The History of Don Bluth 2/5 - Animation Lookback 

I don't blame you for not wanting to talk about Judith Barsi. What happened to her is sickening, no parent should ever hurt their child.

Rest in peace, Judith Barsi. It's a shame you died at such a young age. :(

May poor Judith rest in peace.

To explain the death of Judith barsi: Jósef (Barsi's father) was an alcoholic and he was jelous about barsi's success for cooperation with Bluth's animated films. He has been chased by the police three times for Drunk driving. It is the reason that he abuses his family including his daughter Judith. in time when alcoholism kept worsing him, Maria (barsi's mother) couldn't stand up against jósef because she feared that Jósef would abuse her in a serious way. (I haven't read all of the story yet, so be ok what i am saying) one night in July 25, 1988, Jósef has given up everything and decides to go in a guilty way, Picking up a handgun and decides to include his family by shooting them. Judith didn't see that coming because she was asleep during at night. Her body including her mother was burned when Jósef used gasoline. And in the end, he went to their garage, and decides to take out his own life before getting caught by the police. Rest in peace Judith, you and your mother didn't deserved that. And for you jósef, you have brought this to yourself.

Disney was some people's childhood. Don Bluth's films/ independent animation films were mine.

RIP Judith Barsi... a good reason for people to know why and how, nowadays if something this happened the person responsible would be swarmed on Social Media to be in Jail for life.

How to describe the Land Before Time sequels, in the words of DJ Khaled: Another one, another one, another one, another one,another one,....

I would have loved to see those missing 11 minutes of Land before time

Judith Barsi your life would've been wonderful but is was tragically taken away by ur father I loved u in all of the movies that I saw in the theaters 1978-88

The Little Mermaid mowing down Charlie had me in stitches. XD

I found out what happened to that little girl and dear god it was brutal

13:17 It's been said that the kid actually said "I'm ALL furry"

poor Judith Barsi, she was such a good actor, but she died at the hands of her father

I understand you Animat, what happen to Judith Barsi was really sad and terrible, and I read her story I feel sorrow and sadness but at least she is better place with her mom.

Secret of Nihm, Land Before Time and All Dogs Go To Heaven are 3 of my favorite movies. I would love to see what they looked like before they were censored. Part of what I liked about them, even as a kid, was that they were a little darker. I would definitely buy them if he released uncut versions.

He actually met Cera before seeing the Sharptooth, as a clip used showed. The Land Before Time was the most accurate dinosaur movie of its time. While he by no means dislikes the film, Don Bluth credits The Land Before Time with kickstarting his weaker output, as it was his first major exposure to Executive Meddling. Don reportedly burned some of the deleted footage. Makes you wonder just how dark and disturbing some of the deleted footage was. Charlie's an anti-hero and close to a villain protagonist. Yes, those exist. All Dogs Go To Heaven was originally to be based off of the book of the same name that Don read. I think Martin Short should have been Killer. One cut moment is Charlie flying off and then landing in the water. Thankfully they left this part out since it would have just been too funny. Ironically, some critics questioned whether ADGTH should have been G. Nice to know Don Bluth once again pushed the G rating to its limit. Speaking of which, it's no wonder critics preferred The Little Mermaid. It had a significantly lighter tone and was more feel-good.

I still have my stuffed Littlefoot from JCPenney, and still think of him as an old friend

Dude, I took a whole class, studying the Jonestown massacre. Judith's death is nothing compared to that. Disclaimer: Judith's death is still terrible and sad.

She was killed by her father out of jealousy I should've listened to Animat

I always thought Don Bluth was underrated.

4:30- You have done this before. You once said it in Disney's animation lookback on "Oliver and Company".

I think Bluth should have stuck with Spielberg. Artistically I know it doesn't feel nice having producers make changes to your film, but filmmaking is also a huge collaboration of artists. It's never just one person's accomplishment. The leader of a team (the director in this case) will never have all the right decisions. A leader always needs to take advice from their team. In the end, you have a better movie.Besides, with the exception of Anastasia, Bluth's career did generally go downhill after he parted with Spielberg.

9:42 her father killed her because of her fame

Rest In Peace Burt Reynolds (February 11, 1936-September 6, 2018)

Animat, Judith bari's was murdered by her father. She also was on Jaws the revenge. She was a daughter of the Brody family.

