Up and Finding Nemo.

Up

Yes, because Finding Nemo and The Good Dinosaur are SO different.

The good Dinosaur is a forgettable, sappy ripoff of Finding Nemo with bad characters.

Do you honestly believe that Finding Nemo is original?

Do you honestly believe that Finding Nemo is original?

This was so close to being another Pixar masterpiece. It has so many great elements. It's like Finding Nemo and How To Train Your Dragon had a baby and hooked up with the child of Monsters and Brave. The broken condom from that encounter resulted in The Good Dinosaur. The score is powerful and moving, emulating the best of high fantasy by setting the tone for the world and the adventure about to take place in it. The mirrored man/beast bonding tale is fun to watch and a unique way to take on this familar storyline. The dinosaur animations take some getting used to, but the environment is just beatifully done. All of the establishing shots are breattaking. And the side characters met along the way are as memorable and hilarious as the best of Pixar. Just about everything works. Except Arlo.

Arlo is seriously the worst. His voice is whiny and annoying. His personality is whiny and annoying. I get that a hero's journey requires the hero to lack the strength he needs at the start. Without flaws, nobody can relate to a hero. However you have to have something redeemimg to make the audience believe that progress is possible. It reminded me a little of Mike at the beginning of Monsters U, but Mike was at least intelligent and could protect himself with clever quips. Arlo has nothing to latch on to. The only word to describe him is pathetic. His family is awesome and tries to help, but there's nothing they can do with so little screen time. Arlo eventually develops some admirable survival skills and emotional maturity, but he makes the first half of the movie an uncomfortable and irritating experience.

I was ready to give up on the movie before the triceratops-like dino came in and saved the movie. The different dinosaur sects that inhabit the world makes this movie special, despite its massive flaw. I was dying at all of his nicknames and the subsequent nicknaming battle for Spot's soul. The Good Dinosaur also plays with your expectations. The flying dinosaurs seem pretty cool at first, possibly being the ones to help Arlo overcome his fears, before their hunger reveals their true characters. The rexes go from potential predators to awesome cowboys. This kept a predictable story from getting stale and giving great characters screen time to distract from Arlo's awfulness. Arlo eventually becomes a little cool and delivers in the big emotional moment at the end.

So yeah it's a special movie that is worth seeing in theaters. It's just a shame that a tweak in the protaginist could have turned The Good Dinosaur into The Great Dinosaur.

I think the Cars movies are last chronologically after the humans have abandoned the earth

Actually, the one I read believes Cars takes place in the years that humans abandoned the Earth pre-Wall*E. Then humans return, fail at surviving, thus leading to Monsters Inc and Onward.

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Good Dinosaur
Brave
Incredibles
Incredibles 2
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
Nemo
Dory
Ratatouille
Toy Story 3
Toy Story 4
Up
Inside Out
Coco
Cars
Cars 2
Cars 3
Wall-E
A Bug’s Life
Monsters U
Monsters Inc
Onward (I’m guessing)

That is a stretch looks like a fan fiction in response to my original question.