The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock

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I remember this one as this one was made in 1998. Cera becomes an Auntie as now she has responsibility on looking after the twuns Dinah and Dana. The run away as they begin their journey to get to Saurus Rock. Cera gets worried as she and the others find them. Littlefoot gets obsessed about Doc who's a Lone Dinosaur, he thought that if something happened to Saurus Rock, then it would bring bad luck to the great valley and bad luck to him.

Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky Petrie, and Spike listen to Grandpa Longneck's stories of a heroic longneck known as The Lone Dinosaur who heroicly and selflessly protected those at the mercy of Sharpteeth. The story ends with the Lone Dinosaur leaving as mysteriously as he came and a Longneck shaped rock appearing during in earthquake that they name Saurus Rock, along with a legend stating that should anything happen to it a curse of bad luck will descend upon the Great Valley. Littlefoot becomes fascinated with the Lone Dinosaur legends, even acting them out with his friends, only to find the sudden appearance of a soft spoken Dinosaur named Doc who bares a striking resemblance to the Lone Dinosaur. The Land Before Time: The Secret of Saurus Rock marks the sixth entry in the direct to video film series and the last to use traditional cell animation before all Universal Home Video exclusives switched to digital ink and paint. The movie continues with the Charles Grosvenor era of Land Before Time sequels going for more high concept premises than the relatively grounded "lesson based" affairs of the Roy Allen Smith entries. This time Grosvenor along with writers Libby Hinson and John Hoy, give us a very odd sequel with western hero subtext. When we are introduced into the movie by Grandpa Longneck's story (with an amusing sight of the group gathered around a volcanic vent as if it were a camp fire that was mildly amusing) the amount of western references in the story is enough to make your head spin. Not only do we have the rather obvious parallel between Lone Dinosaur and Lone Ranger, but the story even ends with a reference to the Alan Ladd movie Shane. Even Doc who may or may not be the Lone Dinosaur (the movie never makes it clear if he is or not) is voiced by Kris Kristofferson who plays the "man of few words" trope to a "T". There's sort of an endearing cheesiness to Secret of Saurus Rock with its on the nose western themes (including a song Little Foot sings that's reminiscent of singing cowboy movies) that it's honestly kind of hard not to crack a smile. The rest of the movie is pretty standard land before time stakes involving a macgruffin that needs to be chased, retrieved, or etc and encounters with various hazards and obstacles. The one draw back is a pair of obnoxiously high pitched baby three-horns, Dana and DInah (confusingly identified as Cera's nieces since Cera calls herself "Auntie Cera") who are basically chaos engines designed to get in trouble and spout gibberish. Land Before Time VI continues the franchise for better or worse. It's a decent enough movie for kids as far as children's direct to video films go.

Excellent series! I do not understand the low ratings and reviews, they seem to be given by adults reviewing cartoons intended for kids. Have they consulted some kids before rating/reviewing? My guess is they haven't. My daughters (7 and 8) absolutely LOVED all of them, to the point where they were impersonating various characters, making lego dinosaurs and even dreaming about dinosaurs. I asked them to rate the movie and they both said 10/10 with a big grin.

As I have given good reviews to The Great Valley Adventure, The Time Of The Great Giving, Journey Through The Mists, and The Mysterious Island, you may be curious to know how I like the 6th installment in the series. Well, as a Land Before Time fan, I think that The Secret Of Saurus Rock is just as great. Doc/The Lone Dinosaur is a nice addition and Cera's twin nieces Dinah and Dana are adorable, although I do have to wonder where they came from since although Cera mentions having sisters in the first movie, we never see them again. The dream sequences also add a nice and very artistic touch. But probably the most interesting plot element was Saurus Rock and how it supposedly protects the Great Valley from afar and the idea, continued from the 4th and 5th movies, that the valley isn't entirely immune from outside influence. Saurus Rock itself gives the movie a very fascinating mystical element that is only added to in the next movie. See you next time, where I review The Land Before Time VII: The Stone Of Cold Fire.

Did this movie have a point? No. Is this movie memorable? No. Is this movie entertaining? Yes, yes it is. I personally found Littlefoot fanboying over the Lone Dinosaur funny and kind of relatable. I also found their bad luck kind of amusing and again really relatable and as always, I liked the action scenes. Everything else was just okay. The message, animation, and adventure are enjoyable but nothing that good. However, I actually really liked the songs. The Lone Dinosaur song is really catchy and just overall fun to sing, Bad Luck was just hilariously relatable and the last song is well sung but the lyrics could use some work. Overall, this movie is just okay. It's been overshadowed by every other movie so far since there's nothing really that memorable in it other than The Lone Dinosaur song.