How "Frozen" Got to Now

Welcome to this very special edition of Mr Bee's brilliant movie buzz. It has been ONE YEAR since Frozen has been released. Due to the success of Frozen you would think that it's release has been over 10 years. Now come with me to a time before Frozen so I may show you what people's thoughts were before it was released.

Frozen is loosely based on the Hans Christian Anderson story The Snow Queen . I say loosely based as the only thing it has in common with it is this woman with snow powers. ( now I am probably going to give away a lot of spoilers but if you have not seen this movie you must be living under a rock ). It has been going in and out of productions since the thirty's . Until about 2011 it was going to be hand drawn but it wasn't. I predict the reason to be that after Disney saw the poor results of the 2011 Winnie The Pooh movie ( I hate you Harry Potter) they chose not to do hand drawn. Then when 2013 opened we were seeing trailers and posters for all these movies but where was Frozen ? We did not see anything until July ! In about February we did see some posters but Disney pulled them because they said the real characters did not look like them. Then when we saw the first three trailers we were thinking to ourselves “the characters really do look like they did in the posters.” ( the characters only look a little bit better in the movie than they did in the posters but they look basically the same). After the first trailer in July we were thinking “this is what Disney was hiding from us?” Those of you who do not remember the first trailer was with Olaf and Sphen and it was funny but it seemed like it was ripping off the Ice Age movie. After Disney started promoting the movie heavily most of the publicity was centered around Olaf and people were worried that Olaf would be very annoying. Though on November 27,2013 it looked like Disney's bad publicity finally paid off because “Frozen” had become the highest grossing movie of 2013 and the highest grossing animated movie of all time. “Frozen” mania had officially struck the world, becoming the best selling DVD in the USA and the UK.

Now for a short review of “Frozen”. It is easy to see why this movie has gotten all the praise. It definitely does not follow the usual Disney cliches, as it makes fun of the “love at first sight” scenario. I like the fact that it talks about the sister angle that we have not seen in any other Disney movie. I also like how Ana commits the act of true love when she saves her sister. The music is excellent, this is a must see movie if you have not seen it already and if you have you may enjoy watching it again.

By Mr Bee 

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Award Season Nominations 2015

Warning : some of the award shows on the above picture I may or may not be covering and the dates are not current dates

Welcome to the start of my award season

coverage. As I promised, I will be giving you my opinions and predictions for some of these award shows. The award shows that I am going to be doing today are going to be in the order that they were announced in. Ladies and gentlemen, queue your Don Pardo impression now (because, LIVE FROM NY, it's Mr Bee's coverage of the 2015 award season and now - your host Mr Bee). ( By the way, this is not live, but thanks for that just the same ) .

The Nominations for the Annie Awards

The Annie award nominations were announced about 2 weeks ago, Dec 1^st 2014. I am here to give my opinion, although I haven't seen any of these movies yet, but plan to see at least one of them before the season's end. Let's start with the biggest category which is usually the last, but today I am covering it first and that is best animated picture. I have limited the field to three and those three movies are The Box Trolls, Big Hero 6, and How to Train Your Dragon II.

Now let's move on to best voice acting and I predict Ben Kingsley as a winner for his performance in The Boxtrolls. And now for best music, I predict Danny Elfman for an award for Mr Peabody and Sherman.

Now for directing, I predict an award for directing duo for the Boxtrolls (but I am not mentioning their names because I don't want to have to type them).

Don't think that just because Pixar didn't have a movie out this year that they are out of the running because they are not, as they still managed to get nominations for their television special Toy Story That Time Forgot.

The Nominations for The SAG Awards

For the SAG – Like with the Annies, I have not seen any of these movies yet, but I hope to see at least one of the movies before the end of the season. Now for my predictions BIRDMAN, BIRDMAN, BIRDMAN. I think Birdman will sweep the SAG awards. Enough said.

