PIXAR's The Good Dinosaur

Or too-slow build-up to dinosaurs eating people

God, why does Arlo have to have a kid voice? It really does not fit him. I was hoping he would at least have a teen voice.

I have the opposite problem with Vanellope from Wreck It Ralph. Why couldn't they get an actual child, or at least an actress who sounds like a child, to voice her? Sarah Silverman does a terrible job at sounding like a child.

With that said, this trailer is certainly pretty to look at. I love the scene with the fireflies. I'm still looking forward to see how the film turns out. I'm sure the story and characters will be good, and there'll be plenty of emotional scenes.

But god. That child voice coming out of Arlo is going to be distracting as hell.

Eh, maybe the game was old enough that Vanellope isn't "really" a child anymore. Or maybe that was her impression of the Kristen Schaal voice

I just appreciate that the trailer was emotional and not like other animated trailers out there.

Funny that everyone's critical of the trailer. There was a discussion in the Zootopia thread about how Disney & Pixar make terrible trailers.

...I liked the trailer. There were tyrannosaurs hunting wooly rhinos , some sort of ceratopsian with lots of birds on its shield , and a lizard .. snake... thing

He has a kid voice because he is a kid.

Also, Vanellope's not a real child - She's a video game character in-universe. I think that gives her a pretty good excuse not to sound completely like an actual human child.

Not only that, but she's a CARTOON child. Sarah Silverman portrays her with the right balance, to me.

It was still a rather uncanny effect to me, and the prankster manner didn't help the impression ("lying to a child", not a thing a child would say). At least Taffeta still sounded convincingly like a teen.

Maybe a particularly sharp child with a harsh upbringing who grew up too soon. :D

Yeah, this was a pretty trailer (except the main dinosaur looks goofy) and it doesn't tells us enough about the story. Hopefully later trailers will (as was the case with Inside Out.)

I'd like to think the title is Disney jokingly differentiating this from their last animated movie about dinosaurs.

...Meet the Robinsons?

No, no, I'm kidding, I get the joke.

I know it's been a while, but I finally came up with a good answer as to why a kid voice doesn't fit Arlo.

If he was really tiny (like Littlefoot) maybe the voice would fit better. But no. He's huge.

Also, I don't remember any of the synopses calling him a kid dinosaur. They may have called him a young dinosaur, but that could mean teen as well. In fact, I think a teen voice would've fit him much better. He'd sound young, but it wouldn't be distracting.

So ironic how Caleb from the upcoming True Tail looks more like a child than Arlo does, and yet Caleb has a teen-sounding voice.

Maybe he's tiny compared to his parents.

.... how— where did comparing this to True Tails come from??

edited 12th Aug '15 9:49:42 PM by kyun

I was just pointing out how child characters sometimes have teen-type voices, and that kind of voice might fit Arlo better.

Buttload of new information today. We learn that Spot may be The Last of His Kind and that the T-Rexs are basically friendly cattle ranchers.

Oh and the velociraptors have feathers.

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I haven't been keeping track of Pixar fare too much lately, but holy cow does this film have my interest now. The simple but visually appealing and distinct character designs mixed with the amazing vast and detailed environments, among the oher interesting things about the film such as the characterizations of the T. Rex - heck, just them being real supporting characters rather than antagonists is cool, and their designs look great too.

This film makes me feel like a kid again just from the previews so far, it's so weird.

Definitely keeping an eye on this.

edited 8th Oct '15 2:59:35 PM by StarvingGecko

I must say, I was originally afraid this would simply be a rip-off of the first Ice Age film, but seeing the most recent trailer, and seeing that the main character isn't Sid the Sloth, but a Child who's separated from his father... Makes me think this is going to be a better movie then it would've been from my previous thoughts. Since the human kid is supposed to be a Dog, why is he wearing pants/a loincloth? That makes no sense to me. We don't put our dogs in pants, and I don't think his species would be smart enough to wear clothes.

Well, you can't exactly have a kid running around naked for the entirety of a family film, you know?

edited 8th Oct '15 4:49:11 PM by kablammin45

The same reason Tarzan, the Hulk, etc...

But Tarzan is a modern day Human who would still understand that wearing clothes would protect him better and keep him warm. The Hulk simply wears the pants Bruce was wearing prior (that turn purple for some reason). "Spot" the "Human" is, for all intents and purposes, a dog in Human clothing. It just doesn't make sense for him to wear clothes. Unless "Spot" is smarter then he appears...

Disney's Mowgli and Tarzan had unexplainable loincloths during their childhoods despite being raised by animals who had no use for clothes themselves. Same thing for Spot, you aren't supposed to think about it. It's there just because you can't put a penis in a Disney animated movie.

edited 8th Oct '15 6:27:55 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

Since when do you need to keep warm in the jungle?