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I have written by far my stupidest article ever, “How Many Sequels to ‘The Land Before Time’ Do We Need, Exactly?” Whenever I entered a video store as an adolescent I used to always check which number “The Land Before Time” series was up to, and then I’d share a good chuckle with myself. I thought that chuckle would translate into a winning look at corporate excess, but the resulting article is nothing more than me swearing at a bunch of cartoon DVD covers. If you want to save yourself the trouble of reading this, the answer is 12. There are currently 12 sequels to The Land Before Time.

Comments (164) to “How Many Sequels to ‘The Land Before Time’ Do We Need, Exactly?”

  1. This had my Roommate and me in stitches. A few lingering grammatical errors to be found here.

    Well Done. What possessed you to write about the land before time?

  2. actually, i think there are thirteeen =[

    Film The Land Before Time (1988) • The Great Valley Adventure (1994) • The Time of the Great Giving (1995) • Journey Through the Mists (1996) • The Mysterious Island (1997) • The Secret of Saurus Rock (1998) • The Stone of Cold Fire (2000) • The Big Freeze (2001) • Journey to Big Water (2002) • The Great Longneck Migration (2003) • Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2004) • The Great Day of the Flyers (2006) • The Wisdom of Friends (2007)

  3. oops, youre right… twelve sequels, thirteen movies total!

  4. Destro: The Land Before Time sequels intrigue me for some reason, even though I’ve never actually seen them. To be honest, a part of me would be heartbroken if they stopped making these sequels. Why stop at 13? We should start using them instead of years, like “I demand a raise! I’ve been working here since Journey to Big Water!” “I drive an Invasion of the Tinysauruses Honda Accord.” But which grammatical errors are you referring to? I’m sure you’re right, I just don’t want to read over my article.

  5. Without a doubt one of the funniest things I have ever read. I fell out of my chair twice reading this. Thank God they haven’t made any more movies yet or I probably would of pissed myself from laughing so hard.

  6. Thank-you for ruining my childhood memories. These used to be my favourite movies. Now they mean nothing.
    Though, you do rade a good point. I think they should have stopped at the 3rd one max. I’ve seen up to the great migration, the other 3 I did not know existed; and i’m glad, because they sound lame. (Along with the others, but coincidentally I still love them.) haha.

  7. I love this, my friend still gets the new land before time movie from his grandma every year for christmas (she doesn’t realize he’s 21 now) and we have an annual “get drunk and make fun of the new land before time movie” night sometime between christmas and new years. They’re even worse than described in this article . . . we usually quit after 15 minutes because they’re wholly retarded.

  8. I totally agree! I have never seen any of the sequels, and have refused to let children I have babysat for watch anything but the original.

    My main issue. Ducky. Who voices Ducky in the sequels? The original little girl (Judith Barshi, RIP) died in 1989, and will be sorely missed, so how could anyone else compare?

  9. this is crazy to stumble on this i grew up when the first land before time came out…my mom said i watched it 4 times a day literally. anyway i know I’ve seen land before time 2 with chopper but after that i left that train of movies.. seriously tho?? 14 how many plots can these come up with about 5 dinosaurs?? crazy anyway well thank you for informing me about the becomings of lbt.

  10. wetbacks

  11. This article provoked vague memories of having seen the movie when I was very young. It also made me throw up a little in my mouth.

  12. Does the video game count?

  13. God, that was motherfucking funny! I just couldn’t stop laughing. I am a land before time fan still, but god, that was the funniest thing I’ve ever read. I do love the land before time though and I hope they come out with many more sequels. If nothing else, I can read about how shitty you’ve found them to be. Have you considered writing reviews on the tv series?

  14. land before time 14: the massive meteor impact

  15. Thank you for making me laugh so hard my abs hurt. That was awesome.

  16. These movies are for children. Children love them dinosaurs. They would not mind if 20 sequels were made. Go get a life and stop bitching about kids movies and the covers of the DVD s.

  17. Have you noticed that a lot of the covers use the same art over and over again?

  18. Are you kidding? The corporate queens found a revenue stream. What don’t you get? Stop watching children’s cartoons and go get a job. — chow

  19. Point taken, but to be honest this was aimed at kids. I have a 5 year old son and he loves all of them, as much as I cant stand to watch it. So it might not be your cup of tea, but once again it is not aimed at the adult market.

  20. Some of the commenters here need to lighten up. It’s a freakin hilarious review about a tribble-like movie series
    (which I happen to enjoy, but that makes this review all the more funnier because it’s so TRUE!!!) Make sure to update it when LBT 14 comes out. (I personally am betting on Land Before Time XIV:The Missing Pituitary Glands)

  21. Reading your pathetic ramblings was a waste of my time, and I’m embarrassed I’m wasting more time even posting this response. But I really need to defend this series as my kids love it and can’t wait for another sequel. Maybe you ought to concentrate your critique on the Disney movies instead as they impart even less of a moral message on kids. Besides, your crap is not even slightly amusing.

