Steve Reviews: The Land Before Time 

Child Me: MOMMIES DIE?!

@SuperPikachu Jexs this movies is for kids?

me 2 :( I remember crying

When me and my siblings watch The Lion King, we always cover our eyes because it was so sad.

I was the opposite, Littlefoots's mom just shocked me, but i cried at mufasa every time

Ye

just forget the other movies where a shadow makes them coware and await there own deaths.

Same here.

OMG during I never thought of that lol

I named a cat I had sera and then I gave her to a friend who kept her outside and one day found her stoned todeath by a bunch of horrible kids blood came from everwhere

I always thought is was Sara (Sarah if you're annoying)

Same lol

I only remember the one with Chomper. I had not even seen the first one.

In my opinion, they didn’t need to make ANY of the sequels. Listen to the naration at the end of the first movie. It wraps up things up perfectly, leaving potential sequels completely optional. And while I will admit to having enjoyed the first three sequels as a kid, for the sake of Judith Barsi’s memory, I feel like they should have left well enough alone.

I immediately read this to the tune of 'Flamingo'... Help me. HOW MANY SEQUELS CAN YOU MAKE BEFORE YOUR SHOW BECOMES TOO FAKE? MAKE TOO MUCH AND YOU'LL GET HIT FANS GET PRETTY PISSED.

It even got a television series afterward!

You didn't miss much. After the first five they got really, really terrible. I was a child when they came out and they nearly killed my love of those characters after watching them. Talk about dumbed down. I blame it on the fact that Bluth didn't make them, maybe they could have fared better.

no manly its just the valy walls keep them out in the second movie it shows the dinos blocking ways in.

Dosen't stop, Chompa, his parents, the Egg Nappers or the Raptors from going there.

@@Mailed-Knight thats why they are blocking off the pass its done at the end of the movie in response to them getting in

@@ertawanderer1062 I was talking to Dormarochi. Couldn't even see your comment until now.

Sort of. The wall keeps them out mostly but there is one entrance that has the berries to keep them away

Plus the reason for the name of the book or the park is for the brand anyway.

PyroGothNerd no its not! Jurassic Park is an adaptation of Michael Crichton's "the lost world"...However, just by coincidence there is a straight to dvd Jurassic Park/LandBeforeTime crossover movie comi g out soon!!! So yeah.

@@sikufox Wait. What?

Brian Lyons Turns out itsa joke ...But with the series I wouldnt doubt something like that

@@sikufox umm tlw book came out after the jurassic park film

I'm sure the man was just exercising his second amendment rights. That story is the typical expected result whenever the wife files for divorce.

@@animorph17 The second amendment is simply the right to bare arms. It in no way give ANYONE the right to kill another person. His action were not protected by the second amendment and anyone saying he was "simply exercising his second amendment right" does not truly know what it means to have the "right to bare arms". It allows civilians to posses firearms for use in a state of emergency where civilians would need to fight, rather than the government being the only ones allowed to have weaponry, essentially leaving the civilian populace defenseless in the case of a military uprising against the US. (If you look along the sidelines, you could also account for possessing firearms for hunting.). I am not 100% sure if you are anti-gun or not, but if you are, I respect your opinions and your right to share them, but, in the future, please refrain from referring to the murder of an innocent child as someone "exercising their second amendment right". It is a crime and an abuse of the second amendment, which in my opinion should be a privilege, not a right. Those of us who know how to handle the responsibilities of gun ownership do not associate with the likes of people like him.

@CrashedFighterProductions Mostly just making a joke about the most recent mass shooting around my town, which is pretty much the same story as that voice actor save the fact her father burst into a school and killed the teacher as well as few other kids. Only major difference is that the shooter didn't follow through on the suicide part of his plan. "We shouldn't jump to take away his guns!" and "Protect the second amendment!" gets thrown around a lot around here, and I've met three people IRL (one of which a church pastor) who called it a regrettable, but otherwise acceptable side effect of exercising his rights. Hence my simplified bastardization of their argument for comedic purposes. I am fully aware that sane and sensible gun ownership is possible, but it's never the sane people with guns that I have to worry about. Only reason I'm alive is because my dad's girlfriend snuck into his car and stole his gun when he wasn't looking, deciding that he was too much of a nut-case to have one. The fact her actions are considered illegal rather than typical somewhat colors my opinion on the matter.

