Please stop reviewing these movies. It hurts.

Don't like these reviews? Then stop watching them.

There, he said it.

ummm... guys I think he's talking about the movies being painfull, not the review.

I believe he was referring to being reminded that these movies exist as what hurts, not the reviews themselves. The singing hurts too.

Agreed. Pretty sure he means the movies not the reviews ;p

Please stop watching reviews you don't like. It hurts.

Edit: woops, now I get it. Your comment was really easy to read the other way.

I wanted to ask MarzGurl to review a movie, but I don't want to jump to conclusions about what she reviews. Can someone please tell me what types of movies she will review.

Seems to me that when she does reviews, they're always of animated media.

To be honest, I would wish that too.

I'm not saying these are bad reviews. And I love watching bad movies. It's just...I can't watch it. I can't watch it at all. I made my parents watch these movies with me all the time as a little kid, because I was going through my dinosaur phase, and...everytime I watch this I'm hit by the guilt-hammer. I cannot believe how much pain I put them through. I'm not going to watch anymore. The guilt is too much.

Well I'm glad you're doing it and not me. I saw the 2nd movie when I was a kid and wasn't too bothered by it cause I hadn't fully understood what made the 1st one so great, but I had just realized how sequels were never as good as the 1st one. By the time the 3rd movie came out I knew that was going to far and I gave up on them all. There wasn't a thing advertised about this movie that was the hook for it (where as in the 2nd movie they introduced Chomper, and for kids that was kinda fun).

The things I remember seeing advertised about some of the other movies is that Little Foot meets a girl Long Neck his age, and Chomper comes back. Out side of that I have no idea what terribleness you're going to fall into.

"Sequels are never good."

*SLAP* Go watch "The Rescuers Down Under"! NOW!

Anyway, as for this franchise, the only really half-decent one is probably the fifth. Also, I don't care if you hate it, the Eggs song in the second movie is awesome.

Oh yes, The Rescuers Down Under was one I watched waaaaay more than the original. I also preferred Fival Goes West over An American Tale. (if for nothing more than the music & John Cleese) & Care Bears 3 & 4.

Perhaps it would've been best to say that sequels, in any media, have a reputation for being bad by default and while there are in fact some notable sequels that surpass their predecessor in nearly every way, movies like "The Land Before Time II & III" (and more) ensure that the stigma will be around for generations to come.
Also, doesn't Spike get a voice later in the series?

Yeah, Spike actually says something in IV. IIRC he calls out "Ducky" to wake her up or something when a crocodile is about to eat her.

The problem with movie sequels usually tends to be that the choice to make them is always a purely business one. If the original film was a self-contained story with a clear conclusion, especially one that was conceived as a single installment, it doesn't leave a lot open for a continuation. Also if the original was a surprise hit, your really asking a lot trying to capture lightning in a bottle a second time.

But, a creative enough writer can always overcome this, and movies that create an interesting enough world can usually find another story to set in that world to make a sequel interesting.

Oh dear I remember these moives. You you really do go though all of them well, I wish you the best of luck.

RIP Kenneth Mars! I'll always remember you as King Triton and you're German character in Mel Brooks movies and Malcolm in the Middle.

Also, you're going to all the movies? Wow... just wow...

SOME sequels are good, like Empire Strikes Back and Wrath of Khan.

Anyway, thanks for reviewing this and showing me how horrible it was.

The series did definitely get more childish with each new entry. To the point where the TV series was aimed directly at pre-schoolers on Cartoon Network. It's unfortunate as the first movie dealt with the concepts of death and loss and being a defenseless creature trying to survive in a harsh, cruel environment. And even the second movie was a tad more mature.

What I remember vividly the most about this movie is the box cover:
http://rottenmangos.com/ one_sheets/ the_land_before_time_iii. jpg

I just love how the bully is in the tar pit, sinking and with a distressed look on his face while everyone is just laughing and smiling. Aaah, enjoying the suffering of others. A great thing to show off in children's media! :D

They should've stopped after the first movie. They severely watered down the series as it went on.

Considering how watered down it was, I'm surprised this movie had a drought.

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Okay. I formally apologize for that one.

Stop cutting them WRONG!

Sweet blazes, ten more?! So far my sequel count is up to two. While I remembered things from the second movie, I forgot everything from this one. It wasn't till you said "drought" that the suckage started rushing back.

Gonna try to watch them all?

Godspeed.

I remember having up to number 7 in my collection before me and my sister grew too old to give a damn anymore, actually, I think we still have them in an old cardboard box somewhere...

The dinosaurs being dumber in this film kinda reminds me on how dumber most people these days are getting.

4:31- Same here, Marzy. I was really amazed with dinosaurs, and I had help: Season 1 of Power Rangers, Jurassic Park, that Jim Henson TV series "Dinosaurs."

6:25- Say NO to drugs and alchohol?

Dinosaurs should never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ...SING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Sequels are Never Good."

