MarzGurl Discusses The Land Before Time XII
Written by MarzGurl Tuesday, 03 May 2011 23:35
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05.04.2011 - 00:15 | Sindragosa
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Hang in there...just one more movie to go.
And the whole thing Petrie says about "Me being like me" is a bit out of place in a situation in which he is in. I am with Marzgurl and probably about half of the other commenters on here too. In some children's movies there is a time and a place to pull the old "Don't follow the crowd;be yourself" dribble, but judging by the importance of Petrie's role in a important fuctioning flight that is beneficial to your species (I am assuming that pattern flight for Pteradactyls work the same way as pattern flight in say geese or ducks when flying in a group) trying to break away from the group and go at it yourself leaving the rest of those following you high and dry is not the best choice.
In truth, I think Petrie's "nonconformity" lesson was pulled out of someone's ass. Like they the writers were thinking "Oh crap its a children's movie and we forgot to put in a morale. Ah, just thrown in "be yourself" and lets go out to lunch!"
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Wow, I remember going through these movies right after your first review and I couldn't stand the last one the most so I give you luck! Also, thanks for mentioning Cera's real mom, I always wondered where she went, I was hoping you'd mention it! Everything you said in this review as so true, nothing happens in the movie!
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09.10.2011 - 23:02 | fanime1
I guess Topsy got a Dino-divorce and his ex took custody of all the kids except Cera. That's what I came up with and I was just a kid when I came up with that.
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I just wanna know where this one weighs in comparison to the others. This one looks to be nearly as bad as III, or at least painfully close. Guido annoyed me from the second he started to talk. I can't've been the only person who was entirely annoyed by the voice actor's delivery. What a failure of a film. But really, upon thinking about it further, most of these movies really aren't even bad...just...nothing happens, like you said. A lot of something happen to give the illusion of something happening, but nothing really happens in the grand scheme of things. Sigh.
I just wanna know if you'll be covering the TV series or the video game...or maybe that's a spoiler? ;D
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05.05.2011 - 21:00 | Marshmallowcreampie
Judging solely by the reviews, I'd have to say this one would rank pretty low on the list. Not only do they have terrible CGI, they overuse it to the point where I feel like gouging out my eyes. When it comes to animated movies, there's not much that rapes the eyes more than bad CGI. Then, you know, the whole thing being stupid and all.
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The very moment I heard Guido's voice I was like, "hey, it's Yakko Warner!" So I looked it up. Turns out the voice actor, Rob Paulsen, indeed did Yakko, Guido, and a bunch of other Land Before Time characters including Spike, Mo, and the Clubtail. In retrospect, this knowledge could have made for some spectacular jokes. Oh well.
Looking forward to the finale.
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05.04.2011 - 03:45 | TrencherThis very good review was very good.
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05.04.2011 - 22:27 | SamhainTheDark
Oh, how I wish the thumbs-up function was still around. lol
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05.05.2011 - 03:09 | LikaLaruku
I miss the thumbs up, but good riddance to the thumbs down...even though we use Pollice Verso (the thumb system) in the exact opposite way the Romans intended it, but I digress.
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05.04.2011 - 04:01 | Ally-Gator
I am loving the fact that Guido is the voice actor for Squishington in "Bump in the Night," that totally made my day. That means that Jim Cummings and Rob Paulsen have done another project as partners (they were the two flyers in movie VIII...shame it was such a bad movie)
Other than that, this movie is pretty dull. Not as bad as III or VIII (which still really annoys me) but nothing happens so it's as boring as sitting in traffic.
Good luck with the last movie MarzGurl, I hear it's awful, I mean, that movie is the point where they decided to stop so it must be worse than III surely. Well, just one more to go; all the best!
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05.04.2011 - 04:14 | ColdBlooder
Awesome review of a baaad movie :) Good Job Marzgurl :)
But how feakishly BAAAD must the 13th movie be if "Ave Satani" is being played after mentioning it...
(...Checks IMDB...)
Holy motherf***ing sh*tload of DOOMF**K...
