Excellent family film
933220
A feast for the imagination.  The kind of submarine you would love to explore and go sailing in.  Excellent acting and casting in this film.  Outside of Herbert Lom in Mysterious Island, can't imagine anyone being a better Captain Nemo.
536151
Excellent family movie !!!!!  My grandsons are six and four they loved the movie and I enjoyed it as well !  I highly recommend
4481653
Loved it.  Visually stunning, engrossing tale that captures the imagination.  Great family film.
59332
Though it was panned by reviews when originally released, this has become a  family favorite that we watch over and over.  I highly recommend as a family movie.
1473819
This is one of the classic films of the 80's and our little kids love watching it over and over.  The music and story line could be considered corny, but the humor, shooting location and message of keeping an open mind about others and letting go of control in a crisis is great.  A little something for everyone in the family.
2257749
Great family film, excellent to see with the whole family, no matter the ages of your kids, this movie is great to see. It is funny, will make your kids laugh, smile and maybe even cry. Wonderful film, just excellent to sit back and relax for a while.
Recommend this film to everyone!!!
4497894
Excellent family-friendly movie with a great message.  We watched it with 6 ten yr old boys and girls and they all enjoyed it. Watching it will no doubt become an annual tradition for our family.
486801
This is a terrific family movie that is suitable for children of all ages.  There are, to a degree, some parallels with&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Willy-Wonka-the-Chocolate-Factory-HD-DVD/dp/B000IXZ7M0/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory [HD DVD</a>].  However, for the most part it is its own movie.  It centers around a man (played by Dustin Hoffman) who wishes to leave the management / ownership of his magical toy store to his favorite employee (portrayed by Natalie Portman) as he can sense that his end is near.  Unfortunately, Portman's character is apprehensive about taking over the toy store, mostly stemming from a lack of self-confidence.

To be sure, many will say that this film is predictable, and so it is.  However, the people who criticize it on such grounds are, I believe, missing the point.  Granted, there are no real "hooks" in the plot or plot-twists that will keep you guessing.  So what?  In a movie like this, it really doesn't matter.  At base, to me the film is not so much about the story itself as it is about how we all used to look upon the world with such  a sense of wonder when we were children.  People who are only looking for surprises are not prone to "getting it" insofar as this DVD is concerned.

The casting is terrific with Hoffmann and Portman leading the way.  Hoffmann gets his chance to play a sort of pseudo-Santa Clause, and it's evident that he enjoyed himself immensely.  I've always like Portman, and it's nice to see a young woman who is both a fine actress as well as a great person.  She is kind of the antipode to "bad girls" like Lindsay Lohan.

If you are the parent of small children, I'd highly recommend this film.  If you're not a parent of small children but enjoy feeling like a kid again, this one is recommended to an equal degree.
3377797
This film is great for the family. My three year old loved it. This will definitely be a movie that we purchased.
3086924
This is a great movie for people of all ages about the adventures, trials, and tribulations a young tabby cat named Milo and pug dog named Otis go through. It's well narrated by Dudley Moore and has some well-utilized classical works in the soundtrack. The early farm sequences are a lot of fun, and there's some exciting encounters with other animals that should be entertaining to all ages.

The rumor of animal abuse that hangs over this film is worrisome, but it's never been substantiated as far as I've read; without any damning evidence I don't think it's wrong to watch and enjoy a warm-hearted family movie made many years ago.

It's a very good family movie that I recommend to everyone.
4794076
Awesome family movie. Appropriate for all ages!!' We loved it!!!
2138954
Really enjoyed this family film. Sure, it's not A-list actors, but the story was good and the pace was good too. I was pleasantly surprised.
2717459
Very charming family-oriented movie with great animation!  When I say family-oriented, I don't mean that it's just safe for kids to watch, but that at its heart is a theme of what it means to be a member of a family. The premise of the movie is that the extinction of dinosaurs didn't happen 65 million years ago, (the asteroid misses the earth), and we have an alternate reality where dinosaurs (Arlo's family, the T-Rex family he later meets) have advanced to the point of being able to talk and run farms (for the plant-eaters) and cattle ranches (the T-Rex's). Humans are not the dominant species, as pack animals similar to wolves, they live in families (the theme, again), are intelligent hunter-gatherers,  and haven't developed speech yet.

If you don't get caught up in the paleobiology and such realities that Apatosaurs were extinct millions of years before T-Rex was around, and other logical flaws (remember, it's just a movie), it's very enjoyable and fun. In homage to earlier Disney flicks, they retained the stylistic form of the mid-century Disney dinosaurs (think of Dino in the Flintstones rather than the realism of the raptors in Jurrasic Park movies).

The writing is well done, with verbal humor that is surprisingly subtle for a kid's movie. I enjoyed scene after scene of just the dialogue. The human critter, Spot, has no dialogue, but his facial and body language are superbly done.

The bonus features are very interesting, and one part explains the fallacies in the movie, setting the record straight, as well as detailing the people involved in making the movie, and how the movie developed from their experiences on their research working with a real family who runs a ranch.

Though the dinosaurs are stylized and somewhat cartoonish, the animation of the environment is jaw-droppingly realistic. It's clearly based on Yellowstone or the Grand Tetons parks, trees' leaves and needles sway in the winds, the moving clouds throw shadows on the hillsides, the coloration of the river pebbles and the dinosaurs' skin textures are hyper-realistic, the water in the rivers and ponds realistically move and scatter the light. In some scenes, as the "camera" pans around, there are computer-generated artifacts of internal reflections of the sunlight on the camera "lenses" that just subtly pop in and out to make you think that a real camera was being used, when you know it wasn't, which shows how painstakingly the artists worked on this! It's a very clever trick that subconsciously works well.

If you have kids, then get this and watch it with them, you may find that you enjoy it more than they!
1679869
Excellent film. I think if I was a kid I would have given it five stars instead of 4. I recommend this movie for all and it would make an excellent movie to sit down with the entire family to watch.
4778993
This is an excellent movie for the entire family.  It has a great message without being too 'preachy'.  Not what I was expecting, but was pleasantly surprised and have now passed it through my entire extended family for them to enjoy.
1360740
My family and I love this movie.  It's funny, romantic, and full of adventure, too.  Better yet, it's kid friendly, and my kids love it!  A definite five star for us.
1027229
Excellent, entertaining and inspiring family movie.  One of the best produced Christian based movies we have seen; also very good acting.  Hope they keep on producing!