Trego's Mountain Ear

With the whole family catching one of the plethora of illnesses being passed around, the toddler’s gotten a bit more movie time than usual, and I’ve had a chance to evaluate more movies for the faceblind.

The good dinosaur checks a lot of boxes:

• Small Cast
• Very distinctive characters (especially distinct body language)
• No laundry (The clothes never change. They should be members of the cast in their own right)
• Color Coding (Star trek does this quite well)
• Frequent use of names
• Subtitles
• Cartoons/Animals

There’s a small cast, predominantly composed of animate dinosaurs, which are very easily distinguished by size/shape/color. Absolutely no laundry. I didn’t even need subtitles.

The only thing on the list really missing is frequent use of names, as one of the major characters doesn’t have a name for a significant portion of the movie. That said, it more than makes up for it in clarity elsewhere. It’s a very easy to follow film.

It’s also toddler approved; He likes dinosaurs, and The Good Dinosaur is about the developing friendship between a lost young dinosaur an an orphaned human boy. The boy’s young, often moving about in a crouch, non-verbal and pretty much feral. Naturally, my toddler has a new hero.

I found the sad little one explaining his lack of a family to be pretty heart-wrenching, but Remi’s insisted quite happily that we need to watch the film repeatedly.