


The dinosaur knocks down his stick representing his own father and buries it.

The meaning: His parents have died he’s an orphan. The boy-dog stands up three sticks of his own in the sand and draws a circle around them. He lines up a group of sticks to represent his brother, sister, mother, father, and sketches a circle around them in the sand. “I miss my family,” says the apatosaurus (a somewhat larger sauropod cousin of the brontosaurus, if you want to get technical about it). 25-the trademark Pixar moment comes when Arlo, a young, green dinosaur rests along a river with his pal “Spot,” who is part boy, part dog, walks on all fours, wears just a diaper of leaves, and speaks only in grunts and growls. In “The Good Dinosaur”-the stellar new Disney-Pixar digitally animated feature film debuting in theaters Nov. Arlo the dinosaur and his pal Spot are attacked by pterodactyls in "The Good Dinosaur." (Disney-Pixar) This article is more than 7 years old.
