"The Land Before Time VII : The Stone of Cold Fire"

We are dead center of the Land Before Time movies. Now I would like to take a moment and remember what we have been through:

• Good
• Bad
• Meh
• Awful
• Bad
• Awful

Enough said!

Background

There is basically no behind the scenes facts for this movie. I guess the only way to find the behind the scenes facts is to break into the Universal offices and rummage through their filing cabinet. But this movie is directed by Charles Grosvenor (again)-- Moving on...

Plot

This movie is roughly about (spoiler alert!) ALIENS (I wish I was joking)! And then something about Petrie's uncle Pterno being, well let's just say, evil.

Opinion

Okay- Ironically enough, the animation looks surprisingly better. With that said, we have some terrible CGI in this. The voice acting is pretty bad with the exception of Jim Cummings (doing the voice of one of Pterno's henchman). If you don't know who he is, he has voiced Darkwing Duck, Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, and many more (I will put a link to his IMDB page). Petrie is an idiot in this movie because every time his Uncle Pterno does something bad he tries to defend him. Even when Uncle Pterno admits his guilt, Petrie still sticks up for him.

The opening narration is done by Petrie. Really guys? You didn't have enough money to hire an actual narrator? At least with the last movie they had Grandpa Longneck do it, and although I didn't really care for that, it was better than having Petrie do it. I hope with the next movie they have an actual narrator do it. The songs are terrible- I have been to chorus rehearsals that have sounded better than that! With the exception of one song, which is Pterno's song, which is a pretty good villain song (but I do think it would be better suited for Gaston in Beauty and the Beast). As for aliens in this movie, really guys? You were getting this desperate that you had to put in aliens? What's next, Zombies?

Granted, this is not as bad as the last one, but it is still pretty bad. So I am giving it a one out of five star rating. This movie is bad- don't buy for your kids or for yourself!

By Mr. Bee

For Jim Cumming's IMDB page visit http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0191906/ 

                                                    

 

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"The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock"

Welcome to this 11 month anniversary of Mr. Bee's Brilliant Movie Buzz! Yes, my blog will be one year old next month, and to celebrate it you are going to be getting two Land Before Time reviews, two weeks in a row. This first one is, what you're reading right now; the second one will be posted some time next week. In August I have good news and bad news: there won't be a Land Before Time review (and the bad news for you, but good news for me because I don't have to watch one of those movies in August!). Seriously though, I am going to do a special blog in August to commemorate my one year anniversary! But to the movie at hand...

Background

This movie was directed by Charles Grosvenor who also directed the last movie in the series. It was released in 1998 (my birthday year in fact). And that's about all the facts I can find.

Plot

This movie is roughly about how 5 heroes (Little Foot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, and Spike) were told a story by Granpa Longneck around a campfire. The story is about the Lone Dinosaur and Saurus Rock. The 5 heroes meet a dinosaur, named Doc, who had seen a lot and he also saved Little Foot. Little Foot came up with the idea that Doc is the “lone dinosaur.”

Opinion

You may have noticed that the plot sounds like a three year old wrote it, and that is not my doing. It's not because I wrote the summary wrong, it's because I think they really did have “three year olds”write this plot! The story is utterly predictable and none of the characters are memorable. The voice acting is bad; Marion Flynn who voices Grandma Long Neck, was in her mid 40's when she did the part, and sounds a bit too young to be voicing it; but she is one of the few voice actors in this movie that does an ok job, given the material. I can't help but think that they could have hired an older actress or that she should have used an older voice for the part. As for the animation, as I said before, it seems to be getting worse and worse with every single entry. I like how they included excerpts from the score of the first movie,(which is the only thing that is connecting the sequels to the first movie). The songs are terrible especially when Jeff Bennett (voice of Petrie and Spike) sings as Petrie-- it sounds like nails on a chalkboard. I would rather listen to a Justin Bieber song than listen to one of these songs again. I don't know which is worse the fourth movie or this one, and that is why I am giving the Land Before Time VI the Golden Garbage Can Award.

Goodnight and Bee Happy!™

By Mr. Bee    

   

                                                     

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