We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)

John Goodman: Rex

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• Buster : Say, ain't you a dinosaur?

  Rex : Why, yes. From tooth to toe, I am.

  Buster : Then what the heck are you doin' playing golf?

  Rex : I'm smart, Buster. I'm a smart dinosaur. But... I wasn't always.

  Buster : You weren't?

  Rex : Noooo, no sirree. You know, I started off stupid and violent.

  Buster : You DID?

  Rex : This was a long time ago, you understand? A LONG time ago. I was a real terror then. I was a real animal. And I was hungry, ALL the time!

• Louie : Everybody, I'd like you to meet my new friend, Cecilia Nuthatch.

  Rex : The name's Rex. Nice to meet you.

  Cecilia : A pleasure Rex.

  [curtsies] 

  Cecilia : Very nice to meet you.

  Dweeb : ...And I'm Dweeb! Hi!

  Cecilia : A pleasure, Dweeb.

  [curtsies] 

  Cecilia : Very nice to meet you.

  Elsa : [chuckling]  She's so well brought-up!

  Louie : Alright, break it up. Enough with the pleasantries...

• Rex : Hey, I'm sorry about the way I acted. I was a real animal.

  Elsa : We all have regrets, Rex.

  Woog : Tell me about it. The things I've stepped on.

• Rex : The name's Rex. What's yours?

  Louie : I think my name's Louie, but seeing you guys is giving me doubts about my brain.

• Louie : Just get me to the circus and we'll say no more about it.

  [He starts walking as the dinosaurs follow him, Rex bumps his head on one of the construction devices with a clang] 

  Rex : Ow! Ooh!

  Louie : Be careful, will ya? I can't be savin' ya every two minutes.

• [Prof. Screweyes has just shown off his Fright Radio to the kids and the dinosaurs] 

  Professor Screweyes : You see what they're most afraid of?

  Woog : No.

  Professor Screweyes : Monsters!

  Rex : Monsters?

  Professor Screweyes : You!

  Rex : Us?

  Dweeb : Us?

  Professor Screweyes : [holding out a jar of glowing pills]  With a little help, yes.

  Cecilia : What's that?

  Professor Screweyes : It's Brain Drain, the remedy to my brother's goody-two-shoes breakfast cereal. It'll take you back. It'll make you monsters.

  Woog : But we don't want to be monsters.

  Rex : We're not taking anything. You can forget it.

  Professor Screweyes : All right, you're free. You can go. I can't stop you. But the kids... are mine.

• Professor Screweyes : [having just hypnotized Louie and Cecilia into submission]  Among my many other rights under this contract, including copyrights on all their ideas, I've got an exclusive option... on their willpower.

  [Screweyes takes a tablet of his Brain Drain pill and snaps it in half] 

  Professor Screweyes : Now, this is just a temporary dose: my way of demonstration...

  [the children slowly transform into primitive chimps, to the horror of the dinosaurs] 

  Rex : Change them back! Or I'll...

  Professor Screweyes : Or you'll what? You're too enlightened by my brother's Brain Grain. You've lost your savagery. You've lost your frightening, prehistoric power to intimidate! You're civilized now and I've got a contract, and you're gonna respect that like the chumps that you are! But I'll tell you what I'd be willing to do: you all agree to take the Brain Drain, and I'll rip up this contract and set the kids free; if you don't take it, I'll bill them as the wild children of Hellzapoppin and use them to scare people in the sideshow! It's up to you!

  Rex : [sighs]  I'll take it.

  Elsa : [angrily]  And I'll take it, you loathsome creature!

  Dweeb : [voice breaking]  I'll do it.

  Woog : [in tears]  Me too.