The Nominations for the Golden Globe Awards

As I said with the SAG and the Annies, I did not see any of the movies, but hope to before season ends. For my predictions BIRDMAN, BIRDMAN, BIRDMAN and then maybe the theory of everything (enough said). (for best animated movie I predict the Lego Movie

The Nominations for The Critics Choice Movie Awards (The CCMA).

Now for the Critics Choice Awards, as said before with the afore mentioned awards, I also haven't seen these movies, but plan to see at least one before the seasons ends (oh wait, I did see Guardians of The Galaxy- please check out my reviews). (I'm sorry that is kind of a shameless plug).

The best way to predict the Critics Choice Award is to look at the Rotten Tomatoes page on each movie, since a lot of the critics that vote on the Critics Choice Awards are also on Rotten Tomatoes. Here it goes: SELMA, SELMA, SELMA. If I have to pick a runner up, it would have to be Boyhood since Selma had a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and Boyhood at 99%. For fans of Unbroken, do not expect it to win because it currently has only 52% on Rotten Tomatoes (woops how did that get in there?) Birdman is nominated, but unfortunately I do not predict it will win a big award, but on the same token, I do feel it will win best comedy (Birdman currently has a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes). For best action movie I predict Guardians of The Galaxy (YEAH!)

For best animated picture, I predict The Lego Movie. For best score, I predict Hans Zimmer for Interstellar.

Thanks for joining me for these award nominations rundown. Join me next time for my one year anniversary of Frozen blog.

For a complete list of all the Annie nominations visit: http://annieawards.org/nominees/

For the announcements for the technical SAG categories visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcS5Tu7CkEc

For the main SAG categories announcements visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMdg-3lKErw

For a complete list of the Golden Globes nominations and for the nominations announcement visit: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/2015-golden-globe-nominations-complete-list-nominees/story?id=27513357

For a complete list of all the Critics Choice Award nominations visit:

http://www.criticschoice.com/movie-awards/

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"GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY"

Welcome to this special review of Guardians of The Galaxy . This Marvel Action Sci-Fi movie, which I saw on Veterans day 2014 about 2 weeks ago today, and I am now here to review. Before I get into this, I am going to get a little bit off topic by congratulating all of the Peoples Choice Awards nominees and Jay Leno for winning the Mark Twain prize for American humor.

BACKGROUND

Now for this background: since I didn't have too much time to research this, I am going to tell you what people were thinking about this movie before it was released. This was a major major risk for Marvel and Disney because it's an unknown property. For you to understand why this was such a big risk for Marvel, “Who here reading this post has ever picked up a Guardians of the Galaxy Comic Book??” (Leave a comment down below).

A lot of people were skeptical of Marvel's decision so they needed to set it up in an end credits scene in Thor: The Dark World and Captain America The Winter Soldier. Apparently, they did not do it in Thor, but did it in Captain America. I don't know as a fact as I have not yet seen either of the movies (but of course I have seen Guardians of the Galaxy). Many people thought that setting it up in one film and not the other was a wrong move right before Guardians of the Galaxy was released, but all their fears were laid to rest when this movie was released on August 1^st 2014.

PLOT

Since the movie has not been released onto DVD yet , I am not going to give away too much of the plot .

Anyway, it is about Star-Lord AKA Peter Quill played by Chris Pratt and Gamora, played by Zoe Saldona. Along with Drax the Destroyer, played by Dave Bautista, Groot, voice acting by Vin Diesel, and Rocket Raccoon, voice acting by Bradley Cooper (did I mention that these are all outlaws?) Anyway they must all join together to fight Ronan the Accuser, played by Lee Pace. That is the basic premise of this movie. (stay until the end of the credits because you might see a certain duck from a little bad movie that you may have seen.)

OPINION

Now let's get the bad stuff out of the way first, the plot is kind of weak partly because it is full of

cliches- for example, how a group of outlaws must join together to fight off a bad guy, (we have seen this a million times.) Okay, now for the good stuff,

even though the plot is kind of weak the writing is really well done and the acting is superb.

