The sequels also deviate from the original by adding in a musical element prompted, presumably, by the Disney Renaissance putting animated musicals in vogue again , and I'm aware that this tends to be a real sticking point for Bluth devotees. I'd heard so many damning things about the sequels from Bluth devotees over the years - how much of an insult to the original they were, how insanely dragged out the series was, etc - that I began wondering exactly what I'd been missing out on all this time. She needs a better agent. She also reveals his name to be Topsy although it may simply be a nickname. The two carnivores lunge at them, causing a chase. Meanwhile, a herd of nomadic spike tails has taken up residence in the Great Valley and Spike, feeling unwanted and excluded by Ducky, grows close to a young male named Tippy Jeremy Suarez and his mother Susan Krebs.
Ducky, remembering what Cera taught her, suggests that Cera get angry and riled up at the ground sparkles. The Gang heads near the location where Littlefoot was looking, worried for his safety, while Littlefoot takes a wonderful swim while viewing the amazing underwater world. Littlefoot, afraid to admit it was his fault that the treesweets fell off the tree, blames everything on the tiny longnecks. In November 2002, a video game based on the movie was released from PlayStation, titled. Ducky begins to miss Spike, as she watches him spend more and more time with this herd of his own species.
On the whole, The Big Freeze has no pretensions about being aimed anyone but the very smallest of children, and that will certainly be an issue for anyone who reveres the original for being a particularly dark, intense and gritty slice of 1980s animation. Ducky promises to Spike that she will not get angry at him whenever he snores, ever again. Also of note is that Ducky is here a lot more tolerable than she was in the original film, whereas Petrie seems to have gotten a heck of a lot more inane. The log Cera and her father are pushing at the beginning of the film is also computer-animated. When sneaking off to see the tinysauruses again, Littlefoot and his friends are busted by Topsy. Retrieved on October 8th, 2008.
Sure enough, after calling for their mother, he quickly sinks. Ingle's narration isn't anywhere near as annoying and intrusive as Pat Hingle's in the original film for one, we don't hear another peep out of him until the very end , but given that we're already so far into the series, I find it a bit ominous that they apparently still feel the need to open by explaining to us what a dinosaur was. A chase ensues which eventually reveals their hideout. Underneath the ice is warm water, and they notice that there is lush food nearby. After several rough scrapes, including a chase from a , and successfully finding Ducky, they come across a frozen pool of water, which they break by accident. Convinced that he is alone, he is startled to find a sharptooth swimmer making his way towards the gang.
Meanwhile, as Ducky gives Spike the cold shoulder, Spike meets and befriends , a boy from a wandering herd, who have recently arrived in the. Hand-drawn elements are mapped onto each of the eggs in the later scene where they hatch. Also, 's older themes from the previous sequels can still be heard in some other shots of the film. Thicknose Note: The Japanese voice actors are appearing so far. Why go to all that trouble and risk failure when this considerably cheaper strategy had gotten results? Ducky, on the other hand, retains some of her infantile speech mannerisms but is here played with a notch more restraint than when she was voiced by Judith Barsi once again, I wish to emphasise that my dislike of Barsi's Ducky does not translate into dislike or insensitivity toward Barsi herself - what happened to her was appalling.
She's less in your face with her cutesiness, and I like her the better for it. Petrie wasn't a dumb character in the original. Performer s : Voices: Aria Noelle Curzon, Rob Paulsen, Thomas Dekker, Anndi McAfee, Jeff Bennett, Tress MacNeille, Susan Krebs, Jeremy Suarez, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn, John Ingle, Robert Guillaume ; narrator: John Ingle. Thicknose, who tells them he will not let them go off there by themselves, and leaves with them. When they reach it themselves, Mo reunites with his pod, then pleads with the gang to stay, but Littlefoot insists that he and the others must return to the Great Valley.
In addition, Cera will turn violent towards her friends should they make any references involving Tria be it Tria herself or Cera's father's nickname. Come on, that's pretty hilarious. Some of his rearrangements of 's original themes from the first film can still be heard in two shots of the film one where Ducky, Petrie, and Spike tell Littlefoot why they are mad at him and the other where the Sharpteeth come out of a cave , but he was uncredited this film, making this film the last time Tavera's rearrangements of Horner's themes would be heard in a Land Before Time film, as Horner died in a plane crash on June 22, 2015. He was on his own before he even hatched and he's the only one who in the end was not reunited with any of his family at the Great Valley. In the meantime, his friends overhear him playing, and run to join. The Big Freeze has three - an ode to the virtues of being angry, performed by Cera, a melancholic song about family performed by Ducky's mother and the main cast and a song by Mr Thicknose which sums up the moral of his arc. The music that plays in the background when the gang cool off is the cheese factory scene music from from This is the second and last time the music is used in the series, after.
Analysis Although Steve Rhodes of Rotten Tomatoes and the Internet Movie Database, who is a frequent critic of the The Land Before Time installments, has generally given low reviews on the films, he had more positive comments to give on this one. Mo offers to show him his home before they leave, and Littlefoot is surprised by the beauty of the undersea world, before he slips and falls into it. Petrie assures Littlefoot and the others that imaginary friends are all right, at which point Mo reappears. In the Walker County Messenger's review of Journey to Big Water, the films in the series were each described as teaching a valuable lesson to children; this film's lesson was about courage. Performer s : Voices: Aria Noelle Curzon, Rob Paulsen, Thomas Dekker, Anndi McAfee, Jeff Bennett, Tress MacNeille, Susan Krebs, Jeremy Suarez, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn, John Ingle, Robert Guillaume ; narrator: John Ingle.
Meanwhile, the Spiketail herd is starving, until Spike picks up the scent of the location the valley residents are in. Hence, we get endless footage of the gang trekking through raging blizzards which the sensible part of my brain insists would kill a cold-blooded animal in seconds. Myself, it neither pleasantly surprised me nor satisfied my immense gluttony for punishment. A T-Rex makes an appearance in this film too, but it's hard to imagine this one successfully killing one of the protagonist's parents as happened with Sharptooth in the original he gets beaten by a giant snowball, for eff's sake. Problem is that it's just so arbitrarily connected to the plot about Spike; one gets the impression that the writers conceived the two narrative threads as independent stories and then pasted them together when neither proved meaty enough to sustain a full-length feature on their own. When Cera, Littlefoot Thomas Dekker and Petrie Jeff Bennett get wise to what Ducky is up to, they decide to follow to ensure that no harm comes to either of their wayward friends. Unfortunately, surprisingly little of The Big Freeze is actually devoted to Spike and his curiosity about other spike tails, and once he makes the decision to leave the Valley his story thread trails off and he all but disappears from the movie altogether - it is, in effect, a smokescreen to the real story, which is about Littlefoot and his relationship with Mr Thicknose Robert Guillaume , an elderly pachyrhinosaurus who functions as a kind of schoolteacher to the children of the Valley.