The Land Before Time - Crushed Me - Movie Reaction 

And on top of the entire movie centres around him mourning her coping without her 😭 this movie is one of the saddest ones for me

Um... bambi...

It was said Bambi inspired Land Before Time, and The Lion King was Disney's response to Land Before Time for a Dark but happ nending story and both two are similar even though The Lion King is actually Hamlet inspired one of it's best animal version.

Mentions or references to Littlefoot's Mother in the sequels and TV show counter: 4.

Littlefoot's mother takes my #1 spot for animated parent-death tearjerker. Disney has nothing on this.

35:28 You see the mother there too.

@@HobGungan strange how we never see her again after that and he gets "remarried"(or the dino equivalent). Still means they lost 2 children though

@@thenerdytiger9306 I mean I personally don't use the DTV sequels to analyze the original film, being done by completely different creative teams and all. Also I stopped watching after 6 anyway.

Yeah I think that’s a big part of what the show and movies are about. Finding belonging in a new family when your old one is gone or been taken apart. I was gunna say Ducky and Petre are the only ones with their full family but both their fathers are gone too. I think it’s a great movie for kids to watch. Because if they like it they’ll come back and watch it again and realise something important and thought provoking they didn’t before. It also comes across as inspirational in a way that you should carry on and never give up no matter how bad things get because they will get better.

Oh yeah man, don't bother with the other ones. This one is a work of art. The second one is okayish but after that they're basically just sanitized pre-schooler sing-along, direct to DVD movies not made by the same people.

Is that where Martina McBride got the idea for the Concrete Angel song

@@youngkc866 Yes

Aww that's both sad and sweet :( ♥

That’s screwed up how she passed, her father must’ve been a psychopath

@@Amused_Comfort_Inc That's great I've got just one more reason to cry when I hear that song

I heard that Rooter was added later in production because the death of little foots mom might be too hard or confusing for the kids watching (us) to understand so added old wise sounding Rooter to soothe the pain make it a little easier......I wish I had a Rooter in my life

That is what I wish we could see more of! Show kids that pain is there but figures that will help you through it.

I also think it really hit on the fact that the dinosaurs at that time didn't mingle with others of different species.

Old Rooter wasn't actually originally in the film at all - he was added because psychologists recommended it to soften the blow of Littlefoot's mother's death, which is actually why he only appears the once.

And Don Bluth movies in general.

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Sorry to hear about your loss..

When my mom passed I watched the scene of littlefoots birth and cried

You're not alone. I am 28 turning 29 and grew up on this movie. I still cry at Littlefoot's mother's death because I picture my mother in place of his and me in place of him. No matter what happens, losing my mother would destroy me

Just lost my mom to Liver Disease so this really hits close to home. She loved this film....

me as well. i can’t not cry at the minute leading up to that scene and up until little foot meets ducky. then again when they all split up and are reunited. then again at the end when they make it to the great valley. this movie is an emotional rollercoaster but also so cathartic. i watch it whenever i need to unabashedly cry my eyes out haha

Same here. It may be the only scene in cinema that makes me tear up.

Why did her dad had to shoot her?!

It's saved in my music library.

@@aloneandannoyed I love that song

I can't listen to that song without breaking down in tears

@@Origamigryphon me too with the ending of land before time where he says mother don’t go it just makes you really cry really cry and if you have lost anyone, it makes you really cry

Back when the movie was first released on home video, my mom wanted the lyrics to the song. Since that was before the internet, she got them the old fashioned way: by pausing the video at the end of each line while she wrote it down.

And, anti-racism/pro-inclusion. And pride vs humility. And friends, and …

Takes my vote for the best Bluth film. This and American Tale are borderline traumatic, but that's what makes them great.

@@Don-ol8ze yes, agreed… however you’ll probably completely disagree with this but the sequel “Fievel Goes West” was better in my opinion. It was alot more upbeat and fun than American Tail was. But yes, Land Before Time and American Tail are the best Don Bluth movies… better than most Disney movies probably

@@nsasupporter7557 I can respect that. The sequel was a completely different animal, and I remember it being fun and better done than most sequels. I see why it's very enjoyable.

@@Don-ol8ze it’s extremely rare that a sequel is just as good as the original, let alone better than the original.

