Reviewing ALL The Land Before Time Movies! (Part 1/4)

The Land Before Time has been a childhood staple for many! I have lots of fond memories with this series so let's go back and see how they hold up. This first part covers the first Land Before TIme, The Great Valley Adventure, The Time of Great Giving, and Journey Through the Mists! #dinosaurs #thelandbeforetime #paleontology
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[@sonofmovienerdking7230]

I think the Great Valley Adventure had a missed opportunity; instead of Littlefoot immediatly accepting Chomper, he should hate him. Think about it, he saw his mother being attacked by the Sharptooth, who's also a T-Rex. I think it would've been interesting if Littlefoot learns to not judge someone for the actions of another.

[@Frogboyaidan]

I agree

[@Futuristicmapping]

Totally it would be an interesting plot as well we win and the creators win by having a better movie

[@Henry-rt6jz]

Journey Through the Mists had a similar missed opportunity with Ali. I'm sure we've all heard the comparisons before, but Ali could have been (and in many ways is) to Littlefoot what Faline is to Bambi and what Nala is to Simba. Sure, the fact that they're all still kids would hinder that, but still.

[@garrettdonovan8238]

Sort of like in Ice Age when Manny learns to accept the human baby after human hunters killed his family.

[@dudotolivier6363]

Yes, and no in the same time. Sure, Littlefoot could be, legitimaly, pissed off by Sharptooth in general. But here, with Chomper, it with a specimen that just hatched and who have (and still to these day) ANY blood from whatever herbivore on its hands. That wouldn't be legitimate that Littlefoot hate one sharptooth that did anything bad yet. That would be universal racism at a high degree. You really imagine that in this franchise ? So, we have such theme here and here, especially in these very first movies, but that was always in a soft and low level, enough low to be scrapped overtime, and give the educative messages. I don't think that would be fitting or possible to include a high level of racism inside the franchise. Think all about this. If Littlefoot don't hate at sigh at the first seconds Chomper despite the latter being a sharptooth, and even want to help him, that show how open, disinterested and responsible Littlefoot is, like his mother would want him to be. And the fact that he made distinction between sharptooth is good too. He don't place everyone in the same basket. Also, Littlefoot himself directly mention that he want and that its possible to made Chomper a sharptooth that will not hunt and eat others dinosaurs, that there maybe a possibility to made him like them. Due to being an hatchling at this point. Which will be effective at the end as the latter entries show it. With Chomper, which have been born sourounded by herbivores that decided to be friend with him despite of its nature, will refute to eat herbivores and only eat insects instead. Here, we have a sort of message that run throughtout the entire franchise instead of one message that only count for one movie.

[@Sonic.Primal6524]

Fun fact: Hyp the Hypsilophodon is voiced by Whit Hertford who played the kid at the dig site in JP

[@garrettdonovan8238]

And he voiced Korkie Kryze in Star Wars: the Clone Wars (who many fans think is Obi-Wan Kenobi’s son)

[@gabbyhaynes5394]

His Singing Voice is Shiro from Voltron

[@brianlevine871]

I guess "Time of the Great Giving" gave Whit a chance to encounter those '6-foot turkeys.'

[@alastor-yw7og]

And here's another neat fact the early sequel films were animated by akom studio's the same studio that animated the 3rd and 4th season of the g1 transformers cartoon

[@darkstarmoonshadow8892]

Another fun Fact Dil/Dale is voiced by Tress McNeille who also voices Dot, Babs, Charlotte Pickles, and Gadget

[@garrettdonovan8238]

Maybe it's my nostalgia speaking, but I honestly didn't mind that Grandpa Longneck didn't die at the end of Journey Through the Mists. I think that his illness raised the stakes compared to some of the other sequels, and that made it rewarding when the gang found the flowers and saved his life at the end of the film. I'm also glad that Littlefoot didn't lose any more parental figures.

[@Mr.IceCoal612]

I agree. I didn't mind it either.

