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The Land Before Time => General Land Before Time => Topic started by: pokeplayer984 on June 03, 2010, 12:54:32 AM
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We can all agree that The Land Before Time 13 was the absolute WORST of the franchise. Anyone who dares to take this on and review it is very brave.
May God have mercy upon this reviewer's soul. I present the review of the movie that killed our beloved franchise.
The Land Before Time 13 Review (http://blip.tv/file/3584563)
Who would've guessed that 13 would end up being our unlucky number?
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All I can say is I'm glad I didn't see this movie in its entirety.
Oh, Littlefoot...what have they done to you? They turned one of my childhood heroes into a freakin' narc. Also with all the emphasis they put on the Wisdoms, you'd expect them to be some great life lesson like "You're only one small part of something much greater." or, you know, something inspiring like that. Instead it's "Stay close to the herd, stay in a group, etc." The very same lessons we've been hearing since the first Land Before Time. Also, singing and dancing defeating the Sharpteeth? Can you say Big Lipped Alligator Moment?
The actual review was good. The reviewer was pretty funny and brought up a lot of good points. Not really much that I can say other than it was good.
I just want to conclude that I was pretty disappointed with the Berry Valley. For some reason I expected it to be nothing but trees of berries, not the Great Valley Jr.
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I didn't even give a hoot about the 13th movie. When I saw that cover I said to myself "okay, I can obviously tell this film is not going to be anymore mature than invasion of the tinysaurus. Even that film was too kiddie for me." If you are going to give what I call a "sendoff"(your best and final project that will give EVERYONE a reason to remember)to a franchise at least do a better job than this. I'll go back and watch UP.
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We can all agree that The Land Before Time 13 was the absolute WORST of the franchise.
I think its the best one yet. Just saying. I'd actually say the worst was... :confused
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Why do you think the 13th was the best one?
In my opinion, the best LBT movie is the original. Can't beat the original.
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Why do you think the 13th was the best one?
Because it (along with 11-12) had more ALOT more humor than the other movies, and it had better songs than most of the movies (expect All Sorts (LBT4), Girls (LBT11), Flip, Flap and Fly (LBT12)).
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Personally I'm not fond of the LBT songs anymore, so I never listen to them anymore nowadays.
I have never watched LBT13 so I may watch it. I tried to rent it but I don't think the video store has it anymore. I never see it.
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I have never watched LBT13 so I may watch it. I tried to rent it but I don't think the video store has it anymore. I never see it.
All parts can be found here, just search through the playlist across the bottom of the page.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tlFe1TNPHk...ynext=1&index=3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tlFe1TNPHk&p=F050853500BC8F7E&playnext=1&index=3)
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I did see that, but I don't like the quality of the video so I didn't watch it. I was hoping to find better quality. I may decide to just buy the movie from Amazon if it's still available.
My brother and I may be doing LBT reviews, but I don't think we should start until I get a hold of LBT13.
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I may decide to just buy the movie from Amazon if it's still available.
Yep, its still available, I just checked. See for yourself (http://www.amazon.com/Land-Before-Time-Wisdom-Friends/dp/B000WMA6PK/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1282954948&sr=1-1).
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Eh, he's okay. :p He sounds like he's bored with the review, there is no energy and he seems to drawl on what he says. There is no articulation or annunciation so it's harder for people like me to listen to what he is saying... <_<
I'm guessing he hasn't done this before, so that's forgivable, but still, just in the future if he plans on continuing these, he might have to articulate and annunciate more.
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Okay I have the movie now. I'll see about watching it soon.
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Okay I have the movie now. I'll see about watching it soon.
You got it that quick? When we order movies from walmart, they take FOREVER to get here. We ordered Sasquatch Mountain six or seven days ago, and it's not here yet.
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When I first saw the movie itself I thought it wasn't as bad as when I first saw the cover. However I still think Universal could have done a little more with this one. Same thing goes for the Yellowbellies too. For me it gets a 5/10, which is the lowest I've ever rated any animated film/show so far.
