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The Good Dinosaur
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The Good Dinosaur

A single kindness can change everything.

2015 • 93 min • Adventure · Animation · Family

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Synopsis

An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.

Our family guide

Best from age 6
84
Movie Knight Score
6099 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
  • 67 Audience · 6096 · 47%

An Apatosaurus named Arlo gets separated from his family and embarks on a long, dangerous journey home, befriending an unlikely human along the way. This animated adventure explores themes of courage, loss, and resilience in a prehistoric world where dinosaurs never went extinct.

Violence & peril
3/10
Language
1/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
0/10
Romance & sensuality
0/10
Scary moments
4/10

Heads up

  • Some intense natural dangers
  • Brief moments of peril for main characters

What it models well

  • Overcoming fears
  • Loyalty and friendship
  • Finding inner strength

Talk about it after

  • Coping with loss and grief
  • The importance of family
  • How to be brave when scared

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Top billed cast

Director: Peter Sohn • Crew: Bob Peterson, Kelsey Mann, Erik Benson, Meg LeFauve, Meg LeFauve, Peter Sohn

Trailers & clips

The Good Dinosaur Side by Side | "The Storm" Scene | Storyboards vs. Film

Behind-The-Scenes The Good Dinosaur Voice Recording

Official US Trailer 2

Official US Trailer

Teaser Trailer

Reviewer notes

Recommended

I know I'm about fifty years too old for the demographic here, but I quite enjoyed this adventure. It's all fairly routine as timid young dinosaur "Arlo" gets accidentally washed downstream after an altercation with a tiny human whom he quickly names "Spot". Both of these characters want to find their way home but there are a flock of pterodactyls who have their eyes fixed on a small, bite-size, snack.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

Okay. I loved this up until the end. His height has been clearly defined. Wilderness in this is incredible. I love that forest canyon. Wide sweeping shots. Fun characters and good conflicts. So much crazy tension built up to the scene where everything comes to a head. And it's dinosaurs running around bashing stuff up. I once swam in a river down stream from a dam.…

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

> Arlo and Spot's adventure to the Clawtooth Mountain. To be honest, I have been looking forward this since the day I came to know about it. But it took so long to come out, even the Windows OS has upgraded thrice since then. After all these years, now I feel this is not what I wanted. It should have been different, especially the story.…

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Details

TMDB audience
6.7/10 (6,096)
Age rating
PG
Status
Released
Budget
$175,000,000
Box office
$332,207,671
IMDb
tt1979388
Official site
movies.disney.com

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