We're Back - Nostalgia Critic

Doug takes a nostalgic look at 1993's We're Back!
Originally aired on 8/12/2009.
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[@OttoVonGarfield]

Did... Did the movie just have us see a petty, grovelling old man who was asking for his brother's mercy, get EATEN by a horde of crows?

[@maugos]

Eaten by a MURDER of crows. ;)

[@tfkisawesome]

max larsen Yes, yes it did.

[@jeffkais]

Yep

[@starvoltnexus3139]

max larsen yes yes we did and it’s a children’s movie

[@crackedemerald4930]

A FAMILY picture

[@blackfang04]

Holy shit, that Screweyes death scene is legitimately disturbing.

[@thecinematicmind]

It's different than most villain deaths I can say!

[@LieseFury]

If it wasn't borderline plagiarized from The End of Evangelion, I'd agree.

[@blackfang04]

+Garrett Thomas EoE came out in 1997, four years after this did.

[@LieseFury]

***** Wow, this was 1993? I'm pretty impressed with the animation, then. Also I'm now considering the idea that one of the best animated movies of all time stole a scene from fucking We're Back.

[@blackfang04]

+Garrett Thomas Yeah, it has a very Don Bluth-esque style to it; especially the prehistoric scenes. T. Rex looks basically like a friendlier Sharp Tooth.

[@theAngryscotman]

"You're raping Spider-man, you fucking fascist!" I really want that on a T-shirt.

[@theAngryscotman]

+theAngryscotman It should be in the next Marvel film. Poor Spideys bent over in a basement and Red Scull's about to go Pulp Fiction on him and Captain America busts in and shouts it.

[@FaceUnreality]

+theAngryscotman Would make the new Spider-Man the best yet.

[@Appalachia_haints]

+theAngryscotman I need this right now.

[@theAngryscotman]

Purple Guy We all do.

[@Reapermaskhybrid]

Sounds like what Disney's doing to Marvel nowadays.

[@thegreatherox]

you know... I can't be the only one really loving this animation, it does scream Spielberg all over the place, and Screweyes deathscene.... that's dark

[@anirudhviswanathan3986]

デグレーットヒロX Yeah it is very Spielberg. Wish it was as Spielberg in its story.

[@kimifw58]

@@anirudhviswanathan3986 It definitely has all the Spielbergisms... except for good direction. Even a story as silly as this could be good if it was adequately explained and allowed viewers time to take it in.

[@nickcopeland6915]

Spielberg's studio made this movie.

[@JamailvanWestering]

@@anirudhviswanathan3986 I think the problem there is that it’s based on a book

[@BDNeon]

I mean yeah, all the stuff he rips on on the review is valid... but holy jeez that animation really is gorgeous. The smoothness of the movement, the characters changing angle and the animation managing to maintain perspective smoothly, that's a really really REALLY hard thing to pull off well in traditional animation. Plus I've always felt like the whole mixing 2D and 3D animation thing was just too short-lived and it was a REALLY neat way to animate a movie, like how in some scenes the cars or buildings or whatever were CGI while the rest was still traditionally animated.

[@Lone_Rocket]

Note to self, never sign a contract that requirs you to sign in blood.

[@wjzav1971]

and never sign a contract that is blank

[@Lone_Rocket]

WJZAV Both very solid rules.

[@dragonheart1236]

T_alsomeGames both are probably signs of devil contracts

[@amadmadmadhatter276]

The Loneliest Rocket I looked at this comment right at that scene

[@amadmadmadhatter276]

The Loneliest Rocket kids talking about dinosaurs in bubbles! FUCKING BUBBLES!!!!

[@MetalSonicReject]

Whether this movie was good or not, you have to admit one thing... ...... ......... John Goodman has an awesome singing voice.

[@BigEvil6686]

John Goodman is just awesome. That is all.

[@Goomyx1492]

Any movie with John Goodman is a good movie. I know this is late. I don't care Xp

[@Goomyx1492]

Sully in Monsters Inc. (for animated at least)

[@kujikawathemeekmage3640]

MetalSonicReject - I liked this movie... and his singing was great

[@ok_uh_eli_i_guess376]

Not as good as DK

[@SirKirk2000]

Fun fact: The original plot for Ice Age: Continental Drift was going to be about Manny, Sid,Diego, and the others being frozen over time and thaw out in the 21st century, it also would’ve been called Ice Age: Th4wed, kind-of like this movie.

