Steve Reviews: We're Back, A Dinosaur Story!
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This week we take a look at the strange 90s movie that tried to capitalise on the dinosaur hype that was going strong at the time. And it tried to capitalise so hard that it ended up being a box office failure, was it deserved? Well let's take a look....
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Can we get a rewrite of this movie that just focuses solely on the brothers? A guy who harnesses the dreams of others and literally engineers ways to traverse time and space to make them come true vs. a guy who harnesses the deepest fears of people willing to be sealed into a circus tent with them would be legendary in good writers' hands.
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*writes that shit down for character ideas*
Yes, a fixed version of we're back: a dinosaur story where the characters are actual characters, the dinosaurs looks like actual dinosaurs and have different personalities and keeping professor screweyes's scrapped backstory and making him a actual villain needs to happens. 😍😍😍😍
Neil Gaiman comes to mind..
That would be a really cool idea for a story. Heck, maybe both that and the story with the dinosaurs (and pterosaur) could work as their own separate movies. The former could expand on the surreal fantasy elements like some of the stuff with Screweyes, while the latter could give the Mesozoic quartet more focus on their character and them further exploring Manhattan. And this is coming from someone that has a nostalgic soft spot for "We're Back!" as is.
Sounds a bit like Balan Wonderworld.
Fun fact: Kenneth Mars, who played Professor Screweyes in this film, also played Grandpa Longneck in the Land Before Time films.
He was also Inspector Kemp in Young Frankenstein!
Wasn’t Jack Palance professor screw eyes
Neat.
Very fun fact! Thank you!
Not to mention King Triton from The Little Mermaid!!
I've noticed that children being inexplicably capable of using heavy machinery was a very common trope in films made in the 90's for some reason...
Just like Dexter-
Heavy machinery is not that hard to use. I literally saw a kid using a steam shovel last week as part of a steam engines event and he was doing a pretty good job
@@scurvydog20 it was to make kids Feel smarter and better than their “dumb” parents. Like Home alone
Also happened in anime made around that time period. People just shoved kids into mechas/ giant robots and suddenly the 10yo knows how to operate the entire damn thing, and under pressure as well
Hey kids operating heavy machinery was pretty common in the 1890s to for a different reason.
Screweyes is the only reason I remember this movie. In fact, his death scene has sat perfectly in my mind since childhood, alongside far too many episodes of Are You Afraid Of The Dark and Courage The Cowardly Dog. To learn about his cut backstory after all this time is such a treat! (Also, someone once pointed out to me that he has a "coke nail"--ie. a nail which is grown longer specifically to divide up portions of cocaine...which is a freakin _weird_ detail for an animated kids film)
LMFAO...Screweye likes to get screwy-eyed...
Me too! That death scene was my only clear memory of him
There was actually a deleted scene about Screweyes that definitely would've helped with the point you brought up. In it, Screweyes explained that as a child he slept under a berry bush and when one of the berries fell on his face a crow came and tried to grab it only to get his eye instead. This not only gave him a fear of crows but drove him insane because he couldn't understand how something so terrible could happen for no good reason so he became obsessed with using fear to understand others and gain some control in his life. He also explains that while he is afraid of crows he keeps them around as a way to show he has mastered his fears, even though he still jumps and cowers when they move or get too close to him. Edit: I wrote this right before you went into the whole deleted Screweyes thing.
Maybe that scene is still in the movie in some viewing
He's like Batman
@@crackedemerald4930 what?
@@crackedemerald4930 if he became a super hero
He’s call himself “the crow”
@@TheBatIsRad6436 Batman did the same with bats. He used his fear to instill fear in others.
The villian's death scene haunted me for a while just because of how he was consumed by his birds. I feel like that's the reason why I felt this movie was unique
There was a deleted scene where Screweyes explains his whole backstory to the Dinos. And also ironically explains his death scene. It really should have made it in.
I'm so sorry, but have you seen Pixar's "A Bug's Life"? The villain also gets eaten by birds.
In the deleted scene we learn Screweyes had his eye pecked out by a crow as a child. The trauma made him insane, bitter and obsessed with the emotion of fear, hence him creating the Circus.
It's pretty damn dark, his own trauma comes to finish him off in the end.
I would love to see a Directors cut that adds that scene in.
@@jordandrinkwater1345 Yes I have, but this one haunted me more because it was an actual human getting eaten alive until their was praticulary nothing except his prosthetic eye and because most of the movie was tame, I didn't expect that
Consumed by his birds? Or... consumed by his fear? I know I know. The symbolism is extremely subtle.
Actually, it wasn't Steven Spielberg's fault his dinos are inaccurate. He's a friend of the author of the Jurassic Park book, Michael Crichton, and the reason why the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park are inaccurate is because, just like what it says in the book, every dinosaur InGen created for entertainment, not to please the scientist, even Jurassic World acknowledged that, because the book's main theme of Jurassic Park represents the consequences of man's attempt on controlling nature and corporate greed. However, the whole argument that Jurassic Park is 'supposed to be accurate' is highly subjective, while Jurassic Park is regarded as the most accurate dinosaur film in 1993, Spielberg didn't plan to make them scientifically accurate as he wanted to make a faithful adaptation of the book.
The book had the dinosaurs as experiments to see if the Brain Grain Cereal would work
They even highlighted the possibility of Dinosaur's return from Mosquitoes found in the Ember.
Amber is spelled with an A and dinosaurs can’t be brought back with amber
@@Uta_Chandra.H We tried extracting blood from amber, and nothing works. DNA can only be destroyed for 2 million years even in preserved amber.
@@prehistorichero2755 Aaw😔
"The way you look at me makes me want to lay an egg" Is a very good pickup line.