[@alexarias4099]

"I hate those damn neckers, always takin' the good leaves" -Cera's Dad Probably

[@GoGojiraGo]

It sucks that we lost 19 minutes of footage from the first movie because Spielberg thought it was too scary for the kids. And much of it involved Sharptooth. Time of the Great Giving is still my favorite of the sequels. I always enjoyed the bullies, especially their song "When You're Big".

[@Joel-nm6xn]

So those 19 minutes are just sharptooth scenes?

[@GoGojiraGo]

@@Joel-nm6xn A lot of it, yeah, with the rest being other scenes of peril and the original ending.

[@CaptainKotetsu]

These movies were a huge part of my childhood and my lifelong love for dinosaurs. I used to watch the first six movies on loop as a kid. My mom even used to record them onto VHS when they showed on tv. Sure, the sequels have that “direct to video” energy, but the original is a timeless masterpiece.

[@transformerallstar2051]

Me too, I use to watch these movies over and over again as a kid. 😅

[@speedracer2008]

Minor correction in the heartwarming tribute you gave at 4:49-5:10: Judith Barsi died before The Land Before Time was released. She died on July 25, 1988, but the film didn't come out, until November 18, 1988.

[@gavinsiville9969]

One thing I like about the first land before time is that it shows that sauropods are no pushovers, they can easily clobber a T. Rex with a whack of their tails.

[@OrdemDoGraveto]

Spike is a newborn baby in the movie, while the others are already childrens.

[@redraptorwrites6778]

Well yes, that makes sense for the first movie, but time passes during the sequels. Chomper also goes from a newborn to a talking kid.

[@OrdemDoGraveto]

@@redraptorwrites6778 You commented that when you were speaking about the first movie. If Spike don't talk on the other movies, that's the directors fault for not realizing the reason he don't do it in the first is because he had just being born... In a later movie we see a stego smaller then him that speaks!

[@Dracovenatrix]

@@OrdemDoGravetoyou talk like a country ball

[@shainewhite2781]

I grew up watching these movies. The first one is one of my favorites!

[@LourdessApekatt]

While the first was always my favourite, as I've grown older, I have really begun to appreciate how dark and dreary that movie is. Like, it's kinda alien compared to it's sequels. Still really liked some of the later movies.... and some I never liked....

[@jonasnk5817]

My grandpa always recorded these movies for me on VHS when they were shown in television. When i slept at my grandparents home we always watched one of them in the evening. One of my best Childhood memories.

[@DoctorKalkyl]

I think a possible solution for the ending of the fourth movie would be to have granps pass on, but his illness spread to grandma, so dhey cure her instead, giving dhe adventure a meaning widhout missing dhe theme of death.

[@gladiolus5377]

I remember the IX and X movies the most thanks to that huge Liopleurodon antagonist in the former and Littlefoot's father in the latter.

[@bentheg9793]

Same

[@pedrord19]

Petrie and the Struthiomimmus brothers are my absolute favorite characters !!! I love how Ozzy and Strut´s colors reminds the Coelophisis from Walking with Dinosaurs and their music, and also, how they are the smartest of all the creatures in the franchise, since they, ad least from what I remember, are the only ones who knows which species they are.

[@BadassHater1]

These two are basically Pinky and Brain Which is especially funny since Strut is voiced by Rob Paulsen

[@gattycroc8073]

The Land Before Time along with Ice Age and Disney's Dinosaur were iconic parts of my childhood. this alone make me want to see an updated animated film or series about prehistoric creatures. form seeing villains like a Gigantopithecus voiced by Peter Dinklage to a Nyctosaurus voiced by Steve Zahn makes me want to see more.

[@theflyingdutchguy9870]

the sarcosuchus just looks like a regular cartoon crocodile😂😂

[@Dracovenatrix]

Deinosuchus

[@CaptainKotetsu]

The third movie had one of my favorite velociraptor designs of all time. And I really enjoyed the bullies. They were funny and well-written.

