Dinosaur is a 2000 American computer-animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures on May 19, 2000, and is the 39th film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. At officially $130 million, it was the most expensive theatrical movie release of the year. While the main characters in Dinosaur are computer-animated, most of the film's backgrounds were filmed on location. A number of backgrounds were found in Canaima National Park in Venezuela; various tepuis and Angel Falls also appear in the film. The film opens with an Iguanodon mother forced... to abandon her nest, with only one egg surviving a carnivorous Carnotaurus attack. The egg is taken by an Oviraptor, who drops it into a river while fighting another Oviraptor, and finally is taken by a Pteranodon to an island inhabited by lemurs, who see the egg hatch, name the baby dinosaur Aladar, and raise him as their own.
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| Release date: | May 13, 2000 |
| Directed by: | Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 82 Minutes |
| Producer: | Pam Marsden |
| Editor: | H. Lee Peterson |
| Music by: | James Newton Howard |
| Cinematography: | David R. Hardberger, Steven Douglas Smith |
| Screenplay by: | Walon Green, Robert Nelson Jacobs, John Harrison |
| Estimated budget: | $127,500,000 |
| Genre: | Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Thriller |