They’re gonna have a baby dragon 😄
I actually enjoyed this movie as a kid, but man do I wish they would've added that scene about Professor Screweye's past regarding the crows. That would have made much more sense when they all "killed" him at the end.
Yeah the show stated that these animals were the kind of that attack just because someone fears them. It's not the case. Crows are highly intelligent. It is dogs and snakes that can attack when someone fears them
That parade is the, "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade." It licenses many popular characters for use as floats and is held every year in New York. they even had had a balloon of Rex in 1993 with the song from the movie playing. But it blew into a tree and the head popped.
Yeah, the TV version had to cut away to demo flights of the float.
@Ethan Kellerman Why is that? It's happened many times in the parade. It didn't just happen to Rex. Look up Macy's parade 1997 windstorm. That parade was full of accidents.
@Ethan Kellerman Oh. Sorry I wasn't thinking of that. My goof.
I what to now how many floats died in the Macy’s parade
(traumatic flashbacks to Barney's brutal death in 1997)
21:38 The studio thought this was too dark?
Because seeing him getting eaten alive isn't as fucked up,right?
I watched this movie when i was a kid and being terrified of that scene,become thing only thing i ever remembered over the years.Also may i add that the abscense of any blood/gore(for obvious reason) in that scene even made it more unsettling. Is like if the Crows didn't eat him,but literally removed him from this plain of reality.
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He didnt die he was just Itachi and caught you in a genjutsu
That is creepy.
It was implied he died. The whole thing with the crow in the eye is too disgusting.
6:36 "But I don't want to cure cancer! I want to turn people into dinosaurs!" Was what my mind instantly jumped to 😂
Sauron 😂😂😂
*"There's a thousand kids that want warm clean food with no rats and no bugs and no rot, but I wanna make this one kid have a mustache so he can be bullied for having a mustache for the rest of his life! Hey, he said he wanted to be like daddy!"*
I remember really liking this as a kid.
Studio interference is the death of 90% of movies, I swear.
me 2
I remember liking it as a kid too, now I want to die.
@@JellyGeneral47 lol
I don't understand. I vaguely remember this movie. I loved it. I also knew dozens of dinosaurs names. How could I overlook the flaws. Maybe the timeline. Maybe no attention to detail but to dinosaurs names spelling
So many animated films with great potential were essentially strangled in the womb because the corporate weasels didn't do what they do best...sit back, shut up, and count their money!
As a New Yorker, I can tell you that Louie's reaction to talking dinosaurs falling on his raft is not at all surprising. We're more likely to act annoyed out of the inconvenience rather than shocked.
"WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?!?"
"Looked like sorta of a big turtlah in a trench coat... You're goin' to LaGuardia, right?"
Can confirm. once saw a guy fighting a racoon on my way to work, was not at all surprised
@@rosiered6712 I bet you've seen a lot of odd stuff, because anything can happen in the big city
@@robinnico7702 Then there’s me, who dated a Jorogumo.
"AYYYYE why you on my raft?!"
To this day no Disney villain's demise has come close to being as terrifying and bizarre as Professor Screw Eye's. Where did he go? Is he really dead? Will his brother seek him out in another time and try to bring him back to the light again? SO MANY QUESTIONS
Also I love that Julia Child voices the woman scientist.
That one line from Louie to Cecilia about her parents always stuck with me: "Why? Do they beat you?"
Also the deleted scene about Prof. Screweyes origin story.
About the whole herbivore eating meat thing: I’ve seen horses eat baby chicks and hot dogs.
And one bit my thigh once, but he was just being an asshole.
Well and also goes through a hell of a biological change
Which means anything could happen
Keep in mind Herbivores only eat meat on very rare occasions, and definitely not as much as Woog is eating.
Has nobody here heard of vegeterian/vegan sausages? Dweeb's a herbivore too, right?
@@SuperSongbird21 I'm pretty sure woog was eating normal sausages, and in a later scene he crashes into a vender selling normal hotdogs and he happily eats them
As for Dweeb, yes I am pretty sure he's an herbivore
Theory goes around that triceratopses were opportunistic omnivores
oh gosh, imagine this "master of my fear" scene would have kept in. No matter how bad the movie still would be, this scene alone would have made this guy a popular villain on the long run.
Actually, the part about Cecilia following Louie around is accurate. Someone with abandonment issues usually stick around someone even if they are toxic and bad for them, as long as they have someone to be around, they don't really care.
5:52 ironically, while filming Jurassic Park, scientists actually discovered a species of raptor that actually matched the size of the film's Velociraptors. It was originally going to be named after Spielberg, but was instead named Utahraptor. Fun fact for the day
just a fun fact from one dino nerd to another
I remember this movie as a kid, and yeah the plot is completely insane and non sensical and I didn't understand the human characters at all. However, it's still a guilty pleasure of mine. Also I gotta give this review a 0/10, you didn't talk about the best character: Stubbs the Clown. The scene where he quits and leaves behind all his gags is top tier.
I think he was an important character foil to Screweyes, so yeah, I don't understand why he was never brought up during this review. Definitely agree with you.
I think same! This clown is a very interesting character! An artist who leaves all his career to make smile a mad guy, that's insane and in a strange way... Cute. He is the only character that wants to be good and nice with Screweyes. And surprisingly, Screweyes accepted him on circus and let him try to make him laugh. This relationship needs more exploration in my oppinion.
Lol, I haven't seen this movie is probably 10 something years not gonna lie with when it feel so bizarre, and zany.
Have a video of the scene where he quits because why not,
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We’re back is not so bad, it’s just an animated cartoon
You just dug up a deep, deep childhood memory with this review. We used to own a hard-box VHS of this movie. It was a charming movie in a way, but weird. But Listening to John Goodman (playing Rex) actually sing was amazing!! But... the circus scenes, any part with Screweye, the parts where 'Brain Drain' was introduced, the dinosaurs turning feral, and where the human protagonists were fucking turned into chimps was a goddamn fever dream. I vividly recall retreating under my blankets when those scenes played.
