as you say with number 5, it seems like a pretty serious, almost dark movie, until they run into Chomper. After that, it's clearly kiddy.
I couldn't agree more. The first half of movie 5 was great, but then it turned just sour afterwards. When you made that comment about 5 were you implying that you, like I, really loved the first half of 5 but hated the second? (not even the blood in the second half could save it from being kiddie)
Anyways, I think movie 9 could have been way darker. 2-4 were dark enough, 6 and 8 couldn't have been made darker they were so bad, same goes for 7, but not 9.
Ah, 9...something about this one was different. 6-8 mainly felt like crap, but 9...felt like a beautiful land before time film hidden under layers and layers of godawful animation and CGI. It was mostly made up of sunny, kid friendly scenes, which were usually livable, enjoyable, and even touching, but some of which were pure preschool crap, mainly the "Imaginary Friends". Yet there was one particular occasion when the film strayed from this territory: the scene with the lioplerudon---set in the lake at night in the pouring rain and ending with Mo seemingly sacrificing himself---felt like something out of an entirely different film, it was so different from the rest of the film. This here shows that the films definitely could be edgier and universal is definitely holding back. The ending was so beautiful, of the gang saying goodbye to Mo and going home, and making it back to the valley, and reuniting with their parents as the sun sets. This ending just gets me, and as I watch it I think how this could have been the end---how this would have actually made a good finale, with all the movie 1 connections, and how I feel as I watch the edning that I'm seeing the characters return home for the last time, and the ending line giving that feeling of "Oh, this series is over, but there's a whole lot more out there yet to be discovered." That, and LBT 9 was the last movie I really watched, prior to getting back into it this year. I have a whole topic on this called, "Should LBT 9 HAVE BEEN THe end?" But no one's responded to it yet.