re: The Good Dinosaur

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Enough adult humor and a good story without any singing.

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Pixar hasn't once made a musical.

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I usually dread going to these movies because the stories are garbage but I really enjoyed it.

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Yeah, Pixar makes complete garbage, which is why 10 out of their 16 films are above a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Good Dinosaur is not one of them. It looks fine for what it is, but no one is really saying it's brilliant. I will give it the benefit of the doubt that it had the misfortune of directly following Inside Out, which may be their most brilliant work yet and has a good shot of being nominated for Best Picture. But Pixar has followed up brilliant work after brilliant work in the past that would be hard to follow.

I think the problem is it is obviously a kid's movie. It looks like a good kid's movie, but a kid's movie nonetheless. Most the reviews I've read have confirmed this suspicion. Just Pixar has done such a damn good job dissecting the psyche throughout their years as a studio that there are very few of the films they make that don't directly try to appeal to the adult audience as much as the younger audience. Cars is really the only series they've made that I think is completely guilty of pandering to kids.