[@firemiracle]

Same. The third movie was my introduction to land before time when i was a kid and it's what made me ask my parents to find the other movies so i can watch them in order 😊 I also loved the bullies in the third movie. I may hate bully characters so much because i was bullied a lot as a kid, but sometimes it's rare for me to actually find some bully characters to be pretty funny. Like hyp and his friends, i always found them pretty interesting, especially hyp and his reasons in why he behaved the way he did.

[@BadassHater1]

BTW weren't those tiger-striped raptors from JP2? Because they sure do look VERY similair to those

[@DocumentaryFanboy]

Journey through the Mists was actually my favorite as a kid. Not sure why, it just was

[@garrettdonovan8238]

I liked that one growing up too

[@jenniferpittman2556]

Same!

[@thecommycompy5450]

Can’t wait to see what you think of the mysterious island, growing up it was always my favourite

[@seanmckelvey6618]

I think there might have been something wrong with me as a child, because Littlefoot's mother dying never really upset me, but them drowning the Sharptooth at the end did. Maybe it's just because T.rex was my favorite dinosaur.

[@speedracer2008]

Honestly, while Sharptooth was hardly a sympathetic character, getting a massive boulder dropped on his chest wasn’t a pleasant way to go out.

[@blackwing2da445]

The idea of a Hypsilophodon bullying a TRIKE of all things is just a funny idea. XD

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

The land before time 2 is the first movie I remember watching. So nostalgic and it's the best sequel to come from the land before time. Hell it's the second best movie.

[@serenitytoepper]

I was born in 89 so I watched all of them. And I learned a lot of lessons because of these movies.

[@creakingskull7008]

My best guess with Spike is that the film producers looked at Stegosaurus and went "well it has a small head and a big body so it must be stupid" or something along those lines

[@creakingskull7008]

This, however doesn't apply to the sequels because there we see other Stegosaurus and they aren't dumb

[@Aabicus]

These are great! you should put the full 4-part series into a standalone playlist :D

[@AaronMatthews-wm3im]

My favorite is The Stone of Cold Fire. I can't wait for your review 5-9. Don't forget to discuss the change of voice actors for the main characters

[@jeffreygao3956]

I for one enjoyed all four of these.

[@Mobythemerpup1515]

There was a 90 Minute version of the 89 movie that has never been released, but I hope it will be someday Also our concrete Angel Yep Yep Yep 😢. 5:12 I completely agree with that 1.

[@venomouslizards]

I grew up with the sequels and didn’t watch the original film until I had watched pretty much all of the others. I only ever watched the first movie once as a kid because it depressed me too much. As an adult, I can say it is the only one that is a genuinely good film

[@singingcrow439]

It funny looking how hips design compares the more accurate design today we have for hypsilophodon. I know this series uses old-fashioned designs and that part of its charm imo. But hips before and after pictures are hilariously different.

[@-MochiWochi-]

Land before time, my childhood and also jurassic park my reason of why i love dinosaur

[@l.abuddy23]

I freaking love these movies! My childhood in a nutshell. Surprisingly, I didn't watch the first movie until I was older. Great Long Neck Migration(10) was my favorite of the bunch. This franchise will always have a spot in my heart.

[@ankyloinc.]

Spike's Spike man, nuff said

[@chn.175]

Omg yesss my childhood just got reawakened

[@lvl5dino749]

I also have that exact DVD kit which I got from walmart years ago.

[@marcopolo2418]

Yes! My Land Before Time brothers and sisters. We will one day rule the world!

[@eeveefennecfox]

3:01 here's what I've thought about for years on that,yes she got hurt from the sharptooth,but I don't remember them ever being fatal attacks,so if she lived they would most likely be scars all over her,I think the earthshake got her causing her unable to get back up,maybe she broke something when she fell that caused it to be fatal

[@lvl5dino749]

Will you do the TV Show that occurred between the 13th and 14th movie as well? All the episodes are on KZbin and give much needed context for characters in the 14th movie as well, while also bringing back some old characters for certain episodes, and the series as a whole actually not being bad, many episodes were quite enjoyable last I remember.

