History YMMV / Dinosaur

* SoOkayItsAverage: A common sentiment regarding the film; not outright horrible like ''WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle'' or ''WesternAnimation/HomeOnTheRange'', but still quite bland of a film.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The whole soundtrack (one of three Music/JamesNewtonHoward did for Disney - he also scored ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' and ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'') is wonderful, and almost qualifies as a BreakoutPopHit. Many soundtrack collectors love the track "The Egg Travels" without having any idea where it's from. See [[AwesomeMusic/{{Dinosaur}} here]] for the whole list.

** Plio's final narration hoping that somehow their story will be remembered is this considering how the film is barely remembered.

* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The video game was a lot of fun, and even featured dinosaurs not in the actual film.

* HarsherInHindsight: For viewers who have seen ''Film/RogueOne'' and this film, the meteor strike might remind them the Death Star test-firing upon [[spoiler: Jedha]] and vice versa. It can feel harsh because the Death Star blast is being used upon live-action characters rather than CGI Dinosaurs and is even more destructive due to uplifting the planet's crust and burying an entire region.

* HarsherInHindsight: For viewers who have seen ''Film/RogueOne'' and this film, the meteor strike might remind them the Death Star test-firing upon the planet [[spoiler: Jedha]] and vice versa. It can feel harsh because the Death Star blast is being used upon live-action characters rather than CGI Dinosaurs and is even more destructive due to uplifting the planet's crust and burying an entire region.

* HarsherInHindsight: For viewers who have seen ''Film/RogueOne'' and this film, the meteor strike might remind them the Death Star test-firing upon the planet [[spoiler: Jedha]] and vice versa. It can feel harsh because the Death Star blast is being used upon live-action characters rather than CGI Dinosaurs and is even more destructive.

* DesignatedVillain: The ''Carnotaurs'' and ''Velociraptors'' are are carnivores doing what they can to survive in a highly unstable ecosystem. They can only be seen as antagonists because they are hunting the heroes, who are all herbivores.

* MostWonderfulSound:

* MoralEventHorizon: Kron crosses this when a heavily injured Bruton warns him of approaching Carnotaurus--upon hearing the predators roaring in the background, he furiously bellows [[NoSympathy "You led them right to us! Maybe you should feed them with YOUR hide!"]] before leaving him for dead without a second thought. Ouch.

* OlderThanTheyThink: All the wandering herbivore dinosaurs desperately trying to find their way to a valley called the Nesting Grounds? A land untouched by disaster that has destroyed their food sources and free of predators? Sounds suspiciously word-for-word like [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime The Great Valley]].

* SignatureScene: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP1l9-i79ag The Egg Travels]] is such a grand epic opening to the film that the entirety of it was used just for the marketing trailers.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many critics and viewers alike lamented how the memorable trailer and opening to the film promised something akin to a lifelike expansion of the epic dinosaur sequence from ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', the hope for which was dashed to pieces the moment a character first opened their mouth to speak. Worse still, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the original plan]] ''was'' to have no dialogue, but the writers themselves decided to change it.

* UnintentionallySympathetic: The ''Carnotaurs'' were intended to be portrayed as insane, nonstop killing machines in DVD bonus features, but in the film many fans see them as minor, but developed characters. They seem to be a mated couple who only kill for hunger, are smart enough to know when ''not'' to attack the herd, and after one's death, the other goes insane with grief. Made worse if you take the carnotaurs' disparate sizes (one is markedly bigger than the other) as an indication of them being ''a parent and its child'', with the smaller one being killed by Bruton and the larger one becoming vengefully angry.

* HarsherInHindsight:

* UncannyValley: The ''Iguanodons'' stick out. The animal [[http://www.raul-martin.net/raulmartin/dos/iguanodon.jpg had a beak in real life]], but the designers gave them all realistic human lips to make them more expressive, and the result can be unsettling.

** Url, an ''Ankylosaurus'' that travels at the back of the pack with the two elder dinosaurs. Is he this world's version of having a pet? Or does Url perhaps suffer from some kind of intellectual disability that causes him to have a hard time keeping up with the pack, and the only reason he hasn't been left behind completely is because Eema knows how to interact with him? He does seem to understand every word the speaking characters say, and used a stalagmite/stalactite he found to lead the others to the cave.
*** Alternatively, given that Url is far smaller than an actual ankylosaur would be, it's also possible that he's just a ''baby'': similar to Spike from ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime''.
** Are the ''Carnotaurs'' a mated pair or parent and offspring? One of the ''carnotaurs'' is noticably smaller than the other, and the smaller one is the one that first goes after Aladar and the others in the cave, while the larger one in the background noticeably holds back at first - ''almost as if it's teaching it to hunt.''
*** And given that it was the smaller one who was killed in the cave-in, it puts a brand new perspective on the larger one's [[MamaBear almost-vengeful attack on the herd later on...]]