[@romdan7136]

I wonder if one of the writers saw this movie on TV and immediately ran to the directors and begged them not to use that plot XD

[@pennysanchez7656]

@@romdan7136 And then Don Bluth’s original concept is retooled and the rest is history.

[@vahidhosoda6614]

Huh then they would’ve been like monsters inc 2 and likely when time traveling back like sb 129 they would probably get punished for entering the late Holocene human world

[@NeoConnor1]

The sad thing is they can still use that plot for ice age 7.

[@richardarbetter4043]

We’re Back: An Ice Age Story

[@melochronic9895]

So Albert Einstein made a time machine kidnapped the Land Before Time rejects and they met up with the human versions of Lisa Simpson and Goofy's son Max... stay away from drugs kids...

[@jayblade2000]

+MASON MOOTS And don't write screenplays on the stuff either

[@legosimonify]

i thought gipetto made the time machine

[@felynecomrade]

Isn't Lisa Simpson the human version of Lisa Simpson?

[@mattyboy3576]

+felynecomrade the non simpsons version

[@austinwright09]

Actually, we need much, MUCH more drugs exactly like this now

[@NunofYerbizness]

18:40 According to a partially found deleted scene (from when John Malkovich was going to be the voice of Prof. Screweyes), the reason he has that name and namesake is because when he was young, a crow pecked it out because a berry landed on it, as he was asnooze under a berry bush. Thus he gained a fear of crows, and came to the conclusion that the world made no sense. Quoting the particular moment, "I have a peculiar fear of crows, so; I keep them by me. I watch them with a real eye, and a steel eye. I am afraid of them, but I am their master. I am the master of my fear!" Not much else of this deleted scene has been uncovered, so I can only speculate that between that and his final scene in the movie, his scary circus is to his fear, what pain killers are to headaches; Scaring and being surrounded by humans makes Screweyes less fearing and traumatized about the sleeping berry bush Incident. It can also be speculated that the crow in the final shot was the very same crow that poked his eyes out in the first place. It was uploaded to KZbin sometime in May 2009, I imagine somebody who watched Nostalgia Critic videos back then musta known about it.

[@pqcowboychanel]

Wow a recent comment!

[@BDNeon]

It also makes a sort of poetic sense about what happened. He was literally consumed by his fears.

[@TED_Frames]

I'd like to see Barney the Dinosaur take some of that brain drain.

[@skepticalbaby6912]

TheDreweMaster Barney doesn't need the brain drain. Barney IS the brain drain!

[@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario]

Skeptical Baby holy ship

[@gageperuti5519]

I think he'd need a brain for it to work.

[@Emisop]

He's a living stuffed animal. He can't take the brain drain.

[@johanharmse1789]

You're assuming he hasn't already?

[@fetamean]

"This is 'The Land Before Time On Crystal Meth'..." I like to think that's the whole title of the movie. That shit kills me. Also, one thing I never noticed about Doug's character that's not right. Puke takes the cigarette out of his mouth far too often. In the actual movie, he nearly NEVER takes that damn cigarette out of his mouth.

[@dannydark1452]

Omg I totally agree that line was correct and had me going 😂

[@MrWhitman]

Trouble I had with this move even when I was a kid, was that I never saw Prof. Screweye as a bad person. That clown DID say that people went to his circus to be scared. Knott's Scary Farm, Universal Studios Halloween Haunt, Disney's Haunted Mansion... Ring any bells or should I try and compile a list of all the horror movies have been made since the beginning of the movies? He wasn't hurting ANYONE. All he was really doing was just giving these people what they wanted. Furthermore, I remember that when the kids tell him their intent he says, "Well you ran away to the wrong circus, go home!" They insisted. Yes, he pushed Rocky's hand to the contract but Rocky was already reaching out towards it so he already had the intent inside of him to join. Note, Prof. Screweye never did anything to the kids until AFTER they signed themselves away to him. Same thing with the dinosaurs. They had to agree to take his Brain Drain before he actually gave it to them. So, yeah, the guy was eccentric and a little cruel, but I've seen worse in kid movies.