  22. Phippo: Critique Disney movies? No thanks! If you think you’re an asshole parent, you should see how sensitive Disney-loving parents can be. Imagine an asshole twice as big as you are and you can begin to understand what I’m talking about.

  23. One of the best articles I have read in a long time! I thought they stopped at 7, so I was in for a huge fucking surprise.

    Now the real question is, when will The Land Before Time have more sequels than we’ve had Super Bowls? I give them until 2014.

  24. Phippo I want to share my herpes with you.

  25. I got a good chuckle out of this.

    I liked the original Land Before Time as a kid. I still do. It reminds me of an age where parents weren’t such assholes and didn’t freak out over their kids watching some characters get hurt/killed. Sadly, like his other films, some assholes figured out a way to make a fortune off of marketing this to little 3-year old bitches and their psychologically-impaired parents. Now we have sing-a-longs and “gags” that caused an increase in adolescent suicides. They ruin all of Bluth’s films this way.

    Can we please go back to the 80s, when cartoons were awesome and full of violence?

  26. Very funny. I think I was a fan of the first one, but honestly thanks to all the crappy sequels I’m not sure any more.

  27. being 15 i watched the first 3 when I was 5. You know what i told mommy. Mommy this is fucking Lame, I want Jurassic PArk.

  28. I totally agree with Phippo, even with the latest Disney movies. The reason WHY this series has run so long, is because of the morals, love, and overall goodness that it employs. I also can’t wait for another one, particularly I would like to see it tie in with the TV series, closing up the loose ends that it brings with it. …Hah, I hear the argument, “kids are stupid and will watch anything;” kids may be naive and trusting, but certainly not stupid. And if you think I am, well, all I can say is, I’m not a kid, I’m not stupid, and I certainly as hell will NOT watch “anything!” I think that 70 to 80 percent, maybe more, of all TV nowadays, is pure crap. This is one of the last few gems in a sea of sinking garbage that people are basically forced to watch. And, if you’d like to continue to argue with me further, I’ll back up Phippo all the way, and argue with you all the way to the depths of hell!
    -NeptuneNavigator2001

  29. Oh, and BTW, VadeDarther, this type of stuff doesn’t cause an increase in teen suicides; it’s that stupid heavy metal crap, along with drugs, and processed food. Now old-school music, there’s some good gems. Miles Davis sure could play a tune… And Rock ‘n Roll back then, told interesting stories; nowadays, you have a bunch of morons screaming, sounding like they went on acid trips just as they were recording. It shouldn’t even be allowed. Death to heavy metal, death to horror movies, and death to evil.
    -NeptuneNavigator2001
    P.S. I don’t care what any of you guys say; we’ll never get anywhere with each other, so let’s just say we agree to disagree, and leave it at that. I’ll defend my position to my death, you just wait. Good post, Phippo.

  30. I agree absolutely with the article.

    When I was a kid, I loved the original movie.

    Maybe the first sequel.

    But after that, it turned to “moral” drivel. And they seem to have killed off Ducky, Petri, and some of the other characters too.

    I wonder when Littlefoot will pass on? Surely he should have aged a little bit by now..

  31. “It shouldn’t even be allowed. Death to heavy metal, death to horror movies, and death to evil.”

    Okay, Mr. Censorship. Tell me how your crusade goes. Defending your position to the death seems kind of difficult when your position is that anything you don’t like is “evil”.

    The Land Before Time Sequels are nothing more than corporate cash-ins. That you’re loyal enough to the company making these to be their cash cow is respectable in a way, I guess.

  32. Wow this is shocking. I never even knew there were this many. As a kid I always wanted to see the first one, but I never got to. I’ve got a lot of catching up to do.

  33. fucking hilarious

  34. Thanks for the funniest thing I’ve read in recent memory, it was great.

    Neptune & Phippo: Really? I’ll admit, I could eat a box of Triscuits and shit better movies than what Disney has nowadays, but the Land Before Time movies took a dive to that level around the first sequel.

    P.S. I really doubt processed food causes teen suicides; I ate a lot of it and I’m pretty I didn’t succumb to the deadly teen suicide plague. But then again, I do watch horror movies, so who knows?

  35. (On a more positive note: If you’re a fan of The Land Before Time series, keep your eyes peeled for The Land Before Time XIV, scheduled for release on DVD in 2008.)
    im one of fan of this series how about the cd copy of the land before time XIV?

  36. i agree 100%.

  37. since time is a human concept dipshit land before time makes sense, plus they’re kids movies, go get a life

  38. time is pretty much real. in case you haven’t noticed, anonymous #37.

  39. i used to watch 1 thru 3 while my rents worked. and i shit you not i watched the fourth one when i was like five and i refused to watch the series ever again. fucking cunts at disney

  40. Its about time someone spoke upon this madness. How did they make it this far? I mean all that traveling they’ve done you would think they would have arthritis and amputate their limbs. or even better throw themselves onto migrating heard of T-Rex’s. Is it me or is Cuba Gooding Jr. playing the role of a creature who is questioning there sexuality with mild case of down syndrome? Come on… parents stop letting your children watch disabled dinosaurs. It bad enough when discovery Channel and animal planet have shows about made up Dinosaurs that never existed on Earth or on any planet. Next title for the movie: Land Before Time: travels to waste of time Cove featuring Hunazie voiced by Vin Diesal

  41. Fantastic. I, too, have gone on numerous rants about the idiocy of the Land Before Time sequels. I loved the original movie as a child, and am now shamed that my own daughter has had to witness these atrocities. You are an inspired writer.

