T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous

The film is the sort likely to whet active young minds to know more about the past.

The Imax 3-D format continues to evolve toward narrative maturity, without bothering to ask whether viewers want it to.

Instead of giving its eponymous protagonist center stage to strut and fret and sit in the audience's laps, it spends its best energy throwing a watered-down, imitation-Spielberg story in your face.

The three-dimensional Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs in “T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous” look like they could throttle the dickens out of the ones depicted in “Jurassic Park.” The visuals in “T-Rex” are so amazing that a story line isn’t even necessary.