A Review of 'Dinosaur' with Fred Savage
"It's done, I can't wait to tell them everything" Phillip says when he closes the notebook. They had to have this to tie this part of the movie into the next part.
You see Dinosaur is a ten minute long claymation feature that was shown in the Milwaukee museum. The point of this tape is to showcase the claymation part. All Fred Savage related sections where thrown in to pad out the length. Now not only is Fred Savage not in it, but Phillip no longer even sounds like Fred Savage. I am disappointed.
The idea of the claymation section is that Phillip is giving a speech about dinosaurs to his class. Only the board is shown, but all kinds of freaky things are shown based off of what Phillip is talking, or the classes perception of dinosaurs. At the beginning the class apparently associates dinosaurs with scary clowns because that is what is shown.
I like this part of the video because of the comments said by Phillip's classmates. For example when Phillip tells us that dinosaurs weighed up to a 100 tons some kid who sounds like a hippy goes "Hey man that's heavy." Then he takes a hit on a bong, and starts listening to an Iron Butterfly record using very large headphones.
There is also banter between some kid named Richard and a girl named Margaret. Richard will often make comments about Margate's mother who according to him is fat, and resembles dinosaurs. In the instance above he even drew glasses on an elephant to make it look like Margaret's mother. It isn't easy to show how funny this is, but having Phillip say "Some dinosaurs were huge" and then hearing Richard go "Like Margate's mother" is fucking awesome.
You see there is one direct descendant of dinosaurs. The students make guesses such as crocodiles, elephants, and Margate's mother, which are all wrong. The correct answer is birds. Yes birds are a direct descendant from dinosaurs. In Jurassic Park there is some discussion on the dinosaur/bird relations, and they don't seem very sure about it, but I guess people just knew more about dinosaurs in 1981 then they did in 1993.
Ahh, isn't the baby dinosaur cute?
Phillip asks if anybody knows what dinosaurs ate. Richard replies "Anything they want" right before the dinosaur on screen eats a tree and then EATS THE SUN. Hippy joins in by talking about a movie where dinosaurs eat people, only he goes into deep detail about people's legs dangling, and is talking about a hundred words per minute. "That's so neat" some girl says while giving a heavy pleasurable sigh. I guess she gets turned on by violence or something.
Phillip tells the class that dinosaurs didn't eat people, which disappoint everybody. He then has to explain there weren't any people around yet. Then somebody asks how we know dinosaurs really even existed. I'm sure Phillip can understand their doubt, considering how much convincing it took God to make him believe in dinosaurs. Its too bad God just won't visit everybody in a dream and explain dinosaurs to them. Then Phillip wouldn't have to do a report in class. Stupid lazy God.
"What did dinosaurs eat" the hippy asks, only when he says it, it sounded like he was trying to imitate a sassy black women. Phillip then explains that some dinosaurs ate plants and others vegetables. I don't know why they need Phillip to explain this, I'm pretty sure that I've always known this information on dinosaurs. Maybe it's just because I use to watch The Land Before Time all the time when I was little, and by little I mean any age before 17.
Odd little story. In my 8th grade science class we were learning about tectonic plates, and the teacher had us watch The Land Before Time to learn about Pangea breaking apart. I guess aside from the dinosaurs talking it's a pretty accurate movie.
While explaining about carnivores hippy kids says "Sloppy joes man!" I know you can't hear him but trust me, it is hilarious.
The Brachiosaurus looked like a cat. Not really but I'm still not going to explain that picture to you. You're just going to have to find this video and watch it yourself to find out why it has a cat head.
One dinosaur was so big it had an extra brain in its ass in case it needed to react quickly to TNT.
People do not have brains in their ass because it would make it difficult to poop.
Some dinosaurs were robots or something.