  42. This is the most retarded thing i’ve ever seen. all the sequesl were great, if you want to rant no one gives a shit so why are you even putting your 2 cents in dumb ass. If you don’t like the sequels, then go cry yourself to sleep because more than double the people who hate the sequels love the sequels. Fag.

  43. Mr Anonymous, making up facts doesn’t make you more correct. And it seems while you’re arguing about “sequesl”, the rest of us are talking about sequels.

  44. very funny, it almost makes the whole series worth it. it is as if this article is the glimmering shred of hope, like the leaf with water droplets in it from the original LBT.

  45. When I was little, The Land Before Time was one of my favorite movies, and now I’m just annoyed by it. Little Foot and his friends should be a adult Dinosaurs by now. Jeez, I’m just waiting for the X-Men to turn up and have it turn out that The Land Before Time is actually The Savage Land. Also, don’t forget that there is a cartoon TV series now.

  46. Thats amazing. honestly, i didnt know there whre that movies, i knew there where a lot but sheesh, go over board will ya? i love the comment about diggin up our pets nd lighting them on fire. isnt that what they did to poor Littlefoot, as the creation, us, childeren of the 90’s, grew up with?

  47. have you ever been to http://www.superdickery.com? you (I mean the person writing these) have the same sense of humor the guy there has.

  48. Wow, this was hilarious. I grew up with Land Before Time and didn’t know that they had desecrated it so! It’s sad. But I loved this article, great reading for work!

  49. One of the most hilarious things I have read. I stopped watching Land Before Time after the second one, but wow. Your review of the other movies was funny to read man, seriously. You should be their spokesperson. I can see it now: “Critics are ravings: “This movie blows!” Keep up the awesome reviews.

  50. Blink, why don’t you take a good long think about what the phrase “Spelling Mistakes” mean. The only laugh i got out of this is that the publisher wasted his time writing this pathetic “review” of the sequels. If you don’t have anything good to say about The Land Before Time, then don’t say anything at all. If the characters grew up then the land before time would lose tens of thousands of viewers, because that’s one of the main things that makes these sequels so great. It would be hilarious if someone made a review of your reviews making a bad example out of them. Now there’s something to laugh at!

  51. I’ll just put in my two cents here if anyone cares. I loved the first movie… maybe even the second and third but that’s when all movies need to stop. I think that’s all very clear to everyone that the sequels are simply made because it makes money and kids seem to enjoy them enough to make their parents buy the DVD for them. So let the babies have their bottles. That’s what most of them are anyway, just 3-7 (which I know technically aren’t babies but you know where I’m coming from). I think that your reviews are hilarious and I look forward to your next addition. I hope that people that do support the sequels, both for their pride and their children’s, don’t seriously take the rants of one used-to-be-fan like a slap in the face. I think that we all agree that the sequels unfortunately lack quite a bit of quality but it makes money for the employees, children enjoy it and enemies of the sequels get to enjoy making funny rants for all “anti-fans” to enjoy. I really don’t think that the end result is all that bad.

  52. fucking funny as hell

  53. you’ve got issues…. nobody ever said the movies where ment to entertain adults. Though its clear that you don’t have anything better to do. I’m sorry that the little animated dinos anger you so! I’d just like to know where I can meet the dumb shit living in his mothers basement you probably wrote this. Get a life man!

  54. I laughed until I cried. No joke. Particularly liked the comments on XI.

  55. there are 13 but in 2008 no.14 comes out. know one knows the title

  56. I grew up on the Land Before Time videos and actually enjoyed them. I’ve only seen up to the the 6th one though and kinda wanna go to Blockbuster or something and rent the rest. haha. The First one was pretty scary in my opinion. It gave me nightmares for a while but soon got over it. My favorite would have to be the 3rd one. gahhh man I really want to rent all the sequels that I haven’t seen now. thanks a lot. The movies are kind of brainwashing though….As a young kiddo about 4 or 5, I told my mom that I was going to change my name to Petrie when I grew up. hahaaa. At least I didn’t think I was Petrie like my brother thought he was Tommy, the White Power Ranger. Great childhood memories.

