The Land Before Time VII: Stone of Cold Fire

The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire is a 2000 American direct-to-video animated adventure musical drama and the seventh film in The Land Before Time series. It is the first installment to not have John Ingle's narration. Starting with The Stone of Cold Fire, Taiwanese-American studio Wang Film Productions takes over the overseas animation work on the entire Land Before Time series until the 2007 television series of the same name and mh:awfulmovies:The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends.

Plot
A mysterious object crashes near the great valley, and Petrie's untrustful uncle arrives in search of it, believing it to be "a storm of cold fire", a susposed rock of great powers.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Our beloved gang's members do more in this LBT sequel than usual. Petrie learning about his uncle Pterano is the best in that aspect of the movie.
 * 2) There are some good action scenes and scares.
 * 3) The dialogue is more mature than usual.
 * 4) Pterano and his goons are actually really funny and well-voiced by veteran actors. They also get some great lines and good development throughout the movie, especially since one of them (Sierra) almost kills Ducky in one scene.
 * 5) Decent songs, especially the song Beyond the Mysterious Beyond.
 * 6) The Rainbow Faces are quite and myterious characters, indicating in the ending that are aliens..
 * 7) A few heartbreaking and emotional moments, much like in the first LBT movie.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The plot has a great concept, but its execution is a bit convoluted. The Land Before Time has nothing to do with space (despite the fact that several of the sequels open in space for some reason), and it makes no sense for the story to be done in the world in which this movie takes place, although, that must be that beings outside of Earth evolve very fast than on Earth.
 * 2) The movie has a generic and bland "blindly follow this person even though they're gonna turn out to be bad" sub-plot involving Petrie, the only difference being that Petrie seems way too eager to go with whatever Pterano does.
 * 3) *Speaking of Pterano, he isn't really villainous when you get down to it. It's explained in the movie that he's simply a guy who wanted to lead his people during migration time, but an accident caused him to become doubtful of his own leadership skills and he left the herd to get control again to make up for his mistakes of the past.
 * 4) Most of the characters are still the kind of the standard tropes you'd see in movies like this.

Reception
The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire currently holds a 6/10 on IMDb.

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