YMMV / You Are Umasou

• Adaptation Displacement: The Anime adaptation is more well known than the children's book it was based on.
• Awesome Art: The backgrounds and character animation are gorgeous. The fight scenes are incredibly well choreographed.
• Awesome Music: The orchestral soundtrack is fantastic and really emphasises the sheer majesty of the dinosaur age.
• Cult Classic: The movies and TV anime of the same name have gained a small but passionate cult following in the West as of the late 2010s.
• So Okay, It's Average: While the second movie still has its fans and captures story elements from the books to otherwise decent effect with a likeable cast, is animation-wise very unremarkable compared to the first movie’s stunning animation, it leaves Heart’s story arc about his father in the first movie hanging and reduces Heart and Umasou to a very brief cameo.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The first movie's ending was vague/ambiguous enough for it to have a sequel that takes place immediately where it ends to give fans a movie where we could've seen more of the original cast and where Heart could learn that Baku is his father. Instead, we got a sequel that takes place years after the original with Heart and Umasou only making a brief cameo in the movie, and many fans of the original consider it to be In Name Only or entirely different than the first movie.
• Viewer Species Confusion: The purple carnivore attempting to eat Umasou is supposed to be the Chilantaisaurus from the book. Some viewers think it's a Carnotaurus due to its horns.
• The Woobie: Heart gets this big time. Throughout the poor dinosaur’s life, he’s treated as an outcast and was nearly killed as a defenceless baby by the Maiasaura leader and been forced to be abandoned only for the mother to accept/love him anyway (while she too was rejected by her herd). Later on in his life, he runs away from home out of fear of eating his family. He spends the majority of the film filled of anxiety and low-self esteem/self-worth and was nearly killed by his own father in a dual to save his family. He later ends up choosing to leave his family for their own safety (his only companion is his herbivore son, Umasou). The poor T-Rex deserves a hug!

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