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'''''Dinosaur''''' is a unique [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney animated film]] from the year 2000. It is a hybrid of live-action photography for its settings, and CGI animation for its characters, special effects, and whatnot.

Sadly, [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies|meteors destroy the island]] and Aladar and his adoptive family must make their way to the mainland. Once there, the main plot kicks in and they join a herd of similarly displaced animals who are migrating through the vast, tractlesstrackless desert with treacherous terrain and [[Predators Are Mean|scary-looking predators]] [[Furry Confusion|who don't talk]]. They are seeking literally greener pastures, a valley known as the Nesting Grounds, which is apparently the only fertile land for miles around. The herd is led by Kron, an old, hard-assed Iguanodon -- the first member of his own species Aladar has ever met -- who insists that everyone follow his orders even if it kills them all. He refuses to make concessions for the oldest and youngest members of the herd, an issue that he and Aladar especially lock <s>horns</s> thumbspikes over. Eventually, Aladar and the herd members he has befriended find their way to the Nesting Grounds through [[The Power of Friendship]], and they return just in time to rescue the rest of Kron's herd from menacing predators and show them the way.

It is usually considered one of the weakest films in the canon, but still managed to be better than some later films that will go unmentioned. The main point of criticism is how [[They Copied It, So It Sucks|similar]] it was to [[Don Bluth|Don Bluth's]]'s ''[[The Land Before Time]]''. Disney had been accused of copying [[Kimba the White Lion|other works]] [[The Lion King|before]], but unlike the well-loved ''[[The Lion King]]'', the work was unable to stand on its own merits. In addition, while the portrayal of [[Raptor Attack|Velociraptors]] as wiry, small pack hunters instead of [[Jurassic Park|misnamed Deinonychus]] is [[Shown Their Work|surprisingly accurate]], much of the rest of the films' depiction of late Cretaceous-era life is [[Somewhere a Paleontologist Is Crying|woefully inaccurate]], particularly in the portrayal of Carnotaurus as a [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] knock-off, and the [[Uncanny Valley|eerily human lips]] of the Iguanodons. That said, the film is gorgeous to look at, and did well financially, but ultimately fell far short of Disney's work in the Renaissance. To add insult to injury, it outperformed a [[The Emperor's New Groove|vastly superior Disney film]] released in the same year.