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...anger. Why is he so angry? It's a question that springs to mind when I look at an image of Bobby Knight in full fury. Apparently it's one that Indiana University's officials didn't bother to ask themselves before they allowed this dinosaur to remain as the school's basketball coach despite a well-documented history of abusing players, coaches, administrators and anyone else who just happened to be there. Oh, yeah, he's a successful coach. He deserves another chance, they say, based on his record and his promise to control his temper...
...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...
Perhaps sensing that, the studio seems to be stressing the cutting-edge technology that made Dinosaur possible--1,300 effects shots, 3.2 million processing hours, 70,000 lines of computer code, blah-blah-blah. But this admirable effort doesn't quite make it to fully persuasive naturalism--something dead in the eyes, something not quite right in the ruffle of the monkey...
...latest animated project from Disney combines the most recent technological advancements in character animation with real, albeit digitally enhanced, live-action backgrounds filmed in such bizarre sites as the Mojave Desert. The plot is typical and uncreative, yet sounds somewhat fantastic: a dinosaur gets separated from its family as an egg and is raised a by a group of lemur monkeys. The asteroid that supposedly wipes out the dinosaurs hits earth, and the dinosaur, who has been reunited with his kind, acts like a sort of Dino-Moses who saves the day with canny primate-know-how. Although there...
...classic Steve McQueen film, The Great Escape, features more cool animated effects from the England-based Aardman Animations, the Academy Award-winning team behind the popular "Wallace and Gromit" shorts; Chicken Run marks their first full-length claymation feature. With Disney releasing its summer kid fare Dinosaur a month earlier than the usual mid-June release date for its animated films, Chicken Run is expected to challenge Disney's hold on younger audiences...