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It might feel weird to have another Pixar film on deck so soon after Inside Out—and that’s totally natural, since the studio has never released two films in the same calendar year before. (It's not Marvel, after all.) But The Good Dinosaur went through some production delays and the now-familiar directorial shakeup behind the scenes (co-director Peter Sohn taking over for Bob Peterson), which pushed it back to Thanksgiving. So far, we've seen that it's a speculative take on what would've happened if that fateful asteroid simply passed Earth by and didn't cause an extinction event. This mostly dialogue-free full trailer gives a glimpse of the journey that Arlo the Apatosaurus and a wild young boy named Spot take across a sprawling landscape. Without much dialogue, this trailer makes the movie seem like the mostly-silent first act of Wall-E mixed with the colorful animal discovery of *Finding Nemo'*s central journey, and a couple dashes of the emotional bonding in Up. Given that the voice cast includes Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Steve Zahn, Sam Elliott, and Anna Paquin, it’s unlikely to be a mostly silent picture, but this trailer puts the visuals at the forefront, and they've steered clear of uncanny valley.
Pause at: 1:11 to see Arlo and Spot marvel at some fireflies. Stop at 1:04 and 1:43 to look at some of the other dinosaurs they’ll encounter along the way.
Song: Of Monsters and Men, "Crystals"
Essential Quote: N/A, really