[@DH1986]

+MrWhitman Right, he didn't kill all younglings and watch a planet explode like Vader. " Of course everyone forgave Vader and screw eye got ate by crows.

[@AfroGannon]

+MrWhitman good point i would say his evilest is how he treats the clown and the unforgiving labour. or raising man eating crows

[@TheFaeQueen]

Well, he did get a signature without giving the kid the contract first and then enforced it. It's actually illegal to get agreement without explaining the contract first. So that part was pretty terrible.

[@nickwerner7983]

HalloWeekends?

[@mckenzie.latham91]

He literally co-signs two underage kids into a lifetime of slavery

[@theplayfulparody2183]

That death scene at the end belongs in a much better movie.

[@alienonlsd3209]

If they had kept his origin story in this film I would Aussie say he deserves to be in a better movie entirely not just as death also yeah what's up with that

[@Zikkar]

Agreed

[@kirakiryu1020]

BIG LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT!

[@tylerking1207]

I don't know what to describe Professor Screweye's death.

[@alexjewett7455]

Agreed

[@PikaLink91]

9:00 I know kids shouldn't just have everything they point at, but come on, this scene just melts my cold and hardened adult heart.

[@ruthrichardson9717]

Fr as a kid I wanted a hat just because of this scene 😂

[@Antsaboy94]

5:20 But wouldn't making Hitler happy as a child lead him to a completely different path? I think the real problem is he focuses on children, that already have a decent life, and/or are otherwise safe from the Route of Madness.

[@psychetitan3529]

You actually can't change the past since the paradox theory stats that if you go back to change the past then the event that happened which caused you to go back and change the past never happened meaning that you would never to back to the past to change making it so the past was never change and the event would still happen. It's kinda confusing but in short it's saying that changing the past makes it so there is nothing to change and what ever you do will create a paradox.

[@paytonwilcox8558]

I don’t get what the joke is supposed to be

[@IamAnthonological]

18:31 *A FAMILY PICTURE!*

[@zachmanf.7479]

FROM HELL!

[@brentcatherman8762]

That wasn't so bad. There was no bones or anything left behind just a screw. I thought he just disappeared since it makes about as much sense as anythign else in this movie.

[@ok_uh_eli_i_guess376]

That’s gonna haunt the shit outta me!

[@alexjewett7455]

True

[@mattwolf7698]

So weird and out of place considering how clearly aimed at young kids the rest of this is. ...I like it, too bad it's not in a better movie though.

[@mistalp1447]

I've got to admit, the clown quitting his job scene was actually pretty good. Of course, the 10 year old kissing scene made me uncomfortable immediately. If they were 16 year olds, it would be cute, but with 10 year olds it just makes you uncomfortable

[@Amzsie]

And every time there was a "love" scene they drew the kids with... seductive eyes? (For lack of a better word) It was really weird, THEYRE KIDS

[@mistalp1447]

Amzsie Yeah, if there wasn't the seductive voices/eyes, it would look less like the girl went through puberty when she was 7

[@mistalp1447]

Amzsie And then there was that weird crow scene. That one legitimately disturbed me... And he speaks as if the crows were always there, and they were waiting for...audiences to dislike him so that they could...go on him and...make him...disappear...?

[@literallyglados]

Mista LP they ate him

[@DoctorWhoKage]

I think all this weird shit was in here because there were a lot of scenes cut that could give us more context for the world we're thrust into and that including said scenes would make the movie too long. There's a difference between making a movie and making a video game (or, a novel).

[@girlysword]

I liked screweyes, he was a creepy villain, particularly his death scene. I tolerated the other stuff.

[@Cheyenne_Hayden]

girlysword I don't even remember the death scene, and I've seen this movie a million times

[@CaptainCretaceous91]

I totally see him and Neweyes as wizards from Ilvermorny.

[@codyc1812]

is it just me or did the logic in this movie change when the t-rex regained his intelligence when the boy begged the t-rex to not eat Screweye?

[@synaesthesia2010]

i loved this as a kid, i still do

[@vickolous]

Same here man, it was soooo good and soo cool

[@deeyannie2339]

craig thomas I miss this movie so much.