  57. omg..this was hilarious!..i grew up on these movies..and loved them up until number 4..i had no idea they were STILL making them..to me the only real LBT movies are the ones with the original friends..as soon as little foot got, as you said, a girlfriend and the plots became stupid..er..i pretty much disowned the whole series:]..love your writing..thanks

  58. The thing I believe with Number 14 (which is confirmed as The Growing Sky Stone)…is that they finally kill off the dinosaurs! I know I know…that’s cruel…but…in the end, Disney movies DO kill off characters…it wouldn’t be surprising since naturally these characters all do have to die eventually (it is the Land Before Time after all). So it will probably rely upon an opening scene about seeing a giant object in the sky, days pass…songs are song, sad moments, the original Sharptooth comes back (I forget if it died or not…fell in a pond I believe…not sure if it was in the sequels) for one last epic showdown with a now grown up LittleFoot who apply is renamed…BigFoot…no relation to your mother. Then the meteor hits and everything’s all sad for the final final movie…then we have…THE SPIN-OFF SERIES, THE LAND AT THE BEGINNING OF TIME! With a bunch of mammals now…probably not like Ice Age just yet…but its sure to be made…

  59. Well I bought the first 11 of them on VHS. I’ve seen 10 of them so far. Now Chapter 14 is coming. Anyway I watch a movie like that once and wait for the next otherwise it gets a bit redundant. Anyway I’d watch it not as a fan but more like a What The Heck sort of thing. I’m just collecting them to build the set up because if eventually I sell them off they’d be worth a lot of money together with all 14 or so movies collected together AND because I have the first 11 on VHS that makes it more valuable and rare as it’s a full set so if not to watch regularly it’s a hobby. Because with each released chapter the value goes up given they’ve been active for 20 years now. It makes sense to launch #14 on the big 2-0.

  60. This article mademe laugh out loud, yoh. lololololololololololz. . But yeah, what the hell is up with the cover of part 3. Littlefoot is just drinking from a leaf…. what the hell?

  61. OMFG that is so hilarious and true. When will they quit, ITS OVER!!

  62. I am in love with sarah, little foot, prrtery and rock.
    Love you

  63. Dude! You are fucking balls on accurate. Fuck great shit you wrote. Deserve a fuck pulitzer for honesty. Me my have been saying this shit for 15 years.

  64. haha i completely agree. I just love how dumb each sequal gets. I love how they never seem to even grow an inch or how the voices now sound horrible. And I love how they randomly break out into those ear piercing songs that make you wanna go to the air conditioning system and drink anti-freeze. I don’t know why animators are creating these little movies where the characters sing those horrible songs. Just get on with the damn movie and stop fucking singing. Oh and I love how these little baby dinosaurs can some how make it through all these journeys and manage to some how not die in the process. We all know that if this were real they wouldn’t have lived passed the first movie. I want real violence not some little bastards winninng against “sharpteeth” by throwing fruit at them. The creators need to die.

  65. http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/1457/lbt6lh9.jpg

    http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/7964/lbt7gr5.jpg

    The drawing of Cera is the same on the covers of 6 and 7. Just thought that you might like to know that.

  66. What I want to know, more than anything else, is this: Where do they get the money to continually concieve this crap? If America is smart (and it’s not), then the people will sign petitions to at least set Charles Grosvenor on some other animated project. Classic characters can only last so long. However, the classic LBT characters were only classic during the first movie. Now They habe been stereotyped into typically blande children’s show characters and the whole LBT name has been reduced to a Wee Sing franchise. Just like the intentionally sucking black plague that PBS and Nick Jr dumps, the LBT series shows us that the entertainment industry is only interested in money and making kids more stupid.

  67. There appear to be around 7 or 8 people on this blog who either want more sequels made or don’t want people squacking about them. There are at least 20 (not including me) people who want to put an end to it or have more made so that we have something to rant about.

  68. Very funny.I have to agree here, its beyond stupid.I mean,cant people who protect them understand they aremade solely to get money of of them? I mwan
    ,yeah,its not like it has any plot any more.

    And to the person who says :”No one gves shit about what you think”

    well,who are the twenty or so pople fully agreeing.And remember,”fags” is not an answer and will result in you being chemicaly castrated.

  69. Don Bluth must be spinning in his grave.

  70. Well, why don’t you take your happy pill? You seriously need to stop bshing these movies. I have adored them for many years and you don’t need to go cussing and making everyone think these are bad movies…Your just a jerk of a person who needs to row a brain, move out of your parents’s home and live on your own for a change…And stop thinking that you are so smart, because your not.

  71. I think I love you.

  72. Honestly, Ellen uttered the words before I finished thinking them.

    I really do.

  73. Haha! Adored them for many years, Chelsey? I feel like coming up with some sort of rebuttal that makes you look stupid, but you’ve gone and done all the work for me. That was pretty nice of you. Seriously though, ‘making everyone think these are bad movies’? Either he’s got a mastery over the undiscovered art of telepathy, or I’m going to rape your anus with a broken bottle. Guess which one’s more likely? Oh, and I’d pay good money to watch someone row a brain. I imagine efficiency as a sea-going vessel isn’t something normally attributed to brains, but I’ll forgive you because clearly you don’t use them often. Signed, Mr. Karjala’s most rabid fan.

  74. You’d think, with the TV series being aired, they would no longer feel the need to make more movies.

  75. BTW, Nikki is the most sensible person on this comment thread, including me.

  76. Comment threads don’t exactly breed sensibility. Posters come in various different archetypes, each one with its own delicious twist of flavour:

    - The upset one that goes around finding things to be offended by, not realizing that if you have a thin skin you shouldn’t be on the internet, much less on a site that specializes in rants. Rants don’t tend to be structured like “I personally don’t like this but it’s just my opinion and I see where you’re coming from if you do.”

