good back-story, and good acting

A lot of fun.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I wish I gave the film 1,000 out of 10. I first saw the movie on Netflix, and I loved it. I still love it today. It's the story of 5 dinosaurs traveling to the Great Valley, while at the same time, avoiding a Sharptooth. The animation is splendid. The plot is great. Now let's all talk about the main characters. Spike is cute when he acts lazy, with a big appetite. Petrie is so hilariously adorable. Cera is very cute when acting tough. Littlefoot is very adorable. But the cutest of them all is Ducky. She is adorable in every conceivable way. Yep, yep, yep. Buy it for your kids. 1,000/10

Before all the sequels where Littlefoot and his horde of miscellaneous dino friends face sillier and sillier threats with the status quo never changing, there was the original movie. And it was everything you could expect from director Don Bluth. It was dark, it was heartbreaking. It was beautifully animated, charming and endearing. It dealt with themes of loss and bigotry, as well as those of hope and endurance.The story is very basic. Some sort of cataclysm has befallen the land and all the dinosaurs are fleeing to find more fertile lands. Amongst this chaos Littlefoot, an apatosaurus, is born, but ends up losing his mother during a struggle as well as being separated from his herd. And now he has to follow his mother's dying advice in search of the Great Valley. And the rest is simply him and his friends facing various adventures and threats along the way.It's simplistic, but what makes the movie work are its characters and its atmosphere. The animation style is very dark and even somewhat realistic, especially when it comes to the so called sharpteeth, or tyrannosauruses if you prefer. It can be a scary movie for younger children, but luckily the main characters are all very friendly and have great personalities to distract us from the darker aspects.Objectively speaking I do think that this movie has just a bit too much fluff for it to be called unequivocally great, but it makes up for it in charm and style. Definitely a good film and well worth a watch.

"Land before time" is the most beautiful animated feature of hand-drawn animation history. The characters are excellently drawn,the story is great and the voice cast is wonderful. Though it is rated G, it does contain some really scary moments. The death of Littlefoot's mother is so touching, that I nearly cried. The feature should be awarded an Oscar for the Best Animated Feature and an Oscar for the Best Song: "If we hold on together".In conclusion,this movie is as almost as good as "Snow White and the seven dwarfs".Children of ages 7+ should see it.

So, people think Lion King or Beauty and The Beast are the best animation and belongs in top 250 of IMDb list right? Ahah, i bet not many people have watched The Land Before Time.To be honest, Lion King is way overrated and BATB not as touching as TLBT which is not suppose to be in top 250 list (don't get me wrong, both Lion King and BATB are still an excellent movie). This one here is definitely worth it and on par with Snow white or Pinocchio.The only problems with this movie is the movie is too short, only 70mins. Lots of sequels have been made, i think around 12 sequels. But non came close to this original masterpiece.I won't give further comment, go get this one on DVD and watch it!ps : Already watch for 25 times and gonna watch again and again until I die :)10/10 (AAA++)