We're Back! A Dinosaur Story Infamous cut "Cage" scene and pencil tests

[Nitrinoxus]

From what I see here, I don't think the 'infamous' cut scene is scary; if anything, it gives us more insight into the Professor's character, including why he's scared of the crows that flock around his circus and the reason he began said circus in the first place (as a way to distract from his own fear via inciting fear in others; this 'mastery of fear' gives him a much-needed sense of control in what he sees as an otherwise senseless, uncontrollable world).

Is there a scarier part after that?

[Sh4d0wKat]

Makes you wonder what Screweyes' real name is, since it's probably a moniker he uses to inspire fear.

[xeverydaynormalgirlx]

@Sh4d0wKat Since his brother is Neweyes, I'd imagine they would have the same last name. Maybe that was his original name and he was able to conveniently change it to suit his eyes :P

[wickedfeylady]

Malkovich sounds creepy, but too young. Mars was a better fit.

[SuperEggman10]

this deleted scene is starting to make sense

[devildog452]

I uh don't get it.

[devildog452]

I wanted to see them turned into savage monsters in pain.

[futureblocker]

@devildog452 From what I read in the script they do - its at the part where Rex is pulling at the Cage Bars and Fireworks are going off in the Deleted Scene( even though we don't see them devolve in this cut on here)! Again does ScrewEyes say at the end of this cut "Oh, how will you satisfy the fearful of this world"?

[futureblocker]

I got the script from script fly! But I can't reveal any of the dialogues from the script as I'll be breaking the law! Rex says "This guy is nuts." The next bit that features ScrewEyes is a lot of fireworks and I might know what it is but I'll have to listen to it - Question does he say "Oh, how will you satisfy the fearful of this world!"?

[futureblocker]

One thing I can reveal, that I remember from the script is what Screw Eyes says too the dinos after Rex starts too devolve and they've been fed the Brain Drain! Although it was months ago when I last read the script, ' I think it was "Soon you'll Sumcumb too your wild sides".

[futureblocker]

Its True! I've got a planned Sequel of "We're Back!" Which includes a Story/Script which I written! The Sequel is NOT based or called "Going Hollywood! A Dinosaur's Dream" but will be a direct sequel of the "We're Back" Movie ONLY! It feature the Far Future/21stCentury(Near Future) and Middle Future! I've got to get in touch with Steven Speilberg or maybe Simon Wells( one of the 4 original Directors) and asked them if they want too develop it( I want to be one of its voices and production)!

[MrCure4]

John Malkovich was set to provide the voice of Professor Screweyes but he dropped out in the middle of recording becuase he thought it wouldn't do his career any good. Its interesting how times have changed becuase now he seems to do anything for a paycheck, look at last year's Jonah Hex.

[gforrestersmith]

Where can anyone find the Whole Cage Scene?

[futureblocker]

@gforrestersmith Wouldn't know, but I've got the original Script so I know what hapens in the whole scene!

[gforrestersmith]

@futureblocker Well where the Heck is that Script?

[futureblocker]

@gforrestersmith I can't remember which site I bought it off but more too the point I don't have the script with me, its a my mom's home and I won't be able too reveal more of the script until I go to my mom's home this friday! And Friday on night I'll reveal where you can get the script and what parts of the scene are mention! And that's a Promise!

[nerdforeverchick]

this scene is stupid iam glad they took it out i figured out his eye ball when the crows ate him in the end. overall i didnt care for this movie Balto was way better. the only thing good was dinosaurs they shud of kept it that way

[GhostPlanetFilms]

I like Malkovich's voice here. The only problem is that it doesn't sound like an old man's voice. I can see why they replaced him with Mars.

[TakShadoWing]

Is there also footage or pencil sketches of when ScrewEyes uses a canon, yes a canon, to literally blast the Brain Drain down the dinos throats?

As a kid, I both saw the film and collected the films counterpart books that were available. So when I read the part with the canon, it threw me off. Especially because there were pictures of the films characters to go along with it. o,o

Anyone out there have further information?