    - The rabid one that will do anything for a laugh and usually isn’t very funny at all. Why are you looking at me like that?

    - The congratulatory poster, that gives nothing but praise, hidden carefully in tirades of more praise… but doesn’t actually have a point.

    - The fanboy (or fangirl, these are politically correct times after all), who wants nothing more than the site host’s babies and often resorts to extremely strange (and creepy) methods to convey this message. Thank the Nine Hells that this isn’t an image board.

    - And finally the serious one that makes extremely relevant, but inanely boring comments that most people skip or pay no real attention to. If all posters were flavoured drinks, this one would be water. But we all need water every now and then, right?

  77. I’d say all five of those archetypes have posted here. The only thing better than reading a good article is reading the commentary on it by various people.

  78. And I drink NOTHING but water, come to think of it.

  79. Hmmm… I know anybody who stalks this thread (like me) will likely get agitated at my three comments in a row, but I just noticed the last sentence of the article: “If you’re a fan of the land before time series, KEEP AN EYE PEELED FOR THE LBT XIV” That doesn’t sound like an attack on fans of the series, unless it’s meant to be sarcastic…

  80. GESH!!! The Land before Time was created for TODDLERS “not” ADULTS now if you really wanted to show your vast wisdom and expertise you could have been keeping a running commentary on the American Investment Bankers that would have really kept you busy. One reason why the American economy is in a mess because people like you keep so many mired in superficial muck. ps. you could take a few lessons from the characters in the series.

  81. Oh, yes. The reason the American economy is messed up is because people like Mr. Karjala blog about the Land Before Time series in a derogatory fashion. Do I get points for correctly guessing that you’re not involved in economics in any way? Also, talking about the economy does not serve to make your argument appear more intelligent, you know. It was just rediculously out of context. I’m gonna take a shot in the dark and assume you’ve just finished watching Zeitgiest and wanted to appear like an individual who’s educated on the subject. A pretty desperate attempt to make complete strangers assume you’re an intellectual, really. Just so you know… you’ve totally failed. I’m pretty sure you cry yourself to sleep at night.

  82. This article made me laugh so hard, I thought my ribs would splinter if I didn’t stop. I must send it to all my friends.

  83. I would love to see a 14th land before time

  84. Hilarious article. I can’t people who fans of the series are offended by this.

  85. I would enjoy 2 see LBT 14. In my opinion, they should bring back some old charecters such as Ali,Pterano,Rinkus,Sierra,Ozzy,and Strut. That would be an awesome moive.

  86. Hilarious. Made my day a little brighter.
    Also, I think it’s pretty interesting that there was such a huge gap between the original and the first sequel - six years. What the fuck were those people doing? Were they trying to think of better ideas and came back to some fucked up dinosaurs, or did they spend all that time producing the first sequel?

    Honestly, I was surprised that there are only 13 movies. I thought it was up to at least twenty.

  87. If you hate The Land Before Time series soo much why would you waste soo much time on critisizing it? That makes noo sense. Not to mention all your jokes are lame ahaha grow up

  88. I lable Herm a troll… he simply hopes that Eric will actually care since no one else does when he says things

  89. I think people complain in this thread because they want to see Eric’s fans rise up in a spitting, hateful defense. This time I can’t be bothered (although I’ve heeded the call a few times). Herm does most of the damage to himself in this case anyway. I love how he doesn’t see the irony in his post. You do realize you’ve put time and effort into telling him that he’s lame… for putting time and effort into telling people that something is lame? It’s the circle of life, Herm. The circle of life. I say we take the warning labels off of everything and let stupidity cure itself.

  90. you guys are all weird.
    you talk weird, your all freaks and losers lol.
    Trolls are cool anyways so i take no offense to that

  91. you could tell in most of his descriptions on what was wrong with the movie he could think of nothing to say so he made something up about the cover or something, like commmmee onnn

  92. Lol, squid, he came back to see the silly retort that EKarj’s “weird” fans wrote… what a loser! He’s becoming a fan himself. Also, I’m pretty sure Eric didn’t want to actually watch some of the movies since he had some dignity left in him, hence why some of them simply insult the “interesting” covers. Also, ‘your’ should be ‘you’re’, as in ‘you are all amazing people who kick ass’ rather than ‘your fucking of my mom was totally awesome last night’

  93. You mean to tell me you got further than the covers, Herm? It explains a lot about you. From now on when I see your posts, I’ll pat your back for trying. But you probably won’t read this, right? Cos, you know, you wouldn’t want to be caught talking to freaks and losers. People who like the Land Before Time series, though… they’re about as cool as it gets. I envy your obvious social status.