And the intro is hilarious. I mean, the bird does ask legitimate questions. You're basically a descendant of the dinosaurs, and you see your ancient predecessor just casually playing golf. It's a movie with a whole deal of flops, but for a film from 1993, it is neat to see how at times the animation is polished and smooth.
Thanks for the content as always, dude. Much love from the Philippines. Cheers.
Your comment exactly describes my journey with this movie and the memories this video is dragging up lol. My family was always on the lower income side but my parents wanted us to have things nonetheless, so while our friends would have the entire Disney collection we had the not-entire Not Disney collection, featuring weird ass movies such as this, and Troll in Central Park, Thumbelina, etc. Seeing these clips makes it come whooshing back to me, like when he meets the girl on her balcony I vividly remember demanding that haircut from my mom and she actually did it for me! Turns out I didn't have cartoon-level hair volume. Okay I'm rambling, but, I'm with you, I get it, cheers from east coast USA
@@katevgrady It's good to know that this movie, though old, it does evoke nostalgia, even if some of it is... off putting and potential nightmare fuel. And now that you mentioned it... THUMBELINA!! Another lesser known non-Disney animated film! Steve needs to review that film. It does have its... off moments (like the frogs), but Thumbelina was heartwarming in a way. Cheers! :)
Im gonna be that guy but, it would work better if they replaced the tree with a raptor like Dino , because a t rex is not really that closely related to modern birds
My brother and I loved this movie growing up, but we were kind of opposite lol. My brother was scared of the circus part, but it was my favorite. I think the only kids movie that I can remember off the top of my head that scared me was the part in the Never Ending Story with the crazy lazer sphinx.
Cecilia's reason for instantly falling in love is just because she has no affection or attention shown to her. That'd be my guess anyway
That makes perfect sense to be honest.
Steve. It's not that Steven Spielberg didnt know his Dinosaurs.
He was going to use Deinonychus at First.
But Deinonychus didnt sound scary enough so he used Velociraptor (name only) instead but kept the Deinonychus size. In the movies (Jurassic World to be exact) Its explained that Velociraptor is as large as it is due to The gene gap filling. Thus They cant make pure completely realistic Dinosaurs.
Not only that, he's also a friend of the author of Jurassic Park novel, Michael Crichton, and he has to make them inaccurate because the film is an adaptation of the book about the consequences of playing God and corporate greed, which explains why the dinosaurs are inaccurate, but unlike the book, the movie didn't acknowledge the dinosaurs' genetic makeup until Jurassic World, but people didn't take it seriously, because when people think of Jurassic Park, they think of just dinosaurs, nothing more and nothing less.
@@prehistorichero2755 yeah thats true
Here's the thing, tho: an alarming amount of people still want to pretend that JP/JW's dinos are accurate for some reason. Look at how apeshit so many people went at the dinos from "Prehistoric Planet" crying about how they're "woke dinos" -_-
The first JW keeps saying that nothing in the park is natural, yet you still have the good guy nerd at the control room saying "What I loved about the original park is that they didn't need these hybrids, but just REAL dinosaurs!" and he keeps inaccurate dinosaur toys on his desk.
Hell, if Gray is this big dinosaur nerd kid, you'd think he'd be more disillusioned/critical about the park still doing inaccurate dinos because they sell better, but no, he never criticizes anything and if anything he tries to support the "Amber can preserve blood DNA for eons because chemistry!" BS to give those fans what they want: validation.
You can twist and turn his words to cope like "No no no, he was comically wrong because they're all hybrids!!", given how a lot of people negatively responded to Prehistoric Planet's dinos, it's clear JW1 just wanted to _pretend_ to be 'self-aware' while still doing the same shit and subtly giving validation to inaccurate dinos fanatics.
Hell, it's not even the first JW saying it, even "Jurassic Park III" had Grant literally spelling out something in the lines of "Us paleontologists are the real people doing science, what Hammond did was creating lab accident monsters", yet people STILL find Prehistoric Planet and similar media problematic for not making their dinos the leathery, mad eyed and malnutritioned looking beasts from JP.
I can get behind the 1993 original because it's a good film and the raptors and T-rex are effective and brilliantly suspenseful scary movie monsters, but the franchise has had a bad influence on people's perception of dinosaurs. I did not care about inaccuracy stuff until people unjustly talked shit about Prehistoric Planet for actually trying to be more accurate.
To its credit, the original JP was more researched and accurate compared to the old "King Kong" and other dino movies before 1993, so it's hypocritical how these people reject progress when it's about their stupid nostalgia, such petty bullshit.
Jurassic Parks dinosaurs are made to be accurate as possible
Actually even Deinonychus wasn't THAT big.
I remember loving this movie as a child and somehow the plot holes flying over my head at the time. However, in my own defense, I did also have a children's easy reader book of We're Back featuring art from the film and I immediately realized was a super watered-down version of the film that really took all of the joy and flair out of the story to the point where if you were reading the book without having seen the movie you'd be underwhelmed and confused.
dont feel bad, as a kid you dont to deep critical thinking that engages quality of plot and plot holes. Its easier to come back today and talk how bad it is as adults, but we all know we loved this movie as kids. Also il be damned if this guy wouldn't have liked this movie as a kid himself. easy to say he doesn't care he missed out on it. now that hes 30 or whatever. So my point. Don't regret the memory of this movie because in the end its better to have seen it back then. I remember it made me happy to watch it. Im not above grading kid movies either, but we have to consider the fact that this movies simplistic nature , even with its flaws , made it a fun movie for kids. Yes there are some kids movies that are worse in the fact that even as a kid , u can tell its bad. But you couldn't with this one back then. and that I would call a successful kids movie. since any more mental stimuli like"the tyrannosaurus doesn't have appropriate amount of fingers , would go over any kids head at that time and wouldn't even ruin immersion for them. Yes I would recomend this movie to ur CHILDREN ...because the stuff this guy complains about wouldn't even matter to them. obviously not recommended to watch as an adult.