I think the real dark thing is hearing about what happened to judith barsi the child actress who voiced ducky in the land before time franchise 😨😭

Not this movie, the one with the dogs, all dogs go to heaven or something like that, don't remember the name

That last fact is more a theory then anything else, like when Doc was introduced and the theory that he was Littlefoot's dad came soon after, if you don't why this theory came to be with a little research you'll find why and why it has evidence supporting it..

Even as a child I thought that The Great Valley was supposed to be a parable about Heaven, but I didn't know about that idea literally being a part of the movie until now!

When you think about it the Great Valley isn't so great in the grand scheme of thing. -The Mountain That Burns somewhat close to the valley. -Those smoke geysers that almost killed Littlefoot. -A pool of quicksand. -Egg Stealers and other kind of Meat Eaters their size can enter. -That part in the Great Wall blocked by a rock slide giving easy access to Sharpteeths if another rockslide hits it or an earthquake. -An active volcano on it's wall. -Relying a little top much on Thundering Falls, the main point of water, what was it again? More water than you can ever drink? 'rolls my eyes' Riight. -Fires can happen if the vegetation is too dry, or and if a meteorite falls in it. -A swarm of prehistoric locust pass and no green food on tree and bushes, unfortunate it happened but what was it once again? More food than you can eat, yes, unless nature says f#@* you. -A tornado or hurricane forming inside, one of those two can't form in valleys. -Threehorn's Peak which is another glorified volcano somewhat close to the valley. -A Big Freeze. -Smoking Mountains as a landmark to find it from the shore of the Big Water, could be dangerous. -A pool of freaking lava. -The Canyon of Shiny Stones flooding with lava. -That one tiny Longnecks cave tunnel where that Fast Biter Mother made her nest with her eggs. -Fire Mountain is more far than the Mountain That Burns, the volcano in the walls, Threehorn's Peak or Smoking Mountains but could still be dangerous. -And of course, how can someone forget the earthquakes, everytime there's one 87 % it opens an access for Fast Biters to get in. If the Great Valley is really a metaphor for Heaven then no thanks, I'll take my chance in H-E double hockey stick.

@@redmageknight3908 I think the themes of this movie were lost on the sequels.

So they almost went Plague Dogs on us😭 Context and SPOILER: The 2 dogs at the end swim to the ocean to escape humans and one of them claims to see an island, loses hope, only to be encouraged by the other, so they keep swimming to it. The original ending (of the book) was that there was no island. They swam to their death. But the movie and an alternate ending gave them an island because the readers and viewers were too upset from the OG.

This was my childhood as well! Honestly for me this movie is almost perfect, the only little tiny issue I have is how quickly they destroy the tree star. It's kind of an after thought, we don't see Littlefoot's reaction to it or anything, he never mentions it again. I know they needed to destroy, it just makes Sharptooth even more evil but I've always thought they could have done it in a different way. But again it's a very small nitpick to a perfect film in my opinion!

One of the positives of the sequels is introducing Chomper, showing a different side to Sharpteeth that until him, the viewer only had the long running “ as only villains “ narrative, when, just like the flat teeth dinosaurs, they just want to eat and raise their families. Well some do.Others ARE the straight up AH villains they are usually portrayed as. The OG movie Sharptooth is arguably the meanest in the whole franchise.

That's not what Land Before Time characters says, Chomper and he is agreed upon, few of them having seen the Sharptooth and agreed with what he says when he says Red Claw is the meanest Sharptooth of them all.

You basically need to have a stone heart or having seen it a thousand times over to not cry, but why would anyone do the latter?

Another big change was the order the ending happened in. In an earlier cut of the film, Littlefoot finds the Great Valley before he rescues his friends from the volcanoes and before they take out Sharptooth. He thus chooses to risk his life for the friends who abandoned him (and in Cera's case, physically hurt him and insulted him) instead of going straight into the Valley. That version also raised the stakes on eliminating Sharptooth, as they know if he lives he will invade the Great Valley and put their families in danger. In post production, they decided to change the order of events to simplify the story line.

@@DamonNomad82this change was also made to make finding the great valley the big happy ending everyone was waiting to see.

@@811brianTrue, but even then, you have to admit that this original structure was pretty good.

