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This is the first edition of...
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).
Back
to the movie at hand...
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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By
Mr. Bee
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