Well, to be honest, Steve, this movie isn’t as bad as a movie called Theodore Rex. Now, if you wanna see movie full of confusing plot points and inaccuracies on dinosaurs, I’d recommend you view that movie.
Agree, Whoopi Goldberg, was the only reason I managed to see that movie.
Don’t punish him
@@irisravenhild9060 Y’know what’s funny though is that Whoopi did not want to be a part of that movie(I don’t blame her). Unfortunately, the producers threatened to file a lawsuit against her when she tried to back out. What’s even sadder is that after the film was released, Whoopi would mostly go straight to video or TV in later years. That’s a darn shame.
I think I watched that once, but I have no good memories about it lol
I love that movie and honestly still enjoy it... i always hear that people hate it but... ill be honest i dont know why.... and i genuinely want to know why? I mean i dont think its a masterpiece and is extremely flawed but i still find it a fun and weird viewing
People always say Screweyes' death scene is the scariest, but I always was more terrified of the scene when he introduced the "fright radio" and the fears of kids manifested as agonized ghosts, followed by him turning Louie and Cecilia into chimps. No one ever talks about that though. The whole scene has this really creepy vibe, but the eaten alive by crows definitely comes second, although as a kid I never understood it. I still don't understand why he just stood there with his arms all out, almost as if he was inviting the crows to devour him.
Same. The fright radio scene, the blood contract, and turning them into chimps always really creeped me out as a kid, even more than the freak show itself.
@@joshuariddensdale2126 Thanks for the reply man! I'm glad someone else agrees lol. I appreciate you taking the time to comment! Fr
Even though it failed in the box office. It sure made it's money off of me watching it almost every day of my childhood.
I always thought Screweyes being driven mad by the loss of an eye was a kind of weak excuse to go mad, even as a child. But that deleted scene adds so so much more context to it. It really should have been kept in.
Professor screw eyes death is genuinely my favourite death of any villain
It’s poetic he rejects to change his ways and so the fear represented by the crows consume him and the single sound of his screw eye hitting the floor is wonderful
I remember loving this movie as a kid. While I don’t like it as much now it still has a place in my heart and I’m still fond of it. Also “Roll back the rock” is a bop.
I can't believe you went through this entire thing without going into the clown character, who is stuck in a toxic employee/employer relationship with Screweyes. It's this weirdly adult arc about finding self worth by not trying to please unpleasable people and not being afraid to break free from an unwinnable scenario.
I WAS UPSET HE COMPLETELY LEFT OUT MARTIN SHORT'S CHARACTER. He was GREAT! D:
Stubbs was the best character though.
I feel like this film would have been something special if the writing and direction was handled better.
I mean, dinos in New York?
Traveling and avoiding dangers?
A psycho circus master who wants to use the dinos?
A lot of ideas that sounds interesting and could have stand out from the other films. But it fell victim to the 90s formula, where it tries to copy Disney's films at the time.
Plus, it's a surprisingly short film...
Clocking in at about 70 minutes(though I could be wrong). It's a film that just comes and goes. If it had a longer running time, it would have had more time to explore the characters and concepts; telling a more interesting story.
I would also keep the deleted scenes
This movie is fire. I rewatch this a lot and I LOVE it. Such a good film.
And the fact the the writer of Moonstruck and Doubt couldn't figure out how to salvage this screw-up of a film, especially with FOUR DIRECTORS, just shocks me.
The story is alright, it’s just lacking a few adjustments and a sequel..
Another example of sticking to the bottom line instead of art. I remember reading the book it was based off and I was quick to notice cuts. It's wasn't a novel, just something for us Scholastic children to quickly read and flip through. But hey, this is what Hollywood does, kills potential for story expansion in the glorious persuit of the Almighty Dollar and Clout😆
@@Nunnyahbizhen I didn't even know there was a book.
I completely forgot this movie existed, I don’t care how bad it is, I’ll always have a soft spot for it
Me too
I don't get why people say the movie is bad. It has a very decent plot and art style, the characters are complex and it has a good message.
Same here I just remembered it one day and searched it up and found this video
This film was my bread and butter as a kid, and even now, it’s just a feel good film for me despite all its flaws
Legit, I watched the movie when I was young and re-watched it yesterday and all I could think whilst watching it was "this is up on Deviantart somewhere and is making someone VERY happy right about now." Transformation, brain drain, anthromorphism etc.
Fun Fact: They’re was a Rex float for the Macy’s parade, but it got popped due to a lamp post and high winds. 4 years before the Barney float incident.
If I had a nickel for everytime Macy's Thanksgiving Parade had a dinosaur balloon that ended up popping, I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice, right?
Also, their cartoony flip to actual dinos was monumental for kids my age. Just because those references aren’t understood doesn’t mean they’re lost.
5:50 that is because the raptors were like based on a some theory that there’s a species called Velociraptor Antirrophus, which are technically Deinonychus. So yeah these raptors are technically Deinonychus. The reason why they’re named Velociraptors is because John Hammond (owner of JP) wants to make them sound marketable as attractions.
I was just about to comment the same thing. It always sucks that people write off the animals in the movie as wholly inaccurate when they're fairly good for the time the films were made.
@@priscyllathewitch298 exactly, and the fact that it was made in the 1990s and people didn't know as much about dinos as we do now
I'll say...this is what happens if people didn't research and jump into conclusions. You can be smart, but you got to be adventurous!
