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Plot Summary:
This film is a remake of the 1989 Doraemon Movie 10: Nobita no Nippon Tanjou. Nobita and the gang run away from home, traveling back in time to 70,000 years ago before Japan was even born. After a while, they return to the present. However, when they bump into a young caveman, Kukuru, who they have accidentally transported forward to their current era, they realize they must take him back to the primitive age. On top of that, they will have to save Kukuru's tribe, called the Hikari tribe, which was attacked and abducted by the Giganzonbie and Kurayami tribe.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, futuristic, semi serious, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021 (2022)
Plot Summary:
One day during summer vacation, a palm-sized alien named Papi appears from a small rocket that Nobita picks up. He is the president of Pirika, a small planet in outer space, and has come to Earth to escape the rebels. Doraemon and his friends are puzzled by Papi’s small size, but as they play together using the secret tool “Small Light”, they gradually become friends. However, a whale-shaped space battleship comes to earth and attacks Doraemon, Nobita and the others in order to capture Papi. Feeling responsible for getting everyone involved, Papi tries to stand up to the rebels. Doraemon and his friends leave for the planet Pirika to protect their dear friend and his home.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Dinosaur (2006)
Plot Summary:
After bringing a fossilized egg back to life with the Time Cloth, Nobita finds himself the owner of a baby dinosaur. Everything is fine until it grows up. Nobita and friends use Doraemon's time machine to return it back to its own time.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, futuristic, semi serious, anime, 2d animation
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Doraemon: New Nobita's Great Demon – Peko and the Exploration Party of Five (2014)
Plot Summary:
The film starts with Gian seeing some like spirit and it asks him to accomplish a task. The story starts when a stray dogs are searching some foods in the can. Then a dirty white dog comes out of nowhere. Just then, the dog creates a close stare to the stray dogs and forces to run away. But the dog is disappointed that he doesn't know what to do after searching the garbage, under the pouring rain. After that, Suneo starts saying about the discoverable places on Earth and him and Gian are totally disappointed about that. That then, they are asking favor to Nobita to take them to an undiscovered place to be seen by their naked eyes. Nobita refuses but tells he will try his best. He comes to upstairs to explain Doraemon what the problem is now.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, futuristic, semi serious, anime, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita's New Great Adventure Into the Underworld - The Seven Magic Users (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nobita has changed the real world to a world of magic using the "Moshimo Box" in admiration of magic. One day, Nobita meets Chaplain Mangetsu, a magic researcher, and his daughter Miyoko. Nobita learns from them that the Great Satan of the Devildom Star is scheming to invade the Earth. The Chaplain tries to find a way out using ancient books, however, the Devildom Star rapidly approaches the Earth by the minute, causing earthquakes and abnormal weather conditions. Nobita, along with his friends, Doraemon, Shizuka, Suneo, Gaian and Dorami, together with Miyoko, storm into the Devildom Star, just like the "Legendary Seven Heroes" in an ancient book in order to confront the Great Satan and peace returns to the world of magic.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: anime, light, humorous, sweet, futuristic, semi serious, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story is based on Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anime, light, sweet, entertaining, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, 2d animation
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Stand by Me Doraemon (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the suburbs of Tokyo some time ago, there lived a clumsy boy about 10 years old. There appeared in front of him named Sewashi, Nobita's descendant of four generations later from the 22nd century, and Doraemon, a 22nd century cat-type caretaker robot who helps people with its secret gadgets. Sewashi claims that his family is suffering from the debts Nobita made even to his generation, so in order to change this disastrous future, he brought along Doraemon as Nobita's caretaker to bring happiness to his future, although Doraemon is not happy about this. And so Sewashi installed an accomplishment program into Doraemon forcing him to take care of Nobita. Unless he makes Nobita happy, Doraemon can no longer go back to the 22nd century. This is how the life of Doraemon and Nobita begins. Will Doraemon succeed this mission and return to the 22nd century?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, semi serious, 3d animation, cult classic, computer animated, offbeat, crying, independent film
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Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nobita no Getsumen Tansaki is an original story centered around the Isetsu Club Member Badge gadget featured in volume 23 of the original Doraemon manga.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, Japan, France, India
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, futuristic, semi serious, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Island of Miracles - Animal Adventure (2012)
Plot Summary:
Nobita and Doraemon use time tree Mochi and catches a big bird Moa, which has been extinct for 500 years ago. To protect extinct the animal, Nobita and Doramon go to Beremon Island which is protected by a golden beetle named Herakles. They meet a girl from the Rokkoro tribe and a boy who looks exactly like Nobita on Beremon Island.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, futuristic, semi serious, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend (2008)
Plot Summary:
Nobita’s troubled about what to do with his zero test marks once again. A gust of wind scatters his test papers and he falls into a garbage dump trying to gather them together again. There he finds a young withered tree that caught one of his papers and he decides to take it home. He tries to plant it in his garden but gets caught by his mother who doesn’t allow him to grow it.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Sweden
