Vastly underrated by critics who took Disney’s technical mastery for granted, Dinosaur is a visually astonishing computer-animated epic that also works as a beautiful parable. After a cataclysmic asteroid shower, an iguanodon sticks up for the stragglers in his wandering herd when the leader wants to leave them behind to die. Behind the visual flash, the movie urges humans to rise above our base instincts, including greed, selfishness and even survival. That Dinosaur does this through a tale involving inhuman – indeed, extinct – characters makes this one eye-popping kids flick with a surprising amount of pathos.
