Hello, dino fellows! I kinda forgot about this place & remembered it once after I finally managed to watch this LBT 14 & felt a strong need for opinion to be exhausted. Now, I won't go in to typing a big quality & professional tl;dr essay/review about the movie, since:
1) barely anyone would read it;
2) I'm not too fluent in English & have issues when it comes to translating a bowl of thoughts on mind in to text;
3) after 31 pages everything has been already said much better than I could say it myself.
So here it goes then...
I AM thankful it's finally a new movie after uncertainty & long waitings. So I was watching it bluntly & felt being bored after some first 15 mins, though I had to go through it, if only for the sake of it being watched & all thoughts/speculations been answered. Btw, I really adored those amazing backgrounds throughout the movie, as in previous ones.
But, would one expect some improvement & quality of the first movie after 12 sequels so far? Lolno! The film was L A M E .
Everything was so typical & predictive, I could foresee each character's saying/reaction before it was actually happening. Same overused characters' personal traits & stuff that's long exhausted & no funny at all. Spike still can't talk (even though his face appears to have more wrinkles now) & same goes for Petrie. [Well, actually those can be ignored if you take that events of all 14 films happen within a year or less.] Everything looked as if "scripted" or pre-made for the characters, than it looking that it's happening purely by luck or coincidence.
Unbearably preschoolers-friendly film, that as usual features scary looking villains that are always stupid & never hurt the main characters. Same scenes of kids defeating mighty "sharpteeths". It's so predictive & repetitive, it's no longer thrilling at all - just mute the sound during the "scary/thrilling" scenes & see for yourself. Oh & here there were no "thrilling" fights between sharpteeths & adults, so yeah... it's safe for toddlers to watch it.
Same plot as in all other movies... The problem comes in to the Great Valley & while stupid adults are busy discussing it, as always brave kiddos alone go on adventure out of the Valley to fix the problem themselves. They will work together, fight, & as usual each ones plan will go against them soon. Very predictive as in all previous sequels, actually as in all movies anyway. Then adults realize the kids are gone & so they go after them. All fix the problem & go back happily. SAME PATTERN STUFF, not sure how it can still excite anyone, unless you're under some 10 years old.
And yup, there are songs in the film, as usual. Songs that all sound like some well-known songs from the 70s-80s. In particular, the "Hot & Stinky" (lol), reminded me of the "Summer Nights" by John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John.
Typical accents by new characters too. Ruby & Chomper have no role in the film at all & were there only to validate the TV series as really belonging to the timeline.
The only funny parts in the film that made me smile were scenes with Petrie & those lizard-like characters. But didn't it remind of similar scenes in many other (animated) movies?
So was it a good movie? Meh, but better than previous 10-13, slightly.
Was it worth the wait? Guess so, but really... it's a 13th sequel, so what would you expect? Unless you imagine that the first film never happened at all, as well as 12 sequels too.
Not long ago I saw a "close" animated movie featuring dinos, called "The Good Dinosaur"... Now that was somewhat great - no songs, not boring, thrilling for real. But nvm it.
Gah, wanted to type a few, but guess I got too overexcited in the process as well as looks like there's too much of time on my hands!
Oh & btw, I don't love Jelly Otter anymore, as I created my own characters fully up to my own taste & liking. So how can I change my username to something else, cause I don't want the past still echoing...?
