10 Children’s Movies Not To Miss This Year

The Good Dinosaur (November 25th, 2015)

The second of this year’s Pixar offerings ran into some trouble during the production process, resulting in original co-director Bob Peterson being removed from the film, and leaving Peter Sohn at the helm. Bob Peterson remains credited as a co-writer, however, along with Enrico Casarosa, for this 3D computer animation. The premise springs from the idea that there never was a cataclysmic asteroid strike of the Earth, and therefore, dinosaurs were never rendered extinct. The comedic story centres on a large Apatosaurus who deals with a traumatic large-scale personal event, and must resolve to restore peace with the help of a young human boy.

The film was originally due to be released in 2014, during a spate of other dinosaur-based animations. Now arriving at the end of 2015, however, The Good Dinosaur will not even need to compete with the fearsome creatures of Jurassic World, and can instead enjoy a relatively open field upon which to entertain younger audiences. John Lithgow, Frances McDormand, Neil Patrick Harris, Judy Greer and Bill Hader provide the vocal talent for this project.