[@transorm987]

Yeah

[@madmanzeek9081]

I don't know why he is saying this is god awful movie this is one of the better kids movies from the 90's

[@amadmadmadhatter276]

craig thomas me too. Especially the song "roll back the rock"

[@extremelymoist6661]

You may take our Videos, but you'll never take... OUR CRITIC!!

[@nickhall8134]

Give me a hell yeah

[@GreekShinobi223]

Nick Hall me too

[@sarah360-u1i]

@@nickhall8134 HELL YEAH !!!!!

[@MarcusAsenlund]

"The land before time on crystal meth" Yup, that line basically sums up this entire movie, It feels like a fever dream movie.

[@DavidJamesHenry]

My dad never taught me to shoot a protester. *sniff*

[@mindshuffler3332]

Sorry dude, they have rights now.

[@347tester]

that's sad xc

[@DavidJamesHenry]

Christian Blaise Next thing you know, they'll be demanding their lefts.

[@347tester]

+Fancy Scott you guy's are going make me cry

[@mollineux]

+RobotGoggles My dad taught me to shoot prostitutes instead of protestants.

[@mimszanadunstedt441]

dinosaur= old person, thats how a dino golfing makes sense :P

[@mistere.m.p.1573]

OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHH

[@AUSTINwazhere]

Did you substitute a cigarette with a light brown Crayola marker?

[@wd-type9643]

Olaf Von Hambergler rip I noticed it too

[@stinker9240]

Olaf Von Hambergler omg I noticed it now. Lol

[@anikmonette2140]

Olaf Von Hambergler LoL I wasn't sure...😁

[@proudtobeme1ashkente]

I don't think so. He even lit the thing and it smoked like any cigarette would, while plastic probably wouldn't after such short contact with fire.

[@timothymclean]

P. Roud Tobi Mi ...Crayons aren't made out of plastic. They're made out of wax. Also paper.

[@buddyzilla4557]

I love how Neweyes dropping the dinos into the present the way he did indirectly granted all the wishes they heard earlier on, beyond just the Dino based ones like the girl who wanted a hat and Louie wanting a friend. I thought that was a cool element to show how many steps ahead and in control at all times Neweyes was but wish they went a little further with it too..I also realize this meant Neweyes must have had at least a pretty good idea how things would play out with his brother and basically enabled the orchestration of his demise..pretty dark and it makes you realize both of them are playing God with the timeline but by wanting to make what he feels is a positive impact over seeking more basic self gratification like his brother, Neweyes is doing a LOT more potential harm to the future and not above sacrificing pretty much anything to atain his personalized goal. As long as things work out the way feels is a happy ending, he is willing to put a bunch of dinosaurs and kids through Hell and sacrifice his brothers life. He has the power of TIME TRAVEL. He can manipulate and change anything that has happened at will so putting his brothers fate down to his own doing when the events that lead to said fate where all because of neweyes' grand design and he could change ANYTHING he wants it REALLY makes him come off as a heartless narcissist. The books were pretty trippy to start though and there was a great short deleted scene that both helps explain both the origins of screw eyes and his death..it's sort of a Batman thing if Batman became more like the joker where he embraces a traumatic childhood moment to use what he is afraid of for his life goals of terrorizing others as a way to feed his own damaged phsych so I'd LOVE to see this redone with a little work to the story. Delving a bit more into screweyes and his relashionship with his brother, showing off the strategic mastery of neweyes a bit better in a way that makes him more three dimensional than just the perfect grandpa figure..and using the Dino subplot to tell the story of the brothers over vice versa would be an awesome take. Seeing how they are doing this already with the Disney live action villain movies and similar stuff has been done in "wicked", "oz the great and powerfull" and the like, I don't feel it would be too absurd to have the story of Screweeys still being a menacing threat (and maybe build him up even more since he can turn a bit geezery and lame at certain moments) but explore his sour relationship with his brother more that made him this way. A madman satist with hyper advanced technogoly from a distant future whos one goal is to bring sheer terror to our time period. If done right, he can be the most terrifying villain we've seen in some time and Neweyes..well..he can be the most terrifying antihero to go with him. Clearly he has beyond godly power at his fingertips and only direction based on what HE feels is justified. The implications of how he can unstoppable shape his univers in his image at the cost of countless lives as they were is massive! These are the truely two most INTERESTING characters in the movie and should have had the most focus on them the whole time. I love John Goodman and I LOVE dinos..but yeah..Neweyes and Screweye were WAY too underused and as tired as I am with dark remakes "fixing" what wasn't broken on great villains to make them relatable for no reason, I think this is an exception that could greatly benefit from that treatment!

