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We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)

  • 33% of critics liked it
    (15 reviews)

  • 53% of users liked it
    (16,865 ratings)

In this animated children's film from Amblin Entertainment, a group of four dinosaurs, including a tyrannosaurus rex, a triceratops, a hadrosaur, and a pterodactyl, are brought forward in time to New York City to entertain and befriend the children. However, when the dinosaurs are threatened by… More

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Directed By
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Genres
Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1993 Wide
On DVD
Mar 23, 1994
MCA Universal Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Daniel M. Kimmel, Variety

    In spite of narrative problems... the film's chief appeal is its central conceit -- that giant monsters... can be transformed into [ceatures] who like to play with children.

  • Janet Maslin, New York Times

    Parents seeking innocent kiddie entertainment should know that the dinosaurs are drugged, the children are briefly transformed into monkeys and the Professor is eventually devoured by crows.

  • Jane Horwitz, Washington Post

    [A] highly entertaining, relatively gentle animated feature ...

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    It's shallow and kind of dumb, and the animation is routine, and the story isn't much, and the stakes are a lot higher these days in the featurelength animation game.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    We're Back is an exercise in endurance -- not only is it dull, but it has such an overwhelming sense of sweetness that it threatens to become nauseating.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • AJ V


    Another fun animated Dinosaur movie for kids that I liked when I was young. It's really good, it's based on a kids book if I remember correctly. And it's just a fun movie.

  • Conner R


    I've always loved how bizarre this movie is. It looks extremely different from anything you usually see, mainly due to the fact that it's about Dinosaurs with thinking minds and living in New York. It's got a nice demented plot about a circus freak trying to turn kids… More

  • Matthew Y


    We're Back was released five years after The Land Before Time and comparisons were naturally going to occur. It doesn't hold a candle to the Bluth classic and is a dull and childish feature film which got buried in the 90's against the timeless classics Disney hammered… More

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