My Pet Dinosaur

The movie started out pretty decent for what it is. The first 30- 40 minutes made sense and told the story. Then after the protagonist and his girlfriend left the dinosaur in the tunnel everything got confusing. It's as if several major scenes were flat out cut (as if the viewer hit the skip button a couple times). I had a hard time from that point on. That same phenomenon occurred a couple more times before the movie ended. I wonder if this was originally a two or three part series that was shortened or something. I think there was some respectable potential here and some effort was put into it. But it was so badly edited in the final 3rd portion of the story that it became confusing.

The actors and the lines were simply weak and almost empty. The story itself was mostly there. The dinosaur and effects were the most Interesting part. My problem was the kids gets the dinosaur to "safety", leaves and then suddenly it's running through the street being chased by government. It's like the filmmakers as whole just skipped a chunk of the plot line altogether and then all characters are suddenly on a mission together. The story fell off the tracks. Overall it was making sense till that point and then got repetitive and random. I'd say skip this movie as you don't miss anything.

Sorry to the producers of this attempt at a charming boy and his heroic pet saga, but it really is awful. The animations were just odd, the direction so wooden I felt like building a camp fire. The story leaps about at points with characters turning up in places from scene to scene with no explanation of how they got there and the military's motivation for being there is only something you guess about long after it even matters. Certainly not for adults and my two grand kids were very bored.

Badly acted, kids performances made the adult actors seem even worse, couldn't be bothered waiting for the dinos to show up.

Not a lot to like about this film, was expecting something better.

Do yourselves a favour and watch, How To Train Your Dragon, the cartoon characters are more believable, likable and watchable.

This is an interesting attempt with better acting than some daytime television. The problem is not the acting, necessarily. It is the details that surround everything. The military shows up, and the fellow says he is a colonel. His rank shows him to be a SFC. There is no unit patch, no name tag. These are just uniforms picked up before being issued. Very basic. Soldiers don't wear covers, just wander around. Things just don't match up with the show. There are parts where you could excuse it, and say it's a kids movie, but the lack of effort is so obvious. They just seem to have gone down to the local Michael's store to buy equipment for the scenes. Just too many holes. I have seen worse (Trollz), but this is a low.

I apologize. This is an Australian film, which actually makes more sense. The bad attempt at American dialect, the subpar acting, the storyline that doesn't hold together. If you've watched Australian mermaid movies on Netflix, this is right in line.