[@chungusbooper]

This was one of Doug's best performances. "You'd think with five dinosaurs set loose on Manhattan, *something* would be accomplished." Brilliant. And those crows were like something out of Dunwall... ( o _ o)

[@transorm987]

I honestly thought this film is pretty dark and also very clever

[@transorm987]

@Brandon Brooks...

[@misterdewott8766]

@@transorm987 Haha you got Owned

[@transorm987]

@@misterdewott8766 Sure did

[@datemasamune2904]

When I was a kid, there was only one reason I watched this movie. It had dinosaurs.

[@hammbonethegamer4505]

Same here... but now I legitimately love it

[@gageperuti5519]

Same.

[@cartoonhigh9990]

Okay so my mom got me this movie for me because I loved dinosaurs as a little child. I watched this movie once and never again. I never picked it up again because the death scene of the guy with the screw eye scared me so bad that I never wanted to watch it again. Here I am to resurface memories that have been suppressed for almost an entire decade.

[@BrokeBot]

Ikr now I remember why I only watched this once

[@CassyVilAudios]

Critic's complaint with the singing/parade scene was the kid being believed, but my issue was WHY DIDN'T THEY REALIZE THE DINOSAURS WERE REAL DURING THAT WHOLE MUSICAL NUMBER? They were singing and dancing and jumping around in ways we all know robots couldn't do at the time! So what gives? They were clearly real but nobody believed they could be real until the kid announced it?

[@supermariofan03]

“If anybody’s kissing anybody, you should be kissing me.” Could you imagine Lisa trying to seduce Colin like that?

[@pennysanchez7656]

Well, considering that this movie had some adorable shipping between Cecilia and Louie, this wouldn’t be far off from that.

[@thecinematicmind]

The best opening to a Nostalgia Critic review ever! Without it I would never know Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas!

[@johnw4334]

If you liked fear and loathing in Las Vegas you should check out "where the buffalo roam." It has Bill Murray as Hunter s. Thompson. Good flick.

[@thecinematicmind]

John W I want to see that after watching the trailer! So thank you!

[@josethebioform7519]

The Cinematic Mind if you like Thompson I suggest reading his novel the rum diary . It's good the movie is utterly different but still fun

[@MrHari888]

Cinefix for me. Loved seeing Nostalgia Critic reference it as a story telling medium

[@Mariusioannesp]

I remember watching We're Back when I was seven I think on the Disney Channel. It was on one of the nights I was home for a week because I had a bad cold. Or maybe the flu. One of those. I didn't think the film was that bad. It could be because I was seven and had little critical reasoning skills. Or it could because I was hopped up on cold medicine. And not the over the counter kind. Oh no. This was the good stuff. The stuff you need a prescription for.

[@aidwin85]

+MariusIoannesP are you okay

[@Mariusioannesp]

+Goondrool :^) I feel fine. Why do you ask?

[@aidwin85]

MariusIoannesP it's just... the way you just rambled

[@janehearon7518]

+MariusIoannesP ^_~

[@janehearon7518]

+MariusIoannesP ^_~

[@omarreyes7626]

land before time on crystal meth is the best description for this movie, yet I still loved it as a kid, and I find it enjoyable now-a-days

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

16:10 How to Train Your Dinosaur

[@AbyssalRook]

This was a movie my parents bought for me and I watched on a tiny TV in the backseat of an SUV on a long, straight drive from New York State to the Florida Panhandle. It has a....bizarrely special place in my heart.

[@theorangelantern8771]

Calvin's a 6 year old, not a 5 year old. Can't believe no ones brought that up yet.

[@Zackzilla2479]

FUN FACT: After the little girl says that the dinosaurs are real, the people are starting to panic where Louie and Cecila splits up to meet up at the Circus in Central Park, the man with a camera, a Jurassic Park T-Shirt and an Amblimation cap is actually Steven Spielberg himself.

[@Netherwolf6100]

Used to love this movie as a kid. Now, as an adult, I see how much of a crazy fever dream this is....

