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« on: May 13, 2015, 10:11:00 PM »
I'm not a huge fan of the sequels and definitely don't see them as canon. A friendly, talking sharptooth? Please! They're bloodthirsty killers and that's how they should stay. Also, the first movie explicitly said that the only remaining members of Littlefoot's herd were his mother and grandparents. The sequels retcon a father into the story. If Littlefoot had had a living father, I'm sure the original movie would have mentioned that. It was meant to convey that all the other members of his herd had died.
The other thing I dislike is how the dinosaurs in the sequels no longer act like dinosaurs, but instead like humans in dinosaur bodies.
In the first movie, the dinosaurs were just that: dinosaurs. They were wild animals trying their best to survive in an unforgiving world. In the sequels, it's as though now that they're in the Great Valley, they've formed some kind of saurian utopia and become civilized. Mates are referred to as "husband" and "wife" and the young dinosaurs as "children." What's going to be next, Littlefoot and the gang attending school under "Mister Clubtail?" Are mating dinosaurs going to have weddings? Will there be funerals for the dead?