@@animorph17 Thank you for clearing this up. Because of how the world is today, your comment could have offended many people with insults coming at you from every which direction. This clears up a lot. Also, I'm sorry you and your town had to experience such a travesty. I also apologize if my comment came on too strong. Meant no disrespect.

@@animorph17 oh god, you're everywhere

No, no it's THEBESTTHINGINTHEWORLD

They were all wiped out by an asteroid impact, along with the other dinosaurs.

And Pteranodons aren't even dinosaurs. They are actually flying reptiles that lived around the time of the dinosaurs.

@@karissarasmussen567 Also true. Well, technically, their ancestry is a bit debated, but I think the current consensus is still that they're not dinosaurs.

@@cthulhufhtagn2483 they are still archosaurs though, same as dinosaurs so they are a bit related but not dinosaurs

@@ferociousrazordino3581 Well, true. But crocodilians are also archosaurs. Either way, not dinosaurs.

I personally find An American Tail to be a much better film.

lol

You’re not alone

I can't believe I never noticed that until now!

what the actual fuck is a petrer?

I think he means Petrie. That said, current paleontological evidence suggests that pterosaurs were able to fly at very young ages already. Petrie's main problem is that he was afraid of heights.

Ya but he learned how His best friends lives being endangered. So his instincts kicked in.

Ice Kold Trujillo F

@@JD-el9eo what if the narrator meant the time of the dinosaurs was actually another different time of the dinosaurs?

@@JD-el9eo man it was just a theory why are you so triggered?

@@JD-el9eo k

That blew my mind as well!

Agreed, because it's entirely accurate.

The helicopter parents can't however, they freak the hell out.

I agree, man. I agree. The greatest animations of all time followed this pilosophy, too. Remember Avatar? That is the best animated series of all time in my eyes, and it does get pretty dark especially during the blood-bending episode..

I wanna live to do that

Damn straight!

The denial of what's happening. Not understanding. Then pleading with her to get up. Taking a long time to even process what dead is and what it means. That would have been horribly traumatizing for anyone, let alone a very young child. It's shockingly realistic. It's not too uncommon even for adults to react like that. Seeing people lose their first friends in combat was very similar.

@@brianmead7556 Exactly, and the fact that Littlefoot is haunted by what happened all the way to the end only makes it more poignant and why he clings so strongly to her guidance to get to the Great Valley. AND why he snaps when Cera insults his mother.

@@PlanetZoidstar Imagine the REAL Land Before Time 2: Littlefoot is a Walking Ball of Dysfunction and Going to Die Before His 20th Birthday of Alcoholic Liver Cirrhosis or Dino AIDS Unless he Gets His Head Unfucked Assuming he Doesn't Pick a Fight and Get Torn to Shreds by a Rex in a Misguided Quest for Vengeance

when I was a kid I remember watching this. I remembered I use to imagine Little Foots mom coming back to the great valley becuse I refused to believe his mom died from one seemingly minor bite I was 8..... but than land before time 2 came out I was 14 so by that time I was over it but still a little up set they made a part 2 to destroy my child hood fntisy...

Littlefoot's mom dying destroyed me way more than Mufasa dying. Littlefoot's mom died, and he was alone, and no gay couple was there to take care of him.

Ahaaa you beat me to it haha. I was gonna say take it up with Crighton, not Spielberg. Although to be fair to both, Crighton made the character of John Hammond to represent and ignorant man capitalizing on the dinosuars he had created from multiple eras, so it makes complete sense that he named his park incorrectly just for the marketing. I read the book a while ago, but I believe that Grant in the novel may have even pointed out that innacuracy.