[@joshuaW5621]

At long last we finally found the great valley.

[@ratillecebrasquedubitantiu4451]

The Land Before Time was such a huge part of my childhood, i watched them so frequently that my parents wouldnt let me hire it from the video rental store. Yes, thats my age. These movies are two years older than me.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

0:33 Having grown up in Australia, it looks so strange to see VHS covers *without* the rating on the spine.

[@brianlevine871]

I use to watch the first seven movies a lot as a kid, and the original is still a wonderful work of art. Haven't seen much of the sequels in recents years outside of clips and reviews, but I may watch them in full at some point. At least Chomper is still endearing and the Struthiomimus duo are still fun to watch, especially for Jeff Bennett and Rob Paulsen's performances.

[@kineuhansen8629]

man one of my child hood favorite movies i wonder what ever happend to them also love the tv series

[@serenitytoepper]

Poor Judith she was a sweet girl. I know the story well. But I do like this explanation and this video you have made.

[@kjellduteweert9262]

Oh that first movie. Crying my eyes out as a kid. Now maybe do the same. Up for rewatch.

[@tomatoboy3067]

The journey through the mist i watched so much as a kid. So much nostalgia. That dumb hold in the head song brought back war flashbacks.

[@ausnetscience]

The Land Before Time and an American Tale were the first movies I saw at the cinema. It's interesting to hear they were made by the same person.

[@DSLego3]

Wow, Red Raptor, I got to say. I really was excited to see this review. I honestly do enjoy the Land Before Time and a lot of what you said is why I like the series. The original is definitely in my top three due to not being a fan of the sing alongs and being too g rated moving forward but I can see why they changed it and I'm fine with it for the most part. The Great Valley Adventure I forgot how good this sequel was and honestly between the egg references from TheGamingBeaver and the introduction of Chomper and his parents, solid film. Plus this introduced the idea when I was a kid of T-Rex being caring parents and between Chomper's parents and the Buck and Doe from the Lost World, I can see both why I like T-Rex families plus the color green on the tyrant king. The Time of the Great Giving was ok, not as good but I agree with adding character development to Cera's Dad and especially with Grandpa Longneck, who's my favorite character of the series as he reminds me of my grandpa. They both are identical minus one being a human and the other an Apatosaurus. Plus seeing raptors in the series was cool. The fourth film is where the series drops the ball for me as well. It had some good but it had its mistakes as well. Just glad Grandpa Longneck didn't die, I get it would've made sense, but losing him would have ended my enjoyment for the series because I genuinely love his character. But yeah the film started strong then came to a halt once the second act started. Excited to see 5,6,7 and 8 get reviewed. Until then, keep up your dinotastic content, stay safe and have a wonderful day. See ya next time.

[@jacobgeorge8394]

Finally land before time

[@jyoster6447]

Journey through the Mists was the one entry that i haven't gotten to watch, so it got me curious to learn more about it. Bummer to hear that it was a missed opportunity.

[@TVJUNK85]

12:20 Aint it crazy how its explicitly demonstrated throughout this long series of 14 some movies how a wall doesn't actually work and is a waste of time and resources? Crazy.

[@Mr.Lubbox-Lobsterlegz1]

Had a single random thought about this movie this morning, never told anyone but I got recommended this…

[@serenitytoepper]

Lol that's how I feel when I see salads. We need Meat Damn it. Lol.

[@MC_Plush_Films.2005]

I’m waiting for the moment that you review, the wisdom of friends next

[@frankiek_1]

1:51 LMAO I love this edit😂🤣

[@jesusmejia79]

Ducky voice actress was in jaws the revenge too

[@furiouskaiser9914]

Ok, so this is spooky. Never heard of your channel before, but I use the name Red Raptor for some of my mechs in games. Its been a long while now, but Armored Core 6 just came out and am using the name again after many years. Seems youtube has been listening in on me again lol 😅. Bonus points on me being a dino nerd 😂. Guess you got a sub. 👍 (My online game name is Furious Kaiser. I only use Red Raptor as a name for mechs I build that are red/black tiger striped and are super speedy lightweight types. So just a happy coincedence on names.)