[@MylingCyrus]

the circus scene scared me to my very core as a child ... I should give it another watch LOL

[@javiercastellanosgarcia3725]

I thought on edgar allan poe when I saw that

[@matthewtourtellot8846]

I actually still have a working cassette tape with both "Roll Back the Rock (to the Dawn of Time)" performed by John Goodman, and the version performed by Little Richard. Both of these songs are pretty catchy in my opinion, and I have good time whenever I play them. On a separate note, I still like it how the filmmakers threw in that Jurassic Park easter egg during John Goodman's performance of "Roll Back the Rock (to the Dawn of Time)" - which you can get a good view at the 20:00 mark.

[@dukespubber741]

Doctor Who did dinosaurs on a spaceship better.

[@seanshogun1957]

Duke Spubber exactly that was a good episode

[@OfficerFriendly2006]

Damn right.

[@dmaxwell910901]

"I wish I could see one of those flying dinosaurs!" Excuuuuse me. There were no flying dinosaurs.

[@bricescott7152]

I remember loving this movie as a kid, but I distinctly remember recognizing that the plot made no sense (or at the least something along that vein that I could rationalize as a child).

[@paultownsley5521]

At 10:56 you can sign saying Jurassic park on it

[@AnnabelYskes]

The same year of this movie and Jurassic park

[@gottesurteil3201]

Anyone who read the comics would know the T-rex wasn't the first to rape Spiderman.

[@LEGOANDWEED]

Nathan Higgins wait what!?

[@gottesurteil3201]

Spencer Collins Peter Parker was sexually molested as a child, look it up.

[@LEGOANDWEED]

Nathan Higgins ok I will

[@vietquynguyen]

kyotheman69 by Uncle Ben nonetheless.

[@tavoknaza7086]

Fishwalk It wasnt Uncle Ben.

[@Dinoman-ff1wc]

The lesson is that you can't run away from your problems.

[@thatmetalhead9000]

Still my favorite nostalgia critic review!

[@jayblade2000]

+thatmetalhead9000 "My voice gives me super-strength!"

[@MetFanMac]

"I feel like I'm stuck in a Far Side cartoon with no caption" is still one of the best similes ever uttered. And I still lose it at "Land Before Time on crystal meth".

[@rudyfermal4326]

MetFanMac its true though

[@omanisat7266]

Raoul Puke needs to make a return appearance.

[@dillonohlemiller9027]

0:28 can we all just take a second to appreciate that harmony?

[@silverfire2158]

This movie was my shit as a kid! It was beautiful IMO.

[@LiviMaxxFTW]

The little girl said it was Thanksgiving. NC says the parade was not representing of the time. They are in New York. It's the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. If anything makes sense in this movie, it's that. ..Roll Back The Rock is catchy as fuck. It will be stuck in my head all week.

[@midwestmonster9886]

Imagine being saved from the jaws of a tyrannosaurus only to be eaten piece-by-piece by a murder of crows.

[@cellytron]

That’s true, it’s almost like, what’s the point? The stupid dinosaur may as well have eaten him. This was clearly his day to die!

[@SC4211]

I love how he called the T Rex a fascist when he was raping Spiderman XD

[@KingKaiju95]

I honestly love this movie because as a kid I loved it lol. Hard for me to hate it.

[@besttitanosaurus7742]

Why does the Trike eat sausage?

[@michaelsanford3899]

+BestTitanosaurus because its a bad kids movie.

[@Mariusioannesp]

+BestTitanosaurus That's what I wondered when I was watching this movie when I was seven.

[@codo820]

+BestTitanosaurus Easy fat joke is easy. You know this.

[@besttitanosaurus7742]

Nope, it's just a common shortening for Triceratops. Hell, I don't even think Jurassic Park said Triceratops at all, just Trike.

[@coreyrex]

I KEEP SEEING YOU EVERYWHERE

[@calebmauer1751]

Doug, your Hunter S Thompson impression is awesome. Like, you've got the speech patterns and stuff down really well.

[@elder-woodsilverstein7716]

The animation is very good, John Goodman's song was nice and catchy, and the actors do look like they are trying. It seems like something I would watch if I was a kid.

[@TheSefirosu200x]

My god, Critic really did remind me of Hunter S. Thompson in this review. Or, at least him played by Johnny Depp in the movie.