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Okay I have the movie now. I'll see about watching it soon.
You got it that quick? When we order movies from walmart, they take FOREVER to get here. We ordered Sasquatch Mountain six or seven days ago, and it's not here yet.
I stopped ordering from Walmart long ago. They take long. I'd go to Amazon or F.Y.E. when it comes TLBT or anything else. As a matter of fact I rarely by movies from stories anymore as I'm very picky when it comes to movies and most of these movies I order can only be obtained via internet.
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LBT13 was the worst animated movie I've ever seen. Someday I should make an video review for the thing.
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LBT13 was the worst animated movie I've ever seen. Someday I should make an video review for the thing.
You've not seen many animated movies, then... ;) If you compare it to disney classics and the original LBT, yeah, then it's the worst movie ever. But if you compare it to say... Some movie you have seen in the past as a child and completely didn't care about (try checking out some movies with horrible drawing, voice acting and script) :p In that case the land before time isnt so bad...
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I've got nothing against LBT 13. As much as I'll agree it's not the best one of the franchise I don't think it's as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Still, each to their own.
Question... where is this guy on "thatguywiththeglasses.com"? I've never heard of him neither have I seen him on the site. Are you sure you got your sources right?
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You did see him Jay ;)
When we were at Gus' place last year we watched some episodes from that guy with the glasses. It was there that I first heard of him and I've been watching his new releases since then.
The LBT reviews are not from him personally I think.
As for LBT 13 I considered it a very, very poor sequel, but not an extremely deep drop since I hadn't been particularly inspired by those sequels that preceded LBT 13 either. Many of the problems of LBT 13 could be found in LBT 10, 11, and 12 already (it essentially sums up as focusing on an even younger target audience than in case of earlier sequels) a and LBT 13 merely continued the trend as far as I am concerned.
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You did see him Jay ;)
When we were at Gus' place last year we watched some episodes from that guy with the glasses. It was there that I first heard of him and I've been watching his new releases since then.
The LBT reviews are not from him personally I think.
Yeah I know about Doug Walker (the Nostalgia Critic et al.) but I don't recall seeing this "Dukect" guy. I've never seen him on the "that guy with the glasses" website. Anyway, points made, moving on... :p
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LBT13 was the worst animated movie I've ever seen. Someday I should make an video review for the thing.
You've not seen many animated movies, then... ;) If you compare it to disney classics and the original LBT, yeah, then it's the worst movie ever. But if you compare it to say... Some movie you have seen in the past as a child and completely didn't care about (try checking out some movies with horrible drawing, voice acting and script) :p In that case the land before time isnt so bad...
I live off of animated movies. I see what I can.
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I have watched this movie over again after not watching it for a long time. When I first viewed this, I hated every bit of it with blind rage. Now that I have taken another look at it, I have an entirely new outlook on it and I wanted to share my personal opinion about it.
I will say it here and now, I don't hate this movie with blind rage anymore. Instead, I feel sorry for it as it was doomed to fail from the start. Does this mean I enjoyed it? Not entirely. I gave it the benefit of the doubt because I don't blame the movie itself for failing. I will get more into that later.
Before I do, I want to talk about the characters that are hated by many of us here at GOF: Yellowbellies. When I first watched this movie, I cringed at the characters antics and dialogue. Now, I don't hate the idea of a Yellowbelly. They looked really interesting as I didn't recognize what type of dinosaur they were based off of. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Sandra Oh are both very good actors, so really these characters could have and should have been very cool. Were they funny? Now that I look back I have to say yes, because we have to keep in perspective as to the audience the characters (let alone the entire movie) were most likely geared towards. Their antics are quite amusing to say the least, and I will even go as far and say that the Yellowbellies were NOT what killed LBT XIII.
I'll continue this later...........
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I have watched this movie over again after not watching it for a long time. When I first viewed this, I hated every bit of it with blind rage. Now that I have taken another look at it, I have an entirely new outlook on it and I wanted to share my personal opinion about it.
