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This movie is an affront to Don Bluth

posted 16 years ago by Kipper34
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Honestly, Universal, stop dishonoring, Don Bluth, Diana Ross, and James Horner, and all the other people involved with the first LBT. These sequels are an embarrassment to one of the best childrens movies of all time. You know, the first two sequels were acceptable, capitalizing on Jurassic Park and reknewed interest in dinosaurs, I get that.

BUT THIS CRAP???? If you're going to have your dinosaurs sing, at least have the songs be a) catchy and b) performed by someone who can carry a frickin note for at least a micro-second. This is directed at the hack who voiced Littlefoot.

And Kiefer Sutherland: You are freaking Jack Bauer, and one of the three musketeers, I can't remember which. You held Collin Farrell hostage in a phone booth, and burned down Matthew McConaghey's house. This was your punishment for tackling that Christmas tree in England, wasn't it? The judge gave you a cruel and unusual sentence, that MUST BE IT!

Or, and I can only hope this is the reason, they offered you so much money they had to hire the children of the film crew to do the voices, and used some script-generating computer from the COld War to come up with this abomination.

And don't tell me 'it's a kids movie'. Watch 'The Secret of Nimh', watch 'The Incredibles', watch the classic Disney movies where you had Phil Harris doing the musical numbers, something he was actually capable of. This isn't a children's movie, it's a steaming pile of dino crap that must have been made with the idea that it's catering to children with an IQ less than the average 4-year old's shoe size.

Please, send letters of apology to Don Bluth for ruining his masterpiece's legacy, to James Horner for the crap sing-alongs all but obliterating his amazing score, and to Diana Ross, for absolutely rendering "If We Hold On Together" meaningless and a distant memory of when children were not thought of as mentally defficient robots.

-"Denny Crane"

[–] TheNumberOneShmuck 16 years ago

Would you like some cheese with your whine?

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The reason the mainstream is thought of as a stream is because of its shallowness. - George Carlin

[–] Kipper34 16 years ago

Your George Carlin sig doesn't negate the fact that you deem this movie a passable attempt at children's entertainment. It is not. It's embarrassing. And it spits in the face of a movie that was a huge part of my childhood. And since you don't have a problem with this movie, your opinion can go ride a railroad spike.

-"Denny Crane"

[–] TheNumberOneShmuck 16 years ago

1. If the sequels didn't sell well, there wouldn't be more and more. If children weren't entertained, the sequels probably wouldn't sell well. I am forced to conclude that children are entertained by this, which, in turn, forces me to conclude that this children's entertainment is at the very least passable. Furthermore, I now believe that you don't know what entertainment is passable in the eyes of children.

2. Ignore the sequels then, if you're so offended by them. Pretend they don't exist. It's what I do with Alien Resurrection, and it works just fine.

3. Interesting. Do you feel like all opinions which differ from your own should "go ride a railroad spike"? That seems like awfully closed-minded thinking.

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The reason the mainstream is thought of as a stream is because of its shallowness. - George Carlin

[–] Kipper34 16 years ago

It is possible I give children too much credit, but at the very least you must admit that on every single level, all the sequels are horse excrement compared to the original. From the simplisitc animation, to the godawful sing-a-longs, to Littlefoot sounding like a 17-year-old girl (At least TRY and sound like a little boy).

I do pretend this movie doesn't exist; as I imagine Bluth, Horner, and Ross do. I have a problem with people settling for less, settling for crap, which is what this is.

If I ever saw this movie being played for one of my cousins, I would take it outside and light it on fire and then drive over it with my car. There's no reason for a brilliant animated film like the original to be devalued by this junk.

I apologize for the railroad spike thing; it shouldn't have been directed at you. There are those, however, who I'm comfortable telling that to just because we differ in opinions. As an example, Nazi skinheads. I don't brake for them. Unless there's a red light. But if a skinhead gets in my way, his brains are all over the pavement. Because the railroad spike is better than them.

And I think deep down you agree with me that this movie is an embarrassment and a joke, and that likely you wouldn't watch it unless you had no other choice, and you too wish there was a better source of entertainment for children.

So sorry about the spike thing; I still hate this movie and wish people hadn't completely forgotten about a monument to animation in the original.

-"Denny Crane"