Rest in peace Judith Barsi :(

In retrospect, the Land Before Time crushed my heart enough as a kid that I really don't think it Needed those extra scenes of the Sharptooth in there. I saw it for the first time when I was 4 or 5, and It still has a lasting impression on me - Everything down to the coloring to the music to the actual way the Sharptooth was animated - Pretty fucking scary when you're that age. I don't even need to mention Littlefoot's mom dying. That's pretty much how I was introduced to the concept of death in general. However, I really do hope that 10 odd minutes of cut footage resurfaces in full, at some point. There's very limited video, pictures and even info on what they exactly cut out - Even then, what you find is cryptic at best. As someone who grew up loving the movie and was severely affected by some of the scenes in it - For nostalgia purposes - I'd really like to see all that cut footage eventually, and see the movie in the original incarnation that Bluth intended for us. Awesome little documentary about Bluth, by the way.

Judith did not deserve what happened to her and her mother. No child deserves to be killed by their own father.

I'm one of the few people who likes CERTIAN sequels to Land Before time. none of them are even close to as god as the original, but some have their charm

It's of course downright sad that not only have we lost Judith Barsi as Ducky from The Land Before Time but now James Horner too recently who composed the soundtrack for it. A real damn shame both of them died in such awful ways.

It seems like almost every don bluth film has one of the cast in their final appearance and dying soon after

She wasn't even able to watch her two films succeed... Both released posthumously.

4:42 to 4:53 DJ Khaled: Another one! Another one! Another one! Another one! Thumbs up if you get that joke. 😂

Unfortunately, I already knew about Judith Barsi's death before I started watching all ten of Don Bluth's movies. This made watching All Dogs Go to Heaven a major struggle for me. I only got to watch it once for that specific purpose, than I never wanted to see it again. In fact, believe it or not, I would rather watch Rock-A-Doodle than All Dogs Go to Heaven. Not only is Edmund cute, but the voice cast in this movie is very interesting. Personally, I think Rock-A-Doodle would be better off all animated with no live action whatsoever. But no matter if All Dos Go to Heaven is unbearable or if Rock-A-Doodle is more preferred for me, it does not change the fact that The Land Before Time is my #1 favorite animated movie not made by Disney.

Oh god.......Poor little Judith Barsi.......oh god...

with out the big lip alligator moment who woulda noticed the movie took place in new orleans during mardi gras?

RIP to Judith Bars and to you as well Burt Reynolds

What happened to Judith barsi is that her father murdered her and his wife and then killed himself. Animat was was right that I would regret it.

I'm blown away by the level of information you put out. I'm subbing because of the effort. keep it up!

The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, and American Tale are my favorite Don Bluth films growing up. Rock-a-Doodle is the last Don Bluth film i saw and it was pretty bad compared to earlier films.

I kinda looked up Judith barsi and I was horrified, Why didn’t I listen

I always thought that all dogs go to heaven was a Disney Movie because I saw the Christmas special on Disney Channel.

i think what edmunds saying in rock a doodle is "i'm all furry" not "i'm a furry" but thats just what i hear

HOLY MOTHER I LOOKED UP WHAT HAPPENED TO JUDITH OH MY GOD I SHOULD HAVE LISTENED ALL I FEEL IS REGRET

"the land before time" was one of my favorite films when i was a kid.

As I said in Animat's last video, all three of Don Bluth's good movies got to be on my top 10 favorite Non-Disney Animated Movies. In fact, his last good film The Land Before Time actually is my #1 favorite Non-Disney animated movie of all time. You see, back in my childhood, I was very fond of dinosaurs. I loved to read dinosaur books, visit dinosaur museums, draw dinosaur pictures, and I especially loved to watch dinosaur movies. Therefore, The Land Before Time sequels were among my favorite videos to watch in my childhood. As my love of those sequels grew, they made me able to enjoy the first movie as well. Eventually, as I heard about Don Bluth being The Land Before Time's creator more often, I got more curious to find out who Don Bluth was. So, while I was in college, I decided to watch all ten of Don Bluth's movies in the order of their release, as well as his other animation projects. What this means is, the Land Before Time sequels brought me from loving those videos, to liking the first movie as well, to wanting to know more about Don Bluth, to watching all of his movies, to where I am now, seeing Don Bluth as tied with Walt Disney as the greatest animator to ever work in movies.