* DesignatedVillain:
** Kron could be seen as this for those who believe that his "the strong must survive!" mentality was correct, or at least correct in the setting the dinosaurs were in.
** The ''Carnotaurs'' and ''Velociraptors'' may also count. The film as of course, is only shown from an herbivorous point of view with any carnivore easily depicted as a villain. Even though, as stated on the main page, it appeared that said carnivores only doing what they could do to survive in a highly unstable ecosystem.

** Baylene and Eema for being kind, wise old dinosaurs who are humble enough to know they're slowing down the herd but still try to stay hopeful. They're the favorite characters of the WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic.
** The ''Carnotaurs'' have garnered some positive reception for being badasses and also more realistic predators than you'd think from a kids' dinosaur movie. This movie is what officially added ''Carnotaurus'' to the list of StockDinosaurs.
* GeniusBonus: The probable explanation of the presence of many animals which are poorly-known among general public, but familiar to many dino-fans (''Stygimoloch'', ''Microceratus'', ''Ichthyornis'', ''Koolasuchus'' and ''Longisquama'' among the others).
** Sadly, not all of them are depicted accurately, ''Longisquama''[[note]]depicted as a flying chameleon, despite the fact that ''Longisquama'' couldn't fly[[/note]] and ''Ichthyornis''[[note]]depicted as resembling a duck when it actually looked and acted more like a sea gull[[/note]] in particular.

** Yar's two brushes with death (first nearly being killed in the meteor shower and then a raptor almost eating him) when Ossie Davis passed away five years after the film's release.
** The lemur's joyful courtship scene becomes really sad to take in on repeat viewings since the viewer knows this time around that [[spoiler: they're all going to die a few minutes later to the meteor strike]].

* LoveToHate: The Carnotaurus, those scary-ass bastards.
* MemeticMutation: "The LOVE Monkey..."

* UncannyValley: Kron's and Bruton's look. And ''every'' humanized character, monkeys not excepted.
** The ''Iguanodon''s especially stick out. The animal [[http://www.raul-martin.net/raulmartin/dos/iguanodon.jpg had a beak in real life]], but the designers gave them all lips to make them more expressive. The end result, a beak inside the lips where teeth ought to be, looks weird if you don't think of them as teeth.
** The featherless ''Oviraptor'' look very hideous and disturbing, especially after much exposure to feathered, less-gangly portrayals in other dinosaur media.

** And given that it was the smaller one who was killed in the cave-in, it puts a brand new perspective on the larger one's [[MamaBear almost-vengeful attack on the herd later on...]]

* UnintentionallySympathetic: The ''Carnotaurs'' were intended to be portrayed as insane, nonstop killing machines in DVD bonus features, but in the film many fans see them as minor, but developed characters. They seem to be a mated couple who only kill for hunger, are smart enough to know when ''not'' to attack the herd, and after one's death, the other goes insane with grief.

** As everyone knows, regardless of their effort to find shelter, every dinosaur species seen will go extinct no matter what they do.

* TheWoobie:
** Poor Bruton. Also Eema.
** The film itself, according to some fans of dinosaurs. The animals of the film are not that bad despite the ExecutiveMeddling, and it's difficult to combine amazing plots with realistic wildlife behavior (especially when the heroes are herbivores).

** Url, an ''Ankylosaurus'' that travels at the back of the pack with the two elder dinosaurs. Is he this world's version of having a pet? Or does Url perhaps suffer from some kind of intellectual disability that causes him to have a hard time keeping up with the pack, and the only reason he hasn't been left behind completely is because Eema knows how to interact with him?

* OlderThanTheyThink: All the wandering herbivore dinosaurs desperately trying to find their way to a valley called the Nesting Grounds? A land untouched by disaster that has destroyed their food sources and free of predators? Sounds suspiciously word-for-word like [[{{WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime}} The Great Valley]].

!![[Disney/{{Dinosaur}} The film]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The whole soundtrack (one of three Music/JamesNewtonHoward did for Disney - he also scored ''Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'' and ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'') is wonderful, and almost qualifies as a BreakoutPopHit. Many soundtrack collectors love the track "The Egg Travels" without having any idea where it's from. See [[AwesomeMusic/{{Dinosaur}} here]] for the whole list.

* SoOkayItsAverage: A common sentiment regarding the film; not outright horrible like ''Disney/ChickenLittle'' or ''Disney/HomeOnTheRange'', but still quite bland of a film.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Many critics and viewers alike lamented how the memorable trailer and opening to the film promised something akin to a lifelike expansion of the epic dinosaur sequence from ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', the hope for which was dashed to pieces the moment a character first opened their mouth to speak. Worse still, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen the original plan]] ''was'' to have no dialogue, but the writers themselves decided to change it.

** Poor Bruton.

* ThatOneLevel: The first level of the [=PlayStation=] game is exceptionally hard since you haven't had any real opportunity to level up. Expect to die a ''lot'' thanks to those damn ''Oviraptors''. Once you get past the first and second level, thankfully, your EXP goes up and the game difficulty evens out.

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: One of the major criticisms of the film is that the overall story after Aladar comes across the herd turns into a plot that's way too similar to ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime''. The herd travelling to the "Nesting Grounds" is basically Littlefoot and company searching for the "Great Valley".