  94. Loved the article. FYI: Critic Carolyn Graham of L.A. parent is a real person.

  95. lmao you’RE insults dont affend me
    i wont be caught talking to freaks and losers, that is why my name is Herm, i do not know of a herm anywhere. You people are the kind of losers that sit at home on your computers constantly cuz you have no lives, i understand why you would envy my social status i would hate to have any of yours
    peaceeee yoo

  96. Herm, too cool for school, or grammar, or spell-check.

  97. OMH this had me laughing to tears. It’s a shame too considering the original was my favorite childhood movie. I remember a while back Don Bluth made it very clear that he had nothing to do with any of these abominations universal crapped out to make a quick buck.

  98. seriously, i think the dinosaurs are copied and pasted from cover to cover.

  99. EPIC. Mother-Fucking EPIC shit.

  100. WOW, i loved the original, i cant believe they fucked it up so badly… i mean not only did they dig it up, they decided to skull fuck it another 12 times, just for good measure!

    Someone should go back in time and kill the animators, so they cant make such a travisty to human kind.

  101. hehe that made me chuckle, loved the first one when i was a wean, have never even bothered to watch any of the sequels as I suspected they’d be as shhhhiiiitttttee as you have described. seems i was right!! aye its the stupid pictures on the front covers that give me the rage an all, make me wanna kick a badger or something.

    class article, keep it up, go and rip the tits of some other lame films so we can get a laff :)

  102. eh, that herm guy posted his comment bout folks here not having lives and being losers etc at 4.21 am on a sunday night….um, reading bout kids films at stupid oclock in the morning at the weekend..? not got work to get up for? not clubbing no? not really having sex either were you mate…? nope. just alone. doing nothing. you rock. you out-cool us all. :0

  103. I love the Land Before Time, I grew up with them for years and It is one of my favorite movies,today i was shocked they have 13… or coming soon 14 movies, wow i need to get caught up because i got lost at number 7

  104. Yeah the sequels are imcomparably different from the original - in visual style, in atmostphere and everyting. They’re made by entirely different writers and crew.

    I guess the basic setting was just a too good idea to let it go. It’s a chance of creating a world totally separate from ours, that also has its dangers but they’re all masterable and in the end everyone get’s to live together happily. That’s not even too far away from the idea of the first movie.

    They had to reduce the drama, since the frist movie had big trouble being released for +6 children. And honestly who would have watched the sequels if they were like the first.
    It’s not too bad, just different.

  105. However until I recently zapped into it, I had never watched the TV series.

    I hope they rather go back to the movies. That sure was some shallow, cheaply produced stuff I saw there.

  106. these are the best movies ever.

  107. lmao
    right on

  108. sorry but geez could you get any bitchier lady? these movies are awesome.

  109. Well I couldn’t bring myself to laugh at the article but that’s mainly because of the memories the series brings to me. My grandma used to buy these for me when I just a wee lad and I loved them. She died back in 99 though and I’ve been buying the movies as a memory ever since. I still like them although they are not the best anymore. Of course I’m not a toddler either. But I still enjoyed all of them. And I don’t mind you all who don’t like them but to those saying that movies should be stopped. Why? Are you planning on watching them? I think not so just don’t watch the movies and I’ll continue buying the movies and preserving my memories until the series ends.

  110. I agree Mikei. The movies are still cute. I still buy them because now I have children and they love watching dinosaurs. You can’t please everybody. If you don’t like it. Don’t watch it.

  111. I know I’m wasting my time commenting of this, but I can’t help it. I love the series; I always have. I was introduced to it probably about eleven years ago. I’m now fifteen. For someone who believes that these movies are abominations and that they are a ‘fantastic voyage into atheism,’ you like to use a multitude of curse words and think killing kid dinosaurs from a child series would help out a great deal.

    What I can’t understand, though, is the fact that you are actually attacking a series for kids. If you don’t like the series, ignore it! Seriously? You’re ridiculous.

    And one last thing, I haven’t seen the thirteenth yet, but I’m sure it’s awesome. Yet you seem to think it’s awful and that autism is idiocy. Individuals with autism do not deserve to be bashed on like so.

  112. Rant Blog, n.
    An online series of journal-like entries where the author is free to express any opinion they damn well want to, and is generally not designed to be taken seriously, especially not the killing of fictitious dinosaur characters. Also a place where bleeding hearts lack the capacity to lighten up and laugh, and feel the need to condemn the author for their own lack of a sense of humour.

    Bleeding Heart, n.
    You.

  113. Land Before Time MMO anyone? I’m pretty bored of Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

  114. LMFAO!!!! This post made me laugh so hard! But land before time ROCKS ! i watched when i was a kid 10 years ago and i watch it now too :P.

  115. I’ve loved the Land Before Time series since I was 4 and I’m in my teens now! I constantly was enjoying each installment until they came out with 13.. Wisdom of Friends. It reminded me too much of Barney and stuff like “Come on kids! Let’s sing along!” The first 12 were so cute and reminded me of childhood.. I hope 14 is better. It’s coming out this year, right?

  116. LMAO! This article is right on the money.

    Maybe you could do another article on Power Rangers. They keep pulling a new series out of their asses every year.

