Allow us to take you back in time, D Lovers. Way, way back to a time when the world barely resembled our own. The year is 2000. Pixar had stolen our hearts and minds with a handful of movies about toys and bugs, rendered in a beautifully realized CGI animation style. Meanwhile, our beloved Disney was faltering on the pedestal they had built on their string of 90's classics. Their solution: jump on that CGI animation bandwagon just as fast as possible. No time to think up a good story, or consider whether or not to hire half-decent voice actors, or do anything but hire a director who had told a dinosaur story or two before, and shoot about ten minutes of real-life footage of beautiful landscapes and an hour and twenty minutes of brown, bland desert footage, and fill it with talking dinosaurs (except the carnivorous ones) and a family of lemurs. The result is Dinosaur - a film that Vicky, Nolan and Jill can say "has a pretty good first three minutes," and "sometimes the action is ok." This week on We Want The D, we fail to be captivated by the not-so-wild ride of Dinsey's Dinosaur!