This sentence from the IMDB description is already enough to hand out barf bags:
"a trio of dim-witted Beipiaosauruses"...
I foresee a lot of torture, pain, tears...
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05.04.2011 - 04:18 | Folio
I had a dream last night about... real life Land Before Time. It was weird, and you didn't give ANY commentary on it.
I don't know what it means, but I need to stop eating chocolate before bed.
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05.04.2011 - 05:07 | HellbirdIV
I just noticed the Imperial Bendu and Rebel Alliance Starbird on Marzgurl's sleeves. What disturbs me about this is that I've been wanting to get those tattooed on my upper arms, which makes me wonder - Marz, do you have the Twin-Headed Imperial Eagle on the BACK of that jacket, too? Because that would just scare the hell out of me.
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05.04.2011 - 05:13 | AaronJer
Funny how the land outside the great valley is either lush or barren depending on whether or not everyone is going to run into a sharptooth. Are the sharptooths emitting an aura of death or what? Maybe that explains why you never see them actually manage to eat anything and yet they still survive. They're liches.
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05.04.2011 - 05:27 | Shinigami
If this is 12th part was already this bad then I don't even dare to image how bad 13th part is. Oh wait, I don't need to. All I have to do is wait for next video and watch it to find out.
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05.04.2011 - 06:16 | Cubey
Wow, all characters were particularly brain-damaged in this movie. I mean, even more than usual for a Land Before Time sequel.
But the one thing that bothers me most is - what the hell was that Sharptooth supposed to be? A Dimetrodon? The makers do realize that they're not dinosaurs and lived like 200 million years ago BEFORE dinosaurs, right?
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That animal is Spinosaurus Aegyptiacus. An African theropod reputed to be the biggest land carnivore to ever exist though it was primarily a fish eater. Its huge sail could have been used for display or thermo-regulation or to ward off other carnivores like the similarly massive theropod Carcharodontosaurus which like Spinosaurus was also larger than Tyrannosaurus Rex. If you ever saw Jurassic Park 3 you will recognize Spinosaurus as the titular villain of the movie, snapping the neck of the tyrannosaur which spawned a huge debate in dinosaur fandom over which of the two theropods would win in the fight. Bottom line that dinosaur is a real animal.
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05.04.2011 - 06:24 | Drakonos
i will leave this here
http:// isismasshiro.deviantart.c om/gallery/750565#/ d1xcano
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05.04.2011 - 07:26 | RockmanX3It's almost over Marzgurl, it's almost over..
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oh, how i wonder if they'll try to completely shut down hopes for any more sequels... my best choice is to rather wait for your view rather read all the :7 plot :7
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05.04.2011 - 07:55 | Tactlesscat
They kept Tria but didn't write in Bron taking his group to the great valley.
...WHY.
JUST.
WHAT IS THE POINT.
Also correct me if I'm wrong but in one of those clips did I see THE FUCKING DOLPHIN THING? WHAT IS IT DOING THERE! DIDN'T IT GO BACK TO THE OCEAN!? asdhadugfwhrgturwsg
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05.04.2011 - 09:38 | VirginiaCyrenia
Oh my God, you're right, they DID throw Mo back there! Ugh, so they brought back two useless characters, but not Littlefoot's dad... That's bullshit!
Besides, it would be IMPOSSIBLE for Mo to come back to the part of the Great Valley where everybody was in that scene! The only place Mo could have come back to is the part of the Great Valley that got separated off from the bad CG earthquake in movie 9, thus he wouldn't have been able to reach the other parts of the valley! WTF, movie? Don't you have any shame?
Although to be honest... The worst reintroduction of a character that makes the least amount of sense is in the god-awful TV series where they throw CHOMPER into the GREAT VALLEY. He was supposed to be stranded on an island with his mom and dad with no way of getting off of it, not in the Great Valley! NO, Universal! NO! Chomper is absolutely impossible to bring to the Great Valley, unless you, I don't know, EXPLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIII IIIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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05.04.2011 - 07:57 | Moreno XMarzgurl, all I can say is: Yakko - Rob Paulsen - what are you doing here? That's all I can say. Just, nothing.