  117. Well, it was amusing but I have seen all 13 of them. I love them, as Sarah said, 13 was a bit on the crap side but still mildly enjoyable. I am looking forward to 14, although, I do agree partially that most of them are an insult to the first, but in my opinion the best have been, the original, the second, the fourth the fifth the sixth and the tenth, the rest have only been okay.

  118. This is a very helpful website,thank you. And it is very accurate too.

  119. Dude… This made me laugh harder than I ever have in my life. Do this again with another series. YOU ARE EPIC!

  120. OH MY GOODNESS…I had no idea….I am OUTRAGED!!! What have they done…little foots mother would roll over in her grave.

  121. P.S. love the article! :)

  122. i think i peed my pants reading this. my stomach hurts and i had to take breaks to laugh. GENIUS.

  123. Well,I just happpen to love the sequels many times better than the original! I hope the series never ends! Dinosaurs are cool! And they really existed,Moses,the black one! This article is 100 percent shit!

  124. Mad Magazine, in one of their “Banned Children s Movies articles had : “The Land Before Time and the Great Flaming Meteor! - with three and a half new songs!

  125. I’d take this article a bit more seriously if it wasn’t as immature and childish as these movies are. You probably wrote this for your own lulz, not because you actually wanted to give an honest opinion or share some good insight with the world.

    To be honest, I don’t get why people complain a company is, *gasp!*, doing its best to make money. Newsflash: that’s what companies do. LEGO makes new sets each year, franchises get sequels each year, anime get filler episodes like there’s no tomorrow and so on. That’s the way the world works. Some like it, some don’t. Those who don’t can either defend themselves in a mature way, and then there are those, like the one who wrote this, who can’t and needs to resort to using “shit” and “hope they kill them!” and bad humour to get their point across. Bravo!

    PS: I wrote this for the lulz. Internet, is, after all, serious business.

  126. fuck you anonymous that article was priceless.

  127. What the fuck man. Dx
    I loved the original, and maybe a few of the sequels, but after the third one it grows to be bullshit.
    Way to fuck up my childhood, LBT. I’m so glad I haven’t watched the recent ones. I saw the cover to the 12th one and I screamed “WHAT THE FUCK!” at my screen. >__> Makes me look crazy, but it’s true. Whutthefuck is this shit? Stop ruining the movie, people. The original was awesome.

  128. The land before times blows.

  129. Just for the record, Don Bluth is still alive, Kent Worthy.

  130. Wow, a great example of someone that doesn’t like classic movies.

    Perhaps you just shouldn’t watch them!

  131. PsychoticSquid, there’s also the ones who look down their nose at everyone by attempting to categorize them and “analyze” everything. They think that they’re better then everyone because they can step back from any situation and see it “how it really is”. They’re the worst kind.

  132. I changed my mind! Sorry! Now, I also love the original movie just as much as the sequels. BUT I still love the sequels AND I am STILL against this article. In other words, this article is totally crap!

  133. The Land Before Time is NOT for babies and children! When people say that, they offend adults like me who have grown up with The Land Before Time and enjoy it. I am a GIGANTIC fan of the original movie, all of the sequels, and the tv series ( yep, they even have a TV series with, like, 15-20 episodes so far. And that’s just the season one of the telivision series!). I do have to give you some positive comments on how funny your article was, especially when Ducky was pointing on the cover of The Great Longneck Migration. However, you should still be disappointed in yourself, for ridiculing a wonderful series, and me, a man planning to be a palaeontologist someday, and a big fan of The Land Before Time.

  134. [Sorry for any grammar mistakes, but English is not my mother tongue!]

    Normally I’m a horror and splatter movie fan and I don’t watch cartoons or something else. But “The Land Before Time” is a exception, because I watched it in my childhood, so I decided a few weeks ago to watch ALL the 13 movies of “The Land Before Time” AND the cartoon series with 26 episodes.

    Your article is very funny, I lol’d hard (even with the language barrier, my first language is German), but I must say that I have another opinion. The first film is still great, but the sequels are good, too. They aren’t as good as the first film, but they’re okay for me. They are colorful and funny. Same thing for the cartoon series (but I must admit that the quality of the drawings are lower than in the previous 13 movies). It’s really cool to see the little dinosaurs and how they grow up with new adventures. Yeah, maybe the producers of the sequels just want to make money, but the movies are still good and I hope that they are going to make “The Land Before Time XIV” and/or the second season of the cartoon series!

    That’s my opinion. (That was hard to type in English!)

  135. seriously you wasted time writing all that? The only reason i am evening responding to this is the amount of fuck yous and mother fucks in that? Honestly if your mother was so hard up she couldnt fuckin by you anything but land before time movies thats her fault. Maybe if you saw the damn movie and how it affected a child and what the child got from it rather than taking drugs and trying to write something “logical” you would understand why the sequels made so much money. I have read by far many more write ups that actually did have me laughing. But your opinion and cander in your so called “professional”writing leaves me wondering how much better my 3 year old can evaluate a movie. You call yourself a writer

  136. hey!! i’m not really a fan.. but where’s the 14th movie?? i thought there was one.. where’s your review on that??