I'm going to present you with sequels that are BETTER than the original. To list sequels that are just "good" or better would take days.

The Godfather II
The Matrix Reloaded
Freddy vs. Jason
Star Trek II-IV and VI
The Empire Strikes Back
Desperado
The Road Warrior
Evil Dead 2
Shrek 2
Aliens
Terminator 2
Dawn of the Dead
The Dark Knight
Bride of Frankenstein
Magnum Force
Clear & Present Danger
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
French Connection II
Back to the Future II
Superman II
After The Thin Man
From Russia With Love
Before Sunset
The Borne Supremacy

That would be Twenty-Eight thank you very much.

Blade 2 & Jeepers Creepers 2 were way better than their firsts.

I question your choices of Matrix: Reloaded, Back to the Future 2 and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. The originals of all three were quite superior. However, Back to the Future III was superior to II, and you forgot Army of Darkness.

1. Freddy vs Jason isn't a sequel to any of the two franchises and hardly matches the original Nightmare should you compare the two.
2. How can you even begin to say that Matrix Reloaded is better than the original? it's just... WRONG!

And if we're talking about Games, I can add at least one more: Turrican II.

Don't forget about Star Wars Episodes II, III, V and VI

Episodes II & III sucked. And sucking less than Episode I when the first three films were so much better doesn't count.

Bullshit on Matrix: Reloaded. It was just padding until they got to the even worse third movie. Scenes based around special effects don't make for a better plot.

Twenty-nine. You left out Wrath of Khan.

Then does that apply to literature as well? Is "The Lord of the Rings" a bad sequel? Well, is it?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Agreed. Here are some literary sequels that were better than the originals, or at least just as good, like "Ring of Endless Light" by Madeleine L'Engle (sequel to "Meet the Austins"), "The Castle of Lyr" by Lloyd Alexander (which, for me, was even scarier than "The Black Cauldron"), "Imago" by Octavia E. Butler (arguably the best of the Xenogenesis trilogy), and the sequels to "Northern Lights"/"Golden Compass."

Then again, it's much easier for me to make a list of book sequels that disappointed me:

*"The Messenger" by Lois Lowry
*"The Book of Sorrows" by Walter Wangerin (which should be subtitled, "The Book in Which Almost Everyone You Got to Know in 'The Book of the Dun Cow,' Plus Half a Coyote Family, Dies")
*"Many Waters" by Madeleine L'Engle (if this story doesn't inspire a whole bunch of erotic and/or shonen ai manga, I don't know which of her books will)
*"R.T., Margaret, and the Rats of NIMH" by Leslie Conly

Woah... someone other than me read The Book of the Dun Cow??

Not that I enjoyed it a great deal. The animals are too anthropromorphized (they live in houses, unlike the animals in the better written 1970's animal allegories "Watership Down" and "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH"), the author glosses over that his rooster protagonist has a HAREM, the protagonists' offspring are all male, and while John Wesley Weasel may have been "subversive" at the time, he'd probably be voiced by Chris Rock in the all-too-possible animated movie version Walden Films might produce...Honestly, reading the two books made C.S. Lewis' "That Hideous Strength" seem like "Wallace & Gromit's Grand Day Out" by comparison.

So...somebody who has their own internet video series always does heavy research?

You just paradoxed the Irategamer.

Don't forget "Toy Story 2"! It gave us Woody's backstory, Woody's television family, the origin of the song "You've Got a Friend in Me," and that song "When She Loved Me"...whenever I hear that song I wanna cry...

Star trek V, VII(Generations)IX,&X
beyond thunderdome
Army of darkness (That's right. I Said it)
Sherk III and IV
Alein3 and resurection
T3 and Salvation
Land and diary of the dead
Son of frankenstien
The deadpool
Sum of all fears
Superman III IV and Returns
Die another day

Proves her right

BTW:
Star wars, back to the future, The Godfather, and Bourne are all trilogies and there for do not count (see Scream 2)

I wouldn't say Shrek II was better then the origonal, but it was at least good.

I'd say this is a more accurate statement, sequels are 85% of the time, never good.

But again, there are actually lots sequels that are nearly as good if not just as good as the origonal, Aladdin and the King Of Thieves comes to mind. (the one after the bad one of Jafar's Return, I think they just wanted a movie so the guy playing Jafar could sing cause they said they were disappointed they didn't give him a villain song in the first one)

That was a tar pit he jumped into. It doesn't look like tar, it's water!
And guess what, they now have a TV series instead of movies. I just wish they end the whole franchise with a meteor coming down to drive them to extinction.

I heard they actually ended it after the TV series bombed. Not sure if it's true but seems like it.

Thanks MarzGurl. The LBT sequels have been on my shitlist for over a decade.

The first movie makes you cry, the rest of them talk down to you like you have below-average intelligence.

At least they had the decency to call it "fire" and not "the red hotness" or... I dunno... their usual idiotic naming scheme.