Hey I just wanted to add that James Horner did the music for Balto as well. There are some great tracks in that film.

James Horner also did the music for Jumanji, the Mask of Zorro, and Mighty Joe Young.

People don't talk about An American Tale enough. I loved that movie when I was a kid.

I was obsessed with An American Tale and Fiefel Goes West when I was a kid, I adored those movies. All of Don Bluth's films are super nostalgic for me, like the Pebble And The Penguin, The Secret of NIMH, Anastasia, Titan A.E., Thumbelina, All Dogs Go To Heaven, they are all so amazing. They are very heavy movies for kids but I think that's why they have stuck in my mind for so long.

Facts, but had great life lessons and advice, prob why we grew up so accepting & open about everyone who is different from us and psychologically we were given the life skills & empathy and maturity that the generations born before & after struggle with even in this time and era.

We need movies like that again kids are fine even with movies like this

He follows his dead mother, he meets his grandparents and later his friends join him. Of course he dies in the end. They all die. Everybody dies. I have no idea why they made sequels.

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That's why I can't watch either movie, because of the little girl voice actor and what happened to her. I am thankful for her contributions, I loved those movies as a kid. Just can't watch them again. It must be her age, I can watch other movies with actors that are no longer around.

@@EliChristman this is besides the point but suck the tip

@@EliChristman Nothing to do with her age but instead the traumatic way she died. That's what makes her death different and why it's so hard to handle watching them knowing that.

He follows his dead mother, he meets his grandparents and later his friends join him. Of course he dies in the end. Everybody dies.

He follows his dead mother, he meets his grandparents and later his friends join him. Of course he dies in the end. I have no idea why they made sequels.

Yeah just imagine if Bluth hadn't gotten cocky and tried to put All Dogs Go to Heaven against Little Mermaid the following year. Actually, if it had just been the other way around I'm 99% sure that All Dogs would have also beaten Oliver and Company, and while TLM would have still beaten LBT I'm pretty sure they would have been perceived as different enough for comparison to be deemed silly and so it wouldn't have been as humiliating

Turned out kids thought dinosaurs were cooler than Billy Joel. Then it turned out that kids thought mermaids were more appealing than dead dogs Started when Disney tried to crush him from the go by releasing ET and Tron around the same time as Secret of Nimh. Speilberg really liked NIMH and wanted to get into animation so partnered with Bluth to make An American Tail which ran the same year as Disney's own mouse movie Great Mouse Detective (and only 4 year after the release of Nimh which was a rejected idea from Disney because hilariously they didn't want to make a mouse movie because of Mickey but then just a few years later found themselves making a mouse movie to compete with a mouse movie).

Disney has been using dirty behind the scene. you guys can read L.A times scandal

I still love both but this is an influential film in childhood. O&C is just a cute movie

@@gugurupurasudaikirai7620 I'll take dead dogs over whiny mermaids any day.

Agreed, another great movie for dinosaur fans!

Yes! I love that movie so much.

I also recommend We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story.

I just got to the part when you looked her up it's really sad

I think the dad comes back in part 14 also

i never even knew there were so many movies! i just love the one with the baby t-rec they raise and take home.

@@DYDYBEEBEE I grew up with 4 movies of this. although i did found last year there's 16 movies of this

X is the best sequel though and the closest to the first one in the terms of feelings, not the same sure but feelings, lots of Land Before Time fans wanted that it would had stopped there but I'm not on that side, Land Before Time XI with the introduction of Tria to finally have some character growth that sticks on a character and it being Mr Threehorn is always appreciated, he's not the same bigoted, stubborn and prideful guy he was before, nos he's just the two latter 😁.

There's only one real "Land Before Time" - the first one is in a league of its own. If little kids enjoy the others, I suppose that's okay, though having a billion direct-to-video sequels seems to cheapen the original. This is the one with the real depth and impact.

I also recall watching a lot of the sequel movies and remember that even when i was young, thy were not as good. The sequels they churned out did not have the same depth or magic that the first did, and they became very “cartoony” in my opinion. Some of them were okay lol. But, nothing like this one that i can remember!

Same. I thought maybe watching someone else, and just the clips, but a few clips, those voices, and I am definitly not ready

Yeah. I want to show this to my niece but I’ll be crying the whole time.