When a young boy named Jake accidentally makes a new friend in an experiment gone wrong a troubled town is plunged into chaos. But with the creature rapidly evolving every day, Jake finds it increasingly difficult to keep his new pet secret. Jake's friends and new girl Abbie realize they are not the only ones interested in this strange, mischievous little dinosaur and soon discover that the only thing more mysterious than what it is, is who is looking for it.

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Stuart Pryke from New Zealand
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Sorry to the producers of this attempt at a charming boy and his heroic pet saga, but it really is awful. The animations were just odd, the direction so wooden I felt like building a camp fire. The story leaps about at points with characters turning up in places from scene to scene with no explanation of how they got there and the military's motivation for being there is only something you guess about long after it even matters. Certainly not for adults and my two grand kids were very bored.

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sguilly from United Kingdom
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Badly acted, kids performances made the adult actors seem even worse, couldn't be bothered waiting for the dinos to show up.

Not a lot to like about this film, was expecting something better.

Do yourselves a favour and watch, How To Train Your Dragon, the cartoon characters are more believable, likable and watchable.

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Dan Beale-Cocks from Gloucestershire
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I have low expectations for children's films because they're usually terrible. This film isn't very good, even by those low standards.

You can see that it wants to be a family friendly action film, with a bit of heartwarming stuff between the kid and his dinosaur.

It fails pretty hard at that. There's no humour or charm here. There's no chemistry between the actors, or between the actors and the cgi creatures. The set pieces are weak.

Both my child and I got bored very quickly.

It's a shame, because it could have been so much better. We deffo need films like this.

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todddaco
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You have to suspect that the two glowing reviews here were possibly made by people that had something to do with the making of this steaming pile of....digital film.

There are plenty of other BETTER boy/dinosaur movies out there. Do yourself a favor and choose one of those.

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Johnsog123 from Australia
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Perhaps the worst film I've seen for a long time and if I could I would provide a negative score for wasting my time.

It's like a 7th grader wrote, directed, edited and produced this for a school assignment.

The acting and writing is atrocious and the story line jumps around and there is little flow to scenes. The 'US ARMY' guys just turn up and it's the same guys with an assortment of military gear. Then when they start shooting it is comical, because the the firing a sound track from possibly every other army movie and no recoil and/or muzzle flash, and really this is just the an example... there are many, many more.

If you want to watch a film/TV show with great acting from younger actors, watch 'Super 8' or 'Stranger Things'.

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maxm-78745 from United Kingdom
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I sat down and starting watching this with my family. the acting was poor and forced, with no conviction. The special effects where so bad I thought I was watching a 70s film lol. Half way through we all looked at each other and said " are you enjoying this" we all said "no" had to turn it off. Very sad excuse for a film, the makers should be ashamed.

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thaigers
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I really tried to watch this movie but I can't. There are music in every scene, I tried to focus on what's important but that annoying soundtrack just throws everything off. The annoying music makes the acting and action so boring, it was like torture. My kids love dinosaur movies but even they couldn't understand what is going on because the soundtrack music is louder then them speaking.

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Christian Don-Rukantha from United Kingdom
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Normally, if a movie is as intolerable and downright pathetic as "My Pet Dinosaur" was, I would pause it at the earliest chance and scour through Netflix for something better. Unfortunately, I was watching this movie with two others and had to sit through what can be genuinely described as the worst movie experience of my entire life. Words cannot truly describe how bad this movie was and I'm genuinely enraged by the thought that a group of people came together and decided that this movie was worth producing and then distributing. Trash.

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Richard C Nyathi from United Kingdom
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I am totally convinced this was made by 4th graders and passed off as a serious flick. The acting by the kids is so bad even my 7 year old was rolling her eyes. The CGI looked like something a kid would experiment with in 3rd grade and the story line was just all over the place!People who are giving positive reviews for this one have either a vested interest or they are high on something. I have seen some terrible movies in my time but this really isn't that bad, it's just sad.

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Fat Freddy'sCat from Perth, Australia
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Currently on a visit to NSW, and staying with family in Lithgow, they told us that much of this movie had been shot in their street. So on our first evening here they put it on. After the drive up from Sydney, and then a few drinks over dinner, I soon began to doze off. I guess I ended up watching about half of it, but it really failed to interest me at all. I don't mind that it was a low budget offering, but what I could grasp of the plot was that it was pointless and rambling. The kids tried hard, so I will give it 3/10, but it is best avoided, or otherwise used as a cure for insomnia.

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