@@Sahiyena11 "crighton" lol

@@Sahiyena11 I believe you mean Crichton.

@@saidi7975 Yeah that dude's name has always given me trouble to spell haha. You guys know what I meant at least? Haha I promise you it's far from the worst spelling error on this here cursed site.

@@Sahiyena11 No problem man, mistakes happen.

I'm sorry my man. Hope things are going okay for you.

I lost my mum too, tragically when I was only 14.. I hope you're doing alright.

Oh I’m sorry dude

I'm sorry about the loss of your mother and hope you're doing better now

I'm sorry dude

That scene where he cuddles the rock before realizing his mother wasn't there destroyed my little child heart. My mom had to take my Land Before Time movie away because I wouldn't stop crying.

Kinda like when you lose someone you love, and then you see someone else that looks almost exactly like them in public soon after..

The part that hurts me is what we don't see, at some point littlefoot had to walk away from her body.. yet knowing he left her behind then thinks his shadow is her hurts me, purely for the fact he had to leave her side in the first place

When they start playing if we hold on together 😭😭

faiaflrt I agree, he had to realize that she was gone for good all by him self, and that moment when the narrator says that little foot realizes that he was alone just made me burst into tears

I'm really upset now, screw Disney, Pixar, and other companies making so-called animated movies for everyone I'm just sticking dark movies like The secret of NIMH, TLBT(Original), and Watership down

been wanting one for decades now...

@@dildojizzbaggins6969 So the story is, they had an original cut with everything they cut out. Someone unfortunately overwrote it. Its gone, forever.

@@ttoommssmmiitthh thanks for ruining my already-shitty day, dude. and the rest of my week/month/life. appreciated! :D

@@dildojizzbaggins6969 he was just giving out info

Wasn't she ten when it happened?

Maybe. Doesn't make it any less horrible.

@@AnEnemySpy456 Agreed.

JESUS

I KNEW she sounded like Marie from All Dogs go to Heaven! I wasn't sure if it was the same girl or not, but now I know, and it's depressing... 😫

IKR, that scene always made me hungry because as he ate his way around, the grass kind of looked like pasta/spaghetti.

@@korkronwarlord Yes man it's so satisfyng to see him eating it

Yes in the other sequels I never saw him learn to talk. I thought he might have been like the pet dog of the group or just dumb (in the sense of unable to speak) #letspikegrowup

@@GrifoStelle Either in one of the sequels, or in some tv series I remember seeing that he has a different "perspective". In his head, he talks tormally, but hears the others rambling.

@@GrifoStelle He does talk _once_ in one of the movies. When Ducky's nearly falling to her death while unconscious, he shouts her name. That's the only time I saw it happen, but I don't remember which movie it's in.

Yep. I was a hardened toddler after this movie and by the time Lion King came around so I know exactly what you mean. Mufasas death was way to clean and streamlined.

OH, that's why I didn't cry yeah I had this phase I don't even remember where I was obsessed with dinosaurs... now I have heaps of dinosaur toys And I have seen the land before time and it's sequels a million times. Then I saw the lion king and didn't cry at all

I made a comment but what made me cry was Simba crying for the first minutes of him telling gis dad to get up so they can go home. But after I jumped out cuz the chase scene after and then timon and pumba. But that scene with little foot God man at least Simba was in the area of his home that he could walk home if the story went there but little foot was in the middle of no where with things that could easily kill a baby and eat him. Yikes

i laughed when simbas dad died.

gen101394 same

You deserve a medal

I don't really understand how Steve thinks that everything needs to play a major role in the plot or story.

@@drawingbluejay7938 yeah

Why you goin round the internet making people cry?

2. Glad you explained this, I thought it was pretty obvious. 3. This is less obvious, you can definitely feel it as a kid and I tried to explain this but got a bit complicated with it. Yours is short and sweet.