Rock-a-doodle: What was the plot again?

2:13 Ah...so The Land Before Time was originally slated to be released roughly around the time I was conceived, but because of the studio's relocation to Ireland, it ended up being released when I was just five months old.

I saw All Dogs Go to Heaven during original release in theaters. My Dad took me.... Same with Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade.... Benefit of being an 80s baby 😃

I love rock a doodle despite it's flaws

1:23 and then came Walking With Dinosaurs....

Additionally (because RU-vid has a character limit still, it seems), Walt Disney found the tale of Chanticleer and Reynard too hard to adapt. Also, he and his associates found humans easier to animate. It's actually up to speculation whether Bluth himself or some executive wanted the live-action/animated thing. Chanticleer wasn't originally going to be an Elvis expy, but as the story advanced, after Glen Campbell was brought on, Chanticleer became the Elvis expy seen in the final product. Speaking of Glen, this film really damaged his career. He was made fun of by his fans and he vowed never to appear in film again. Rock-a-Doodle is also Sorrell Booke's (Boss Hogg) final feature film role. Funny thing, Rock-a-Doodle was competing with Beauty and The Beast as well as Fievel Goes West because it was originally released in the UK, for whatever reason. Goldie was actually inspired by Jessica Rabbit, but there may have been influence from Princess Daphne. Her and Chanticleer were going to have more dialogue with each other that included a number of double entendres. Eddie Deezen (Snipes) has never seen this film. He saw the reviews and was all "fuck it I ain't watching this shit." Bluth had to change some potentially scary aspects, such as giving the Grand Duke "Lucky Charm breath" and cutting out a scene of him eating a skunk in a pie. They also made him change wine into "soda" to avoid a PG rating. Incidentally, the Skunk Pie sequence was cut not because the idea of an evil giant owl threatening to eat a live baby skunk in a pie is inherently scary in itself (even though it is). It was cut because of a note Bluth's studio received from the preview audience. The scene was too scary and had to be cut because "most cases of child abuse happen in the kitchen, and involve baking instruments". Considering that the star of his previous film had just recently been murdered by her father, you can understand why he was so quick to cut it. Nostalgia Critic didn't say it best because he, like many others, assumes that Don Bluth had full control over the IPs. As it turns out, Don had little say in what the final product would end up like.

I Love All Dogs go to Heaven and it's sequel and the tv show it's a huge part of my life and the BIG LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT!!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, the uncut version of ADGTH was stolen from Bluth.

Don Bluth is the only director I know who manages to be both too dark AND too sweet for people, sometimes at the same time.

You told me I would regret looking up Judith Barsi and you were right.

Judith Barsi, we LOVE you and we miss you and may you rest in peace.

Ducky is a Saurolophus, but I'm glad you got most of the dinosaur names right, also, Land Before Time is my favorite movie growing up!!!

I absolutely Love the Land Before Time. It is Amazing. It was the Second Universal Studios Dinosaur movie I ever saw. The first was Jurassic Park, when I was 2.

Losing my shit at the Little Mermaid mowing Charlie down LMAO

Have you ever noticed Anne Marie from All Dogs Go to Heaven looks pretty similar of Disney's Snow White?

I'm sure all kids made this joke when they saw All Dogs go to Heaven. "If all dogs go to Heaven, do all cats go to Hell?"

Phil Harris actually died 3 years after rock a doodles release

My favorite ones are The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go To Heaven, and Rock-A-Doodle

I’m glad that you handled Judith Barsi’s death very well and let you viewers find out themselves. What her father did to her daughter was so horrible and so messed up, I don’t know where to begin.

12:30 Wow...it’s not every day you hear Michael Eisner cackling like Thurl Ravenscroft with that maniacal expression!