I will say it here and now, I don't hate this movie with blind rage anymore. Instead, I feel sorry for it as it was doomed to fail from the start. Does this mean I enjoyed it? Not entirely. I gave it the benefit of the doubt because I don't blame the movie itself for failing. I will get more into that later.
Before I do, I want to talk about the characters that are hated by many of us here at GOF: Yellowbellies. When I first watched this movie, I cringed at the characters antics and dialogue. Now, I don't hate the idea of a Yellowbelly. They looked really interesting as I didn't recognize what type of dinosaur they were based off of. Cuba Gooding Jr. and Sandra Oh are both very good actors, so really these characters could have and should have been very cool. Were they funny? Now that I look back I have to say yes, because we have to keep in perspective as to the audience the characters (let alone the entire movie) were most likely geared towards. Their antics are quite amusing to say the least, and I will even go as far and say that the Yellowbellies were NOT what killed LBT XIII.
I'll continue this later...........
Hmmm...now that I think about it...you do raise up some very good points there LBTFan13. I think I should give up on that grudge against Sandra Oh now. Okay, she is a good actor. The Yellowbellies were kinda stupid, but they were amusingly stupid. It wasn't the best movie around but, at least they sort of tried. I admit some parts are stupid but some were okay. But this is my least favorite of the sequals. I don't hate it, but it's honestly still pretty bad. Maybe I'll watch it again one of these day's..or maybe not.
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i have never seen the film, and probably never will.. its a sad coda to end the series on..
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Now that I have some more time, I can continue my analysis of the movie.
In my honest opinion, the Yellowbellies are nowhere near as bad as the true villain of this movie: LAZINESS. When I watched this movie for the first time, everything screamed rushed and halfassed. The plot? I could tolerate the gang helping the three Yellowbellies find the place they were trying to get to, but Berry Valley? It seems like the writers just took Great Valley and switched the Great with Berry. The whole deal with the Wisdoms is what killed the plot for me. They seemed like a random attempt to put something new into the franchise that hasn't been done yet, but really these were things that they could have been learning throughout the entire span of the movies. Did they really have to be crammed into this one story? I think if the movie stuck with the Yellowbellies plot and just developed it a heck of a lot more, it would have been fine. The majority of the adults aren't even included in the movie all together, although I will give it credit for putting some if any focus on Grandma Longneck, as for me it seemed like she was getting pushed aside in the later sequels for Grandpa Longneck. The writing itself? I don't think Sandra Oh and Cuba Gooding Jr. are to blame for their characters. You could tell they gave it their best effort, and they weren't terrible with their acting. They were just given really bad writing direction. In fact, the writing for all of the characters seemed a bit sluggish. I think the producers were trying to relate this movie to the humor that kids were becoming more used to lately, which probably would explain the first and only (at least as far as I remember) fart joke in the franchise's history. Does this mean the acting was terrible? No. Like Gooding Jr. and Oh, all of the voice actors made the best of what they were given. What about the songs? I actually don't mind "How Do You Know", as I think this song did the best job of trying to tell the message the confused movie was attempting to make. "Say-So" and "Yellow Belly Bounce" both suffered from the same lazy writing. I will admit that both of them actually had fairly decent tunes, just terrible lyrics. "Yellow Belly Bounce" would have been a really cool song if it were written better. I know, I can't believe I'm defending these songs the way I am, but they are nowhere near as bad as "Oops Eeps".
I've ranted on a lot about this movie, but I wanted to give it another chance. Basically to sum it up, this movie suffered from lazy writing, as it was clearly released as one desperate attempt to generate a profit on a seemingly dying franchise. It's bad enough when the TV series for the franchise is not released until the time of the 13th movie. As such, this movie had a lot of things against it. Is it a good movie? As a kids movie, it's tolerable, but as a LBT movie it certainly is not as good as it should be after so many years of these movies coming out. It is sad that this is the last of the movies, but at the same time based on how it turned out the next movie might have been worse off.