She was so little when she got killed by her dad, can't beleive he did that to her😢

@jeffy jeffy I wish I was joking, but sadly, it's the truth..

Poor little Judith and her mom didn’t deserve the violent end they got. How can someone kill an innocent defenseless child & takes the coward’s way out after murdering his family? There’s a special place in hell where Judith’s father is

@@LucyLioness100 suicide isn't the coward way

That's just...so sad.

tree star. god it's like you've never seen the movie.

@@taylor4831 ayy no need to be agressive

sarcasm

@@taylor4831 yeah but you where right :D

Canadian Wolf Puppy syndrome at work.

Yeah I thought the same too. Thought it was the wrong way because everyone got in danger

Agreed, though at the same time even as a kid I didn't quite agree with that narration. Because of it falling where it did in the final cut, It made it kind of look like the narrator was both wrong and being a bit of a jerk.

Maybe she felt guilty for almost killing everone

You never take the easy way in life.

Very true!

And then it got sequels. With songs and lots of pandering. And a tv series that lasted a single season. A very rainbow-barfingly irritating season.

@@ДмитрийГусарев-ж8ъ MLP is grimdark in comparision.

Don Bluthe movies in a nut shell “are you depressed yet? No then we are doing something wrong”

Tragically ironic that a children's film exploring death had a real life tragedy a few years later. There's a special circle of hell for scum like József. Jesus fucking Christ.

Big Hero 6 did this more recently

But we actually see Mufasa's CORPSE.When Little Foot finds his mother,she's still alive and by the time she dies we can't see her very clearely anymore.Also..she wasn't"torn apart",she had a scratch/bite on her back.

SHE HAD A CHUNK OF HER FLESH TORN OUT

@@Nicamon nigga u blind

@@malnutritionboy No, you're just blatantly embellishing it. It's one wound, her body is still very much intact. That's very far from being "torn apart." Scar was "torn apart," Littlefoot's mom was definitely not.

If you watch their shadows carefully, you can tell the Sharptooth bite a chunk out of her, thus the wound.

Uncut, and the original idea of The Great Valley being a metaphor for the afterlife being a little more obvious would also be a nice thing to see. As it is, though, The Land Before Time is still a great movie :)

KarlAndArma4ever if it was the after life then where is little foots mom

KarlAndArma4ever true it’s great but I wouldn’t mind seeing those parts where he said that it would make kids cry and angry parents I really wouldn’t mind seeing that

Same

sassy bassy according to Bluth, all the footage was sadly destroyed

90s kids in a nutshell

Did you forget All Dogs go to Heaven?!

4th: never-ending story

4, if you add "The Iron Giant"

@@u.g.3298 I-I, didn't watch Iron Giant. I plan on doing it.

BEAUTIFUL explanation! Especially "security blanket".

Don't you mean leaf?

@@animeprofilepicture9639 No, blanket. Like the tree star a symbolic cloth covering you, giving you a feel of security provided by his mom's lingering presence. When destroyed defining Littlefoot is on his own, though at that point he already proved it he can.

It also shows that Littlefoot can let go of material things in order to save his friends. Even as personal as a mother's last present.

Elizabeth Cross the lizarddd

Thanks for this comment- a bit of comedy to lighten the emotion :)

TYRANT LIZARD WIZARD

Elizabeth Cross yer’ a wizard sharptooth :) (I’m a big potter head)

Actually I think he learned how to fly by shock

That's why I don't watch cinemasins. I find him annoying.

Midnight CinemaWins and BirdMan are FAR BETTER

@@danieldortch8779 agreed

@@danieldortch8779 YES

Because intelligent writing is usually not praised by the Cinemasins crew and they rather make a quick joke instead of actually looking at why this was included! Ofcourse the dinosaur class system was important part of the story since it was the reason Cera was so high on herself and felt like she was Better than the other dinosaurs! It was not her fault but rather it was just the way their culture was! (Her father acts exactly the same as her) But yeah cinemasins probably would’ve rather made a quick joke instead of crediting the movie for this!