My thoughts on these movies Land Before Time - Easily one of Don Bluth’s best animated films of all time and one of my very favourite animated movies, since I am fascinated with dinosaurs. All Dogs Go To Heaven - Another Great classic, loved how they casted Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise as Charlie and Itchy, great use of heavy themes and how the concept of hell was used in an appropriate context to acclimatise children into understanding how harsh the world can be. Rock A Doodle - One of my least favourite of the Don Bluth bunch for its child-like tone and a bland premise. This was where his work began to take a downward spiral.

even though it did well ($21 million), It was BLOWN OUTTA THE WATER by Disney via The Little Mermaid ($210 Million)

Update: a 14th direct-to-video film was made recently in 2016 (I think)

The full uncut version of All dogs movie was released internationally (at least the spanish one was longer than the one in amazon), i have a VHS version where the car runs over Charlie , after an “oh shit” moment when he realises he’s done, you can literally see the corpse flying in the air, the hell dream have scenes of demons torture and the fire of hell , there is an extra scene at the end. Maybe the “only copy” that he got is the only english language copy of the full movie reel

Is it wrong that as a kid I really loved Rock-A-Doodle? I still feel a good helping of nostalgia for it to this day.

Pauses vid at 3:03 What do you mean the opening of Land Before Time had no point in the movie!? The narration alone set first the time period, "before the Mammoth and the Mastadon in the time of the Dinosaurs." then the conflict, "the leaf eaters vs the meat eaters" and finally the reason for the migration to the Great Valley. "the mighty beasts who appeared to rule the Earth were in truth ruled by the leaf... and the leaves had begun to die." Plus showing the wide variety of dinosaurs and the idea that they only traveled with their own herds was kind of a major subplot to the movie. Sorry to complain, your video is awesome, I just really really love Land Before Time. Anyway back to the video now.

And thus the Dark Ages of Don Bluth begins with Rock a Doodle.

TLBT was one hell of a childhood, good god we kids were ecstatic about it.

Why did so many people die after starring in Don Bluth films

You reviewed 2 of my fav Donbluth films lbt and adgth 😍😍😍😍 it's so ashamed Judith barsi died by her own father did both of my fav Donbluth films as ducky then Anne Marie plus they are both my fav characters too I still watch Donbluth films sometimes when I'm sad I watch both all dogs go to heaven and lbt for friends that i miss. I watched lbt in 2010 day of my field day and I watched all dogs go to heaven when I was a freshmen. All dogs go to heaven now makes me want to have a dog like Charlie

"A movie about dinosaurs that originally had no dialouge but then got dialouge for more money. Where have I heard that before?" Walking With Dinosaurs? *Dinosaur flashes on screen* Dammit, well its nice to see that movie is in obsucrity, where it belongs.

Unrelated trivia: For a fun read, look up how the spikes on the tail of stegosauruses got its name.

9:42 I think you could've done that bit more delicately.

Happy 30th birthday to my favorite animated film of all time:All Dogs Go To Heaven!

You should of said what happened to Judith Barsi, I found out a while ago.

I love Rock-a-doodle! I’m surprised it’s considered the beginning of the bad animation! Rock-a-doodle, Thumbellina, and Fern Gully are some of my favorite childhood films!!!

"the nostalgia critic said it best" OOF. that didn't age well...

I heard somewhere that the reason why Don Bluth's movies after All Dogs go to Heaven did badly because he was depressed after Barsi's murder, I don't know if that really was the case.

I LOVED rockadoodle as a kid. It’s a shame it panned so hard.

Note: When You Talked about the release date of Rock a Doodle, you only talked about the NA release date (Probably because you are from Canada). The movie was already released in Ireland and the UK in August 1991

It's so sad actually. I found this out in bobscheaux's review of the movie and I cried for half an hour since I really loved that movie as a kid.

Note: Edmond did not say “I’m A furry” he actually said all instead of a as in “I’m all furry"

11:10 I couldn’t have put it better. That was hilarious lol.

I loved 'An All Dogs Christmas Carol' when I was young. I also like the 'The Land BeforeTIme' films. 'Anastasia' isn't bad nor mediocre. It's better than a lot of Disney films. The villain from 'The Princess and the Frog' is also very similar.

Killed in a murder suicide by her father... that's just sad.

I should've listened to animat...

how do you loose to "Fern Gully"?!?

oh,animat,you were right !

You can't keep a good dog down

i rather watch the land before time sequels over the lce age movies anyday.

I realised what happened it was terrifying

I like Land before Time one of the best of Bluth movies.

All Dogs was a good movie. But I can only watch it once in a while.

i don't really get why NC holds ADGTH to be a much better movie than Anastasia, probably the only good Bluth production released in the 90s. i mean, at least Anastasia had a coherent narrative and enjoyable songs, not to mention some top-notch animation that did not have to be concealed in the dark half the time...