Word: aladar
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...what about the squirming adults who have been there, done that since their own childhood? They may have trouble sitting still through the latest addition to the Disney canon. It is called Dinosaur and recounts the tale of an iguanodon named Aladar (voiced by D.B. Sweeney), who grows up, scaly but lovable, in the Cretaceous period, some 65 million years...
Whisked off to an Edenic island by improbable circumstances, his abandoned egg hatches in the midst of a lemur band--grumpy papa, adoring mom, frisky siblings. His idyllic upbringing is interrupted by a meteor shower--prefiguring the extinction of the species perhaps 150,000 years later--that brings Aladar and his pals back to a barren mainland and the lad's struggle to assert the values of a new masculine style in a sere landscape where the dino herd is ruled by the cranky and politically incorrect Kron (Samuel E. Wright...
...right. Kron's a fascist. And he pretty nearly gets everybody killed in the search for water and a green nesting place before Aladar prevails with his liberal-minded humanity. Wait a minute. Did we just say humanity? This creature is, in fact, pea-brained and prehistoric. And though he ends up entwining his endless neck around the "caring" Neera's (Julianna Margulies), his endeavors are quite a stretch for anthropomorphism. You may buy into chipper crickets and wise-guy meerkats, but the dinosaurs' reputation precedes them down the millenniums. Putting it mildly, it is not a warmhearted...