You can't have anything without somebody theorizing that the whole film is an afterlife story. Forest gump? Must've got ran over by those hooligans in the truck in his high school and the rest of the movie was all deathbed illusions. It's to the point where i don't even acknowledge these theories

It was a creepypasta. Not a fact o a rumor.

The great valley today is silicon valley for humans.

Idk the dozens of sequels hints that it wasnt lol

It would explain why in the sequels no-one grows up... if they are already dead. No adult die either

Agreed. I also understood it as she obviously found a dead end, or a path that was nothing but yuck and death. I mean... tar pit, lava, and dome heads, all within a short distance of each other? Sounds like the Nope Valley to me!

Yeah serve her right for being a brat and for not caring and helping the others from the lava and the tar

@@amanda2324 more like...the 'grate' valley.......you know...like a cheesegrater........I'll go ahead and let myself out...

@@switch-no-comply778 No, no, don't. I often think in puns, and that pun was and is and will remain good. It's not even necessarily a pun, but a genuinely good observation.

@@101Volts lmao thank you Austin lucas this response genuinely made my day.

Britt Z heaven: the animated series

oh my god don't make me cry

It’s actually a metaphor for Zionism.

Come to think of it yeah - it makes an uncomfortable amount of sense. Ecosystem with no predators simply cannot function + nobody dies in sequels. There was a moment Littlefoot's grandpa being deathly ill in a fourth movie but they've managed to fix that too.

My head cannon fan theory about the original plan for the movie with the great valley Being dinosaurs heaven: What really happen was the gang families all died in the earth shake. Littlefoot, Sara, ducky etc are the only survivors and a few others. Sharp tooth died as well when he fell. They’re never actually being chased by sharp tooth that just there fears ( or the ghost of sharp tooth a vengeful spirit if you will). Because why is sharp tooth only chasing them. There’s other bigger dinosaurs 🦖 for him to eat, but yet he’s only chasing the gang. But when they split up after little foot and Sara’s fight, that when they all died. Sara is killed by the doomheads, peetree dies in the tar pits, ducky and spike dies in the lava. And littlefoot died trying to find the great valley. And when littlefoot see his mother in the clouds that when we know he’s dead and then he finds the great valley. Littlefoot still believing he’s alive decided to go back for the others. In littlefoot perspective he saves peetree,ducky and spike, and pranks Sara for payback. And kills the vengeful spirit of sharp tooth out of revenge for killing his mother. Then leads them to the great valley. But in actuality there are all dead. You might ask why littlefoot’s mother isn’t in the great valley if they are all dead. Well littlefoots mother is the spirit that leads and guides all the dinosaurs to the great valley like she did for littlefoot. (Btw she also used littlefoot to guide cera,ducky & the others to the great valley) Boom now it all makes sense.

I know, there's so many sick bastards out there and the children suffer from it.

@@deadly5528 wait what happened

@@mushrooms5601 the child actor who voiced Ducky was murdered by her father. Her parents were going through divorce and he went crazy and shot her and her mom. He killed himself right after. Her last role in a movie was as Mary ann in “all dogs go to heaven”. She was around 7-8 years old

@@deadly5528 oh my god

@@deadly5528 that’s just

U were not traumatized by them because u realized that the World has dark Places, and its no good denying this

I know right. It made them great for kids and adults.

Matthew Fox Me too like Animals of Farthing-wood i wasn’t scared at all i loved it. I miss the old days too if we talk about animation movies

Animated shows and shows in general are way too censored and/or filtered these days tbh

Sammie Good game sir

Not to mention all he gives a fuck about in future movies is treestars, so its pretty hard to say it's presence means nothing.

Yeah, that literally made no freaking sense to me when he said that.

“The sacred texts!”

@The RPGAdventurer Im looking for deleted scenes?

I agree, that version is one of movie history's most sought after mystery.

I actually have the original VHS version. I have some scenes on it that are supposed to be 'deleted'. I literally do not know why but hey, I am lucky.