[AbraCadaveric]

@TakShadoWing No clue, this is the first I've heard of the canon story.

[Oecobius]

@TakShadoWing It does look like a row of cannons he has set up in front of the cages. I think he's setting that bucket of pills on top of one and then he was supposed to pour the pills in there, but that animation was probably lost. There's got to be more to this scene; if they kept this in the movie, I doubt they'd just cut from Screweyes gasping & looking scared straight to the next scene.

[Darkman9000]

While it's true the movie isn't nearly as memorable or great as the early Disney and Bluth films, it's still not half bad. But wow... whose bright idea was it to axe a critical moment of the villain's history? I could understand removing the dinos being changed back to normal, but that's another thing entirely, this is explaining how the mad man became so mad!

[VerySourLemon]

What happened during 2:07 and 2:12?

[Headbanger142]

I don't know why but Screweyes reminds me of George Stark from The Dark Half? Not in appearance but how he lost his eye to a bird and then got consumed by the birds at the end.

[TheJboy88]

Wait. your saying that the only scene which gives the audience some understanding of the villain's character or motivation was cut?

WHAT THE HELL KIND OF SENSE DOES THAT MAKE?

[heartlesslover711]

now i understanding the ending XD

[GhostPlanetFilms]

Is that John Malkovich as Screweyes at the beginning?

[TheAtroxious]

I will never understand how conquering your fears, and then making it your business to scare others (mind you, who willingly come to be scared) makes one evil. If that is the case, we might just up and call Stephen King Satan.

Screweyes is by far the best character in the movie.

[VollendJatara9Jenny]

I had a strong feeling the crows had something to do with his lost eye. ;)

Can't believe they cut this scene.

[futureblocker]

I've got the Script and there is more to this deleted scene than you know!

[dmc97ingc]

@futureblocker Where can i find this script?

[futureblocker]

@dmc97ingc I'll reveal where I got the script next friday when I go to my mom's home! The script is there!

[Necrypt]

@futureblocker Really?? Like what?

Big fan of the movie, really :)

[heartlesslover711]

@futureblocker Really? Whered ya get it and could you summarize what was left out?

[TheRemyWolf]

Is there a version of the dvd that has this deleted scene, or a link to a site with the entire deleted scene and others like it (if there are more)?

[drtoonie]

I'm not going to lie, for some reason this whole video creeps me out.

[Bizarronumber4]

I remember reading in a few articles about We're Back during its release that John Malkovich was the voice of Screweyes but I thought it was just a rumor. I really liked WE'RE BACK,it would have been nice if a sequel was made in which Screweyes came back by whatever means and became a good guy.

[futureblocker]

@Bizarronumber4 Unfortually that would be Impossable as he is now a Screw, but I've be planning a sequel?

[LeatherLacerate]

I was pleasantly surprised to find out Julia Child the culinary pioneer voiced the female scientist Dr Bleeb!:D

[NICKREAPER316]

is that gene wilder's voice in the cage part?

[lastgarlicfinger]

@NICKREAPER316 Probably. I think Gene Wilder must have been a temporary actor for the scene.

[NICKREAPER316]

@lastgarlicfinger Funny thing about that. I went on IMDB to see who the voice actor was, it's some guy named Kenneth Mars. I clicked on his name and looked at his filmography. And the first thing listed in his filmography is Young Frankenstein, one of Gene Wilder's classics.

[LinkXToboeXAmaterasu]

Lol, that is kinda creepy...

[thewildman1000]

Can someone show the whole scene

[Montork]

wow look how carefully it was animated.

[grysch]

I could swear the original voice for Screweyes was Paul Rugg who played Freakazoid

[thewildman1000]

Who's the penguin and what movie is it from?

[thewildman1000]

Answer me I mean the one in the start of this video

[JustAPrayer]

I find it ironic that the only scene where they bother to explain a plot point is the one that gets deleted. They basically made the movie more confusing then it already was.

[TheFinalElement14]

This doesnt look like the full scene from the cut. You could see some clips from the trailer, and it doesnt have them in here. But anyway, I wish that they would have kept it in the movie, this scene gives the ending alot more sense to it.