OP Thank you for saying that! What people are thinking of is usually Velociraptor Mongoliensis when they point out the JP raptors, even though JP used Velociraptor Antirrhopus
The Utahraptor is 20 feet long and 5 feet tall.
I LOVE Screweye’s death! Even as a kid it struck a cord with me!!! It was a big inspiration for my raven/crow designs.
That entire scene is just great!
I love his speech where he admits being afraid as the darkness begins to surround him except for that one beam of light. And then the crows circle in to eat him and you realize that the soundtrack is gone and all that's left is silence as he dies. Easily the best scene of the film from concept to finished product.
Yeah it's beautifully dark.
I LOVE John Goodman and as usual he’s amazing. He’s really heartwarming and genuine as Rex.
Interesting Fact: John Goodman had his wisdom teeth removed when recording his lines for Rex.
He was also great as Fred Flinstones in live action film
4:06 Ironically that little bird is a dinosaur too, though at that time, scientists hadn't yet made the connection between therapods and birds.
Like in most cases, read the book. It is way better. Focuses way more on the dinosaurs, with no kid charecters and allowing them to be the main characters throughout. The film has some aspects included from the stories plot and follows a vaguely similar storyline, but it cuts a lot of the charters from the book out and adds in a lot of new things that just had nothing to do with the original story.
@@SharkWitchMeruna ya, steve showed the cover in the video. Its a childrens book. 10 - 15 pages long (been a while since i looked at it) one of my favorites as a kid. There was even a sequal book too.
Does it still have Prof. Screweyes and his dark death?
If so then I'm sold!
@@pierrebegley2746 No, if i remember right, it does not. More about just getting to the museum and not scaring all the people. I could be wrong though, will have to dig it out when go to parents and look.
@@noahbates2221 No thanks then
I'm fairly certain that "padadaurus" was supposed to be a small child attempting to pronounced parasaurolophus (which, to be fair, is a more difficult dinosaur name)
I always wondered about that moment, I remember every time I would watch the movie that scene would confuse me especially because I thought that it was "Apatosaurus" and Dweeb is a parasaurolophus.
@MrTiesk Exactly, thank you for this comment. Steve going full cinemasins on this one.
That is what I thought, a kid trying to say parasaurolophus. It was my fave dinosaur and I couldn't say it well as a kid either XD
@@leonie7754 Takes me back to the scene in the lost world when they're trying to pronounce the name pachycephalosaurus, but he says "just find elvis!"
Or apatasaurus.
"i am the master of my fear!"
Screweye used this to try and overcome his fear of crows, but you can still see some instances in the movie where he's spooked by then. in the end his fear of crows consumes him just as the crows literally consumes him
Funny thing about the Trike and Para eating sausages. Herbivores irl are known to sometimes eat meat (hell we even have fossil evidence of relatives of Para eating crustaceans) and Ceratopsians have beaks and jaw structures that could actually be pretty good for consuming meat.
I loved We're Back when I was a kid! But I didn't remember hardly anything about it besides the parade song lol.
Roll back the clock to the dawn of time and sing this song with me
Same!
all i remembered was a kid saying
"What are you guys, anyway?"
and the pterodactyl responding, "Dinosaurs, actually."
and i have vague memories of the ship and the kids running away
I always took Louie being reluctant/gross-out by Ceclia's kiss was because he was still in his "eww girls have cuties" phase
but he later outgrew it and then took his speech to the heart of not being the tough guy or that showing affection doesn't make you weak
Makes perfect sense about their whole relationship. Still a goddamn adorable scene though.
"hey aren't you a dinosaur?".
my brain: yeah, aren't you too😅😂😂
Dude I loved this movie as a kid....nostalgia hitting hard
Does the movie make sense logically? No. Do I still love it? Yes. It's interesting seeing someone take a completely different view on the movie. I loved this movie as a kid, and the scary parts freaked me out. The idea could have worked had the writing been better. Either way, I still adore this movie
That's how it goes when nostalgia factors in, isn't it? I was recently watching someone (Schaffarillis) rank all the Disney Renaissance movies, and he put Pocahontas pretty low and I was ready to be mad, but then he started by saying he never saw the movie as a kid, and went on to describe it exactly as it is, from the perspective of an adult. And.. he was right. It actually isn't a truly great movie, when compared to the likes of Beauty, Lion King, and Mermaid. But because I saw it as a little girl, and felt the hell out of the entire vibe, I just can't let my fond memories go.
It used to be my favourite movie when i was realy young haha
Me too i had it on vhs when I was little and re watched it many times
@@katevgrady i rewatched this movie without my nostalgia goggles and I still like the movie.
I like the goofy fun hearted nature of some parts as well as the dark and terrifying parts as well.
In my eyes there is nothing particularly wrong with it as it is a family movie and it doesn’t need to have a clear story, it’s just trying to make its point.
@@secretagentkarve9431 I mean that's totally fair. I suppose there's the critical and philosophical distinction between enjoying some art and that art being "good," and I'd argue that just because something is marketed to kids doesn't excuse it from being held to the same standards as all other movies, at least critically. However, enjoying it, nostalgically or not, is always good and no critic on UA-cam can take that away from you.
God I remember watching this on VHS years ago. Still got the tape to this day!
I’m bouta watch this and get some terrifying nostalgia.
Yeah no- I’m in 10 minutes and I’m finally realizing how ridiculous and rather forced the movie is. It’s not at all like I remembered.
But then again, I had the brain-size of a peanut when I watched this, so all the colors and characters kept me distracted.
I actually like the Cartoony designs of the Dinosaurs, as it perfectly contracts with their primal looks.
To me this movie was equally captivating and horrifying experience as a kid. The circus part definitely hit the most, and deconstruction of Screweyes into a single screw by the ravens still sends a chill down my spine.
