The Land Before Time
Movie • 1988 • Adventure
ReportAn orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each one a different species, and they encounter several obstacles as they learn to work together in order to survive.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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The children and their parents are separated, but this is entirely due to the earthquake and shifting land.
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Should note that while Sharptooth (the T-Rex that shows up constantly in the film) does encounter and pursue the protagonists on multiple instances throughout the plot, they do not actively stalk the characters.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Littlefoot's mother is attacked and injured by the Sharptooth, but this doesn't feel like a 'shock value' thing and she fights back very capably, despite dying from her injury and the force of the earth shifting.
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Yes, several, major characters and extras; but the film makes it pretty clear from the get-go just how dangerous living on prehistoric Earth is for even dinosaurs.
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Is there a dead animal?
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All of the characters are animals, and some die.
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Is an animal sad?
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Littlefoot is depressed and grieving for a while after his mother dies. Near the end of the movie when Sharptooth pulls Petrie into the water with him, the other kids - especially Ducky - are very sad because they think he's died. Littlefoot is sad at the very end when the 'spirit' of his mother appears as a cloud, since it's been a long journey and they still haven't found the Great Valley - until his mother 'guides' him to the Great Valley.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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It could be argued that Littlefoot was beaten up by Cera near the climax of the movie, but the fight between the two appeared to be quite equal, and was physically started by Littlefoot - Cera did give a final unfair hit to Littlefoot as he was walking away, but as a whole it was an equal fight rather than a beating.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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When Littlefoot and Cera escape from Sharptooth through some thorny vines, one of the thorns hits Sharptooth in the eye, though this isn't too graphic.
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Does a kid die?
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Offscreen yes. Some of the main characters are shown to have siblings that are never seen again in the series (they died).
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Does a non-human character die?
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the mother and a T-Rex
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Does someone die?
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the mother and a T-Rex (predator)
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A parent dies onscreen, and is a major plot scene.
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Sort of, maybe. Early in the film, the parent of one of the protagonists dies, and as the plot progresses, the same protagonists often will hear the voice of said deceased parent acting as a spiritual guide in select instances to help them reach the destination safely. It's implicitly presented that this parent may, in fact, be speaking from the grave, but it can also be interpreted as the protagonist recalling their parent's voice as a coping mechanism to ease their grief, evidenced that the "spirit" speaks in phrases that were said to the child prior to their death.
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Are there jump scares?
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Some of the scenes featuring the key antagonist Sharptooth might be a bit intense for children.
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One could argue that the tree-star that Littlefoot's mother gave him is 'priceless', and it is destroyed by Sharptooth stamping on it partway through the film, but really it is just a leaf - nothing of any real value is destroyed.
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One of the main characters may be considered to have an intellectual disability, due to an inability to speak, but it isn't explicitly a disability and nothing bad happens to them because of it.
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I think it might be a bit disingenuous to label Sharptooth as "mentally ill", mostly on the basis that while they don't seem to possess speech compared to other the dinosaurs present in the film, this seems to be more of a case of their inherent nature as predators rather than some underlying mental disability. Other featured predatory dinosaurs also do not speak in the film, but that's mostly a conscious decision by the filmmakers to make the antagonist dinosaurs more menacing.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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One of the protagonist herbivores is characteristically gluttonous, but it's not presented as a disorder.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Is there shakey cam?
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It's very shakey during the earthquake scene.
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Is there screaming?
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A lot of screaming throughout from the kids in perilous situations. At one point near the end of the movie, Ducky screams on purpose to attract Sharptooth's attention.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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it shows eggs hatching and the main characters are a group of kids
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Is there childbirth?
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There are multiple instances in the prologue (and a later scene where another character is introduced in the second act) where infant dinosaurs hatch out from their eggs. All are very clean and quick births.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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It is set before both men and dresses.
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Is there hate speech?
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There is obvious PG-friendly racial tensions present between some of the different species of dinosaurs (mostly the herbivores) that even children can draw parallels to real life hate speech. This is especially illustrated when one of the characters' parents (a triceratops) immediately intervenes when he discovers his daughter is playing with a "long-neck" (brontosaurus). There are other instances where this racism informs a character's reluctance to join up with the other surviving protagonists and even at one point invokes a stereotype as an insult ("My father told me that long-necks have very small brains.")
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This is hard to answer because they are all dinosaurs, so they are all naked. But no genitals are shown
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is someone homeless?
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all the dinosaurs need to evacuate and move to the valley
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Not a sad ending but a very sad start
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Sharptooth, the antagonist, drowns after Littlefoot and friends force him underwater with a boulder.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Mostly no, but there is one pretty violent scene where a carnivore dinosaur tears a chunk from another dinosaur's back with its teeth. The action is seen in silhouette, but can be deemed a bit much for those who aren't used to this sort of violence in an animated film intended for kids.
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