I've watched it today and here are my thoughts about
The story:
The plot is pretty easy and self explaining. The gang has to cross logs to get on the other side of earth cracks, flees from sharpteeth, gets into arguments, does things it has done many times before, but also some interesting new elements can be found in the film. The film tries to give every main character a few moments in the spotlight, what can be considered as good and bad at the same time. Etta and Wild Arms are also interesting additions to the cast and contribute both their part to the plot. The opening was good, while the end feels a bit too short. XVI is one out of two films that doesn't end in the Great Valley and I largely prefer the other twelve endings.
The animation:
It was okay, but some could have been done better especially the 3D and computer animated elements.
A few scenes with 3D elements that were good in my opinion:
Here come the scenes that could have definitely been done better:
There were also a few other elements, that I didn't really liked.
Elements in the background for example looked a little washed out sometimes.
Not only is here again one of those bad 3D effects, but also a detail that shouldn't have looked so 2dimensional, in my opinion:
His teeth.
How could I forgot about this?
The lava looked pretty realistic.
The water didn't.
The music:
There are many new tracks in XVI and though none of those stands out in particular they were not only a welcoming change from the ones that I had already heard in three or four movies before, but also sounded like The Land Before Time. I remember, that when I first watched JOTB the first thing that stood out for me was the music.
So here is the continuation of the post:
It is just some things that I noticed, while watching it and that I didn't mention in the post yesterday.
First of all, I think the biggest missed opportunity XVI had was in the introduction of the dinosaurs. In III and the other sequels it was the well done and the animals looked a lot more impressing. I did expect the same from this film, but the first sight of a dinosaur was this:
Things look smaller from the air, so why make dinosaur this size small?
How much time has passed between the first and the fourteenth film can be seen here:
