1980 · adventure · family · classic
Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur
Directed by Hiroshi Fukutomi1h 47m1980
When Suneo does not show Nobita the fossil of a dinosaur claw, he takes up a challenge to find a dinosaur. He digs up a hillside and finds an egg, which later hatches and becomes a dinosaur.
Our read: Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur (1980) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive adventure · family · classic entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured adventure / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
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