We're Back A Dinosaur's Story Trailer (WB and Universal)
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We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is a 1993 American animated adventure comedy film based on the 1987 Hudson Talbott children's book of the same name. It depicts four intelligent anthropomorphized prehistoric reptiles, Tyrannosaurus rex Rex, Triceratops Woog, Pteranodon Elsa, and Parasaurolophus Dweeb (all dinosaurs save for Elsa, a pterosaur), in their journey to the Museum of Natural History. The prehistoric beings have travelled to the present day and become intelligent by eating a "Brain Grain" cereal invented by scientist Captain Neweyes, who wants dinosaurs to be personally seen by children. They face two major conflicts: an attempt not to be noticed by the public, and to not be exploited by Neweyes' evil twin brother Professor Screweyes, who wants to use the dinosaurs for his circus business. The dinosaurs are helped along by two runaway children, Louie and Cecilia.
Produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio and Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope studio and distributed by Warner Bros. in North America and Universal Pictures in International, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story was directed by Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag, Phil Nibbelink, and Simon Wells from a screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, Roger Allers, Linda Woolverton and Jonathan Roberts. Warner Bros. and Universal bought the rights to the novel only months after its publication, and Amblimation and American Zoetrope began storyboarding the adaptation in 1990 during the production of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991). The film features the voices of John Goodman, René Le Vant, Felicity Kendal, Charles Fleischer, Walter Cronkite, Jay Leno, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Julia Child, Kenneth Mars, Yeardley Smith, Martin Short, Blaze Berdahl, and Rhea Perlman.
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story was released during a surge of the dinosaur in pop culture known as the dinosaur renaissance; it was released the same year as another Spielberg dinosaur flick, Jurassic Park, and was marketed as the more family-friendly equivalent. Despite the dinosaur mania, it did not perform well at the box office, grossing $9.3 million. It received mixed reviews from critics: while its voice cast and animation were praised, most criticisms targeted the script, particularly its story, pacing, and lack of character development.
Produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio and Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope studio and distributed by Warner Bros. in North America and Universal Pictures in International, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story was directed by Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag, Phil Nibbelink, and Simon Wells from a screenplay by John Patrick Shanley, Roger Allers, Linda Woolverton and Jonathan Roberts. Warner Bros. and Universal bought the rights to the novel only months after its publication, and Amblimation and American Zoetrope began storyboarding the adaptation in 1990 during the production of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991). The film features the voices of John Goodman, René Le Vant, Felicity Kendal, Charles Fleischer, Walter Cronkite, Jay Leno, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Julia Child, Kenneth Mars, Yeardley Smith, Martin Short, Blaze Berdahl, and Rhea Perlman.
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story was released during a surge of the dinosaur in pop culture known as the dinosaur renaissance; it was released the same year as another Spielberg dinosaur flick, Jurassic Park, and was marketed as the more family-friendly equivalent. Despite the dinosaur mania, it did not perform well at the box office, grossing $9.3 million. It received mixed reviews from critics: while its voice cast and animation were praised, most criticisms targeted the script, particularly its story, pacing, and lack of character development.