviews from critics and audiences where they praise the opening sequence and animation, but criticized the lack of originality in the story with a 64% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 123 reviews and an average score of 6.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads "While Dinosaur's plot is generic and dull, its stunning computer animation and detailed backgrounds are enough to make it work a look." Metacritic scores the film with a weighted average score of 56 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". The film also received an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale from Audiences polled by CinemaScore, and an 6.4/10 from IMDb.