'The Good Dinosaur' trailer: Are dinosaurs back in pop culture?
A trailer has been released for the upcoming Pixar movie 'The Good Dinosaur.' We don't know yet if the stories and characters of 'Jurassic World' and the Pixar movie will be interesting to audiences, but Steven Spielberg and Pixar are hard to resist.
'The Good Dinosaur' is being released by Pixar.
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A new trailer has been released for the upcoming Pixar film 鈥淭he Good Dinosaur.鈥�
The animation studio is set to release a new film, 鈥淚nside Out,鈥� later this month, so 鈥淒inosaur鈥� isn鈥檛 due until this November. But we already know a little bit about the plot of "Dinosaur" 鈥� the film's director, Pete Sohn, told that the film centers on a dinosaur named Arlo who gets lost and has to find his family again. While searching for them, he befriends a human that he calls Spot.聽
In addition, the film takes place in a world where that asteroid that may have wiped out the dinosaurs didn鈥檛 even land on Earth. 鈥淚t鈥檚 been fun to let go of what has happened,鈥� Sohn said.
鈥淒inosaur鈥� will be joining 鈥淛urassic World,鈥� which is coming out on June 12, as two dinosaur-centric movies at the multiplex this year. Will the two be able to bring quality movies about dinosaurs back to theaters? It鈥檚 been 14 years since a 鈥淛urassic Park鈥� movie came to theaters and the second and third in the series weren鈥檛 well-received by critics (鈥淭he Lost World: Jurassic Park鈥� holds a score of out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic and the score of 鈥淛urassic Park III鈥� is even lower at ).听
Meanwhile, Disney released an animated movie, simply titled 鈥淒inosaur,鈥� in 2000, but the film isn鈥檛 well-remembered and didn鈥檛 do well with critics. (It has a Metacritic score of .) Dinosaurs have played supporting parts in movies in recent years, like in Peter Jackson鈥檚 2005 remake of 鈥淜ing Kong,鈥� but for the most part, they haven鈥檛 been in the spotlight.聽
There are few bigger names in Hollywood than Steven Spielberg (who is executive-producing 鈥淛urassic World鈥�) and Pixar. If they win over audiences with quality storylines and characters, they just may bring about a dinosaur renaissance.