  137. THIS ARTICLE IS FUCKING SHIT! PMSL. go get a life- you seriously don’t know what your on about.

  138. this is a great one just u for got the number 1 movie

    i love love love land before time

  139. good point

  140. I agree with a few of these, but why’d you diss #4?! That one’s my favorite! It was the one that came out on the year that I was born!!! I love that one…

  141. this page made me laugh so hard I cried…THANK you for sharing!

  142. u suck balls this is the best sequel ive ever seen and why don’t u just shut ur freeken mouth

    ps get a life

  143. That was the most hilarious shit I’ve ever read. I love how you take a random observation and make it into something funny. Dude, you have got to email me.

  144. Haha I love you dude, this is the funniest shit I’ve read in a while.

  145. Brick seems to have the intellectual capacity of his namesake.

  146. If you all hate it so much why have you wasted your time searching for things on Land before time.You have to have watched them all to find out how bad they are so either you actually like watching them and just not want to admit or your as bad as the people who make it and deserve to be killed along with the rest of them.

  147. Everyone who said they found this by searching for The Land Before Time admitted that they were fans. The rest of us are fans of Eric Karjala, and found this article, funnily enough, by browsing the ‘article’ section. Would you like me to simplify this further so you can understand it completely?

    PS. He doesn’t mention watching them, and all the information about the movies that he uses could have easily been lifted from the covers. However, Eric admits that the original movie was one of his most beloved childhood films, so chances are that if he did watch one or more of the sequels, it’s more than likely because he was hoping to relive some of the charm of the original movie. After bathing in the fermented juices of commercial whoring that seep from the seams of these blatant attempts to cash in on a popular name, he decided to write the article.

    It would also be logical to say that after discovering the first few sequels and being embittered by them, he decided to find out how many there were exactly for the sake of the article, because it would add weight to his observation of there being way too many.

    If you don’t think the number of sequels is incredibly ridiculous, then chances are it’s because you’re one of the smiling-cartoon-consuming retarded kids that these films are aimed at. If not, then you have the same mindset trapped inside the body of an adult, which could explain why you couldn’t even think of a fucking name to include with your post.

  148. That is a very detailed argument. No I would not like you to simplify mainly because your P.S. is longer than your actual comment. Do you even know what P.S. means? OH and if your going to comment on names you should at lest have one that doesn’t sound like you came up with it at the age of 9 and thought it was funny and still do. If it does bother you so much I’ll let you come up with a name for me.

  149. Yeah, I tend to do that a lot with PS, so good call. It still doesn’t detract from my argument, though. My name, however, is a private joke amongst my family, and I like to use it because of its obscurity.

    As for coming up with a name for you, I hate to disappoint but I’m not taking the bait. That’s kids stuff. Like, erm… a lot of my insults. Still, I couldn’t be a fan without loyally springing to his defense. I need to show the love!

  150. So disappointing I dont have a name now. You have your opinion and I have mine so leave it at that unless you wish to continue arguing about something that really doesnt matter.

  151. It wasn’t really your opinion about the movies that got me going, it was the fact that you insinuated that he was either a closet fan or he was as bad as the people that made them. But really, if he doesn’t care, why should I? I guess the internet is the perfect place for pointless arguments, and I am the type that likes to feed the fire. Since you’re no longer interested in arguing, I’d have to be even more of a douche than I already am to drag this out further. I guess I’ll wait for the next random comment that sets me off like the good little attack dog that I am.

  152. If you wish to continue.I never said it was the opinion of the movies my opinion was on my first comment about people. At no point have i mentioned what i think of the movies. You have no idea many fire jokes I get one of them being that i feed fires. Woof. Good dog.

  153. Indeed, you haven’t mentioned your opinion on the movies. My mistake. *lick*

  154. What the hell is lick

  155. Something dogs do after being told they’re good. I dunno, I think I’ve squeezed all the ‘humour’ out of this conversation that I possibly can… and then some.

  156. This conversation is getting boring. Why dont you argue with someone else.

  157. Apart from this very sentence, you probably should have noticed by now that I stopped arguing with you several posts ago. Way to shit on your own intellect.

  158. You know not everyone shares your hatered for the land before time. this show actually taught me quite a bit. So just keep your motherfuckin smart ass comments to yourself Asshole

  159. @Lynk Jonson

    You know, not everyone shares your love for The Land Before Time. This show actually taught me absolutely nothing. So just keep your silly trollish comments to yourself, please.

    <3

  160. did he even see the movies or did he look at the covers.

    I cant tell

  161. whats your problem get a life

  162. youa re so mean trying to ruin movies if i were you i would stick to real facts and did you even watch the movies

  163. I think the land before time is awesome ever since I was a kid it was the only cartoon I liked.all other cartoons were quite boring for me .I’m a collecter and I think the land before time will make a great addition to you collections ad they are fun and bring put happiness in people I really wish they made part 14 seriously if you’re going to start making movies at least end the series with all the fans being happy

  164. dude.brilliant reviews man.exellent.legend

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