Dinosaurs Let Loose at the Velodrome Wednesday night, the scuttle of thousands of excited children added to the stumping of dozens of dinosaurs fighting for their lives to turn the screening of Disney's Dinosaurs into the loudest thing that ever happened at the Velodrome of San Sebastian, which becomes a mega-cinema during the festival with a capacity of 3000 and a 400 m2 screen. Roy Disney went on the stage and articulated a timid "Buenas Noches" before addressing the near-capacity juvenile audience busy trying to match the Annecy Animation Festival in the field of paper plane contests (Annecy wins). "It's really a huge pleasure for all of us to be here" said Walt Disney's nephew. "I wish to say a special thanks to the San Sebastian festival for inviting us to be here. This is a big, big thrill for us, the first time you'll see Dinosaurs anywhere but in the United States. I think one of the great things that my uncle Walt left as a legacy to this company is the innovation, both technologically and creatively. Tonight you will see an innovation in the technological area that I think you will find hard to believe. The dinosaurs aren't real, but I think you might think they are..." And as the lights faded, the atmosphere of anticipation in the Velodrome reached a feverish peak. And it took only two minutes of Dinosaurs to live up to the expectations of all. Beyond the technical wizardry which reaches new heights in the field of texture rendering and CGI integration, Dinosaurs is a deeply moving film that manages to actually make you care for more than 30 species of "ugly lizards" (the exact meaning of the latin word "dinosaur") fighting meteorite falls, tyranosaurs and desert droughts in their perilous quest of an idyllic valley. Dinosaurs was applauded several times during the screening and certainly deserved the fervour displayed in every clap. Robin Gatto