New ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Trailer Looks Charming And Lovely And Full Of Typical Pixar Goodness
Its production may have been plagued bybehind-the-scenes problems, but you wouldn’t know it from the latestThe Good Dinosaurtrailer, which looks as confident and gorgeous as anythingPixarhas produced so far. Like so many of the beloved animation studio’s movies, this film seems to take a wild high concept and inject it with heart and pathos. You know, the typical “come for the dinosaurs, stay for the sobbing” approach.
Watch the newThe Good Dinosaurtrailer for yourself after the jump!
Taking place in a world where the asteroid that should have wiped out the dinosaurs barely missed its collision with Earth,The Good Dinosaurfollows a young apatosaurus named Arlo (newcomerRaymond Ochoa) who finds himself separated from his family. Now on his own, he finds himself paired with a young human child named Spot and the two form a close bond as they journey across a land full of hazards and predators. It’s a typical “boy and his dog” tale… except that the boy is a green dinosaur and the dog is a boy.
Like we saw in theprevious trailers,The Good Dinosaurlooks stunning. By placing these colorful and exaggerated character designs in environments that often look photo-realistic, Pixar has created a style that we haven’t seen in this kind of big-budget mainstream release. It’s a borderline experimental decision and it looks like it paid off.
This trailer also gives us our first extended look at the characters themselves. We’ll reserve judgment for Ochoa’s lead performance until we see the actual movie (he sounds perfectly fine here), but we’re actively excited to hear the rest of this cast in action. Hearing the world-weary tones ofJeffrey Wrightemerge from an apatosaurus is only topped bythe grizzled leader of a T-Rex clanspeaking withSam Elliot’s western drawl.
IfThe Good Dinosauris as good as its trailer, this could be one of the most important years in Pixar’s history. They’re coming fresh offInside Out, which is a genuinely great movie and a serious box office smash (it handily outgrossedMinions, which had a marketing budget that could’ve bought several small nations). If this one connects, it’ll be proof that the studio is capable of releasing two worthy films in a single year. Plus, it’ll be further proof that they’re unafraid to delay a movie until they get it right. After all, the company has ridden it’s “we fixedToy Story 2when it was nearly finished and totally broken” story long enough. They need a new tale of how they creatively overcame the odds!
The Good Dinosauris set to open on November 25. Bring your kids… and your tissues. You know how Pixar movies tend to, uh, blow dust into the theaters for some reason.