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05.04.2011 - 08:09 | Valis77
Well who shot first guido or petra?....wait.
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05.04.2011 - 08:15 | Valis77the anime figurines? must have... sorry for the double post
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05.04.2011 - 08:22 | alexthed
You talk about that "changes" line, makes me think "There is no way out. It will be dark soon. There is no way out."
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05.04.2011 - 08:47 | PrimatePunkGuido if that's how you pronounce his name is voiced by Rob Paulsen. I don't think he's trying to sound Jewish. It's just coincidental.
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05.04.2011 - 09:11 | VirginiaCyreniaI'm honestly stuck about which movie is the worst of the series: the third one, or this one! I think I have to say this one's actually worse than the third because of all the horrible inconsistencies, bad pacing, illogical or impossible events, bad dialogue, and songs that make my ears bleed! Also, I wish MarzGurl had talked more about Cera's now screwed up and dysfunctional family environment. That was one of the things in the movie that really made my jaw drop about how similar it is to a dysfunctional family in real life, so much that it was actually kind of scary. And the movie didn't even fix this problem! It's like they expect kids to see emotional neglect and abuse in families as something that's totally normal, when it's NOT! God, these movies are horrible influences on kids...
Also, you thought the prejudice was bad in this movie and the last? Wait till you see her review of the 13th and final movie. It makes fun of mental retardation! Again, what wonderful lessons to teach kids. No wonder the movies didn't continue further past that one.
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05.04.2011 - 09:36 | MPSai
Shame on you for not recognizing Rob Paulsen's voice, Marzgurl =P
It's so sad to see good voice actors in shlock. This one didn't seem quite as horrific as the others. Just... boring. Good point wondering where Sarah's TWO nests of siblings went. Not to mention those twins that were hanging around before.
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05.04.2011 - 09:50 | kaykeyser
I feel like Ive seen this review before. I some how fooled my self in to thinking you did this one already but maybe it was some one else who reviewed it? just now I can't remember who it was who did it. also when they enviably do a NEW Lbt movie par 14,15, 16 are we going to see those too? Man I really want to do a movie ware some thing new happens like the cast grows up or travels threw time or gets killed off or some thing. I feel like every time some one discovers a new dinsure the new species becomes the new one shot character. and when will we bring back characters who were in past movies any how?
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05.04.2011 - 10:06 | Furluge
What's waiting for you on the other side? The TV series, of course.
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You're at the final boss encounter, Marzgurl! You didn't trek through 10 sequels just to quit yet! You remember that Potion of Plot Device Warding? Use it! It'll save your life! Here! Take my +4 Longsword of Musical Number-Slaying!
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05.04.2011 - 10:32 | FunkyM
Great vid, Marzgurl.
And so, we come to it at last. Only one movie remains, and it's probably going to be as lame and boring as the others.
Stay strong!
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05.04.2011 - 10:42 | alchron
After watching these reviews of the horrible sequels in this series, I not wish very hard for the next one to be their extinction once and for all. It just surprises me how a great movie could spin off so many crappy sequels to the point they are in the double digits.
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MHAHAHHAHAHAHHAH Marzgurl You Have no Idea what is coming do you I have seen and reviewed this movie once before.And trust me this movie will hurt you in ways that you can't possibly imagine
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05.04.2011 - 11:27 | loomCAT
"Many changes had occured on this day of changes."
I'm suddenly tempted to quote a certain opening line from Plan 9 From Outer Space...
Yay! You've almost made it, MarzGurl! Just one more and you can put this behind you once and for all. Go for it!
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I think, and I really say think in this case, that the Petrie story was supposed to be a sort of "march to the beat of your own drum" moral. But with most kids movies it totally over exaggerates the end of a harmless moral by making it CHANGE THE WORLD. Being yourself is swell and all, but if you pull that kind of stunt in a traditional ceremony with judges? The judges aren't going to join you on the dance floor, grooving with the best of them, no way in hell.
Just one more to go, MarzGurl! You can do it!!