We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

United States

1993

72 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 2.6/5 Stars.
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DIR Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells, Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag

EXEC Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Steven Spielberg

PROD Steve Hickner, Thad Weinlein

SCR John Patrick Shanley, Hudson Talbott

CAST John Goodman, Jay Leno, Charles Fleischer, Blaze Berdahl, Walter Cronkite, Rhea Perlman, René Le Vant, Felicity Kendal, Joey Shea, Julia Child, Kenneth Mars, Yeardley Smith, Martin Short

MUSIC James Horner

Synopsis

Captain New Eyes travels back in time and feeds dinosaurs his Brain Grain cereal, which makes them intelligent and non-violent. They agree to go to the Middle Future (our era) in order to grant the wishes of children in New York city. They are to meet Dr. Bleeb of the Museum of Natural History, but get sidetracked with their new children friends and run into the Captain’s evil brother, Professor Screw Eyes, who has other plans for the dinosaurs. —IMDb

Director

Simon Wells

Simon Wells (born 1961) is an English film director of animation and live-action films. He is the great grandson of author, H. G. Wells.

Born in Cambridge, he attended The Perse School and De Montfort University where he studied audio-visual design. Upon graduating he found a job at Richard Williams’s studio where he animated commercials and other projects. Wells later supervised the animation on Who Framed Roger Rabbit?.

Wells later became a member of Amblimation, a studio owned by Steven Spielberg, where he served as director on films such as An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story and Balto. Wells was set to direct a sequel to Casper but the project was cancelled.

After the closure of Amblimation Wells joined Dreamworks where he worked as storyboard artist on many animated projects, he also directed The Prince of Egypt which was nominated for an Annie Award.

In 2002 he directed his first live-action film, a film adaptation of… read more