If I could suggest a film I’d highly suggest return of the dinosaurs. I grew up on it and feel like it’s right up your alley
Indeed! The film is actually the first 4 Eps of the anime “Kyouryuu Tankentai Born Free”
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@@magnusr.poulsen2437 wait seriously, I grew up thinking it was its own thing with the meshing of anime and stop motion/claymation dinosaurs. Great mesh of anime and monster films using toys.
@@airsoftfatty1234 it is indeed. Check up on the genre/theme of "Tokusatsu" then you will learn more about that style you're talking about.
Hehe
“It’s right up your alley”
10/10 Jp reference (if it was a reference)
Steve: says the movies are so dark that they don’t deserve a u rating
Also Steve: shows a bird getting hit by a truck
Fun Fact: Dweeb is actually voiced by Charles Fleischer the guy who voiced Roger Rabbit.
Underrated childhood nostalgia 😊
“Let’s fossilize them!”
You did it Steve, you threw a nostalgic wave over me.
That's quite the threat.
"Jawsome!" (Wait, wrong show).
@@Andres33AU Congrats, I have experienced 3 different violent nostalgia shockwaves in the span of five minutes thanks to this vid and your guys' comments
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You actually can’t really blame that on Spielberg as that’s how the raptors were portrayed in the novel. Also the feathers on Raptors were discovered AFTER Jurassic Park (as a novel) was written, and even then it was highly debated amongst the paleontological community for many years.
He never said anything about the feathers though, he's talking about the size
In the defense of the raptor size, I always just contribute it to a mistake in the lab. The Dino DNA they were working with was corrupted over time and in the book they use more than just frog DNA to fill in the “gaps”.
@@michaelgonzalez8552 Deinononychus was listed as a larger species of velociraptor at the time.
@@michaelgonzalez8552 look at the subtitles he puts in, he mentions them being featherless
The reason is simple: the 'Raptors' should be Deinonyches, but the name 'Raptor' sounds cooler. So in the book, they got the 'wrong' name...
Steve's voice is so calming and his videos legit help me relieve stress. He kind of sounds like a British Jim Halpert.
10.25 in the Italian dub it was more "family friendly" 'cause they dubbed it over with Rex saying "she's cute eh?" so that sounded a little less creepy. If he was just doing the facial expression that would have saved the moment.
I’ve seen the Italian dub, and it’s by far my favorite dub of the film.
What I love about the Italian dub is that sometimes they'd actually improve upon the original, whether be better acting or changing some awkward lines. The SW Prequel Trilogy is a good example of this, performances aside they made some awkward lines a little less silly sounding (don't worry tho, it's only minor things, the more iconic meme moments are still funny in Italian. Hell, italian Nute Gunray has more of a Russian accent and I find him more hysterical than the original) and likewise Jar Jar is less annoying and him commenting Padmé as "Pretty hot!" is similarly changed into him saying "Maxi cute!" which is more innocuous in comparison.
As a child I ADORED this movie. Like I felt something everytime I watched it. You also didn't cover the clown - I loved him a ton. But yeah, I can see why, as an adult, it wouldn't be the best film.
The clown was the best human character in the movie imo. Such an earnest and likable guy despite having a tiny amount of screen time.
@@conspiracypanda1200 I was really surprised he was not covered. Him storming out was the best part of the whole movie.
The velociraptors from Jurassic Park are actually Deinonychus, while oversized and featherless for these days, he was actually accurate for the time-being that the film was made.
Αnd with broken wrists
Apparently the Novel writer Michael Crichton was aware and switched names because Velocerapter was easier to pronounce (and liked the name better)
They also took a bit of inspiration from Utahraptor (at least the digsite scene did)
@@zainmudassir2964 No, aparently it was the movie producer who did it, Crichton was right when he did it, Velociraptor antirrhopus was the name at the time, not Deinonychus Antirrhopus.
Utahraptor was discovered way after principal photography was completed. It didn't technically exist to us until after Jurassic Park.
5:26 oddly enough they did the reverse thing when they portrayed Allosaurus in the sixth LBT film. Portraying it with only two fingers like a T-Rex instead of three.
And again in another LBT film where they portrayed Spinosaurus of all theropods with only two fingers.
Don’t forget about season 1 of Power Rangers! That also fed into my own early 90s Dino-mania. Jurassic Park, PR, and this movie all seemed to be one endless conglomeration of dinosaur hysteria, it was inescapable!
When I saw this as a kid, I thought the same thing about Rex's three fingers, and the dietary changes made to the herbivorous party members. I put it down to the Brain Grain supposedly evolving them into sentience, not just upping the brain power and adding vocal cords, in addition to the other changes to their faces and bodies.
Sentient, civilized creatures would have a wider range of facial expressions and more forward-facing eyes and whatnot. And being friendlier, they'd likely evolve less fearsome features.
Of course, I didn't notice that the original Rex pre-Brain Grain had three fingers as well, and I forgot about the theory by the time they were devolved in the circus, but hey I was a kid. I'm surprised in hindsight that I had that kind of theory in the first place.
Actually their was a time when T-rex was depicted with 3 fingers but as you said it came after Jurassic park and land before time movies that came out after they relised they had 2 fingers so for rex to have 3 is teconaly not false at one time but the sciance caught up to the movie and 2 movies already used that idea so why not change it to 2 idk, but 1 thing that is wieard was the trike being carnivorous a idea that wasent thought of but recent theorys think like today's animals if given the chance it coulda snacked on a creture as deer sometimes eat squirls out of context and cows eat snakes so a trike to be carnivorous at times was a veary early theory that's speculative today.
