“The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze”

Welcome back : I’m sorry about making you wait 2 months before the next blog but I am here to tell you that Maleficent did not shoot me in between blogs ! You can stop having funerals for me ! We are here today to review the 8^th movie in The Land Before Time franchise.  By the way I would like to point out a mistake I made in the review of the 7^th movie. I said in that review that we were half way done with the series but this is now the halfway point as there is another one coming out next year (WHY?). Let’s begin :

Background  

Like with the last movies there was little to know behind the scenes facts with this movie . I do have a couple of theories on why they may have made this. #1 MONEY . Now it could be that Universal heard about the production of Fox’s & Blue Sky’s ICE AGE  that would  come out the very next year and they wanted to get their prehistoric franchise out first (ironically enough Ice Age is another franchise that has been overrun ) or Universal could have just wanted to capitalize on the Christmas season with a Land Before Time Movie about snow !     ( Thank God they did not do a Christmas Special).

Plot  

This movie is about something going wrong in the Great Valley and the 5 heroes have to go over their parents heads to fix it ( oh wait I just told you the plot of every Land Before Time movie) , yet there is a new element here ( well not really new as it has been done in several non Land Before Time movies). Duckie is for some reason mad at Spike and a migrating herd of Spiketales and Spike decides to go with them.  A new character is introduced  here named  Mr Thicknose and everyone in the valley thinks he knows everything ( He’s the Brian Williams of Dinosaurs ).

Opinion

First of all animation is pretty bad , but not as bad as other Land Before Time Movies but still not good ! The songs were terrible so bad that I would rather take a written test and get a failing grade on it than listen to them again. Voice acting is not particularly good either. I think they just barely passed acting school . Now commenting on the storyline . The plot was about Duckie being mad at spike but there is no explanation why she is mad . The plot is definitely really overused and boring. They added an element from Follow That Bird ( which is a much better movie). They put zero effort into this movie . There was only one part of this movie that effort was put forth and that was the development of Mr. Thicknose. Overall this movie barely escapes the golden garbage can award ! That is why I’m giving it 1 out of 5 star rating.  Now I’m trying something new here and here is what it is ;  at the end of every blog I am going to give a little quiz and whoever gets the question right will get to request a movie for me to write a blog on. Here’s todays question : What is another overrun franchise that stars prehistoric animals ? ( and no google searches please ) and here’s a hint ( it was mentioned in this blog). Please comment or e-mail me your answer @ thatbradley@gmail.com .

The answer will be revealed in my next blog. Goodnight and Bee Happy!™

By Mr. Bee

 

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