The movie currently has a 90% critics rating and 94% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. About two weeks ago, on November 14^th it won a Hollywood Film Award. Now I am proud to rate this movie with a 4 out of 5 stars, a good movie!

Now I know some of you are waiting for my review of The Land Before Time III but, unfortunately due to my busy schedule I will not be able to post it until February. I hope you enjoy some of my bonus reviews to hold you over until February. So from all of us here at Mr. Bee's Brilliant Movie Buzz, have a Happy Thanksgiving.

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" The 18th Annual Hollywood Film Awards"

For those of you that don't know the 2014 Hollywood Film Awards took place last Friday at the Hollywood Palladium in Hollywood California and it aired live on CBS . I would like to point out that it was the first time the Hollywood Awards were broadcast on TV. Now I am here to give my opinion on the ceremony.

Before you go on to the comment section about this, I am not going to comment on what people were wearing! There were a lot of pretty dresses and all of the men looked nice except for Johnny Depp, but I will get into that later.

The Awards Gala was hosted by Queen Latifah and I would like to point out that I tuned on the TV a little late so I missed her monologue, but judging from what I saw in the rest of the ceremony, she was bad as a host. This is one Queen that needs to get out of power! As for the acceptance speeches, all of them were pretty good. The most emotional was Shailene Woodley (here is a link ). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JwkckeBwaM&list=UUlzCn8DxRSCuMFv_WfzkcrQ

The funniest one was Chris Rocks (here is a link) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee7Hcs8XB3E&list=UUlzCn8DxRSCuMFv_WfzkcrQ

As for the presenters , most of them did a pretty good job . Right now I am wondering, does the teleprompter ever work right? A noteworthy example of this was John Travolta when he messed up Idena Menzel's name calling her “Adele Menzine” at the Oscars earlier this year, (of course he might have been drunk, take your pick). What happened this time is that Jennifer Lopez messed up How To Train Your Dragon II and called it “How to Drain our Dragon” although she recovered from it beautifully (this has nothing to do with her looks, but she does look nice). Gerard Butler made a joke about it in his acceptance speech ( here is a link) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXgcYLFkEjc

And Johnny Depp, “were you tipping the bottle”? I'm sorry, but he was obviously appeared drunk! He was taking his role in Pirates of the Caribbean a little too seriously because he looked like a pirate! (here is a link) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CBsBvT_D3E&list=PLBS34APvqtnE9_-fAsSCtQBAoCfaRSWf6

Now traditionally, the Hollywood Awards marks the beginning of Award season, but as for which movies will be going to the Oscars, it's a bit too early to tell (a lot of them have not even been released yet). I think though that “The Fault in Our Stars” definitely has a shot and “Gone Girl” definitely has a shot. Don't expect Neil Patrick Harris to win an Oscar this year because he is hosting. How to Train Your Dragon II has a shot in the animation category.

I am rating the ceremony as a whole with 3 and 1/2 stars. It's above average.

By Mr Bee 

 

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The Death of The Oscars 2014

For those of you that do not know , the Academy of Motion Pictures , Arts , and Sciences held their 6^th annual Governors Awards on Saturday. For more about the honorees and whatnot , you can check out a previous blog I did when they were announced. If you have read it , you would know that I mentioned that I would do a review on it if it was done live-streamed . Well that is what I am here to talk about today. Now it turns out that this was not the case. It was was instead live-blogged , now I bet you can tell that I didn't like this because I referred to this as the “ Death of the Oscars 2014”. Part of the problem with a live blog is that they are basically saying that we only care about the people in the industry. When they do an event like this live-streamed , they are saying “ this is not televised ,but you may see the ceremony live. I stayed up (all of the night) to see the ceremony and let me tell you, the live- blog was, in my opinion, garbage. Half of the night they were showing us photos of what they were eating. If you really want to see what they were eating you can watch the cooking channel where you can see how they make the dishes. One time they even showed a picture of the DJ , but I don't think there was anybody the next morning who talked what the DJ was wearing. Before you go into the comment section and say that a live-blog is easier to do, may I remind you that the Academy is a professional organization. I will also add that any amateur can do a live-stream (even I could, if I so desired). In my opinion the Academy is a bunch of bumbling idiots for doing such a thing as this. I feel this is totally disrespectful to the Artists that were honored that night! Now if the Academy asked me if I wanted to receive an honorary Oscar , I would tell them pure and simple “NO,” except if the ceremony is live-streamed or televised. Better yet they could put the awards back in the actual Oscar ceremony, otherwise I will tell the Academy that I will be home watching SNL. Now for the lighter side of things; I could tell by the clips, which they posted on YouTube the next day, that it was a very good ceremony. It still; however, does not shy away from the disgrace to the Academy and everybody that was involved in the 2014 Governors Award . Neil Patrick Harris , you have a lot of work to do after the Academy held the disaster, that was the 6^th annual Governors Award.

