That was the first page of that comic I ever saw and I am so damn angry that the rest of it isn't set in that world.

Just thought of an addendum for movies with humans: "For some reason we're not really sure about, the friendliest, prettiest, and especially the tastiest ones died out first."

"In the year one million and a half! / Humankind is enslaved by giraffe!"

"Or the race that evolved from dinosaurs that showed up on Voyager the same night that Ellen came out."

Any time I make it to the end of an animated prehistoric animal movie that's as bland as this, "Dinosaur", "Walking With Dinosaurs", all the "Ice Age" sequels, etc., my imagination fits in a pre-credits title card that reads, "Sadly, they all died out. Even the cute ones. Especially the cute ones."

"What's it comparable to in the Pixar oeuvre?"

Plus "dinosaurs had feathers" is as ultimately meaningless a phrase as "mammals have whiskers". Yeah, some do, but…

Serious question: is there any Walt Disney biography that isn't garbage?

I once (thankfully very briefly) knew a guy who swore up and down that dinosaurs were made up by scientists who wanted "to be rich and famous".

Honestly, I find the fact that what we're getting is supposedly the "better" version of this movie fascinating. Especially since what we're getting is a mediocre story that looks like a gat-damn "Flintstones" rerun with weirdly photorealistic background art. What in the world was the previous iteration like?

I mean, "Cars 2" had that car torture and execution scene, so…

I want my faux-dino-nature documentary too, but any time we even get close to something like that happening, the studio crams in insufferable narration, pop music, and fart jokes.

Ahem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

"I love dinosaurs, but the people who study them should just stop learning new things about them and reminding me that they were real animals and not made-up movie monsters!" - A staggering number of people

Well, it isn't the one where some of the Great Valley residents turn out to be aliens, or the one where the adult dinosaurs are afraid of bugs, or the one where Petrie has an imaginary friend (Bakker's beard, when you get to that point, WHY are they even dinosaurs anymore?), so it has that going for it, which is nice.

He does not. The word "dinosaur" is a biological term and refers to a specific group of animals.

"Weird… in a genuinely upsetting way" is a damn good descriptor for it. I watched it expecting a conventionally bad animated film about dinosaurs and wound up seeing… something else.

Would you settle for a decent animated dinosaur film with a stupid title narrated by Werner Herzog? http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

It's bad in ways other bad movies can only dream of being. It is spectacularly, fascinatingly bad. I present it as a challenge to my friends who claim to love "Sharknado" and "Birdemic", which are downright boring compared to the waking fever dream that is "Theodore Rex".

The most eagerly awaited movie of everyone's mom and fun aunt in 2002.