I watched this film a couple of days ago. It was great to watch it again!
I don't have much to say about the story. There are some different storylines at the same time during the main story, like how Littlefoot learns, that you are "only as alone as alone as you choose to be" or the conflict beetween Mo and Cera, but both of them, Littlefoot's loneliness and Cera's jealousy end as quick as they began. The movie starts, after the great opening narration in the beginning, with a lot of talking and singing. I somehow even enjoyed this part part of the film, but I was shocked when I realized, that I had watched already nearly 1\3 of the film and only a few things had happened, after the "imagienary friend" song. Most of the parts of the film are uneventful, but the swimming sharptooth really subrised me in a good way. I'm not a fan of his design, but he is kind of dangerous and the scenes where he appears-espacially the last scene-are pretty good in my opinion, even when they are short.
The animation is okay. Only the colours are a little bit too bright sometimes in my opinion.
I also love the music in this film, not the songs, they are all good, but not as great as the music, that played in the background. When the six friends came to the big water, I heard the best scores of the whole "Land Before Time"-series play in the background. There was James Horner's "Discovery Of The Great Valley", the music from the end of the fift movie and Micheal Tavera's "The Valley". About the songs: I didn't pay much attention to "No One Has To Be Alone" until I came across this website. Maybe I nearly forgot this song, because of its only very small link to the main story. It's also hard for me to figure out, what made Littlefoot starting to sing this song.Mo shows him the star swimmers, he looks up to the stars and starts to sing. What made him suddently realize, that he isn't alone? Littlefoots lines in "Always There" from the fifth movie could answer this question. Or he just realized, that when it's dark at night, all those tiny lights in the sky are actually other... That would be telling, wouldn't it?
The last time the gang had an encounter with the Big Water, they had a really bad impression of it. Here, the scene of Littlefoot seeing everything that lived in the Big Water resolved that unexpected story arc. Of course, he almost drowned in it, proving the Big Water was still a dangerous place, but still, I liked the lesson here, which is that one should never judge a book by its cover. Or, in this case, first impression.
Yeah, you're right. Somehow the big water in the fifth movie and the big water in the ninth movie look like different places. I fifth movie only Elsie gives us a hint on, that there are also nice creatures who live in the big water, in the end of the ninth movie we see a lot of them. The sea in the fifth movie is deep and sometimes a bit rough, while in the ninth movie it has clear water and a smooth water surface.
Finally I discovered, that Mo is voiced Rob Paulsen(!) This is hard to believe. Mo and Guido are voiced by the same person? Wow!
I wish I could have done this post a few days earlier, but I had some problems with the keyboard of my computer. That's why I had to write this text without autocorrecture and I had to change the language setting on my computer from english to my native language and back very often.