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X of the Greatest Robin Williams Movies

One of the most brilliant actors for many generations, and one of the most talented comedians died tragically two months ago. That person ( if you look at the title)

is none other than Robin Williams. He brought joy and laughter to many , although his death did not bring anything but sorrow. This affected me greatly , in fact my first review almost did not happen due to his death.

I decided to do my first review despite my sadness. I am not going to give you the nitty gritty details of his death. If you want to know that do a Google search. What I am going to do is give you a quick review of X of his movies. They are not going to be in any particular order and I am not going to rate any of them.

I. Aladdin

This classic animated movie released in 1992 starred Robin Williams as the genie and Gilbert Gottfried as Iago. The animation is superb, the humor is top notch and the voice acting is excellent, but it is Robin's performance that steals the show.

II. Aladdin and the King of Thieves

This animated direct to video movie was released in 1996, and it had the returning voice cast including Robin Williams and Gilbert Gottfried. Now this is technically the third movie released in the Aladdin series, but only the first and the third has Robin Williams as the genie. The animation in this movie is not as good a quality as we saw in the first movie, but it is much better than what was seen in Return of Jafar. The writing was extremely well done, but like in the first movie, Robin's performance once again steals the show.

III. Jumanji

This 1995 live action movie that stars Robin Williams as Alan Parish and Kirsten Dunst as Judy Shepherd has superb writing . The special affects are a bit dated now, but were extremely well done for it's time but it is Robin Williams that is the scene stealer.

IV. Night At The Museum

This 2006 live action movie features Robin Williams as Teddy Roosevelt and Ben Stiller as Larry Daley . Ben Stiller's acting is extremely well done and the writing is well done as well , but it is Robin Williams performance

as Theodore Roosevelt that is the highlight of the movie.

V. Night At The Museum : Battle Of The Smithsonian

This 2009 sequel to the 2006 movie, Night At The Museum, has the returning cast members Ben Stiller and Robin Williams. The movie is not as funny as the first one, but with every bad joke there is a good one coming along , but like with the first movie it is Robin Williams that is the highlight of this movie.

VI. Popeye

This 1980 musical comedy film stars Robin Williams as Popeye and Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl . The songs are extremely catchy but the movie drags on. It is truly Robin Williams that steals the show.

VII. Flubber

This 1997 movie features Robin Williams as Professor Philip Brainard and Ted Levine as Wesson . The animation on Flubber and Weebo looked extremely real, but the movie really drags on . Despite all this the movie is very funny.

VIII. Bicentennial Man

This 1999 movie stars Robin Williams as Andrew Martin and Oliver Platt as Rupert Burns. The movie sends you on an emotional roller coaster all through its running time, but it is Robin Williams that is easily the best part of the movie.

IX. Mrs. Doubtfire

This 1993 comedy classic stars Robin Williams as Daniel Hillard / Euphegenia Doubtfire and Sally Field as Miranda Hillard. This movie is hilarious right from the opening scene. Sally Field does a wonderful job in her role, but like always Robin Williams steals the show.

