History Headscratchers / TheGoodDinosaur

*** Fair enough but it just looks [[{{Narm}} utterly stupid]].

** Probably not, but it wasn't supposed to be accurate. The T-Rex in the movie were cowboys and cowgirls, their run is supposed to make seem like they're riding horses.

** [[spoiler: If I remember correctly, Thunderclap wasn't so much as flying, but weakly flapping around. Even without the flood, he wouldn't have made it far.]]

** Maybe the T-Rex's mass raising of cattle caused global warming.

* What's with the weird galloping run the T-Rex's were doing? Is there fossil evidence of them running that way?

** I think it's a slightly-botched play on how the story is an inverted "Boy and his dog" story, where the human boy is the one who acts like a dog and the dinosaur is his more human-like owner. It probably would've been better to call it "The Good Boy" or "The Good Human," though.

* What exactly is the meaning of the title? While there are definitely villains in the movie, it's not like Arlo is the only good dinosaur or that being good is his main trait, so why name it the Good Dinosaur?

** The Tyranosaurs were taking Arlo to a meeting place where he could perhaps get directions from other dinosaurs. This was derailed when he saw the distinctive peaks above his homestead from a distance.

** Someone I went to see the film with had this exact same question. We had a bit of a discussion about it and he suggested that they use the chicken dung for fertiliser.

** [[PinkElephants Hallucinations induced by a little alcohol]] are not exactly unpreceded [[Disney/{{Dumbo}} in Disney movies]].

* How do these creatures find mates? The apatosaurs, tyrannosaurs, velociraptors, pterosaurs, and humans are all living in isolated immediate family groups. Libby, Buck, and Arlo will all have to leave the farm to find mates for the next generation - this is depicted as potentially lethal several times in only a few days. It's possible there's some gathering place offscreen where they mingle with others of their kind, but no one mentions one. There's no apparent reason the apatosaurs need to homestead far from any gathering place of their kind; while they need land to grow, they don't need hundreds of acres of wilderness around them.

* Why are there so many storms? From the start of the film, we have the one that [[spoiler: kills Arlo's father]], another that causes Arlo and Spot to lose the river, and a third one during the climax. All three of them seem to be quite hurricane-like, causing widespread damage, and two were the cause of devastating flash floods.

*** This troper thinks it's most likely to signify that they [[spoiler: are not Spot original family]].

*** I could accept a family of albinos; I'm just left wondering why they bothered making them that way. Why not just design them to look like Spot?

* Why would Henry think Arlo would be capable of killing the critter that was stealing their food, when Arlo has already shown he can't even take care of the chickens? All he did in between the two was show him the fireflies - it seems a bit much to assume that that would be enough to change him.

* Why does [[spoiler: the family Spot joins in the end]] all have white hair?

** [[spoiler: While watching the film, I was under the impression that Spot had encountered the other humans previously, before the events of the story. Maybe they'd tried bringing him into their family but couldn't get him to trust them by conventional means - Spot had probably been feral and on his own far too long for that - so they eventually turned to howling like they'd seen and heard him do to hopefully help show him that he was the same as them. This explains why we only hear them howling after Spot and Arlo do it first (or, at the end, after they're close enough to see him clearly), and why they're so welcoming to him when he finally does join them, instead of surprised that there's this little wild kid wandering around in the wilderness.]]

** If you've had six or so beers, it does

* Why would Arlo's family still have a food shortage after his fathers death and his disappearance? Shouldn't they have more food, since they now only need food for 3 and they still have all the food that was stored before?