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The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends (2007)
How?
In my opinion all of the land before time sequels mostly range from good to pretty awesome, with the lowest score I will give is 7.5. Wisdom of friends is the sole exception here.
Now when this movie starts it's pretty standard for this series, and it looks like we're getting a plot about Littlefoot losing his confidence and having to gain it back. Perfect that alone would hold the movie for at least a good hour, but no sadly we needed to get this plot going so we can get to the actual main plot of the movie.
So after the first song, we are introduced to pretty much the land before time Cleveland of Jar jar binks, the Yellow bellies. Why do I say their like Jar Jar well a couple reasons.
First from the scene their introduced all the way until the end these things are always on screen and around the middle mark the staff who made this decided just three of them was lazy and try to shove a whole herd of them down our throats. Someone obviously really wants us to like them so they shove as many as they can in our face as they can.
Like Jar jar these guys do not go through any sort of character development, they are exactly the same from start to finish, and worse is that they shove the main characters aside.
Littlefoot's plot is relegated to the b plot, and the other four have no major roles aside from being support for Littlefoot which in any other movie would be fine, except the focus their not getting is instead put over at far less interesting characters.
The only reason this film isn't a lower rating is cause Littlefoot and the others stay in character through the whole movie. Like I said his thing about losing confidence is very interesting and I wanted to see that resolved at the very least. These characters interactions are always very good and well done.
What's worse is that for a long time this looked like the big finale to the whole thing, thank you Journey of the Brave for existing.
The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave (2016)
A very nice comeback
After the very mediocre wisdom of friends I was a bit worried, but this new director brought that Land Before time magic back for me. This isn't a perfect movie but it is leagues above the 13th movie simply by not having new annoying characters shoved down on our throats and hogging screen time for the main characters.
First I'll talk about the positives. This movie gives a really good reason to focus on Littlefoot and reminded us how brave he was. The stress of possibly losing another parent really get's to him and we see that done very well. The other four all have a good role in the movie and are'nt just shoved to the side like in the thirteenth movie. Ducky is without a doubt the heart of the group and it's shown beautifully hear when she's the one who more or less convinces Cera the reason to leave Littlefoot was selfish.
As fun is this movie was there are a few issues that I do have to address here. Firstly the movie moves a bit too fast in certain places, it's not an annoyance but it is something I noticed. Also while Chomper and Ruby do eventually leave the valley to help search for the others, I would have preferred they had a bigger role. Lastly the voice for threehorn sounds off, maybe it's just cause I'm so used to the original voice but this new guy does not sound like he's giving his all in his performance.
Aside from the negatives I mention I do think this is a great return to the Land Before time series and hope we get to see more movies.
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
This move was awesome.
Seriously the haters really need to stop whinning it's getting very annoying very fast. This film was an awesome Star Wars movie one worthy of standing in the saga.
The acting was great in this the character interactions were very believable, and all the twists in the movies were really well executed. In the trailers it seemed like Finn would become the jedi, but it's actually a bait and switch kinda of thing where it turns out Rey is the jedi.
The complaints that Rey is a Mary sue are utterly ridiculous, first of all a mary sue is a character with no flaws and always does things right. Rey makes several mistakes in the movie like mistaking Finn for an enemy, and she has clear flaws like running away when she touches the lightsaber. Plus people who call her a Mary Sue obviously were'nt paying attention because there are several plot points that make it clear that is not the case.
All of the old returing characters were great, the kid in me came out a couple of times when I first saw the Millenum Falcon, then later Han and chewie coming on screen. Same with the others, and I share George Lucas's sentiment that R2 should always get to be the hero in a star wars movie and they did that awesomely by revealing R2 had the rest of the map.
Another thing people are forgetting is that this simply part 1 of a story, you don't know where the stories go so you can't accuse characters of being a mary sue when you haven't seen the full story yet.
All in all I had a blast with this movie, and let me say something else to the haters of this movie. The second time I saw the Force awakens my theater was still just as packed as that first week. Not only that there were kids watching it meaning they'll become fans now to. So these haters will thankfully become a small minority soon.
That's all I have to say, great movie and I cannot wait to see episode 8
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
I love this movie
Warning this review will contain spoilers.
The negativity is astounding this movie nailed it just like the first Avengers. We had great character stuff for Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Hulk. The dilemma Tony stark faces is a believable one and Downey Jr. nails it as always. All the actors had awesome performances.
The romance that develops between Black Widow and Bruce Banner is very nice, I thought it was very believable and I'm glad Wheadon decided to do it. Hawkeye having a family was a nice gift to the character and really helped his personality. Hawkeye manages to being even more badass then in the first Avengers.
The setup for future movies was handled well none of those plot points ever felt intrusive at all. I don't know why people say this plot is complicated I followed it pretty easily, Tony stark creates Ultron who goes rouge thinking humanity needs to be whiped out and the Avengers must stop him. It's implied Stark and Banner were working on Ultron for awhile from when they were talking before creating him.
All in all this movie was just as awesome as the last one and people need to stop having such high expectations or we may lose the MCU. I for one don't want that and I know many true fans who don't either.