[AnotherIncipient]

The ending makes a lot more sense now.

[sesshylover6]

I didnt think that this scene was disturbing... o_O;;; I think it wouldvef added to the story of Screweyes and would have made him a whole lot... SCARIER, I guess...

[SashaTheBrit]

god this movie scared the living hell out of me when i was a kid. but i think of it fondly now :]

the test actor for professor screw-eyes made me laugh.

[wickedfeylady]

Whole new meaning to the term "Mind Screw"

[TheLordmep]

What can i say that hasn't already been said? They should have kept the flipping cage scene in the flipping movie. It would have made Skreweyes so awesome and memorable. Damn PG 13 phobia.

[wattsink2009]

This is very good! Can anyone find some of these for Fievel goes West and Balto too?

[Yayanniss]

Can you add a sub for both professor screweye and captain neweye in description? I can hardly understand what he says ^^'

[blueravenfire]

dude! they should have kept the cut cage scene in the film! i would explained the ending more and why he as a screw eye and crows all around him.

[diablaxcrista]

Okay...I'm gonna say this as a huge Batman nerd (which I am proud to be) but...

A part of prof. Screweye's past refers a lot to prof. Jonathan Crane's (The Scarecrow) past. Screweye was attacked by crows as a child, so was Crane. Screweye's afraid of crows but keeps them by his side all the time, so does the Scarecrow(Crane) and they both can control everything they fear with fear!

[AbraCadaveric]

I can see the similarities - that's actually a really good comparison!

[Adamguy2003]

@diablaxcrista 1. Was Crane attacked by crows as a kid? I know he was bullied a lot by other kids, but didn't think he was attacked by crows.

2. I thought bats (And specifically, the Batman) were the only thing Crane was afraid of?

[aoinatafanboy84]

@diablaxcrista not to mention that Screweye and Scarecrow to seem to be reflections of each other's name.

[breakingthehabit2008]

Wow!!!!

[Stepith]

I remember this film.

It was a great kiddy alternative to Jurassic Park until....the two kids get the brain drained to looking like the apes from Planet of the Apes. It was a great scare for the kids and looking back on it, I say it was genius.

Good times. Good scary times

[KleoNeko]

... And suddenly the ending makes A LOT more sense...

I LOVED this movie as a child. I rented it from the grocery store all of the time. My favorite scenes involved Professor Screweyes; he was by far the most fascinating and deepest of the characters in the film.

As much as I like this movie, even as a child I knew that it suffered from what can at best be called a clumsy narrative. Personally, I think the film could have been made a lot better just by cutting out the dinosaurs altogether.

[eddievaliant1]

SPOILER, look out:

As professor says, he keeps the crows around as his pets so he can control his fear, but since at the the end the crows eat him alive, he couldn't obviously control them anymore...

[Kaagh178]

Yeah, when Neweyes, the children, the dinosaurs and his clown sidekick all left him alone in the dark, Screweyes gave into his fear. The crows took that chance and ate him.

[berrypie11]

This has got to be my most favorite movie of all time besides Oliver and Company! I wish they had this scene. Where did u get this from? :D

[astridkitty1212]

This movie is really unfair to dinosaurs. Have any of you noticed that it says that ALL dinosaurs, even PLANT EATERS, are mean, hungry savages unless they are fed brain grain? That is SPECIESIST! At least Jurassic Park respected dinosaurs by saying they are "not monsters, just animals." Why did Steven Speilberg, in making a dion film for kids, lie that all dinosaurs unless civilized are savages?

[vauvakolibri]

@astridkitty1212

Well, you could say that ANY wild animal can be a mean and hungry savage, especially if it feels threatened (like being chained in unfamiliar surroundings)... Wouldn't except a rhino to just sit there calmly if I went to touch it in the wild even if it is a herbivore.

[miseryXIII]

Dude, I really don't think the dinosaurs care that much. Relax, it's just a kid's movie!