X. Dead Poets Society

This 1989 film classic stars Robin Williams as John Keating and Ethan Hawke as Todd Anderson . Unlike most Robin Williams movies its a drama rather than a comedy. It is very emotional and some scenes are very unsettling, for example (spoiler alert!) there is a scene where one of the characters commits suicide but Robin Williams, like many other movies, plays the best part.

In conclusion, Robin Williams – “You are one of the greatest actors that ever came onto this earth and now I cannot imagine Hollywood without you there. Robin I am rating your career as a whole, as the highest honor that I can bestow: Five Gold Stars. You were just plain brilliant. I think I speak for everyone at Mr. Bee's Brilliant Movie Buzz saying you will be missed a lot!''

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Neil Patrick Harris to Host the 2015 Oscars !

Yes, after months of wondering , after weeks of anxiety, after days of predicting ; the Academy just announced yesterday that Neil Patrick Harris will host the 87^th Academy Awards. I'm here to give my two cents about Neil Patrick hosting . First of all I think he will do a wonderful job . I love his 4 times hosting the Tony Awards. He also hosted the prime time Emmy Awards twice, “heck” I even tuned into the 2013 Emmy's because of him. In an interview done in June 2013 the question came up to Neil “would you ever consider hosting the Oscars” and he said “That's the BIG IF.” Then he went on to say what he would do, he said his opening number would go “a little more 'Fred Astaire.'”

Yes I am thrilled that Neil Patrick Harris is hosting and I will try to post a review of the ceremony, which will be held on Feb 22^nd 2015. So I hope you check out some of Neil Patrick Harris's jobs as host of various award shows and what not.

For Neil Patrick Harris announcing the 2008 Emmy nominations with Kristen Chenoweth visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWisnGOW0KQ

For the 2009 Tony Awards visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebzx1DZTHO4

For Neil Patrick Harris hosting the 2009 Emmy Awards visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfeO0-T2EE8

For Neil Patrick Harris' opening number at the 2010 Oscars visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPMZKha6HeE

For Neil Patrick Harris hosting the 2011 Tony Awards visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8LsQ5UV8JA

For the 2012 Tony awards visit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKx_JyYHkEU

For the 2013 Tony Awards visit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VK5td0O4UQ

For Neil Patrick Harris announcing the 2013 Emmy nominations with Aaron Paul visit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv8NyzcQ0rY

For the 2013 Emmy Awards visit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msx4Xr8y6Cs

For the 2013 Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade visit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoZqWzyyUR8

For GoldDerby's interview with Neil Patrick Harris in June of 2013 visit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLLFtRp7e90

And for the actual press release visit http://www.oscars.org/news/neil-patrick-harris-host-2015-oscarsr

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"THE LAND BEFORE TIME II: THE GREAT VALLEY ADVENTURE "

Welcome : It has been exactly one month since I posted my first review of Mr. Bees brilliant movie buzz.

What a better way to celebrate my one month anniversary than to review the sequel to the movie I first reviewed. Before I get into my review , I am going to go a little bit off topic. I would like to congratulate all of the Kennedy Center Honorees !

Now back to the movie at hand .

BACKGROUND

Now I would like to point out that for this movie, I could find few behind the scenes facts. For some of this, I will be doing my hypothesis of what actually happened. This movie was released on December 13^th 1994 and it was directed by Roy Allen Smith, his first movie as a director.

Now here is my hypothesis as to why this movie was made. The big guns at universal noticed that the VHS and Laser Disk sales of The Land Before Time were doing so well that they decided to make a sequel. They also decided to make it Direct-to-Video because Disney was also having a tremendous success with Direct-to-Video sequels. Roy Allen Smith was hired to direct it and he decided to throw away the heavy atmosphere from the first movie and make it a musical. This was intended to attract the kids.