Pretty sad when that qualifies as a notable positive though...

Oh wow, I've actually seen this. I was sure I'd only ever seen the first two movies. Now I'm wondering if I've seen any of the others. Honestly though I can't imagine how much worse this series can get.

Also I love how the raptors were thrown in at the last minute with no previous mention of them so we can have a "climax"

Shot in the dark was a vary good sequel, probably the best in the pink panther series

I saw Nelson Shin's name on there at the end and that explained it all. AKOM, the lousiest animation studio in history.

And the memorial to Ken Mars was a nice touch.

Wait, Nelson Shin from "Family Guy"?

As someone who was forced to sit through ALL of the Land Before Time sequels, I beg you! Save yourself!

Or at least watch better movies in between these shit fests, ergh. Good luck. Better you than me, I must say.

Y'know, this is something that occurred to me while watching this review. They refer to the area outside of the Great Valley as the "Mysterious Beyond", right?

Except it isn't mysterious.

THEY ALL PASSED THROUGH IT TO ENTER THE VALLEY.

Also, if the Valley is so impenetrable, how did all of those grass eating dinosaurs (many of them not the most dexterous creatures, either) get into the Valley in the first place?!

Hell, Littlefoot's Crew had a freaking FINAL BATTLE about 10 feet on the other side of that wall. They had to draw up a fairly complex strategy to both lure Sharptooth out of his cavern and not die. They should be fairly familiar with that area.

I guess it would make sense if they mean the area beyond the mountains on the OTHER end of the Valley, but that's never really pointed out, is it? And even if they ARE referring to the other side, wouldn't that have been where the rest of the dinosaurs entered anyway, thanks to the continental divide? Are they referring to the east or west? Jesus, how many deadly meat eaters are surrounding this place?

Actually--how DO they keep the Sharpteeth out?! Sharptooth was literally camping right outside their front door. That thing worked its way out of a freaking CONTINENT WIDE CHASM. It hunted the heroes for possibly HUNDREDS OF MILES. It couldn't smell the smorgasbord on the other side of the mountain? And won't the Sharpteeth DIE if they don't have plant eaters to eat? How are they breeding? Why aren't they turning on each other? What will stop the plant eaters from eventually overpopulating the valley, thus stripping it of greenery and dooming themselves?! What will happen to our heroes?! Is that why they stopped making movies after XII?! Do they starve to death?! Oh Jesus!

Oh god, it's going to be like Grave of the Fireflies, isn't it?! It's going to scar me for the rest of my life, won't it?!

I just wanted you to know, I thought many of these things myself, and thought this response was one of the most amazing things I've ever read. Thank you.

Ah, the memories. Glad THAT'S over.

You know, you should review Lion King 2. It's another sequel that lobotomized its franchise (*cough* Kiara *cough*), one of a film that was considered the pinnacle of the Disney Renaissance.

Not to defend Lion King 2 but... it was bad but at least it was decent. It had some good animation and a pretty decent story and even some really powerful moments like Nuka's death which absolutely breaks my heart even now, despite the fact that he was a villain and a rather annoying one at that. I just can't help but to whimper pathetically when he says "Sorry, mother, I tried." right before dying.

Compare that to Mulan 2 or worse; Beauty and the Beast Enchanted Christmas. Both were just absolute abominations.

You also forgot how most of the dinosaurs in the Great Valley are BIGGER than the sharp-teeth. If the sharp-teeth can't get in the valley, how did they?

First rule of LBT sequels: the events of the first movie are never mentioned. Seriously, I think the sequels take place in a parallel dimension or something.

Okay, place your bets now, everybody! How many of these movies is it going to take before MarzGurl goes COMPLETELY INSANE???????

Fish.

Oh crap, it's already effecting me! EVERYONE RUN! SAVE YOURSELVES!

MarzGurl becomes Juno. Calling it now.

Well she's taken the past 2 pretty well so I'll bet around movie number 5, give or take a sequel. :P

Kenneth Mars passed away this year?! Between him and Brian Jacques (Author of the Redwall series), I'm starting to fear what other childhood memory Feb '11 will strike down next.

RIP Kenneth and Brian!

Holy Shit, Brian Jacques is dead?!! I had no idea. T_T Man...... That's just...... heartbreaking.....

If you do EVERY single Land Before Time movie...it would be so epic!

I place the over/under at 9 sequels

tell me you won't do all ten movies.. PLEASE!

Oh God, I knew I had watched every LBT movie up to the seventh, but I couldn't remember the plots. Neither I wanted to. When I saw the three bullies it all came back to me. Now I'm scared of what will happen with the next sequels.

i assume the person that this review was in memory of was a member of your family. i am sorry that you lost them.

he was a voice actor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Kenneth_Mars

I...see what you did there. :)

Oh gods, this movie. I had perfectly repressed my memories of this movie. FFFFFFF.

For the record, I stopped watching these movies around the fifth movie.