Walking With Dinosaurs

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Walking With Dinosaurs

PG

Released Dec 20, 2013

1h 27m

Kids & Family

Adventure

Comedy

Animation

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During the Cretaceous Period, a dinosaur named Patchi (Justin Long) hatches among a herd of Pachyrhinosaurus. Patchi's runt status means he must use his wits rather than strength to compete for food with his larger brothers and sisters, particularly Scowler. After a terrible fire leaves Patchi, Scowler, and a female named Juniper on their own, the rivalry between the brothers escalates to a dangerous level. Patchi must summon his inner courage and strength to become the leader he was born to be.

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Critics Consensus

Walking with Dinosaurs boasts painstaking visual brilliance, but it's unfortunately clouded by a clumsy script that's dominated by juvenile humor.

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

metro.co.uk

When the wisecracking dialogue occasionally shuts up and the jerky pace slows down, you notice the astonishing CGI detailing. Otherwise, this boasts all the flair, heart and originality of an inbred sea cucumber.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 6, 2017

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Chris Stuckmann

ChrisStuckmann.com

All narration and childish fart jokes should've been removed from this movie, and then, perhaps the children in the audience would actually learn something.

Rated: D-

Apr 23, 2015

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Todd Gilchrist

TheWrap

an insufferable family adventure whose impressive animation is consistently undercut by cartoonish self-awareness.

Dec 23, 2013

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Mae Abdulbaki

Punch Drunk Critics

With cringe-worthy dialogue and a long and unnecessary story, there's nothing about this film that stands out, which unfortunately shames the late '90s BBC series from which it originates.

Rated: 1/5

Aug 14, 2018

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Jamie Neish

CineVue

Cook and Nightingale's kiddie flick is an uneasy, innocuous and easily avoidable anomaly.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 13, 2018

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Josh Terry

Deseret News (Salt Lake City)

For all of its visual feats, you can never quite get around that disconnected dialogue, especially the persistent chatter from a prehistoric bird-narrator voiced by John Leguizamo that approaches Jar-Jar levels of irritation.

Nov 29, 2017

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Jack N

Great for kids who love Dinosaurs. That is about it though. Good soundtrack as well.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

06/23/24

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Thusara R

Well yes it's a learning point for kids and some are unnecessary but overall the movie is great. Kids love the humour...

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/05/24

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maddoc s

This movie was my childhood, and it is not perfect yes, but it still has amazing animation that can rival Jurassic world. But it can sometimes have humor that kids think is stupid. but it still was my childhood.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

05/01/24

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Whisper J

Well, i liked the movie. I thought it was cute and had amazing cinematics. I do wish the story had been a little more serious at times but in the end it was a good movie.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

12/12/23

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Dylan L

This was a great movie when I watched it in 2013 in theaters with my brother and Dad. I love this movie and it brings back fun child hood memories I watch the movie on DVD all the time

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/21/23

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Necroa V

Alright so I went into this movie being like "Oh awesome, let's see some dinosaurs with great documentary dialogue!". But nope. This movie is CURSED! It's litereally cursed! What were the filmmakers thinking? I totally agree with critics here. Audience score is probably a bit too high. This movie is just CURSED! I keep saying that but it is. It's CURSED!! So basically, if you haven't seen it. The dinosaurs are well-animated, the world is nicely made but here's the problem. The dinosaurs talk. Not like litereally. They don't move their mouths while talking. It's some dumb people voices over them saying stuff. So let's say the dinosaur had it's mouth closed right? Well the person would be saying something like "I will become the leader no doubt! I will!". They didn't actually say that but you get the idea! It's cursed because they ruined it! The voices are so awful and bad they ruined the movie. This movie is godawful. The animation is really solid and everything else is fine but the voice part completely ruined this movie. I would not recommend this movie to anyone. Yeah nobody should watch it. It's cursed. So don't watch it. Unless you want to see the horrifying mess. So yeah, that's my take on it.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

07/06/23

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Synopsis

During the Cretaceous Period, a dinosaur named Patchi (Justin Long) hatches among a herd of Pachyrhinosaurus. Patchi's runt status means he must use his wits rather than strength to compete for food with his larger brothers and sisters, particularly Scowler. After a terrible fire leaves Patchi, Scowler, and a female named Juniper on their own, the rivalry between the brothers escalates to a dangerous level. Patchi must summon his inner courage and strength to become the leader he was born to be.

Director: Barry Cook, Neil Nightingale
Producer: Mike Devlin, Amanda Hill, Deepak Nayar
Screenwriter: John Collee
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: BBC Earth, Evergreen Studios
Rating: PG (Mild Rude Humor|Creature Action and Peril)
Genre: Kids & Family, Adventure, Comedy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 20, 2013, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 31, 2015
Runtime: 1h 27m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, Datasat

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