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: anime, atmospheric, humorous, captivating, semi serious, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita's Great Battle of the Mermaid King (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Nobita feels like diving in his hometown, Doraemon uses a Underwater Pump Simulator to pump all the water out of Tokyo, causing the entire city to go underwater. That night, Doraemon and Nobita use a Diving Mask Simulator to dive underwater. Later on, lots of fish, and a shark attack Doraemon and Nobita. So, Doraemon puts a stop on the Underwater Pump Simulator, but there is a girl named Sophia, lying down on the bushes in his neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, entertaining, semi serious, fairy tale, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi (2017)
Plot Summary:
Unable to endure the midsummer heat, Doraemon transports Nobita and his friends to a huge iceberg floating in the South Pacific. While creating an amusement parks with the secret tool "Ice-working Iron" the group finds a mysterious golden ring in the ice. Upon closer examination, they determine that the ring was buried in Antarctica 100,000 years ago - before people could have lived there. Doraemon and friends head to Antarctica looking for the owner of the ring and come across the ruins of a huge city buried in the ice. Using Doraemon's Time Belt, the group travels back 100,000 years ago and meets the young girl Kara who is connected to the mysterious ring. But now the group must fight for survival as Doraemon faces the crisis of the entire Earth freezing.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita and the New Steel Troops: Winged Angels (2011)
Plot Summary:
The title character, Nobita, is upset because he cannot get a large RC toy to show off to a rich boy, Suneo. His fit makes Doraemon angry, and with the hot Japanese summer, he decides to "cool off" at the North Pole with the Anywhere Door, a mysterious portal. Nobita follows him there after he's gone for a long time, and discovers a strange bowling ball-like orb which starts blinking with a pulsating light, and summons what looks like a giant robot´s foot. After sledding down the hill on it and having it crash into his room through the Anywhere Door, the bowling ball follows him home through the door and another robot piece falls into his backyard.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, humorous, futuristic, semi serious, 2d animation
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Doraemon (2005)
Plot Summary:
Robotic cat Doraemon is sent back in time from the 22nd century to protect 10-year-old Noby, a lazy and uncoordinated boy who is destined to have a tragic future. Doraemon can create secret gadgets from a pocket on his stomach, but they usually cause more bad than good because of Noby's propensity to misuse them.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, captivating, light, humorous, educational, visually appealing, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes (2015)
Plot Summary:
One day Doraemon, Nobita, Shizuka, Gian and Suneo were shooting a film as space heroes. When they were shooting the film in the open lot a boy called Aron comes and alerts them of aliens attacking his planet. They agree to help him by turning into real superheroes, but it isn't as easy as it looks.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, light, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita's Secret Gadget Museum (2013)
Plot Summary:
While Doraemon is asleep, a famous thief comes and steals his cat-bell. Without his cat-bell, Doraemon starts to act more and more like a normal cat. In order to stop this, Nobita, Shizuka, Suneo, and Gian have to go and search for his bell, so they go to a factory where all of Doraemon's gadgets are made.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, entertaining, futuristic, semi serious, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Winged Braves (2001)
Plot Summary:
After watching a televised showing about supposedly humanoid birds spotted in Africa, Nobita dreams of being able to fly with wings. He builds wooden wings after Doraemon refuses to help him, though he repeatedly fails to fly using them. While helping Shizuka to reclaim her pet canary, they witness a portal opens in the sky and a humanoid bird riding an airplane coming out. He introduces himself as Gusuke, a humanoid bird who lives in "Birdopia". Doraemon, Nobita, and Shizuka help Gusuke fix his airplane, where Nobita becomes fast friends with him. As Gusuke departs to his home, Gian and Suneo catch him and grab his plane. The other three follow them through the porta.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, futuristic, semi serious, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Wind Wizard (2003)
Plot Summary:
One day, Nobita runs into a creature-like ball of wind, which came from a faraway land, but blew into their neighbourhood following the recent typhoon that went through the area. Nobita names it Fuuko. Eventually, he, Doraemon and their friends take it to a vast countryside through the Anywhere Door. There, they learn about the Wind and Storm Villages, and Fuuko’s real identity. Soon, Nobita and his friends have to protect Fuuko from the Storm Village and a now-possessed Nobuo, who is being controlled by the spirit of the Storm Village’s former leader.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, futuristic, sad, 2d animation
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Doraemon (1979)
Plot Summary:
Doraemon is an anime TV series created by Fujiko F. Fujio and based on the manga series of the same name. This anime is the much more successful successor of the 1973 anime.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, offbeat, semi serious, manga, crying, black comedy, dark comedy, 2d animation
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Robot Kingdom (2002)
Plot Summary:
Doraemon and friends travels into another world via the time machine; where humans and robots are living together. However they soon find out that the Empress of Robot Kingdom was trying to capture robots there and turn them emotionless. As the situation goes tense, our heroes sets out to stop the Empress and her plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, humorous, futuristic, semi serious, 2d animation
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Ivan the Incredible (2012)
Plot Summary:
Poor Ivan Olsen is plagued by problems bullied at school and constantly pursued by a gang whose greatest pleasure is filling his pants with water. And when Ivan gets home, his dad doesn't have much sympathy for him either because he is crazy about Tarzan and fails to appreciate Ivan's finer qualities. But one day Ivan gets the chance to live up all of his dad's expectations and give the bullies at school a lesson they will never forget. The big question is whether having superpowers makes life any easier?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 790
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, anime, offbeat, computer animated
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Doraemon the Movie: The New Records of Nobita's Spaceblazer (2009)
Plot Summary:
While Nobita is sleeping, he suddenly feels the floor is trembling, like there would be an earthquake in his room. A little rabbit from an alternate universe named Chamii opens the door between the dimensions using a hammer and gets inside Nobita's room through the floor. Nobita wakes up and Doraemon hears somebody steal food from the fridge in the kitchen. It is Chamii, who gets caught by Doraemon and Nobita. She shows them the passageway through Nobita's floor into the spaceship. After they enter the spaceship, they see Koya Koya Planet. They meet a boy named Roppuru.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 532
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, anime, 2d animation
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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's New Dinosaur (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nobita accidentally found a fossil dinosaur egg mixed with rocks in the dinosaur fossil exhibition site that he had visited before. He returned it to its original state with the "Time blanket". After hatching, the egg hatches a new species of dinosaur that is not named in the Cosmic Encyclopedia and names them Kyu and Myu Although they want to take care of them secretly, there are dinosaurs in the city still discovered by residents; Nobita and his friends were forced to bring them back to the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago the dinosaurs time. Just the time of Dinosaurs Extinction.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Thailand
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, manga, 2d animation
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Dinotopia: Quest for the Ruby Sunstone (2005)
Plot Summary:
An Orphaned Boy sets out in search of adventure, but when a shipwreck lands him on an island where Dinosaurs and Humans coexist, he finds not only adventure but a family as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, tense, touching, captivating, anime, psychotronic
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The Flying Machine (2010)
Plot Summary:
A family takes a journey across the globe on a strange and amazing flying machine, experiencing a series of adventures along the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, Poland, China, India, Norway, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, touching, stylized, feel good, semi serious, anime, humorous
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Monica's Gang in an Adventure in Time (2007)
Plot Summary:
Our heroes need to take a trip in time, in a Time Machine, in order to recoup the essence of the four elements before the Earth gets frozen. The Gang will face the dangers of the Ancient History with Piteco, will help Papa-Capim to save the Forest, will fight with the Astronaut against the pirates and will even meet themselves as babies in the past!.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, anime
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Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life (2009)
Plot Summary:
Long ago Arceus granted a fragment of its awesome power as the Jewel of Life to help Michina in the town's hour of need only to be betrayed when it was time for that power to be returned. After so many years Arceus is about to return to reclaim its power - enraged vengeful and seemingly unstoppable. Not even the combined might of Dialga, Palkia and Giratina can stop Arceus from devastating all existence across multiple dimensions. But Satoshi and his companions joining forces with their new friend Sheena, may have discovered the only way to redeem that ancient betrayal. Their journey will be both dangerous and uncertain: even if Satoshi and his friends can set an old wrong right again will there be time to return the Jewel of Life before Arceus destroys everything and everyone they've ever known?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anime, semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, sweet, exciting
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The Proud Family Movie (2005)
Plot Summary:
Penny and her family are lured on an all expenses paid vacation where a mad scientist captures them, refusing to let them go because Oscar won't reveal his on of his secret Proud Snacks formulas.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, 2d animation
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
Plot Summary:
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: anime, touching, feel good, humorous, manga, surreal, mind bending, mind twisting, psychological, funny
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Doraemon: Nobita in the Wan-Nyan Spacetime Odyssey (2004)
Plot Summary:
An elderly dog goes to a time machine, which he plans to use to drive to the future so he can meet with "someone" who gives him a kendama. However, the machine goes haywire and the dog is regressed back to his infant state, eventually found by a researcher cat.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: anime, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, futuristic, semi serious, 2d animation
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Dino Time (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a daredevil kid named Ernie, his sister Julia, and his best friend Max are horsing around in Max's inventor father's workshop, they accidentally trip a time-machine into operation and find themselves transported back in time 65 million years, where they meet a T-Rex named Tyra and her rambunctious dinosaur son Dodger. The unlikely group find themselves on an amazing adventure exploring the lush prehistoric jungle, despite Tyra's evil dinosaur rivals conspiring against them - while, back in the present day, Max's dad and Ernie and Julia's overprotective mom plot their rescue.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: semi serious, exciting, humorous, feel good, 3d animation, anime, computer animated