Maybe he is a rare type of dinousar 🥝
That was hilarious, with him apologizing for the American accent. I've seen so many American UA-camrs have to apologize for things like that with other languages or accents but never been on the receiving end of it, before. 😂
I'll never understand why Cynthia's parents framed that photo of her sitting alone at family night and hung it up...
Loved this movie as a kid.
My brother and I used to watch this movie all the time as kids. The circus scene was so scary but I adored it.
Also I kinda always thought that there was an anti-drug message with the brain-drain pills and all.
I'm gonna be "that guy" Steve, but some modern paleontologists believe Triceratops was probably omnivorous, eating anything it could get its mouth on, as I believe this is based on bones found in several stomachs. I could be COMPLETELY wrong but I remember seeing a few of these studies around. Also I remember seeing this in theaters and never having any interest in seeing it again.
It makes sense for anything that could conceivably catch a living creature to eat them. Especially for something as big as a triceratops that could easily chomp down on a bush and inevitably eat whatever was living in it, or dip its head in water and catch a fish.
I mean most "herbivores" will eat some meat if they get the chance, to support their diet and get some additional minerals and proteins. I have seen it for cows, tortoises etc. Just watch this video of horse inhaling a chick (ua-cam.com/users/shortsYSO7kXGG0ks?feature=share) or this one with a goat (ua-cam.com/users/shortsK71ukr9r30E?feature=share).
Like with Sus
@@yanikt.8918 i dindt expect the tyrannosaurus meal to take the diet if a tyrannosaurus
Wasn't there also fossil evidence of sauropods eating shellfish?
Suggestion for review: "You Are Umasou" is an anime movie about dinosaurs you may find interesting. It's really weird and more than a little jarring in how it's at the same time silly-cute-for kids and also struggling with dark, heavy themes (if the dinos are all sentient and intelligent, isn't being a carnivore pretty horrible? what is a moral carnivore supposed to do, if he must engage in constant murder in order to live?) and has moments of serious brutality, immediately followed by silly slapstick.
YES!! this would be PERFECT for him to review, its such a good movie too
Y E S
THAT MOVIE IS SO UNDERRATED
so good and so true
Oh, thats is such a great movie. Sadly it isn't talked about as much as it should because of it being anime an not many people like reading subs, also, it was originally a book and it ha a sequel
@@dial_Magni yeah!
Unfortunately the sequel isn't as great as the first
I haven't seen the sequel yet but I heard that the sequel only show the duo from the first movie in one scene and that's it
I'm so glad you brought up the book! That's why I watched this movie and I was pretty confused because of the added plotlines about the Brothers. The book is so beautiful. And they actually LOOK like accurate dinosaurs/prehistoric creatures.
I don’t know why, but this movie absolutely terrified me as a kid. It just seemed so dark, grainy and disturbing!!
Seeing this as an adult….
Yeah, it hasn’t changed! Lmao
To quote nostalgia critic “THIS IS THE LAND BEFORE TIME ON CRYSTAL METH”
Since we are on a dinosaur subject. I’d recommend “Dinosaur” (2000) from Disney. I think it’s relatively accurate when it come to dinosaur designs and it made an underrated carnivore, the Carnotaurus ABSOLUTELY horrifying
I love that movie
Yeah, but I only think that movie was good for the first 10 minutes, then once the lemurs and dinos talk, it falls from there.
Yeah you should review Disney dinosaur (2000)
Agreed!
Made Iguanadon my favorite herbivore aswell
Probably been stated here before, but the velociraptor from the Lost World novelization was indeed a species of velociraptor this size before they were given more defined paleontological categories after the publication. It’s still a “species” within the velociraptor family, thus making JP remain accurate in still calling them that, but not the tiny one we associate the name with. Besides, if they were to be called anything other than velociraptor it would take away from the antagonistic species associated with the novelization.
Regardless of how wacky and goofy the story of this movie is, I rewatched it recently and felt nothing but a deep joy the whole time. Sure, most of it makes little to no sense, but it's just a strange, weird, wonderfully endearing little movie.
"the story opens with a bunch of birds" WELL BIRDS ARE TECHNICALLY DINOSAURS SO BADA BING
no joke, the best scene is probably the death of the villain, it's a pretty dark death, he dies to his own fear eaten alive in less than half a minute, it's one of the bit few scenes with a bit of less unnecessary goofyness
And an important fact: No music.
One of my favourite films as a kid. Looking back I can tell I was easily entertained.
Also neat to learn Cecelia was played by Yeardley Smith, who is maybe best known as the voice of Lisa Simpson
She was perfect for Cecilia, and it sounded absolutely adorable!
I remember this film ande really enjoyed it back when I was 10 at the time.
I also thought it was dark in some moments, but that made the film all the more better because it would have been so boring if it was all about dancing Dinosaurs in New York.
The plot of the story gets really twisted if you think how that crazy Circus Guy (Professor Screw-eyes) only wanted to have things to scare people only to have it all backfire on himself.
And the villain's death was like WTF???
But then the movie wanted to be suitable for everyone, so sadly no T-Rex eating someone from a toilet seat then.
So many flaws in this kid friendly movie, as well as WTF moments like the Pterosaur saying to the T-Rex that she could lay an Egg.
If this film was made for a slightly older audience, who knows how much could have been fleshed out.
I love he use the “and there is nothing unstable for children” quote haha thanks man!
It's a great running gag.
Given its 35th anniversary was this year, and the fact that it's absolutely brutal, I'd love if Steve reviewed the original Transformers movie
Ba weep granna weep niny bong?
@@gamertime1603 Ba weep granna weep niny bong!
Good suggestion Optimus Prime's death is something he should discuss about.
