An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
Visual Effects
CGI dinosaurs grafted onto real locations—groundbreaking, weirdly dated.
Practical Effects
That opening sequence still slaps harder than the rest combined.
Director
Ralph Zondag
D. B. Sweeney
Aladar (voice)
Alfre Woodard
Plio (voice)
Ossie Davis
Yar (voice)
Max Casella
Zini (voice)
Hayden Panettiere
Suri (voice)
Samuel E. Wright
Kron (voice)
Julianna Margulies
Neera (voice)
Peter Siragusa
Bruton (voice)
Joan Plowright
Baylene (voice)
Della Reese
Eema (voice)
Cathy Cavadini
Additional Voices (voice)
Matt Adler
Additional Voices (voice)
Zachary Bostrom
Additional Voices (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Disney's first fully computer-animated feature—no hand-drawn elements at all, which explains the slightly soulless energy.
The film's production spanned so long that the CGI looked dated on release; it started in 1988 as stop-motion before becoming a tech demo nobody asked for.
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