new Pixar movie "The Good Dinosaur". These kids are going to grow up to be great "precious flowers" in college. Maybe the University of Missouri can hold a spot for them. My favorite review is the bottom one. Those Pixar shorts that they show before every Pixar movie are so confusing! And why is Pixar trying to brainwash our kids to be Hindus!

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-good-dinosaur/user-reviews

age 15+
Unbelievably SAD and gloomy. Terrible for small kids.
Children were crying and leaving the theater. My little one asked me to never see it again. The movie's message is beatiful but it's not for young kids at all.

age 7+
Too scary for preschoolers and sensitive kids!
My teenage son and I went to see this movie tonight. The preschooler and her mother sitting next to me left 30 minutes into this movie. The little girl was scared and couldn't stop crying. I heard other crying in the theater, as well, so, yeah, it's scary. It is also a great movie and one with a real boo-hoo crybaby ending (at least for me).

age 13+
terrible movie for kids
Ugh. This is a terrible movie for kids. I forgot that Disney cannot manage to tell an interesting story without killing off a loved one. The father doesn't even die for a good reason. He dies pushing his son to be brave by foolishly going out into the wilderness in a storm. The filmmakers then cruelly bring him back in a dream sequence only to have him dissipate. My 6-year-old said "Well at least someone didn't die, " and then "Nope, I was wrong." There's lots of violence throughout the movie with various injuries, animals getting attacked and eaten, and near-drownings. My 5-year-old announced "This whole movie is terrifying." She was right!

age 9+
Too mature for young kids
Very scary scenes, intense emotionally situations. Took my 4 1/2 yo on black Friday and it was a decision I regret. Way too mature and I offered her leaving twice as she shivered next to me, but she didn't want to go. I feel like I was duped by the cute trailer, and didn't expect it to be what it was. I also warned a friend about the father dying as she just lost her husband and has a young son.

age 9+
Hysterically sad
The good dinosaur was a sad movie and a funny one, but it didn't have enough funny parts to rival the sad parts, so it was more sad than funny. And the most sad part about it is that a character... Goes away in the movie at the beginning, but the movie has really great animation, so some of the things in it look like real footage! I would also recommend this movie for ages 8 or 9 and up.

age 12+
Are You Kidding Me?
We brought a group of children aging from almost 3 to 6 into this sorry excuse for a children's movie. Less than an hour later, we walked out. The short movie that was shown before The Good Dinosaur should have clued us in to the horrible experience we were about to have (the short was so bad I checked our tickets to make sure we were in the correct theater). Less than a half hour into the movie I had two children in my lap scared senseless. Two of our children in our group were crying. When the main character was hallucinating from the fermented fruit, we decided to collect our belongings and head for the exit. What was Disney thinking? I will no longer trust Disney and blindly take my children to their movie without closely checking the movie plot first. Is there a hotline to request a refund for these tickets?

age 9+
Nothing to recommend about this one
We took my 9 year old daughter and 7 year old son to see it. The movie is very sad, and my 9 year old daughter cried at 3 different points in the movie. The movie has a lot of violence and some cruelty. The main characters are continuously faced with threatening situations throughout the whole movie. It had very few funny parts, and it just wasn't that interesting. Usually when we leave movies, my children chatter happily about the movie for a while after we leave. This time, my son had no comment at all on the movie, and my daughter talked about how it made her sad. Wish I could re-wind the clock and not see this one.

age 10+
My Child Left the Theater Sobbing
I would NOT recommend this movie for younger children. Based on my child's reaction, I don't feel I can continue to trust Pixar / Disney. This movie is promoted with images of a cuddly dinosaur prancing among fireflies. Once lured in, viewers are ambushed with repeated scenes involving parental death and others depicting such "feel good" moments as a cute critter being violently devoured whole and, to top things off, the permanent separation of close friends. I was already sick of all the parental death in so-called children's movies, but this film takes that inappropriate, hackneyed trope to a whole new level. The movie is not bitter-sweet. Rather, it fixates on the tragic. It seems to almost revel in it. I didn't appreciate that. More importantly, neither did my 6-year-old (3 months shy of 7). You may want to think twice before taking younger kids to see this movie!

age 12+
Pixar Tries to Sneak in Hindu Short Film
I read reviews on this site before going to "The Good Dinosaur!" One big thing was left out of the reviews... It wasn't part of the movie, or was it? Right after the words "Feature Presentation" hit the screen, a short film appeared on the screen. I had to grab my 4 yr old for fear of what was going to appear on the screen. The segment tried to show an episode between a Hindu boy and his father as he worships his Hindu gods. Before it was over, it showed more than I care for my kids to see about this religion, as well, it started showing scary spirits, ghosts, monsters. I'm not even quite sure what all of it stood for, but if I had not been a guest of someone, I would have walked out! I saw at least one family walk out & there weren't that many families in the theater at that showing. To me, "The Good Dinosaur" had cute moments, great animation (very life-like, ) but it was not worth exposing my kids to something I was totally unaware was attached to the sub-par film. I have a feeling that I am not the only one that felt like I was being held captive b/c I was trying to figure out what we were watching. Were we in the wrong theater? What the heck did this stuff have to do w/ dinosaurs! The short film was somewhat like a kids' horror flick, as my friend phrased it. I will think very long & hard before going to the theater to watch another Pixar picture again! I feel like we were rooked!