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''Walking with Dinosaurs'' (also advertised as ''Walking with Dinosaurs: The 3D Movie'') is a 2013 British-Australian-American live-action/computer-animated family film about dinosaurs set in the Late Cretaceous period, years ago. The production features computer-animated dinosaurs in live-action settings with actors John Leguizamo, Justin Long, Tiya Sircar, and Skyler Stone providing voiceovers for the main characters. It was directed by Neil Nightingale and Barry Cook from a screenplay by John Collee. The film was produced by BBC Earth and Evergreen Films and was titled after BBC's 1999 television documentary miniseries of the same name. The film, with a budget of , was one of the largest independent productions to date; it was financed by Reliance Big Entertainment and IM Global instead of a major studio. The majority of distribution rights were eventually sold to 20th Century Fox. The crew filmed footage on location in the U.S. state of Alaska and in New Zealand, which were chosen for their similarities to the dinosaurs' surroundings millions of years ago. Animal Logic designed computer-animated dinosaurs and added them to the live-action backdrop. Though the film was originally going to lack narration or dialogue, 20th Century Fox executives decided to add voiceovers, believing it would connect audiences to the characters. ''Walking with Dinosaurs'' premiered on 2013 at the Dubai International Film Festival. It was released in cinemas in 2D and 3D on 2013. Critics commended the film's visual effects but found its storytelling to be subpar and derided the voiceovers as juvenile. The film grossed in the United States and Canada and in other territories for a worldwide total of . ''The Hollywood Reporter'' said the film's global box office performance was disappointing in context of the production budget and marketing costs. ==Plot== Paleontologist Zack takes his nephew Ricky and niece Jade on a fossil hunt, giving the sullen Ricky his ''Gorgosaurus'' tooth while he and Jade go to the fossil bed. Alone, Ricky is met by a talking rook, who morphs into Alex the ''Alexornis'' bird, who takes the story back to the Cretaceous period 70 million years ago. Patchi is the smallest of his litter of ''Pachyrhinosaurus'' hatchlings, and is often bullied by his large, proud older brother Scowler. Their father Bulldust is the leader of the herd. Patchi is attacked by a ''Troodon'' and receives a distinctive hole in his frill when he ventures outside the nest one morning. Alex, serving as Patchi's mentor, tries to help Patchi impress a female ''Pachyrhinosaurus'' named Juniper, but her herd soon migrates south without him. Bulldust soon follows suit, moving his herd to the south, but when they try to pass through a dense forest, they are forced to flee when a forest fire erupts. Taking advantage of the chaos, Gorgon the predatory ''Gorgosaurus'' attacks the fleeing ''Pachyrhinosaurus'', and while his pack kills their mother and siblings, Patchi and Scowler witness Gorgon killing Bulldust. Major, a former rival of Bulldust's, takes command of the herd following the old leader's death, and combines his herd with Juniper's as they continue their migration. Gorgon's pack attacks them once again in a small valley, and in the ensuing panic, Patchi, Scowler and Juniper fall into the river and are swept downstream to the ocean, with Alex following them from above. At the beach, Scowler follows a herd of ''Edmontosaurus'' to find food, callously leaving his younger brother and Juniper behind. Patchi and Juniper make their way through a forest and eventually are able to find their herd and Scowler in a feeding ground. After years of making the same migration from north to south and vice versa, a now adult Scowler becomes the leader of the herd when he defeats Major in a battle of dominance, and then makes Juniper his mate much to Patchi's dismay. Scowler recklessly leads the herd onto a thinly frozen pond, and Patchi is able to lead the majority of the herd to safety. Enraged and believing Patchi to be usurping him, Scowler goads Patchi into a battle for leadership of the herd. The larger Scowler quickly wins and disowns him, and orders the herd (including Juniper) to leave him behind. Despondent and heartbroken over the loss of his herd, his brother and Juniper, Patchi is ready to allow predators to eat him until Alex convinces him to die for something worth dying for as his father did. Reinvigorated, Patchi returns to the herd and reunites with Juniper, only to realize that the herd has entered the same valley that the ''Gorgosaurus'' had attacked them years before and notices Gorgon quickly overpowering Scowler in battle. Realizing that he's about to die and presumably repentant for what he had done to his brother, Scowler orders Patchi to save himself and lead the herd to safety, but Patchi instead leads them in driving off Gorgon and his pack for good, saving Scowler and breaking Gorgon's arm with the hole in his frill. Scowler reconciles with Patchi and then concedes leadership of the herd to him, and Patchi goes on to have eggs with Juniper one of which hatches and Alex asks for it to be named after him. In the present day, moved by Alex's story, Ricky returns the ''Gorgosaurus'' tooth to his uncle and sister, who have unknowingly discovered Gorgon's skull. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walking with Dinosaurs (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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