PLOT

This movie starts off with an opening narration similar to the one in the first movie. All through the movie the main characters: Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike, are dealing with their parents who are treating them like babies. There are two bad dinosaurs that want eggs. I really shouldn't say two, considering that in the movie, only one of them wants eggs and the other one wants to eat plants like all the rest. They steal an egg from Ducky's nest and then high jinx ensues and the bad guys drop the egg, but coincidentally the egg rolls back into Ducky's nest. The kids, who are trying to recover the egg from the bad guys, do not realize this, and they see an egg that is very similar to the egg in Ducky's nest, but bigger, and keep that. They think that this is Duckey's egg, but the egg hatches and it turns out to be a baby sharp tooth. They named him Chomper. Now the bad guys accuse them of stealing the egg. Littlefoot needs to find out how to take care of a baby and then (spoiler alert! ), Chomper gets into an active volcano looking for food. More high jinx then ensues and we find out that the wall that separates the “Great Valley” and the “Mysterious Beyond” has been knocked down. The adults want to put the wall back up. Littlefoot runs off to go find Chomper. There were grown up Sharpteeths in the “Great Valley” and we find out that they are actually Chompers Parents. They seal up the wall and everybody lives happily ever after!!

OPINION

First off , I am going to tell you what I did like about the movie. The title card is a vast improvement over the one in the previous movie which just looks like it is part the beginning credits. ( If you didn't know any better you would think that there is a man working on the movie named Land Before Time). Some of the voice acting is very good. Particularly Candace Hutson who does the voice of Cera and the only voice actress that reprise her role from the first movie.

Heather Hogan plays the voice for Ducky in this movie after Judith Barsi's tragic death in 1988. She does a fair job as Ducky. The voice actors who play the bad guys are very talented. Also, the actors who do the voices of Grandma and Grandpa Longneck are good as well. I will even tell you that they are the highlights of the movie.

Now for the bad stuff. First off, the animation is bad, but granted this is a Direct-To-Video movie and the budget for these are not the best in the land. The bad guys have no motive. There is never an explanation as to why they want the eggs although they are a type of dinosaur that can only survive on eggs (The average person does not know that ). Other strikes are that there is no continuity between the two movies and there is no mention of Littlefoot's Mother. Also, when they talk about the “Mysterious Beyond,” they act like they have never been there before (Didn't they spend an entire movie in there ?). The fact that the parent's treat them like babies is just so stupid because the kids went without any adults for a couple of days in the first movie. If my child went a couple of days without me and found his way back to me, I would conclude that they could take care of themselves. Mr Smith, “if you are reading this did you even watch the first movie??”

Only having one member of the original voice cast returning really hurts this movie because the majority of the voice cast does not know how to act!

In regards to the soundtrack, I liked the fact that they included the score from the first movie. However, the songs are simply bad.

I am sorry to say this, but I am giving only 1 and 1/2 stars out of 5. This movie currently has a 41% audience rating and no critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes . For some stupid reason, it was nominated for an Annie award, but it thankfully lost to ''The Gate To The Mind's Eye''. Well that's it for today . Join me next time when I will give a short review of 10 Robin William's movies.           

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Oscar Honorees 2014

For those of you who don't know , the academy of motion picture Arts and Sciences just recently announced who will be receiving an honorary Oscar. They will be as follows: Harry Belafonte, Jean-Claude Carriere, Hayao Miyazaki, and Maureen O'Hara. These four people definitely deserve to get an honorary Oscar. I would like to point out that Harry Belafonte is going to be getting the Jean Hersholt humanitarian award for his humanitarian efforts. It is about time that Maureen O'Hara gets an honorary Oscar, I am surprised she didn't get it 50 years ago. Hayao Miyazaki has done superb work in the field of animation making incredible films such as; Ponyo and Kiki's Delivery Service. He also won an Oscar for Spirited Away. He also received the Windsor McCay Award, and I think this Oscar will go very nicely with that award. As for Jean-Claude Carriere I have not heard of any of the movies he has done, if you know of one of his movies please share your opinions with me.

