Badly injured, one of the Carnotaurus escapes, enraged by the death of its mate but unable to follow the group. When the Carnotaurus pair attacks, Bruton proves his loyalty when he holds them off to ensure their escape and kills one of them as the others escape to the depths of the caves, dying in the process. The small group recuperates in a cave during a rainstorm, with Bruton eventually befriending them. Neera wants to help Aladar but Kron forces Neera to leave him. When Aladar tries to slow the herd, Kron pushes him away and warns Aladar that he will kill him if he interferes Kron's leadership again. Kron evacuates the herd from the lake bed in a rush, leaving Aladar, the lemurs, the elderly dinosaurs, and the injured Bruton behind. However, Bruton, having been sent by Kron to find water upon arrival at the lake, returns injured by the Carnotaurus which killed another Iguanodon that was scouting with him. Aladar and Neera eventually fall in love after Neera sees Aladar helping the dinosaurs (especially the elderly ones) survive. Aladar saves the herd from dehydration when he and Baylene eventually dig up the trapped water beneath the ground. The herd arrives at a lake they’ve relied on for past trips, but it has dried up. Meanwhile, the Velociraptor pack continues to follow them, but are scared off when a pair of Carnotaurus also pick up the herd's trail. Aladar also develops romantic feelings for Kron's sister Neera, but she appears uninterested.
Aladar and the lemurs befriend a trio of elderly dinosaurs: Baylene the Brachiosaurus, Eema the Styracosaurus, and Url, Eema's dog-like pet Ankylosaurus. When Aladar is an adult, the island is destroyed when an asteroid crashes on Earth, causing a meteor shower, with only Aladar, his grandfather Yar, his mother Plio, his best friend Zini and his sister Suri surviving the destruction of the island by swimming to the mainland.Īfter fleeing a pack of Velociraptor, the family meets a multi-species herd of dinosaurs (consisting of a bunch of Iguanodon, Styracosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus, Stygimoloch, Microceratus, Parasaurolophus, and Struthiomimus) led by the Iguanodon or Altirhinus Kron and his Iguanodon or Muttaburrasaurus lieutenant Bruton, who are on a journey to reach the "Nesting Grounds", a valley believed to be untouched by the devastation of the asteroid impact. The egg eventually ends up in a forest inhabited by lemurs, who see the egg hatch, name the baby dinosaur Aladar, and raise him as their own. The film opens with an Iguanodon mother forced to abandon her nest, with only one egg surviving a Carnotaurus attack. A number of backgrounds were found in Canaima National Park in Venezuela various tepuis and Angel Falls also appear in the film. While the main characters in Dinosaur are computer-animated, most of the film's backgrounds were filmed on location. The film received mixed to positive reviews at the time of its release, with critics praising the visuals, but criticizing the writing, plot and characterization. The film was a financial success, grossing over $349 million worldwide in total box office revenue, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 2000.
At officially $127.5 million, it was the most expensive theatrical movie release of the year. The film was released by Walt Disney Pictures on and is the 39th film and the first computer-animated film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, though it is not officially labeled as one of the animated classics in the United Kingdom. Dinosaur is a 2000 American computer-animated adventure drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation with Secret Lab.