[@reasonablebutcrazy]

Growing up, my favorite one was journey through the mists

[@srstriker6420]

I used to watch this years ago and I had a few on video but not anymore, boy Littlefoot’s mother’s death still holds up

[@sonicrose8430]

i was born in 2002 so its fun trying to remember which movies i owned or watched and if i remember anything about them or if i liked them or not. Of the first 4 the original i always liked the best and watched the most, 2 i remember enjoying a good amount too, 3 i remember having but didn't watch it much. I don't remember 4 AT ALL only recognizing the title when it was put on screen

[@waterloo32594]

Let’s Goooo!

[@marcopolo2418]

The first Land Before Time is one of if not the best animated movies of all time.

[@jurgen1395]

Land before 1 had some scenes in different order like when sharp tooth losses his eye but in a early scene sharp tooth is missing a eye

[@jesusmejia79]

When I move to where I live right now and we got tv the first thing I did was binged watch the land before time movies

[@canonbehenna612]

The reason what it has a fast pace is because there were lots of scenes that were cut out for being to scare and not have plot to the movie

[@kineuhansen8629]

these movies is what made me love dinosaurs in the first place and i grew up with these movies have them all on dvd sadly not blu ray i didnt knew what dinosaurs they where at age 5 only i knew cera as a treehorn littlefoot as a longneck it was only later i lerned littlefoot was a apatosaurus ? and cera a triceratops why those 2 is some of my favorite dinosour today chomper as well

[@matthewjohnson3507]

After you finished the Land Before Time videos, do Animal Armageddon. No rush

[@Grand_History]

THE MYSTERIOUS BEYOOOOOND

[@nathanial8587]

13:52 Blizzard in a nutshell

[@arturosandovalsaito2704]

That was a pretty great video. But how would you rank the dinosaurs accuracy wise?

[@RonSwanson146]

“The whole movie is only 69 minutes” *subtitles at the bottom* nice I’m not watching this since I was totally oblivious to the sequels and will finish this once I see those

[@mlgodzilla4206]

I find it funny how for me, despite being a long time dinosaur enthusiast, only watched the first LBT very recently. So it was never a childhood thing for me. I did watch another LBT movie

[@thatkaijuguy72]

I remember one where they were in a canyon and i think there was 2 carnosaurs chasing them, or maybe some other dinosaurs. I used to own all of them before i sold them all

[@frogglen6350]

Everyone as a kid had bad tastes. I ignored cowboy bebop every time it showed on adult swim because it wasn't family guy

[@fatangrygeek5746]

I always thought the "egg-snatchers" were Oviraptors, looks like I was dead wrong. 😅

[@tyrannotherium7873]

Oh yes, land before time that’s how I got into dinosaurs are least it was one of them my cousins actually used to have the land before time VHS is until they gave them to me. I still have them but I’m getting rid of them as a matter fact when I was a kid, the sharptooth design from the original and in the 90s are specifically talking about the black green shark tooth. Whatever you want to call it looks scary looking, but those red eyes teeth and sound. When I was a kid I used to think that grandpa Lanez voice sounds like my grandfather, which unfortunately he passed away back in 2016 but no and Mr. three Horn. I do like the character of him at times, but he can be a bit of a douche bag at times as a matter of fact, I actually like all of the sequels from the 90s and in the early 2000s but some of the early 2000s went haywire, which you’ll talk about later, but overall land before Time the first one and the fourth sequels are pretty good to this very day

[@Casualartistdan]

This guy is underrated as f#$$

[@ambam64]

I might be a bit biased. Yeah, I watched the sequels as a kid, but I owned the first one on VHS and watched it the most. It was, and still is, one of my favorite movies of all time. None of the sequels come close to comparison, no matter how interesting the lore may get.