These awards will not be presented in the actual Oscar ceremony on February 22, 2015. Instead these awards will be presented in a non-televised ceremony on November 8, 2014. For about 80 years they were presented in the actual Oscar ceremony but someone at the academy decided that it would be a good idea to put these awards in their own ceremony. In my opinion this idea was stupid! It is incredibly disrespectful to the artists. I feel the academy is a bunch of idiots for doing this to these fine actors and actresses, since this ceremony is not televised, most people in the general public will never see the awards presented. I think that the awards should get put back in the actual ceremony or at the very least be televised.

I will try to post a review of the ceremony if it is live-streamed. Please join me next time for my review of the second Land Before Time movie.

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About My Blog

Throughout the course of this Blog I will be reviewing the history of Hollywood past, present and maybe even the future. As you may know, I have already posted my first review, The Land Before Time, please check that out. I plan to review all of the movies in this series within the next several months. As for the TV series, I will only be doing a condensed review, at the end of my review of the last movie in the series. As for the numerous video games, I will not be reviewing them at all.

I plan to try to post a monthly review. However, I will not be reviewing new movies unless I happen to see one, then I will post a bonus review soon after I see it.

Whenever nominations come out for movie award shows, I will be posting my opinions and predictions. After the award shows I will be posting a short review. There will be some award shows that I will not be covering such as: The Writers' Guild Award; The B.A.F.T.A.s; The Directors' Guild Awards; The Spirit Awards; The Golden Raspberry Awards; The MTV Movie Awards; and the Image Awards, but I may decide to cover one or more on occasion. I encourage your comments.

Join me next month for my review of the second Land Before Time movie.

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"The Land Before Time "

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Mr. Bee's Brilliant Movie Buzz !

I will be reviewing old, movies and I may including new ones as well. The first movie I have chosen for this month is The Land Before Time (1988). This is third movie that Don Bluth made without Disney Studios. Many people say that this is their favorite Don Bluth movie, however in my opinion the best he made was Anastasia (1997). I believe his weakest movie was The Pebble and the Penguin (1995).

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Background

This movie, with Don Bluth directing, was produced by Steven Speilberg, George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy. Kennedy is best known in recent years as the new head of Lucas Films after George Lucas sold his company to Disney. They originally wanted to make this movie with no dialogue and just the narrator telling the story. This would be sort of like Walking with Dinosaurs, not the 3D movie that was released in late 2013. To appeal to a young audience they added in dialogue, which I feel was part of the reason that there were 12 sequels, a t.v. series and several video games. To make it a G rating rather than a PG rating they had to cut 11 minutes that were too violent for young viewers. They even considered (spoiler alert!) cutting out the part when Little Foot's mom dies. Omitting that scene would have been having him find the Great Valley alone without any explanation why his mom was not with him. They also took it to a psychiatrist to know to how handle that scene, and he said to add in a character that would tell him that his mom would always be with him.

Plot

The premise of the movie is that a baby “longneck,” named Little Foot, and his mom need to find the Great Valley, which had not been touched by the famine where they had been living. Along the way he meets other young dinosaurs, including Cera (a “three horn”), Ducky (a “big mouth” ), Petrie (a “flyer”) and Spike (a “spike tail.” At first Cera and the other dinosaurs do not get along too well because of her Tomboy ways.

Opinion

This movie is kind of predictable because we knew that in the end (spoiler alert!) they would get to the Great Valley. With that being said the beginning is kind of boring and Petrie in some scenes is funny, but in other scenes is kind of annoying. With that said, this movie in some places is very emotional. In the scene where Little foot's mom dies, it is kind of like the Bambi scene when his mom dies, but in this movie, unlike the other, it is not followed up by cute little birdies and pretty little flowers for hours.

Bluth's directing is very well done, and the acting is well done by all of the voice characters in this film. Like all Don Bluth movies, the animation is brilliant. The music in this movie is very good as well, especially the song played in the end credits.

Alot of people agree with my opinion and this movie currently has a 74% critics' rating and a 78% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

This movie was nominated for a Young Artist award but lost to Beetlejuice; it was also nominated for a Saturn award but it lost to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

I am giving the Land Before Time 4 out of 5 stars, a good movie.

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