[@paulvillerius848]

17:49 And a TFS meme was born.

[@I_am_ENSanity]

I actually liked this movie, still do. Especially when I'm wasted ^_^

[@Anthony-ce8zs]

10:57 Apparently this takes place in the year 1993 because the movie theater in the background is playing Jurassic Park

[@neolionheart0]

No one else is noticing the Ghost Buster's Building blowing up at 11:05?

[@alexandriapape208]

11:06

[@Gapeagle]

Screweye's death reminds me of Bioshock... Crows....

[@chillinoutmaxin4630]

Why does everyone hate this movie? I think its awesome, and full of wonderful and terrifying moments. It's not a perfect film by any means, and has many flaws, but it's heartwarming and wonderfully animated with a powerful message for people of all ages.

[@jaso4455]

So is this Doug playing NC playing Hunter?

[@nbunnysnowboard]

I was absolutely obsessed with this movie as a kid, I would watch it all the time. If the songs are played now I’ll still jam out

[@Wishbone4evr]

I actually like this movie but this review is funny! 🤣

[@dragonlover7196]

i don't like how the brain cereal physically altered the dinosaurs. mostly because i really don't like their cartoony designs, but also imagine how painful it must be to have food violently alter your body's build like that in the span of seconds

[@sugarskullbyte3773]

I really want that eerie version of the song "My Favorite Things"

[@BryanFilms1997]

10:28 Mr. Rex, I don't feel so good....

[@slug237711]

"How does it feel to be the most hated man in America?" "In a world of Neanderthals, I wear the freaking badge of honor!"

[@thomasj.gilbert3127]

Doug Walker doing an impression of Fred Flintstone: "Gee, Barney. After all these years, I thought you were after my Fruity Pebbles."

[@judsongaiden9878]

Dweeb was voiced by Charles Fleischer who also voiced Roger Rabbit. 10:06 Hunter S. Thompson was (supposedly) all about madness, anarchy, and chaos. 10:10 *A Big-Lipped Alligator Moment!* 10:42 Surely, that scene is meant to show how weak-minded and stupid "humans" are. 11:23 Why would an herbivore eat hog dogs? 18:40 Nah. 10:10 was the *Big-Lipped Alligator Moment.*

[@zackrules4797]

I actually kind like this film, it has nice animation, the music score is great, the voice acting is good, Professor Screweyes was a great villain and I honestly found the Stubs quitting scene very funny. That being said this is a good film, but it does has some flaws. The Police chase scene goes way to longer, even for an hour and 10 minute movie. I think the movie should have more songs, if it wants to be a musical or have no songs at all, because having just one came out of nowhere, and despite the movie titled We're Back a Dinosaur's Story is kind of misleading title and an odd because it kind sound like a sequel because it's called "We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story" they coming back to the big screen and it's also the title on the book that was based on.

[@pharaohyami5000]

Nostaglia. XD

[@johnfakename1178]

+CanTheGameStart He was referencing 0:05 where Nostalgia Critic is spelled wrong. Looks like you're the one who got it wrong, buddy.

[@juansaldivar9204]

+CanTheGameStart lol what a jackass

[@johnfakename1178]

Juan Saldivar Excuse me, but I think you just ignored my previous comment.

[@pennysanchez7656]

How ironic that Disney Channel once aired this movie on TV, and that led people thinking it was a Disney movie, despite it was owned by Universal! You know, on of Disney’s rivals?

[@tt4ever305]

I think it also played on Cartoon Network around the early / mid 2000s

[@pennysanchez7656]

@@tt4ever305 Yeah, it was on the Cartoon Theater block, and played it quite often.

[@mattwolf7698]

I think I saw Despicable Me on Disney Channel once. It's interesting how they air rivals movies when they have such a vast selection of their own

[@pennysanchez7656]

@@mattwolf7698 I know, right?

[@paradoxacres1063]

Never seen this movie. To be honest, I kinda forgot it exists.

[@buttAttack]

+Paradox Acres I cant forget this movie.. the seen were the eldest brother is eaten by the crows still haunts my dreams to this day.

[@LivinitBigTime]

+Paradox Acres I WISH I could forget it existed *shudders*

[@michaelsanford3899]

[phone] 987654321 that scene is really creepy

[@paradoxacres1063]

lol I have *no idea* what you guys are talking about :) Never watched this movie, but..it doesn't look too bad.

