I don't recall very much promotion for this particular movie but I remember going to see it at the theatre. I was the only one in the auditorium, but I saw the 11pm showing. It was pretty good animation although targets the pre-school/elementary age kids.
I for one, won't forget it. Ever. It had a huge impression on me as a kid. I haven't seen it since vhs players became obsolete but I'm watching it now on youtube and i'm loving it just as much now as I did then and i'm 20! haha. And while I'm watching it i'm realizing how much this movie still holds true to my aesthetic and values and sense of humor and hopes and dreams. I'm studying anthropology and I want to work in a museum. All of it's in this movie and I'm ... well I probably should be surprised but I'm not. It's always stuck with me. I want my future kids to love it as much as i do and I will definitely make sure it's the first movie they see.
I love this movie :)
So I saw someone in here likes Great Mouse Detective, I watched it last night, and am currently watching We're Back right now, both are great movies. I think I might watch Pagemaster tomorrow... great classic's. It's a shame a lot of the 90's animated movies like We're Back is forgotten. It came out on dvd this week and I flipped out =P (got it obviously)
shareIt's been almost 20 whole years, it hasn't gained any cult following or notoriety of any kind from the masses since then. This movie was also mocked and ridiculed by not only critics but even the cast and crew don't have that many fond memories working on it either. This movie will never be a "classic".
I've got an ignore list longer than a Chinese phone book.
Unfortunately it is not very much well-known.
Boycott movies that involve real animal violence! (and their directors too)
I realize your post was written over thirteen years ago, but this film is now on Netflix. I just ran into it and rewatched it. It brought great memories of a simpler time in my life.
If kids are still watching it on Netflix, maybe this film will be remembered for a little while longer.
I know it's weird replying to the OP who posted this 13 years ago, but I recall there was a lot of promotion for this film.
I remember seeing the movie poster of the T-Rex and the dinos walking through the city quite a bit. There were video games released for SNES, Genesis and Gameboy. Pizza Hut did promotions with toys of the dinosaur characters and they had an actual balloon of the T-Rex during the real-life Macy's parade in 1993. Jurassic Park was a massive blockbuster earlier in the year, so the attachment of Spielberg's name with another dinosaur-themed film came with high expectations.
It's a shame that the exciting ad campaign was better than the actual film itself.
We're Back is an awful film with forgettable characters, poor continuity, little internal logic, too much cloying cuteness and schmaltz, bland animation, no real sense of danger, and for a film with talking dinosaurs, it does very little with the premise. They could have been talking aliens, whales or whatever and it wouldn't have made a difference!
The early 90's featured many quality animated films from Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King and Toy Story, but those films still hold up for both kids and adults because they feature great characters, good scripts and good mixes of character drama, humor, and tense moments.
We're Back! falls short in all those aspects and there's a reason why it was a box office bomb and little remembered outside of its ad campaign.