Review of The Land Before Time (1988) by Alex F — 04 Aug 2016

I'm not a huge fan of Don Bluth, I'm more for Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks, etc, but since I did see his only really good films, like I remember An American Tail and it's sequel as a kid, but later on I watched The Secret of N.

I.M.H in 2015 and that was easily his greatest, but until I saw this film on Netflix and it does not disappoint, out of all of Don Bluth's films, this has to be his biggest masterpiece, this was like Bambi before it existed.

First off this story is properly the best Dinosaur you'll ever find, nowadays their so generic and uninteresting, but this, this is a emotional journey to find the Great Valley while LittleFoot has to deal with the death of his mother and the way it's told is incredible, making it heart wrenching, endearing and at times scary, the animation is phenomenal, it's attention to detail and it's taken in a serious tone then slapstick and comedic, the character's animation has the realistic and smooth moves of how these dinosaurs move in real life and lastly the characters are surprisingly really loveable, you feel for them and they do actually have a purpose in the survival and help others sort of way.

So overall, this is a masterpiece, I love this movie and I'm glad I saw this to this day but properly not a kid because I would be scared of this sort of darkness.