[astridkitty1212]

Actually I take it easy on Steven Speilberg. I think everyone should. He is one of the long line of renowned Jews with Asperger Syndrome, of which I am also one. He created one of the most powerful movies to speak out against anti-Semitism, so what if he stereotypes Arabs and Native Americans in some of his films. If you're Jewish and have AS nobody should criticize you for putting down other groups. I am just sensitive to species stereotypes :/.

[Ne0nLobster]

Wow... just wow!

This should NOT have been cut! It just explains so much! Now, his death doesn't seem so tacked on and random!

And it was cut out because it would've been disturbing!? I remember seeing more disturbing scenes in The Lion King!

Also, is that Malkovich I hear? Malkovich as Screweyes? It just doesn't work! I'm glad they got Mars.

[MsGtrh]

Sounds more like John Candy.

[cyberjar88]

@Ne0nLobster I agree with you completely!

[kylgrv]

JEEZ! That is one freaky way of losing an eye.

[Thetarantinomaniac]

It almost reminds me of the Joker's "why so serious" background story in some ways, coming to think about it...

[Waifine]

This is fantastic! Thanks so much for sharing it. Where did you get it? Is there a version of the movie with the cut scenes?

[DarkwingDork]

This still doesn't explain why a time traveler spends all his time in early 1990s New York scaring children in a Central Park circus...

[AbraCadaveric]

Lol

[Nyarlathoteplol]

@DarkwingDork

Its what I would do.

[MaetelSX999]

I always found ScrewEyes' death troubling, so different from the rest of the movie, more deep..now it takes all its meaning !

[poochie883]

I worked on this film. I'd love to see the rest of that section. I don't think it ever was completed in to full colour. There's lots that was cut out and it was kind of unfortunate. We all thought it was really cool stuff and worked hard.

[ajlposh]

Really? That's cool. Can you tell us more about what it was like to work on this movie?

[poochie883]

After working on this film for about two years, I hardly recognized it when I saw it in the theatre. It was so cut up from how I remembered it. Apparently a person on the review board said that portions were too scary for children and that it would have to have a PG13 rating. Well...say goodbye to the cool stuff. It was a great learning experience and I worked with so many talented people. Just once I wish they put out the original version.

[AbraCadaveric]

Are you working on any animation now?

[poochie883]

I've moved back to where I came from to be with family. It's difficult to get work here, but I'm just as happy learning other things. The industry has changed so much. I teach evening classes at the local University just to help others. Occasionally I still freelance.

[fatmanwithagun]

I have never gotten a chance to do this for some one who has given me something like this I desire to thank you this movie is something I loved as a youngue child and still injoy I think many would agree in the fact and beauty of the movie and how sad we are that things were cut but I must thank you again for sharing your talent with us and allowing us some random people you barely know to witness some thing you put so much time and effort in (( this movie scores 4 out of five aka 4.999998

[Warlock0]

You worked on this film? Very nice! I was a fan of this film as a child. Something I found interesting was that even though some people said that it was too scary for children, I wasn't afraid of it (at least from memory). To be honest some of the parts that were perhaps the scariest I loved the most. Especially the sequence with the eccentric Circus when the skull entrance rose up to make room for the pyramid. So thank you for helping to make this movie. You guys did a fantastic job.

[FoxGirlStephanie]

ya i'd pay to see the un-edited one

also luck you, you know how this movie was ment to lookthe rest of us have to come up with it on ower own

[DaytimeFilms12]

@poochie883 I heard that's why John Malkovich left.

[DesertStormRex]

@poochie883 you DID?!?! For real??

[Doomy23]

@DesertStormRex No he didn't. He's a lying attention whore who's trying to make himself seem more important than he actually is. Never believe anything you read on the internet, ever.

[DesertStormRex]

@Doomy23 just checking. you never know who you can ACTUALLY run into. i actually ran intomy favorite artist!

[dlmx13]

My animation instructor was an FX animator on this movie and told me about this scene. Great to finally see it!!