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In my honest opinion, the Yellowbellies are nowhere near as bad as the true villain of this movie: LAZINESS. When I watched this movie for the first time, everything screamed rushed and halfassed. The plot? I could tolerate the gang helping the three Yellowbellies find the place they were trying to get to, but Berry Valley? It seems like the writers just took Great Valley and switched the Great with Berry. The whole deal with the Wisdoms is what killed the plot for me. They seemed like a random attempt to put something new into the franchise that hasn't been done yet, but really these were things that they could have been learning throughout the entire span of the movies. Did they really have to be crammed into this one story? I think if the movie stuck with the Yellowbellies plot and just developed it a heck of a lot more, it would have been fine. The majority of the adults aren't even included in the movie all together, although I will give it credit for putting some if any focus on Grandma Longneck, as for me it seemed like she was getting pushed aside in the later sequels for Grandpa Longneck. The writing itself? I don't think Sandra Oh and Cuba Gooding Jr. are to blame for their characters. You could tell they gave it their best effort, and they weren't terrible with their acting. They were just given really bad writing direction. In fact, the writing for all of the characters seemed a bit sluggish. I think the producers were trying to relate this movie to the humor that kids were becoming more used to lately, which probably would explain the first and only (at least as far as I remember) fart joke in the franchise's history. Does this mean the acting was terrible? No. Like Gooding Jr. and Oh, all of the voice actors made the best of what they were given. What about the songs? I actually don't mind "How Do You Know", as I think this song did the best job of trying to tell the message the confused movie was attempting to make. "Say-So" and "Yellow Belly Bounce" both suffered from the same lazy writing. I will admit that both of them actually had fairly decent tunes, just terrible lyrics. "Yellow Belly Bounce" would have been a really cool song if it were written better. I know, I can't believe I'm defending these songs the way I am, but they are nowhere near as bad as "Oops Eeps".
I've ranted on a lot about this movie, but I wanted to give it another chance. Basically to sum it up, this movie suffered from lazy writing, as it was clearly released as one desperate attempt to generate a profit on a seemingly dying franchise. It's bad enough when the TV series for the franchise is not released until the time of the 13th movie. As such, this movie had a lot of things against it. Is it a good movie? As a kids movie, it's tolerable, but as a LBT movie it certainly is not as good as it should be after so many years of these movies coming out. It is sad that this is the last of the movies, but at the same time based on how it turned out the next movie might have been worse off.
I agree with your honest opinion but I don't remember any fart jokes in this film. Granted, I haven't seen this in three years and gave it to my nearby library so I probably don't remember any. Fart jokes are a the cheapest and easiest way to get a laugh out of people when there is nothing going on and the most prominent film that I remember and have seen that uses this is G-force. but at least LBT 13 didn't have to use any hip-hop songs or pop culture references Like most kids films nowadays. The writers were simply running out of ideas or just didn't care enough to give any clever jokes in this silly movie. If you compared this to the first or even third film their is no sense of peril, small sense of adventure, and crappy villains. In fact, I don't think those meat eaters were villains. The music is just forgettable. If you are going to have music in LBT at least make it something tolerable enough for adults to listen too.
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I agree with your honest opinion but I don't remember any fart jokes in this film.
It was when Petrie and Ducky were under the hanging rock, and all the yellow bellies were scrunched together on them, and...
Also, baryonyx like the ones in the movie normally only ate fish, they rarely would eat other dinosaurs far as I know. ;)
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It was when Petrie and Ducky were under the hanging rock, and all the yellow bellies were scrunched together on them, and...
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Also, baryonyx like the ones in the movie normally only ate fish, they rarely would eat other dinosaurs far as I know.
:huh: Well this film was certainly misleading. Especially for people AND kids who don't have a lot of knowledge about dinos! Didn't these guys look up their facts?
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I guess they don't care about facts that get in the way of their ideas, or don't want to do research.
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So this is where it all ends.
I still need to watch that movie though.