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We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is a 1993 animated adventure comedy film directed by Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag, Phil Nibbelink, and Simon Wells from a screenplay by John Patrick Shanley.
With John Goodman, Blaze Berdahl, Rhea Perlman, Jay Leno. A time traveling scientist goes back to prehistoric times and feeds dinosaurs a magic cereal that increases their intelligence - next they land in modern New York City for a series of comic adventures.
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- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells, Dick Zondag
- 1993-11-24
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The film opens with a trio of young bluebirds harassing their youngest sibling, Buster (Blaze Berdahl). As Buster leaves his family, he meets an intelligent Tyrannosaurus Rex named Rex (John Goodman) playing golf. He explains to Buster that he was once a ravaging dinosaur, and proceeds to tell the story of how he came to become what he is today. 65...
John Goodman as Rex The Tyrannosaurus RexRené LeVant as Woog The TriceratopsFelicity Kendal as Elsa The PteranodonCharles Fleischer as Dweeb The ParasaurolophusTemplate:Expand sectionJohn Malkovichwas originally cast as Screweyes but left due to constant script rewrites (the film's Executive Meddling also caused him to leave Hollywood and only do international productions for a few years).
To promote the film's release, a giant helium balloon of Rex the T. Rex was included in the real-life 1993 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. Unfortunately, as the parade moved through Columbus Circle, high winds caught the Rex balloon and caused it to lift over the nearby sidewalk. The head of the Rex balloon struck a protruding street li...
The film received mixed to negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a 33% approval rating, based on 15 reviews (5 "fresh" and 10 "rotten"). Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 2 stars out of 4 and wrote, "It's shallow and kind of dumb, and the animation is routine, and the story isn't much, and the stakes are a lot higher these da...
March 16, 1994 (VHS)May 26, 2009 (DVD)The laserdisc release was presented in its original widescreen aspect ratio. When the film was released on DVD in some international countries, it was presented in the pan and scan format. However, the widescreen version of the film was once available at Hulu, but was removed. When the film was finally released for the first time ever on DVD in the...
This soundtrack included the songs "Roll Back the Rock (to the Dawn of Time)" and "Roll Back the Rock (to the Dawn of Time) (Finale Version) by James Horner, Little Richard and Thomas Dolby.
A novelizationof the film entitled "We're Back! Dinosaur's Story: The Novelization" was later released.
We're Back, A Dinosaur's Story Trailer 1993Director: John Howard DaviesStarring: Walter Cronkite, Jay Leno, John Goodman, Martin Short, Rhea Perlman, Offici...
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Nov 24, 2023 · The saga of We're Back! begins with a satiric calendar Talbott published in the mid-1980s called Your Pet Dinosaur, which provided instructions on how to care for a domesticated dinosaur (the calendar later became a book in its own right).
A Dinosaur's Story is a 1993 American animated science fiction adventure film, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblimation animation studio, distributed by Universal Pictures, and originally released to theaters on November 24, 1993 for the United States. The film stars the voices of...
Nov 24, 1993 · Now that the four dinosaurs can choose for themselves, Captain NewEyes offers them a chance to follow him to the future, where millions of human children are waiting to meet them. One boy in particular—Louie, a New York street kid-wants more than anything to have friends of his own.