...That too will get better with time...Only with time...

@@PlanetZoidstar No, stop, you'll summon the onion ninjas! Too late. 😭

Oh goddang it... I forgot about that part... I had forgotten... (T^T)

Dude, me too. I tear up when his mom dies, but when that scene comes on I turn into a weeping blubbering mess.

@@Jessica-wi1vk That and when he sees his mom in a rock b3cause of his shadow, the music is all uplifting because he is so excited thinking it's her when its not. He even licks the rock and all and gets sad all over again, that is the one that literally breaks me in 50 pieces.

great film, I was born the same day it came out, same year too, beautiful story

I was six years old and already obsessed with dinosaurs when this film came out. Needless to say, it was always my favorite movie as a kid.

I loved this when I was little

No it's the best FILM

It is in my top 5 for sure. Amazing film. Shockingly realistic.

Uhh.....wow that's depressing

You forget it was a double murder he also murdered his wife

@@heatherallen7834 don't forget the arson and suicide afterwards

When you think it's over, it gets worse.

Holy shit tf

heheheheheheh

Thatsilentyoutuber Lol you're funny

@Thatsilentyoutuber This is the most necessary comment thread ever

Lol

Well, Cretaceous park would just sound dumb.

It would, yes. However, now I want a spin-off called CRUSTACEAN PARK! >-iwi-

@@HiddenEvilStudios Ordevician and Silurian era seas were pretty scary and filled with crustaceans

@@herivelton1973 You're only saying that because you're used to hearing Jurassic Park. Cretaceous Park sounds weird to you. It wouldn't if that was the actual name though, because that would just be the name.

@@LordofFullmetal Nah, Cretaceous sound enough like crustacean/crustaceous that there would have always been unintended word association with the name.

There. Is. An. Actual. Book?!?! 😲😲😲 Please tell me you remember the title!

@@cyberwolf_1013 it would probably be called land before time

Bee Well except it's given so little focus. As a child the crushing of the tree star was very distressing (actually, this whole film was so traumatizing to me that for the longest time I would only ever watch the sequels), though I never realized how little of a narrative impact it had until he pointed it out.

@@GabyGeorge1996 it was enough for me, and you dont see me trashtalking about it for some views... he didnt put any effort to understand the movie

@pkslider725 I'm not even going to dignify that with a response

I haven't watched the movie in almost two decades and I should probably rewatch it, but I agree. I can see a certain degree of symbolism in that tree star, though I don't recall there being much of a narrative around it, so it's no suprise for it to be interpreted that way.

Maybe it's like the Rex chase scene and there was more narrative weight sliced from the final version.

Same here man same here

I haven't thought of this movie in many years. Stumbled over this channel, seeing this review. The second the scene appeared, the waterworks started. This burned so deep, it's amazing. Doesn't happen with lion king. -bambie wasn't my poison. Though my throat really lumped after reading about that poor girl voice actor and what happend to her.

the film makes me cry always i lost my mom as a baby :/

It's especially sad because she died *protecting* them and how they were hiding under her even during the fight because she was the guardian like any good mom.

That wasn't a "fun" fact at all. That was just a sad fact with a sweet one after it

Didn't just "pass away" she was shot to death by her father. Who was abusive to her and her mother their entire life, the wife was going to file for a divorce, and then the usual thing happens whenever a woman tries to leave a marriage. But don't worry, we still give people like him access to as many guns as they want, conservatives have your back here fam.

@@animorph17 shooting the kid isn't "the usual thing" in a divorce. Show some basic decency and stop trying to politicize her death.

@Talandar Interesting, so do you think her father's actions were perfectly legal and should have been allowed? More to the point, do you think it's uncommon for this sort of shooting to happen?

@@animorph17 No and yes.

I agree 100% I think it's entirely necessary, as it not only educates kids like you said, it serves as a sort of encouragement for Littlefoot to go find the Great Valley.