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Even though for an adult the story may seem a little silly this is still a great film. Children will adore it.

This movie has some brilliant songs. I dare anyone who listens to it not to start tapping their feet while listening to 'bad luck'.

The animation is ok (for a television flick) and is of the same standard as the rest of the sequels.

Dina and daina (who is apparently a boy) are very cute, if irritating to an adult audience .

I however think they are adorable.

Cera gets a bigger role in this movie (in babysitting the twins) and that is nice to see as she is a great female character. We don't see many strong female roles in movies and this is one where it is much appreciated.

Kids will like it and older fans will smile at it.

It also teaches children the importance of resposablity.

This film may not have the exact same charm and originality from the first Land Before Time, but all-in-all, this is an even better sequel than the previous films and even surpasses "The Time of the Great Giving" as the best of the series.

Sure, the story's episodic, although the lesson about responsibility was very nice to educate the young, and the dialog may felt clunky at times, but there are some redeeming qualities that make this worth watching. The animation is very decent and the backgrounds are really nice. The songs, although not memorable, are very pleasant to listen to especially the song "Lone Dinosaur" and "Bad Luck". The reused music from the original is great and the pacing moves along very briskly.

The characters are still very decent as is Cera's baby twins Dana and Dinah and boy were they so adorable you just want to pinch those cheeks of theirs. The strongest aspect is the voice acting with Kris Kristofferson's greatest cameo as Doc, the lone dinosaur.

Overall, not excellent, but still a very watchable sequel to the series. Thumbs up!

I don't think it is the best LBT sequel, but it is nice to watch, and I do recommend it for kids. It is too short though so you don't feel the emotional attachment you get from watching the first film, the dialogue is mostly uninspiring(this is from a more adult perspective, but I am sure kids will overlook this) and the story is quite simplistic. However the animation is good, with nice colours and decent editing. The music is lovely, and the songs while not memorable are pleasant. The twin baby dinosaurs Dana and Dina are adorable, and the voice acting is solid. All in all, this is a decent sequel, definitely one of the more watchable sequels of the franchise. 6/10 Bethany Cox

The fifth installment of The Land Before Time is a decent children's film with the right amount of life lessons and fun adventures decorated with three okay catchy songs.

The plot can be a little thin, but there are enough good-natured and cute characters to make it likable to parents who like participating in their kids' entertainment.

I enjoyed it okay. I must confess that I cracked some smiles when our beloved gang said some funny lines here and there. And come on, the twins in this movie are just so cute :)

The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock, the sixth installment in the Land Before Time series. Again another decent enough sequel that gets a very unfair rating, this movie was a little step below the fifth sequel, but still I did enjoy watching this sequel because it focused more on family. Also just the responsibility some kids have to face when they have a new member in the family and how hard it can be to watch out for their younger relatives. A lot of kids could relate to this story. We also have a good moral that it's OK to ask the adults for help if a child does feel responsible for something they did and wants to fix it. The Secret of Saurus Rock certainly is a good story and once again just gives us lighthearted clean fun for the family and kids.

Littlefoot's grandfather tells the children a story about "The Lone Dinosaur", a legendary longneck who once protected the Great Valley from the most ferocious sharptooth ever to live. However, the sharptooth left "The Lone Dinosaur" with a scar slashed across his right eye. Soon after the battle, a huge monolith that resembled a proud sauropod, having life-sized tyrannosaur teeth arranged around his neck, came out of the ground during an earthquake. The dinosaurs called it "Saurus Rock". The legend also states that if anyone damages the monolith, bad luck would descend upon the valley. A few days later when the kids are playing, Littlefoot accidentally falls off a cliff. Just before he hits the ground, a strange longneck dinosaur rescues him. This longneck introduces himself only as "Doc" and gives no knowledge of his history. Littlefoot is intrigued by this newcomer, who is scarred across one eye and displays prior knowledge of the Great Valley. For the preceding reasons, Littlefoot assumes that Doc is the Lone Dinosaur. Inspired, Cera's infant niece and nephew, the twins Dinah and Dana, go to Saurus Rock without anyone noticing. Later when the friends are playing, they notice that Dinah and Dana are missing. When they finally reach Saurus Rock, they see Dinah and Dana on the top. As they climb up to rescue them, Dinah and Dana fall off the top and land on Cera, causing the life-sized stone tooth on which she is standing to break off. Over the next few days, ill fortunes ranging from injuries to a tornado plague the valley. The adults blame Doc, in whose wake the misfortunes have apparently come, while Littlefoot blames himself and his friends, recalling the breaking of Saurus Rock. But Littlefoot is convinced that he can fix everything by going back to break off a dinosaur's sharp tooth to save the valley.