[@paradoxacres1063]

Brandon Roberts I've heard of it but forgotten all about it till this review came out.

[@morningowl43]

“This is David Lynch’s circus nobody should be subjected to this!!” Me as a long time Lynch fan: ….I would wanna be subjected to that…

[@KlaviceGavin]

15:20 This line was brought to you by Yoda Simpson.

[@zooemperor3954]

Here’s the lesson: Never run away from home no matter what. Kids in abusive households may not necessarily need to apply

[@deuce5546]

This movie was a snoozefest but the whole part about the circus is disturbing as hell

[@GryffIsHere]

This was my favorite movie as a kid! The nostalgia is real.

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

"I feel like I'm stuck in a Far Side cartoon with no caption." Hey, now, quite a few Far Side cartoons actually don't have captions and they're still funny. So what's this movie's excuse?

[@billjacobs521]

The death of the baddie is legitimately terrifying. The raptors in Jurassic Park didn't eat that fast.

[@dorianxanyn]

do more Hunter S. Thompson styled reviews

[@catalinamelo9932]

Dorian Xanyn yup I agree

[@drewkaplan7460]

THAAAAAATS COOOMEDYYY!!!!!!

[@claytoncondo3460]

Drew Kaplan "No it's not!" "This is the circumcison of comedy!"

[@PurpleLugia]

10:05 Come on, New York City on Thanksgiving? It's the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. As mentioned by a point in the flight scene, Louie's plan was to pass them off as robotic dinos in the Parade so they could pass through the city on the way to Central Park without creating a panic. Rex's musical number ruined it.

[@Mattcai2004]

Another example of the nostalgia critic not knowing everything

[@ToruKun1]

Ha-ha, Fozzy journalism instead of Gonzo journalism. I see what you did there. (PS I still love this movie)

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

I actually really enjoyed this one. I remember seeing it before I turned 9 and how much I was dazzled by the animation, dinosaur characters, main song and voice work. I actually confused it with a Don Bluth film since I was raised on his work - oddly enough, it wasn't, but it was financed by the Amblin Animation department of Universal, executive-produced by Spielberg AND released simultaneously with JURASSIC PARK. I even remember watching it at a lock-in at school during the 3rd grade with other students. That being said, I guess the dark tone really put off some people - my kid brother didn't even want to revisit it after the first viewing and no matter how many times I wanted to see it again he kept insisting on not doing so. I guess it scared him so much that he hated it, but me, I was never that disturbed too much.

[@leafyfeathers]

The animation in this movie is surprisingly good

[@ryuuronin9852]

0:07 oh yeah I love watching the Nostaglia Critic, even more than The Agnry Vimeo Nerd, and Liknara

[@MetalPersonJ]

Man its criminal how good Doug Walker used to be. This is a masterstroke.

[@asafisher7407]

Jontron: What ....... what the fu

[@anueutsuho7425]

Real question is: if the brain drain devolves the humans into monkeys, shouldn't it additionally devolve the dinosaurs into like, Triassic Period dinosaurs?

[@mitchmiller2264]

Also, Rex is NOT a T-Rex, they have two claws, he has three, he's an allosaurus.

[@GoatPopsicle]

Mitch Miller could easily be a hybrid. We’ve found dozens of very large predators, seemingly with hybridization. It’s a form of evolution, that makes sense for dinosaurs, and their amazing success for a hundred million years. While we’ve barely been around for a million.

[@corvuscallosum5079]

That's not remotely how hybridization works. Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus are too distantly related, besides having existed tens of millions of years apart. Also, less importantly, dinosaurs were around for closer to 200 million years, compared to Homo sapiens, which has logged less than a million so far.

[@joeschmoe2843]

200 million years yet they didn’t invent pizza? Failures.

[@razzyrazberries]

9:22 - Actually I disagree. I think the adventures of this hat are far more exciting than the movie itself. I want to hear more about the hat.

[@Devils_Lair_Comics]

Yeah, it's clearly a kid's movie & it's got some problems (some glaring ones)...but I still have a soft spot for it

[@johnnymoon]

This is one of those movies that only makes sense when you’re under the age of 10.