THE DINOSAUR PLAY
I’d been scared, however, when I packed Will, six-year-old Daniel, and their mom into my car and headed up to Evanston. Daniel is a dinosaur data bank–I was sure this kid wasn’t going to be convinced about anything.
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“Dinosaurs are real big,” he told me before the lights went out. I looked around the tiny theater and tried to warm up to the reality of life-size human beings playing prehistoric monsters. “Bigger than your dad?” I asked.
The kid was positively glowing. His mother, on the other hand, had now sunk even deeper into her seat than I was in mine. And Will–well, he was entranced with the possibilities of a dinosaur coming to life right there.
In another bizarre twist, the mammal suddenly acquires the ability to freeze time, a trick he uses to save Tank and his family. OK, time freezing is a staple of cartoons and comic books, but here this talent might have come in mighty handy a lot earlier, yet the mammal doesn’t display it until the very end.
