Saturday, November 10, 2018

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993), 5

G | 1h 12min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 24 Nov 1993
When dinosaurs went to New York City and celebrates to everyone about them, but grand theft auto police officers has been alerted and arrested then after dinosaurs escape, and who has mysterious circus.
Directors: Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells, Dick & Ralph Zondag.
Stars: John Goodman, Charles Fleischer, Walter Cronkite, Larry King, Julia Child, Kenneth Mars.
Steven Spielberg Presents...

Watched online, ok copy.

1 song in the Soundtracks. And this is tagged Musical. I don't remember much singing, although the song title is familiar.

NB: The original Jurassic Park was released in June this year.

This seems like an ok story, but didn't grab my attention at any point.

JG, WC, LK, JC voices all were very obvious. JG was T-rex, the others were humans, with LK as himself.

WC is a scientist in the future who's invented a radio to hear past wishes. Since lots of children want to meet a real dinosaur, he invents a drug that makes dinosaurs sentient, so they can decide whether to visit that time, and so they're civilized. They're to meet with scientist JC at the Museum of Natural History in NYC, and avoid his evil brother (KM) who owns/runs a freak-show circus (but the dinos don't know the circus connection).

They soon encounter one of the kids who made a wish for a friend, and who is headed to join the circus of KM. Along the way they meet a neglected rich girl, also wishing for a friend, who joins them. The kids get to the circus before the dinos, and KM signs them to a contract in blood. When the dinos arrive, he offers to let the kids out of the contract if the dinos will ingest the reversal drug to make them savage again, and they do. But then the kids express their love for the dinos, and they return to their loveable selves. KM had actually honored the cancellation of the contract. WC joins them in NYC, and takes the kids back to their parents (or somewhere nice for the boy), and the dinos live on at the Museum where no adults are allowed in their exhibit so they can talk with and love the kids who visit. The End.

It's sweet and probably harmless, but Blech for me.

Universal & more, dir. Nibbelink & more; 5