We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is a 1993 animated adventure comedy film directed by Dick Zondag, Ralph Zondag, Phil Nibbelink, and Simon Wells from a screenplay by John Patrick Shanley. Loosely based on the 1987 Hudson Talbott children's book of the same name, it tells the story of three dinosaurs and one pterosaur who travel to the present day and become intelligent by eating a "Brain Grain" cereal invented by scientist Captain Neweyes.

According to Dolby, he was asked by Horner to help him write "Roll Back the Rock", due to Horner's lack of experience with writing rock or pop music, and wrote the song with little input from him. Because Goodman was not a professional singer, his recording was pieced together from different takes. Initially, Dolby had commissioned Tom Jones to sing the end credits cover.