My Pet Dinosaur (2017) Reviews

• Almost amateur standards

  stuartp72017-06-04

  Sorry to the producers of this attempt at a charming boy and his heroic pet saga, but it really is awful. The animations were just odd, the direction so wooden I felt like building a camp fire. The story leaps about at points with characters turning up in places from scene to scene with no explanation of how they got there and the military's motivation for being there is only something you guess about long after it even matters. Certainly not for adults and my two grand kids were very bored.

• film should have died with the dinos

  sguilly2017-09-07

  Badly acted, kids performances made the adult actors seem even worse, couldn't be bothered waiting for the dinos to show up. Not a lot to like about this film, was expecting something better. Do yourselves a favour and watch, How To Train Your Dragon, the cartoon characters are more believable, likable and watchable.

• You know what it wants to be, but it doesn't manage it.

  dan-bealecocks2017-09-10

  I have low expectations for children's films because they're usually terrible. This film isn't very good, even by those low standards. You can see that it wants to be a family friendly action film, with a bit of heartwarming stuff between the kid and his dinosaur. It fails pretty hard at that. There's no humour or charm here. There's no chemistry between the actors, or between the actors and the cgi creatures. The set pieces are weak. Both my child and I got bored very quickly. It's a shame, because it could have been so much better. We deffo need films like this.

• This is a terrible move

  Johnsog1232017-09-09

  Perhaps the worst film I've seen for a long time and if I could I would provide a negative score for wasting my time. It's like a 7th grader wrote, directed, edited and produced this for a school assignment. The acting and writing is atrocious and the story line jumps around and there is little flow to scenes. The 'US ARMY' guys just turn up and it's the same guys with an assortment of military gear. Then when they start shooting it is comical, because the the firing a sound track from possibly every other army movie and no recoil and/or muzzle flash, and really this is just the an example... there are many, many more. If you want to watch a film/TV show with great acting from younger actors, watch 'Super 8' or 'Stranger Things'.

• Don't trust the hater reviews, this is a fun, well made film.

  mwocallaghan2017-09-15

  I almost didn't watch this because of the poor reviews. The people who wrote them are completely inaccurate and I don't understand how IMDb can allow troll posts like these to stay up on their site. This is a well made family film with good actors, a decent script, very good cinematography and it is what its supposed to be, a fun film about a kid with a pet dinosaur. Definitely worth a look.