The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock is a good movie, I really liked the tribute to the lone ranger. Granted I know some kids won't get the little tribute to him, but it's still fun for them to see a dinosaur kind of cowboy, as silly as that sounds, it was good for the film. I also loved how Littlefoot just had this big heart and wanted to fix everything for his family and the other's in the Valley. The Secret of Saurus Rock is very fun to watch, I think it's a little notch below from what I've seen so far in the series, but not enough to say that this was a dreadful movie, I liked it and do recommend it for the kids and family.

5/10

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.

Like the original, a well crafted heatwarming tale. This storyline is full of morals and lessons from idols, kindness, altruism, prejudice, responsibility, teamwork, friendship and much more.

The animation is traditional and simplistic with some innccuracies of depictions of species' features and some inaccuacies between Mesozoic and Cenozoic periods. However the dubbing is amazing with characters vocal patterns and use of language being correlative to the species presumed intelligence.

Unlike the original this has several musical numbers which seem dubious in the context of the series. The songs seem to get marginally better throughout the series.

A must watch for kids.

Up until now this series has been suffering from the 'odd-numbered sequel good, even-membered sequel bad' syndrome and so I approached this latest entry with caution. I needn't have worried. This is a well-made, entertaining and memorable film which will appeal to people of all ages. The Lone Dinosaur (based on the Lone Ranger) is a particularly good character and the dream sequences add a surreal edge to the film. A must-see.

I have enjoyed watching this film with my 5-year old daughter many times. The typical hokey references to evolution are overshadowed by a good story line, memorable scenes and pleasant characters. Doc (Kris Kristofferson), the Lone Dinosaur, is a real treat.

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.

Not much, I would say. This is a way of showing the downfall of sequels and such. In 1988, "The Land Before Time" came out and it was one of the finest cartoon movies I've ever seen. It was shown in theaters, and that the was the first, last and only time a LBT film was shown in theaters. Then came the seemingly never ending series of sequels ALL which were direct to video and now there's 8 sequels. Up until Part 5, everyone was going pretty good, but nothing like that could last forever. So, we get this, the worst LBT sequel I've seen, seeing as how I haven't seen any after this one. It's just not worth it.

Anyway, as the story goes, Littlefoot and his friends hear about the story of the "Lone Dinosaur" (bad name, huh?) and how if anything happens to Sauraus Rock bad luck will occur over the Great Valley, and a new dinosaur, Doc comes and yada, yada, yada. It's just an occuring remake of the same movies with the same morals, the same action, the same everything! PLEASE, do not make a Land Before Time Part 10!! The only enjoyable thing was Sarah's little cousins. They were so cute!! Don't waste your time on this. A 2/10.

By the way, after Peetree went out of the log to see if it was safe, (and trust me, I rewound the part three times) I KNOW he said, "We can cross big b*tch!". I swear! I know he was trying to say "ditch", but it came out wrong.

