alycemiller My siblings and I loved and quoted this movie as kids, and nothing has changed with my 3 and 5 year old.

Michael_Elliott The Land Before Time (1988) *** (out of 4)Nice animated movie has a group of young dinosaurs going off on their own to try and find the Great Valley after their land is destroyed by a major earthquake. The dinosaurs put their differences aside to go out and find this legendary land.THE LAND BEFORE TIME is a good animated movie that ended up turning into a massive series, which to date has fourteen movies. The film was released during a period where there really weren't too many major animated movies and it turned out to make a nice profit for the studio. I'm going to stop well short of calling this a great movie or a classic but at just 68-minutes it's certainly entertaining enough to make it worth viewing.For the most part I thought the adventure of the story was good enough to hold your attention. Once the earthquake happens and the dinosaurs are off on their voyage, the film really picks up with some good action scenes. Another plus is that the dinosaurs are cute enough to where you want to watch them do their thing as they add to the entertainment value. The animation itself isn't the greatest that you're going to see but it's certainly good enough for the material.

michaelrobinsonwatkins Let's travel back in time together back to more simpler Times, back when I still walked the earth of the State of Georgia. when an entire millennium turned and changed right before our very eyes, when Earth's History changed forever, when we were discovering Brand New Dinosaurs we never saw before and did not even know existed, and learning brand new things about the Dinosaurs we thought we already knew all about, when I was in a Grade called Kindergarten, and back when I was just an aspiring Future Paleontologist. These simpler Times were none other than the Prehistoric Early 2000's. Somewhere in the Prehistoric Early 2000's Long Ago, I still lived in Georgia but I was in Kindergarten, I wanted to be a Paleontologist in the Future due to my most Xtreme Love for the Dinosaurs that ruled our Planet for 220 Million Years, and I never seen any Film before in my entire Life. But then both of those would change forever, when I first saw Don Bluth's very own Masterpiece in all Film Making ever, Don Bluth's The Land Before Time. I will start by talking about the Story which is about a Young Male Alamosaurus named Littlefoot who has to migrate all the way to the Great Valley in Late Cretaceous Period California with his Mother and Grandparents due to their Food Sources being depleted and their original home becoming drier and more dangerous but Herds of every other Herbivorous Dinosaur that coexist with those Sauropods are also migrating to the Great Valley as well, but when Littlefoot's Mother gets killed after battling against a Tyrannosaurus Rex named Sharptooth, it is up to Littlefoot to make it to the Great Valley and reunite with his Grandparents on his own, but after meeting a Yong Female Saurolophus named Ducky, a Young Male Dravidosaurus named Spike, a Young Female Triceratops named Cera, and finally a Young Male Pteranodon Longiceps named Petrie he forms a Herd of his very own to migrate to the Great Valley with, but will they put their differences aside to work towards a common Goal while Sharptooth the Tyrannosaurus Rex hunts them down, and finally make it there? Will they finally kill Sharptooth the Tyrannosaurus Rex once and for all to avenge Littlefoot's Mother in an Epic Final Battle? I now have to talk about the Animation and Art, which I will never forget, this might sound old fashioned of me but I have to say that I love the traditional hand drawn animation of this Masterpiece because it is it realistic, detailed, beautiful to look at, intense, epic, and even majestic especially by 1988 standards, the Art in this Masterpiece is well done and well drawn, and even immerses you in this Late Cretaceous Period Dinosaur World Don Bluth himself has created. All I ever have to say about the Characters is that I loved them so much I named all Five of my own Pet Ducklings after them. Because Don Bluth's The Land Before Time is a Dinosaur Film not to mention the ONLY Dinosaur Film Don Bluth ever made, I of course have to talk about the Dinosaurs and my Paleontological Opinions about them, for 1988 all of the Dinosaurs, and Prehistoric Animals in this, except for Rooter the Scolosaurus are surprisingly all Paleontologically Accurate and still hold up in terms of Paleontological Accuracy even to this day, including Sharptooth the Tyrannosaurus Rex who is not only the right size, and undeniably looks like a Tyrannosaurus Rex but also accurately has two Fingers and not three (unlike two other certain Tyrannosaurus Rexes!) the only complaints I have about the Dinosaurs and/or the other Prehistoric Animals are. Spike lacks his Plates, both Cera and the Baby Triceratops only have one Horn making them look like Baby Monoclonius, and making Cera look like a Young Female Monoclonius, Rooter does not have his Tail Club making him look like less like a Scolosaurus, and more like a Panoplosaurus, and the Pteranodon Longiceps are too small, but hey Don Bluth's The Land Before Time did come out in 1988 so I cannot complain about, nor get mad at its Scientific Inaccuracies too much, and hey I could show Mercy too, and forgive them, and let them slide. And finally I talk about the Impact Don Bluth's The Land Before Time made and left on me and my Childhood ever since seeing it, well first of all it inspired by to become the Independent Film Going Film Maker Film Animator Film Critic that I am right now and still am to this day, Don Bluth's The Land Before Time inspired me to go see other Films animated or not where and whenever I could, it inspired me to make my very own Films, and it still does even to this day, it inspired me to make my very own Dinosaur Films, which I still make even to this day heck I am even making a Dinosaur Film right now that is inspired by Don Bluth's The Land Before Time, and Don Bluth's The Land Before Time made me respect, admire, and love both Don Bluth and all of his Work he does, but best of all Don Bluth's The Land Before Time inspired me to have a reason to even make my very own Films, to bring the Dinosaurs back from Extinction, and back to Life on Film and resurrect the Non Avian Dinosaurs that I love so much that have been long extinct through the Film Making Art Form that is Film Animation, and Don Bluth's The Land Before Time is, and will always be an Inspiration for every Non Avian Reptilian Dinosaur Film that I have made and will always continue to make, and for every Realistic Scientifically Accurate Scientifically Correct Scientifically Sound Palaeontological Dinosaur Film that I have made and will still always be making these Days, in this Day and Age, and this Year in 2016 for all Eternity!!!!!!!!

OllieSuave-007 This is one of the very few non-Disney animated films I grew up with - five little dinosaurs Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie and a non-speaking Stegosaur travel the ruins of their land while being separated from their families by an earthquake, attempting to reunite with their loved ones in the beautiful and lush Great Valley.It's a pretty exciting story as we see the little dinosaur friends travel together to beat the odds and strive for survival as they struggle to find food and fend off frightening carnivores like the unforgiving T-Rex (who the call as Sharptooth).The animation is good and the voice-acting was believable. I like the Littlefoot character, couldn't stand the bratty Cera, and thought the friendship and bonding between Ducky and Petrie was little too sweet and endearing.Again, this is an exciting and very nice dinosaur film, but grew up on me overtime. It's a good film to bring the family together, but it's best for the kids' ages.Grade B