Transformer in the 80s: gets discontinued
Hasbro when making the movie: hip pity hoppity your soul is now my property
18:12 That part was really funny and I laughed
I loved this movie when I was younger, And I still live it to this day. I don’t care if it didn’t do well in Box Office, or Looked a little goofy…and inaccurate…and kinda scary and weird…But I still love it
Oh how I wish they could have released an editor's cut with the cut content restored. The fact that it was going to be so much darker and had to be "toned down" is infuriating, that always ruins a fun tale.
*Clarification:* I vaguely recall the baby bird mentioning that he wants to run away too. Rex was probably telling his story so that he can make the bird realize how dangerous being lost and alone is. There's also the theme of getting into trouble by making hasty decisions and trying to correct them before it is too late. This is what Louie did through talking to Rex and stopping him from hurting anyone.
From what I can remember, Louie's tough guy speech was just a minor arc. The major arc was about him moving past his selfish desire to run away. He learns this through the dinosaurs, who tried their best to reach the museum so that they can make kids happy, and who sacrificed themselves when could have left him to suffer the consequences of his actions.
On another note, my brother acted exactly like Louie when he was young. What the hell kind of dramatic character development do you expect from a kid? That he suddenly turns into Einstein? 😅
Honestly, This Movie Had A Good Lesson: Saving Others,Sacrifice(Since The Dinosaurs Went With Prof. Screweyes And Became Their Carnivore State Later On Turned Good)
And Working Together
I grew up with this movie. The Freak Show Circus would always creep me out. Especially the scene with the blood contract. And while the film does feature the legendary Walter Cronkite and Ken Mars, I only found out as an adult that Jay Leno voices Neweyes' assistant.
Here’s a dinosaur movie you’d probably be. . .interested to watch.
“Dinosaur.” I don’t remember much, but I know it had some somewhat brutal moments in it.
You’ll know it when ya see it when ya see some smiling dinosaur with monkeys on his neck while there’s a meteor storm in the back.
That’s from Disney. And the events happened during the Extinction Event, as the survivors try to find The Breeding Land (a.k.a. The Lost World)
That's a pretty straigthforward title.
@@veronicapiccinini7956 Yeah. I remember the story of it now that you’ve reminded me, thank you.
@@timrosswood4259 Yes. Yes it is.
But that is the title of it. I think it’s a /little/ bit better than We’re Back.
@@Sackle19 We're back sounds more like a sequel. What were they thinking?
Honestly, when thinking about it, wouldn't the Brain-Grain Cereal *just* make the Dinosaurs smarter? Like, Rex would still view Dweeb as food, but could fully comprehend that fact in full? (And going back to what you said earlier in the video, about how there could've been some potential character-dynamics-- Pteranodon-lady looking down upon ground-dwellers, Dweeb being increasingly paranoid and now more aware than ever before about potential threats, & a rivalry between Rex and the Triceratops, where they can now engage in a battle of wits *AND* strength)
I think he says it makes them smarter and more civilized and overrides their killer instincts in the movie. Since that's an obvious plot hole otherwise. Rex even mentions (or implies) in that song that he's disgusted at the thought of eating humans. Since it would be his instinct regardless of intelligence
going back to the "Brain-Drain" pills, i just always thought that they wore off by the time the hugs came around or the dinosaurs ate so much brain gain cereal that you needed a bigger dosage to have a longer effect
I was born in 85, and I was MASSIVE dinosaur fan (of 600 students in grade school, literally everyone knew my art - even my initials spelled Jurassic Park, in a sense - JRP) up until middle school, where as an artist since I was small, I wanted more freedom of design, and moved on to dragons and other fantasy creatures. But I had the original We're Back book, and much to my dismay, lost it when I was about 8 years old. Years later, this animation released, and I lost my mind, unable to recall if the book truly existed, or was a childhood feverdream.
I'll say though, despite all the flaws of the movie, I still STRONGLY disagree with Steve's "no", and DO recommend giving it a watch. Great art, great music, and honestly, I was always completely okay with the dinosaurs having both serious and cartoony versions. They felt more emphatic that way, and I say this as someone who drew hundreds of weird comics for years in school, of scary yet goofy creatures. As an adult, my art has become more so writing, but when I draw, its often darker, though still has a very bright and soulful feeling to it. (Which I'm grateful to some professionals telling me. Some of which professionally draw dinosaurs. lol)
The book is so nostalgic for me. Probably best that I didn't see the movie as a kid because of how much I loved the book and dinosaurs as a whole.
You know what? I don't give a flying crap about the inaccuracies, I loved this movie as a kid and I still do now. The animation is absolutely wonderful and the tone is endearing and I loved how dark the film got when Screweyes steps in. He was honestly one of my favorite villains. Him being underdeveloped was definitely the fault of the filmmakers though. His entire backstory became a deleted scene.
That's why I'm glad I never took a closer look at dinosaur facts. I always hear people bitching about this with dinosaur movies but it's a minor detail imo. Especially for cartoons. It's like complaining about Ice Age not having an accurate sloth to be Sid.
@@autobotrock4789 >not having an accurate sloth be Sid
I jejjed
Which is why this review kinda annoys me. He's looking for logic in a kids movie. While some of them CAN be horribly pandering, they also require a more innocent suspension of disbelief.
I love this movie! I owned a VHS copy of it when I was little.
Same
I don't know why but I loved this movie
I remember watch it as a kid and I don't why
I grew up watching this movie, and we had a VHS tape of it, and I think we still do, this was one of my favorite movies as a kid
10:20 Well that escalated quickly
This was one of my absolute favorite films as a kid. Still stands lol
Edit: and I always saw Rex as the main character lol
Honestly this is just a “feel-good” movie in my opinion. I don’t think it’s phenomenal, but whenever I watch it; it just puts me in a good mood.
So Professor Screweyes lost his eye by a crow, I wish that had been in the film because for years I wondered how he lost his eye.