Dinosaur: See One in a Different Light

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Dinosaur is an animated movie back in the year 2000. It was the second highly budgeted animated movie of all time and in the year 2000 it came next to the Final Fantasy series. It was no wonder why the movie felt so real because of the exceptional computer generated images and effects. It was supposed to be for my niece and my nephew to watch during that time but I seemed to be enjoying myself while watching the movie and later on I realized that it was already one of my favorite animated movies among all the others that I've watched.

It was a story of a baby dinosaur, I forgot about what kind of dinosaur Aladar was, that's too bad! By the way his name was Aladar and he was a carnivorous dinosaur with no canines teeth so he was perfectly safe. He was left to the care of a group of lemurs when his mother ran away from a T-Rex which just came out of nowhere in their peaceful village. He was the only one left among his siblings and he wasn't able to meet his mother again after that incident. He went through a lot right before hatching from his eggshell. He was carried by another dinosaur which found him lying on the ground, fell into the river, was carried by a flying dinosaur, and was accidentally dropped into the forest. He was found by lemurs who decided to adopt him in their clan. Aladar grew up around the lemurs. He was the only dinosaur but he went along with them very well. E grew up to be a sweet and caring dino for the lemurs. He played with the kids and let them rode on his back. They had a wonderful life until the historic meteor shower happened which destroyed their place and killed almost everyone in the lemur clan.

Aladar and four other lemurs survived the shower and they traveled a lot and later found a herd of dinosaurs in which Aladar found his kind. They decided to follow the herd and Aladar proved his bravery and kindness to others by slowing down for the older and weaker dinosaurs at the back to protect them. They were heading to the “nesting grounds” in which according to the story was the only place untouched by the meteor shower. They went through a lot, others left dying on the trails because of too much heat and starvation. There were a few T-Rex who followed the herd and Aladar killed one of them to protect Neera, the beautiful dinosaur of his kind in the herd. At long last they were able to reach the nesting grounds and from then on a lot of new baby dinosaurs came to life including Aladar and Neera's baby. All ended well for all the dinosaurs who were able to make it to the nesting grounds.

The story may sound quite boring for a lot of people especially those who have prejudices with animated movies. It's fair enough, there are a lot of mediocre animated movies, even some of the latest ones but on the case of this movie, it's highly exceptional. This is not even close to mediocrity. Everything felt so real and the story was really good, yes especially for children but also have other valuable life lessons which even adults still have to learn like being strong in the midst of hopelessness and giving sincere care for friends and even for strangers. Maybe it was just me who liked this one so much but I am very proud to say that. It was a great honor for me to be given the chance to watch such a good movie. I may watch many other animated movies in the future but this one already has a special place in my heart.