Abenteuer im Land der Dinosaurier is a Dingo Pictures movie released in 2000. It is notably the studio's most widely-known work owing to a dubbing error within the film's Italian version, which, under the title "Yee", has become a prominent internet meme.
Summary[]
It couldn’t take a long time, and then the little dinosaur would eclose. Finally the eggshells crackled. "It is a boy", the dinosaur father shouted luckily. And in a little while, the small Dino played with the other dinosaur children and discovered bit by bit his neighborhood. But some day - the small dinosaur was attending some of his friends - the earth began to tremble. And shortly after, the volcano erupted. The small Dino had to wait until the volcano had eased, before he could run home. But when he arrived he was very frightened. Everything was destroyed. No trace of his family! "I must find them", he sobbed. And he started a long and adventurous search.
Plot[]
In a world where dinosaurs inexplicably cohabit with Cenozoic mammals such as gorillas and gazelles, two dinosaurs (resembling a pair of sauropods) are waiting for their egg to hatch, much to the enthrallment of the excitable, wisecracking pterosaur Kri. When the egg finally hatches, a small, green bipedal dinosaur emerges, whom they name "Tio".
As Tio grows into a young child, Kri starts to play with him every day, and Tio's father orders him not to see the pterosaur anymore, viewing the latter as a "bad influence" encouraging "rebellion" within his son, compelling him to send Tio to Oro's school. Despairing at his father's decision, Tio persuades Kri to teach him to fly, which he believes will enable him to "escape" Oro's lessons. Kri, unwillingly accompanied by the rhyming ankylosaur Piek, encourages Tio to learn via launching himself from a cliff, which predictably proves unsuccessful, instead leaving Tio with a concussion. Infuriated, Tio's father permanently bans his son from Kris acquaintanceship.
When Tio is okay again, he (alongside prideful fellow student Faa), starts to attend Oro's school. Oro is a gruff, eccentric, elderly Orodromeus with a passion for science who has recently constructed a makeshift seismometer (resembling a pedal-powered phonograph) enabling him to foresee volcanic eruptions. All of a sudden, his machine starts to make noises, and he believes an eruption is coming. No one trusts him, and he ends up being right.
When the volcano erupts, Tio and Kri (having met confidentially in a place far removed from Tio's family) take shelter in a cave alongside three crocodiles until the dust has cleared. When they emerge onto the barren wasteland formerly serving as their home, they re-encounter Oro, who tells them he split up with the other dinosaurs. The three crocodiles leave in search of water, while Oro, Kri, and Tio decide to set out and look for the other dinosaurs. After picking sticks to determine the direction, the trio heads west across the desolate landscape until they encounter a group of gorillas. They make friends with the apes, and a little monkey named Raja, who proves sympathetic to their plight. After Raja tells them he found dinosaur footprints, Oro, Tio and Kri head out following the footprints.
Eventually, the prints lead them to Ark, a former critic of Oro's, along with other dinosaurs who, in the absence of vegetation, have started to eat meat, much to the shock of the three. When Kri sees Piek and Faa (the niece of Ark) with them, he determines they haven't changed, and they decide to slip away with the trio when Ark is asleep. When Oro confronts Ark, Ark tells him Tio's parents went east, determining the next place to go.
After Piek and Faa join them, Kri is sent to scout out for food sources. When he finds that plains aren't far ahead, the four dinosaurs catch up with him and find a baby crocodile near a lake. He tells them Tio's parents are just up ahead, and the five are on their way. While in a jungle, they see a baby dinosaur who says his name is Tio the Second. He explains he was named after his dead brother, and Tio explains he is the brother. After this, Tio II leads them to his and Tio's parents, and they decide to adopt the parentless Faa. It shows some dinos don't change, as Kri starts hanging out with Tio II.
Cast[]
See also: Abenteuer im Land der Dinosaurier/Credits
- Armin Drogat as Oro, Kri, Ark
- Georg Feils as Tio's father, Piek, Orange Dino with Green Eye, Crocodile #1, Duck Narrator
- Hanna Kandler as Tio
- Simone Greiss as Tio's mother, Faa, Crocodile #2
Music[]
Bluevalley and Killer Tracks music[]
‣ Education - Martin Rennicke
‣ Zip & Cindy - Steve Kujala
‣ Oops - Jonathan Merrill
‣ Next Feature - Al Capps
‣ Seidenschal - Martin Rennicke and Björn Walter
‣ Dach der Welt - Martin Rennicke and Björn Walter
‣ Hallo + Guten Morgen - Martin Rennicke
Original Music[]
Trivia[]
- When this film was made, people thought grass didn't exist until 30 million years after the dinosaurs became extinct. We now know that grass did evolve in the time of the dinosaurs, although it wasn't as common as seen in the movie.
- The Italian dub of the scene where Oro tells off Piek for saying Tio's parents don't care about their son anymore since they had just given birth to Tio the Second became an internet meme, partly due to the way Oro pronounces "Piek" in a way that sounds like "Yee". Videos made out of this scene would normally have Piek's dialogue edited to sound like he is scat-singing to the movie's ending theme "Hallo + Guten Morgen", following by Oro interrupting him by abruptly yelling "Yee!".
Goofs[]
- Apes and other primates didn't co-exist with the dinosaurs. The first primates didn't exist until millions of years after the dinosaurs became extinct.
- Antelopes didn't co-exist with the Dinosaurs, only evolving into forms resembling those in the film 60 million years following the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs.
- Kri refers to the little monkey as an ape. Monkeys and apes are two entirely different primates.
- Pterosaurs don't eat plants.
- Plant eating dinosaurs can't suddenly decide to eat meat.
- A brontosaurus in one scene was white in one shot then gray in the next shot.
- Some of the dinosaurs have odd, mammalian features. Fa, the kid Tio goes to school with, looks more like an otter than a dinosaur, with her button-nose and visible ears.
- The dinosaur children obviously belong to different species than the supposed parents. The main character Tio looks like a two-legged theropod (meat-eating dinosaurs), but his parents appear to be four-legged sauropods (long-necked plant-eaters).
- In some shots, when characters get close to the edge of the screen, their body parts start disappearing due to the screen and the animation layers being cropped badly.
- In the English dub:
- As is usual with the English language versions of Dingo Pictures cartoons, the voice actors often flub their lines and the mistakes are kept in the dub. Note for example the lines "Why in the name of [pause] Tyrannosaurus rex does it work for you but not for me?" or "Tio's father, he had however not forgotten Kri and Tio's flight [pause] lesson."
- The word "dino" is consistently pronounced "dee-no" (closer to its German equivalent) than the more commonplace English pronunciation 'dyh-no'.
- When Peek screams upon Tio falls from his flying attempt, his male voice turns into a female voice.
- Just before the first school scene, Kri's voice actor appears to whisper "I'm done".
- At the end of Tio's and Fa's argument, since both are voiced by the same voice actress, Tio's voice suddenly changes and begins to sound more mature as the actress attempt but fails to differentiate the two characters.
- Upon first viewing Oro's "seismometer", Tio's father refers to it as a 'strange constraption".
Screenshots[]
See Abenteuer im Land der Dinosaurier/Screenshots
Releases[]
See Abenteuer im Land der Dinosaurier/Releases
