The Land before Time series is excellent. I personally wish they would number them again. I know they have done 8 or more, since I have acquired at least this in VHS format. And the thing that impressed me was that the Young Dinosaurs grew as the stories progressed.
Whilst I personally love the first film the most, it is in Widescreen, and the craft in art shows light and dark in artistic as well as emotional levels.After the first movie I think the series was bought and turned into the popular Full Screen Commodity version. Whilst it kept many of its great qualities, helped by the appearance of people like Kris Kristofferson as the Lone DinoSaur, the level of the quality slightly lowered. I can understand this to some extent. Characters such as Chomper became favorites, and re-appeared in several films. I wish the Creators would take into account that there are fans of this series who not just young kids.Whilst I am not likely to buy the sing along, karaoke like tapes, or DVDs that have come out ( they usually include songs from the movies), I like the songs in the films to some extent, since they work well as a sort of animated Musical.
It is very clear that a lot of very good character work went into the first movie, and much of this still exists in the following films. I hope they still realise they have a great Franchise that works well for many ages |