[neroxero]

THAT EXPLAINS SOO MUCH!!!

now he's not just some creepy looking jerk who kidnaps dinosaurs.

i thought he kidnapped them for the sake of his freak show and the eye thing was just a part of it.

wow. .... sooo much

[CandeljacKDontSayHis]

For god sakes man your missing vital plot points!

[atomofish]

Though now that I think about it, this makes Screweyes' death all the more disturbing....

[atomofish]

WHY did they cut this out?! It explains so much!

[ElrondHubbard54]

Nightmare fuel!

[Eeveefet]

coolio i wish they didnt cut this from the movie

[TetsuDeinonychus]

I LOVE that movie, but it would have been so much better with that scene in it!

[AbsalomPitchingfork]

This animation is /really really really smooth.

[painlessissuicide]

not a classic, but still an underrated movie

[MmeCShadow]

Wow.

I've always really liked the crow scene at the end of the movie because it was marvelously creepy, and actually giving it context really helps.

Understand why they took it out, but damn, that really should have stayed in there.

Where did you get this footage?

[FinalSquadalah]

...

This is an important fucking plot point.

To leave this out is like to cut out all the duels from an entire season of yugioh.

It just.

Doesnt.

Work.

[8x13Wolf]

Amazing scene, it definitely should have been left in the movie--although it would have terrified me as a kid, I know it.

Now to find the scene of the dinosaurs being fed the brain drain and caged. For some reason, I've wanted to see it for years.

[jcoch1r]

What was with the penguin and the guys with the guns?

[chibicelchan]

That would have made the movie a good deal better. Pretty sweet.

[Poever]

Who's animation demo reel is this?

[Apedemak8]

i always found the movie short now i know why =/

[AbraCadaveric]

Everybody watch the latest Nostalgia Critic video where he reviews We're Back!

[tommynicks]

Is that John Malkovich doing prof screweyes?

[DarkwingDork]

Yes, it was. Malkovich dropped out of the film because he disagreed with it's messages. Given the finished product, who can blame him?

[90sComputerGames]

Whatevs. I think Kenneth Mars fits the voice and role a million times better. Screweyes needed a more gristled, elderly voice anyway.

[CyberLance26]

They should have included that scene in the movie.

Would have made the scene were the crows kill him a lot better.

[Inconspicuouszaku]

So basically they cut the one scene that actually makes the movie partially make sense.

- What the motivations of the villain are

- wtf was going on with his whole death scene with the crows

Brilliant.

[906087]

if they had included that scene where Professor Screweyes explains the loss of his eye, the movie would have made a lot more sense.

[One176]

Was that Brad Dourif as Prof. Screweyes? Holy Crap, thats awesome!

[Planetvideogame]

This movie is based on a 1987 kids book

[jshmove1987]

Sounds more like John Malkovich to me

[jshmove1987]

Can anyone name the actor that voiced Screweyes in this clip?

[AbraCadaveric]

I'm sorry, this is the only We're Back clip I have : (

[Luirio]

Now we know how he lost his eye,,,

[yearoftheraptor]

id really like to see the scene were he actually feeds the braib drain to the dinosaurs and the dinosaurs becoming wild again and locked up in those cages

[Acrobatdog99]

Excuse Me wasn't There A Part Of That Deleted Scene When Rex And His Friends Were Fed Brain Drain Like In The Trailer?. What Happen To it?

[ht101]

I think they replaced them with some work in progress scenes of We're Back

[Daryntheliondude]

WOW!!! I thought I'd never live to finally find this cut cage scene! How interesting! Is it possible to see the other 2 minutes of it ya think? With Amblimation's permission?

[AbraCadaveric]

This was the only reel available at my school, but it's possible there may be more availabe - I'll check back next semester ^_~

[Daryntheliondude]

Thanks! I totally appreciate it

[Movie06]

....Are you kidding me? That's not disturbing.

[AbraCadaveric]

Blame the censors @ Amblimation.

[Movie06]

I know that. I'm just saying. I read about that so called "lost scene" and how disturbing it was but really, any kid would've laughed at that kind of thing.

It's just so unintentionally funny.

[AbraCadaveric]

Not to mention illogical. Not that anything in this movie is lol.