TITLE : THE GOOD DINOSAUR
GENRE : ANIMATION
DURATION : 100 MINUTES
PRODUCTION COMPANY : WALT DISNEY ANIMATION COMPANY
RELEASE YEAR : NOVEMBER 26th, 2015
FILM DIRECTOR : PETER SOHN
In school lessons, you may have been told that millions of years ago before inhabited by humans, the Earth is inhabited by a variety of giant animals that are often referred to as “dinosaurs”. However, due to various disasters and one of them meteor that fell to this planet, then dinosaurs have become extinct and now become historic fossil. But what if the meteor did not fall to Earth and burn down this dinosaur species?
The good dinosaur tells how hundreds of millions of years ago, instead of falling to Earth, it was just “passing through”, so the dinosaurs species are alive even the next millions of years. Quote unique, in this movie dinosaurs seem to be described as “human” who has a family and have a job like for example a farm owner.
There are Henry and Ida, a pair of Apatosaurus dinosaurs who own a farm and are blessed with three dinosaur children named Libby, Buck, and Arlo. Unlike his two older brothers, Arlo has a cowardly nature. To be able to overcome these fears, the father then gives the spirit as well as work to Arlo to keep their corn granules are often stolen by a thief who is not known origin. In his guard, Arlo catches the thief who turns out to be a caveman boy. Unable, Arlo frees him so that his father tells Arlo to chase him along, but a disaster falls in him.
After the disaster, Arlo discovers the thief and pursue him, only to fall into the river and go following away from his home. In an effort to get back home, Arlo is finally forced to venturing with the caveman, Spot, and find a variety of other types of dinosaurs good and evil. Can Arlo and Spot find their homes again?
Disney Pixar has no doubt its ability to be able to display a stunning visual aspect. Throughout the film, the audience is served a variety of beautiful scenery, ranging from mountains, valleys, waters, and grasslands. As if, the various scenes are real in the real world. Each the scene and other visuals have the finer details, the viewer can see what the skin and scales are, and the spots on Spot. In this film, it seems Disney Pixar like to show off their ability and expertise in packaging visual and animation aspects.
High level animation, unfortunately the story plot feels so standard tends to be ordinary. Indeed, the delivery of messages and emotions in the film is simplified because the target audience is stronger for children. However, like most children’s films, the premise of “either defeating the bad” or “confident to face challenges” feels so strong here that the movie feels not much different from other children’s films because this kind of story plot is too commonly used. Even so The Good Dinosaur itself can still be enjoyed by adults though for the delivery of such a simple message. There is nothing wrong to invite your baby to watch the Good Dinosaur together, given the message delivered is also quite useful as a learning material for children.
Writer : Tri Mandala Putra








