Dinosaur (2000)
Our final dinosaur movie of the weekend is the movie appropriately titled Dinosaur. The Movie: Dinosaur is the 39th movie in the Disney Animated Canon, though notably it is left of the list in Europe in favor of The Wild, a film not made by, though produced and distributed by, Disney. (The Wild is the first and only film from C.O.R.E., a now defunct CGI special effects company.) Dinosaur had originally been in development before The Little Mermaid, but the success of that movie placed Dinosaur on the back burner. The film was originally intended to use stop motion, but after Disney had some success with 3-D CGI animation during the development of Fantasia 2000, they decided to go that route. The movie ended up combining CGI characters and effects with filmed backgrounds of actually scenery, mostly shot in South America. Dinosaur was the most expensive movie of the year 2000 and also the fifth most profitable. It received generally favorable if ...