Jacob's Review: I am an enormous dinosaur fan and I share this fanatic behaviour with a close friend. When we heard news of a Walking with Dinosaurs movie, the child in me got excited. I was utterly obsessed with the television documentary and a film adaptation seemed like a good idea at the time. However, I didn't hear an abundance of positive descriptions about this movie. So when I entered the theatre I braced myself... We could not have made a greater mistake than paying $20 each to go see this movie. The animation was spectacular but that was the only truly great attribute. For years many directors have been attempting to tell a prehistoric story simply through visuals or narration and this film's trailers depicted it in that light. It turns out that as an after thought, voice overs were added and a prologue with some dweeb teen who hates dinosaurs. He is then confronted by a bird voiced by John Leguizamo who can communicate telepathically. The bird begins to tell a story about a herd of ancient behemoths and the journey of three lost Pachyrhinosaurs. The voice overs are atrocious and all they ever talk about is fart, vomit and poop. It is really distracting when something is supposed to be taken seriously but is juxtaposed with this immature attempt to be humorous. It was as if the producers thought that children's attention spans wont last long if there isn't lines like "get your butt out of my face". As a stroke of genius they put this in because that's all kids care about isn't it? Screw this film. This movie is annoying and weak. Don't feed this to children. 3/10

The movie begins with a family traveling by car and they are searching for traces of animals that have extinct from Earth million years ago. At some point the boy hears a crow speaking and from here the story begins. We see the life of a dinosaur from the moment he was a cub until the moment he is mature. While he was little he had many obstacles to outrun like avoid being eaten by others predators and not to be accidentally stepped by his own kind. He frequently receive help from his mother when he was in danger. Time passes and now he learned to defend himself even meet a soul mate, but the real exam is when he must take a decision in witch he must choose to abandon a relative in peril or jump and help him along with the flock with the risk of injure his fellows. I think the directors of this animated movie tried unsuccessfully to borrow some ideas from other films like Ice Age or Tangled. There are not connected but the happenings are similar such as love and migration. The 3D effects are excellent but the fact that the animals are not moving their mouth when speaking is just lame. I mean why put effort and create such nice effects if you can't bother to make them more real or compelling? For the audience this fact is irritating but at the same time gives to the movie a plus of reality because animals don't talk. But considering that we see an animation this situation should not be avoided.I don't believe it's a bad movie but on a scale of 1 to 10, it's almost a 5 but not quite. 4.5 is just fair. Conclusion: watch it, enjoy it and that's all.

Looking at some of the comments it seem as if grown-ups seriously think that this movie was made for them. Guys, that movie is for the kids, and it is brilliant as such: awesome live-like animations, great music and sound effects, and yes, a touchingly simple story about a dino who made it all by using his head - and not for brute force attacks only :-) I also liked the dubbing style - where dinosaurs do not open their mouths for talking, as all the talking part is really in the style of making the dinosaurs look more human-like without sacrificing the reality. All of my kids 8, 7 and 3 years old loved this movie and watched it several times already. If you want a documentary style film about dinosaurs, simply move on and stop whimpering about this one. Or switch off the sound! :-D Otherwise grab your kids and enjoy the show.

WOW... After reading the other reviews I realized how many adults are taking this movie too serious. This is a great (children's movie)not adult movie, about Dinosaurs. It's OK if you haven't heard of the Dino's because it's not about your intelligence or education of different species. It's about having fun with your children while watching a made up story. Honestly, this movie is good. My daughter loves it and that's all that matters. I have a feeling the one star reviews are coming from sad, pathetic, useless people trying to watch a movie about the T-Rex. Unbelievable. Soooooo, the movie is the typical movie about a weaker dinosaur that has to compete with his brother who is way bigger. He loves a girl Dino and is trying to win her heart through the movie. A little bit of a Finding Nemo beginning with a struggle for survival. To the one star critical voters... I'm definitely LaughinAtYou!!!