The Land Before Time is a charming adventure that, despite having a very dark moment, continues to excite and function as great family entertainment, thanks to its endearing characters and its universal message. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 13, 2024

Before all the sequels and the dozens of episodes of the 온라인카지노추천 show, it was just a simple story of five young dinosaurs on a journey to a promised land, and that’s all you need for a heartfelt picture.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Apr 7, 2023

Just when you think animated movies for children have become a triumph of marketing over imagination, along comes Don Bluth to make you think again.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2022

Bluth and his enormous team of artists have done an exceptional job, drawing you into a world forbidding and, in the expected happy ending, enchanting.

| Aug 23, 2022

The story does have a certain degree of charm, but the biggest flaw is that it covers several Major Life Themes without much subtlety or use of symbolism.

| Aug 23, 2022

What it's got in endless abundance is charm, humor and some moments of genuine pathos. It's like classic Disney, in that it transcends its boundaries as a child's movie: nearly everybody will enjoy it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2022

The spirit of Land Before Time is right. And, thanks to Bluth and his staff, the film's style is right, too.

| Aug 23, 2022

[Don Bluth's] new movie is much simpler thematically and less sharp visually [than his previous work], though it's still 20,000 leagues ahead of the Thundersmurf Galacticas on Saturday morning television.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 23, 2022

Land Before Time is thus about faith, tolerance and unity, as well as being an engrossing adventure for children 4-9, few of whom would sit still while you read them The Odyssey.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 23, 2022

The new insult, The Land Before Time, establishes that not even the naturalistic grandeur of prehistory is safe from Bluth's forced preciousness.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 23, 2022

The Land Before Time is strictly for younger viewers. Only they will be consistently intrigued by the film's simple plot, unembellished drama and overly strong sentimentality.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 23, 2022

Accompanied by Horner's choral-highlighted orchestral suite, Bluth's new animated adventure reveals a land before time in all of its endless mystery.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2022

No Fantasia dinosaurs here, no noble, earth-moving Stravinsky-fed creatures -- this batch is strictly of the rubber-ducky variety.

| Aug 23, 2022

Most of the settings have a haunting, luminous quality to them, like scenes from a beautifully drawn child’s picture book. The dinosaurs roam though an eerie world not quite familiar to us, with parched lands and shifting mountains.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2022

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have joined forces to produce an animated treat for younger audiences, usually left out in the cold by filmmakers this time of the year.

| Aug 23, 2022

The filmmakers have not been content to let their movie speak for itself, and the straining for profundity is obvious and tiresome.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 23, 2022

The Land Before Time is a cartoon to be seen with the heart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 23, 2022

If it were a film for adults, parts might be considered melodramatic or sentimental. But by kiddie-picture standards, there's actually a certain restraint to the way the emotional scenes are handled.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 23, 2022

What it lacks in originality, it makes up for in effective animation -- and in being cute... But cute is no substitute for genuine humor an element needed to balance the melodrama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 23, 2022

The Land Before Time speaks charmingly and articulately to audiences of all ages. It's a children's film full of recognizable characters and situations, drawn in terms that in no way diminish their realism.

| Aug 23, 2022