Quality is important, but don't underestimate the importance of consistency. Don Bluth's original film of 1988 is a minor modern classic, anchored by earnest and substantive storytelling, and while the direct-to-video sequels can't be said to nearly match that excellence, it's not as if they're bad. Indeed, the second, third, fourth, and fifth 'Land before time' features remain lightly enjoyable, and with each being very much cut from the same cloth, everyone involved clearly knew what they were making. Some nuance may be lost from the animation, the original songs may be ham-handed, the voice actors may be directed into extra cutesy and childish performances, and above all, the writing may be simple-minded and unsophisticated - but the results have not been totally unworthy. Mild adventure, mild drama, and mild humor are rendered with just enough care, with just enough strength and intermittent cleverness, to provide modest entertainment. One might wish that the flicks were designed to appeal to a broader audience, like the progenitor, rather than to cater to the very, very youngest of viewers, but several years and sequels in, there's no mistaking what these are. Would 1998's 'Secret of Saurus Rock,' the sixth entry overall, be any different?

No. No, it would not. And that's fine! These days we're accustomed to children's fare that actively refuses to decline the complexity and maturity of pictures for older audiences, and that's the sort of thoughtfulness that, for example, made Pixar the cream of the crop for many years. But that's the new paradigm, and for many years the dominant notion was uncomplicated, straightforward fun for the little ones, with hope that older viewers could still appreciate the result on some level. So it has been for the TLBT sequels, and this one is kith and kin. Criticism is deserved for the shortcomings, but by and large it's all solidly made. The visuals boast vibrant color, and welcome detail in character designs, other active elements, and still more in the beautiful painted backgrounds. Some of those original songs are more catchy than others, and Michael Tavera's score is unremarkable but lovely. One can't fault the voice cast at large, including icon Jeff Bennett and, in this case, guest star Kris Kristofferson. And in one way or another, there are fair story ideas on hand as the saga continues of Littlefoot and friends, in this case leaning a bit more into genre tropes and grandiosity as a legendary, heroic Longneck wanders into the Great Valley.

Yet with that additional sliver of silliness informing the proceedings right from the top, something unexpected happens, and I wonder if 'The secret of Saurus Rock' doesn't stand a tiny bit taller than most of its predecessors. Of course Bluth's original is definitively superior, but I'd be inclined to place this, with its further helpings of blithe frivolity, side by side with second sequel 'The time of the Great Giving,' which again put a bit more sincere care into its storytelling and themes. Or is it better still? Even the presence of triceratops tykes Dinah and Dana doesn't dampen the merriment, which is unusual for titles where young kids are prominent. I recognize the scattered wit in Libby Hinson and John Loy's screenplay, and I think the writing might even be more firm and creative in this instance. Case in point, while there are just as many songs in this movie as in the previous sequels, they don't seem as upfront, and are arguably woven in a tad more naturally. There are more odds and ends that delight in these seventy-six minutes than we got in the second, fourth, and fifth entries combined. Is it possible - could it be - that this far into the franchise, producer and filmmaker Charles Grosvenor churned out something that's genuinely good?

With just the right discernible measure of that earnestness to help ground the film, a welcome variety of dinosaur species, and other small highlights all throughout, I'm kind of caught off guard by how sharp this ended up being. Why, as a peculiar bonus for a niche audience, it seems to me that composer Tavera not only recycles fragments of James Horner's music from the progenitor, but there are even a few select phrases that seem to recall Horner's score for cult classic 'Krull,' one of my personal favorites! To be sure, it's still part and parcel with its brethren, and I can't specifically begrudge anyone who adopts a harsher view; there remain aspects that are decidedly weaker. Nonetheless, I sat to watch fully and reasonably anticipating another so-so, passively amusing kids' feature, and I ended up enjoying TLBT6 a lot more than I supposed. I wouldn't go so far as to say one should go out of their way for it, but considering where the picture fits into the cinematic landscape, but if you do have the opportunity to watch, I'm inclined to believe 'The secret of Saurus Rock' is far more worthy than anyone is apt to give it credit for. For my part I had a fantastic time here, and I'm pleased to give it my hearty recommendation!