[@trendynlewis9528]

fun fact: both Jurassic World and land before time are owned by universal two famous dinosaur franchise owned by the same studios

[@Henry-rt6jz]

I don't know about your statement on the song Tough. It seems like a pretty good motivational song, especially during the Covid 19 Pandemic.

[@kjellduteweert9262]

Oh spike, I remmber in one of the films he finaly speaks when she is trouble.

[@tyrannoking097]

Would you be interested in reviewing the short series that spun off of this? Cuz I think the cast was back with Chomper as a mainstay as well as a new Oviraptor friend. But yea this was my movie series growing up sadly I haven’t watched the latest ones which I think the last one I watched was the tinysaurus one

[@brianmata1830]

I still have mine especially the first movie I keep watching them on the VCR

[@ChocyDino]

Personally, I think the first is my fav. With a close second being V (The Mysterious Island) and my third being the one with the swimming marine reptile that doesn't talk (I still have no idea what dino it is and what the movie is called). My fav is the first because it's one of the only movies where the Sharptooth actually feels like it's trying to kill the group. In all the other, the Sharptooth just stand there for like 10 seconds before trying to attack, just to miss. The first Sharptooth is actually attacking and trying to kill the group. My second fav is the fifth movie because I just liked it as a kid so I have some nostalgia lol. But I like Chomper, his parents, and the Giga. That's it. My third fav is the one with the swimming marine reptile (that doesn't talk) because ig I just like sea creatures. Idk, I thought it was cool (and also liked it as a kid - call me bias for having some nostalgia, but it doesn't make it bias!

[@BerserkerCade77]

Mr. 3 Horn was unstoppable and would’ve been useful in Avengers Endgame.

[@SharyK-_0]

I also watched land before time after 17 years

[@_SoniX_Mania509]

I remeber the land before time it was good

[@suerootes9771]

You know when I was a kid i always thought little foot was a girl for some reason 😅

[@apnosaurus]

they made another sequel recently 2010's some time, Journey of the Brave it features a Carno and possibly Yutyrannus?

[@bandamkaliz]

I still remember when I was little and my grandma bought me CD version of the first The Land Before Time movie. Now I'm almost 19 and I still live 11 the Land Before Time movies! 12,13 and 14 were really bad. Btw. Am I the only one that actually really likes fourth movie? And Ali too

[@blacknoir8504]

The childhood movie where I met the animal that gave my trauma and became my fav dino of all time

[@nicholaswalsh4462]

I loved the Land Before Time movies.

[@godzillabebravethetrexretu1381]

The best dinosaur animated film series

[@ARod3]

RIP Ducky

[@marcopolo2418]

My favorite sequels are The Secret of Saurus rock And The Great Long neck migration

[@dudotolivier6363]

Honestly, the general take of the Direct-To-Video sequels, with the tone more soft, light-hearted, fun and with the full-on songs here and here, isn't bad at all ! And work for the entire of them ! And is better, as a move and direction/artistic choice for a direct-to-video production than the scary, more serious and eerie atmosphere of the very first, which was a theatrical/cinema movie release. To be completely honest and objective, I don't think that would have being good to have the same exact atmopshere and tone and format than the first movie for the remaining of the franchise, even for most of the sequels, and that would have work long for them on the duration. And yet, even with the overal different tone of the sequels, we still get very serious or dark moments, themes, high emotional and educative messages throughout regulary. Like when Littlefoot meet for the first time his dad in "The Great Longneck Migration", which is an entry pretty far in the franchise.

[@Rosarian_baron]

will we get a review from "you are omasou" aswell? since it is in personal opinion just as incredible as the land before time franchise (we dont talk about the sequal tho)

[@konstantinoskoutsikos9612]

There this one movie where everything is a frozen hellscape. What's it's name?

[@redraptorwrites6778]

That's the eight one, The Big Freeze

[@JT5555]

excuse you: standing tough is a god damn masterpiece.>:.O

[@brianmata1830]

I can't watch the first because I cry way too much to this day ,fuck Bambi, little foot's mom has a sadder death 😭 I still can't get through the movie without crying