FANTASTIC computer-generated images steal the show in the new children's film, Dinosaur.

This Disney flick reputedly cost anything between $127 billion and $200 billion to make, but the overall cinematic experience was a little disappointing and the money could have been better spent on improving the overall effect.

Dinosaur is certainly entertaining, and the on the face of it may have seemed like a great idea, but a lacklustre story with no surprises and a lack of fabled Disney songs to sing along to make it a long way off brilliant.

In some respects, its thunder was stolen by the BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs, which showed us it all before, and with the film taking six years to make you can understand the film-makers being upset.

The story follows the life of Aladar, (voiced by DB Sweeney), an iguanadon whose egg is separated from its nest after a series of natural occurrences, causing him to be brought up by a family of lemurs.

An impending meteor show soon causes the family to flee their home-land and certain death for life across the water.

Soon they hook up with a migrating herd of dinosaurs trying to reach the idyllic nesting grounds.

Live action backdrops are mixed with the animated creatures to great effect at times, it is impossible to see the join.

The dinosaurs really appear to live and breathe, with every nuance of life reproduced in minute detail.

Their skin and muscles move independently and the detail around mouths and eyes is stunning.

Even the millions of individual hairs on the lemurs each move independently thanks to a new computer programme created specifically for the film.

The programme was even used to make each blade of grass move in the wind and spring underfoot.

But I can't help feeling all this attention to detail is wasted on kids though they are sure to enjoy it and certainly on what is little more than a sugary, all-American 'good overcomes bad and we should all work together' tale.

By Holly Robinson