The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze (2001) (V)

User Rating:

4.9/10   

Director:

Charles Grosvenor

Writer:

John Loy (writer)

Release Date:

4 December 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Family

Plot:

When the dinosaur families get trapped in a valley by an ice storm, one family of "spike tail" dinosaurs...

Plot Keywords:

Dinosaur | Anthropomorphism | Cartoon Lizard | Eighth Part | Surrealism

Awards:

1 win & 3 nominations

Cast

John Ingle	...	Narrator / Cera's Dad
Aria Noelle Curzon	...	Ducky (voice)
Rob Paulsen	...	Spike / Stegosaurus Leader (voice)
Thomas Dekker	...	Littlefoot (voice)
Anndi McAfee	...	Cera (voice)
Jeff Bennett	...	Petrie / Corythosaurus (voice)
Tress MacNeille	...	Ducky's Mom / Petrie's Mom (voice)
Susan Krebs	...	Tippy's Mom / Ankylosaurus (voice)
Jeremy Suarez	...	Tippy (voice)
Kenneth Mars	...	Grandpa / Lambeosaurus (voice)
Miriam Flynn	...	Grandma (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Robert Guillaume	...	Mr. Thicknose (voice)

Also Known As:

The Land Before Time 8: The Big Freeze (New Zealand: English title)
The Land Before Time: The Big Freeze (USA) (promotional title)

Runtime:

75 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Alsatian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Brazil:Livre | South Korea:All | Australia:G | Germany:o.Al. | USA:G

Company:

Universal Studios

Quotes:

Mr. Thicknose: [Mr. Thicknose is struggling to keep up with Littlefoot, Cera and Petrie] Children... wait up, please. I'm not as young as I used to be.
Cera: He's not as young as anybody used to be.

Movie Connections:

Follows The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire (2000) (V)

Soundtrack:

The Mad Song

No more! I give in!

Ah, I remember the good old days. 1988 it was, I was a little kid and had just been taken to see a great movie called Land Before Time. I really enjoyed it and wanted to see more of the cute talking dinos. Be careful what you wish for! Each sequel to the film has degenerated farther and farther from the original nice story into pure theatrical sludge. The characters have become increasingly more annoying, the plots are trite, the songs make you pray for the ice age and those are the series's GOOD points.

As for this latest cinematic suppository, I can't help but say, in all honesty, that I would rather be castrated with a rusty pizza cutter then sit through it again. Five minutes of Land Before Time VIII can turn your brain into cottage cheese. This is the worst case of sequelitus I have ever seen.

It's high time these dinosaurs became extinct!