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The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends, directed by Jamie Mitchell, is the thirteenth movie in The Land Before Time series. It was released on November 27, 2007.

Voice Actors[]

English Voice Cast[]

Uncredited Roles[]

Latin Spanish voice cast[]

  • Elsa Covián as Littlefoot
  • Gaby Beltrán as Cera
  • Alondra Hidalgo as Ducky
  • Arturo Mercado as Petrie
  • Unknown as Spike
  • Ulises Maynardo Zavala as Loofah
  • Ruth Toscano as Doofah
  • Maggie Vera as Doofah (singing voice)
  • Ángela Villanueva as Grandma Longneck
  • Maynardo Zavala as Daddy Topps and the narrator
  • Magda Giner as Tria
  • Unknown as Yellow Belly #4

Plot[]

The film begins with the narrator relating how, due to the dangers of the dinosaur world, all the different species of dinosaurs have had to learn ways to stay safe.

The scene then changes to Littlefoot eating treestars with his grandmother, when he tries to reach some treestars on a fallen tree across a deep canyon. Suddenly, an earthshake occurs and Littlefoot's grandmother almost falls to her death trying to rescue him. That night, Littlefoot awakes from a nightmare about his grandmother falling to her death in the canyon. Grandma comforts him and decides to tell him the Wisdoms, a series of rules about how to live and behave safely. While Littlefoot tells his friends about them they initially mock him for taking them so seriously, telling him how their parents also have their own Wisdoms that they teach them ("Say So") They then meet a trio of Yellow Bellies called Loofah, Doofah and Foobie, who are on the search for berry bushes. Their strange behaviour and odd appearance initially scares the young dinosaurs, but they lead them to a patch of berry bushes. As they proceed to eat every berry on the bushes, the Yellow Bellies tell Littlefoot how they are about to head to a valley full of berries, but they can't remember the name. Doofah mentions that the "Wise One" will know, but Loofah then remembers that it is simply named Berry Valley. After a drink and more discussion on Berry Valley, the Yellow Bellies head off to find the rest of their herd, so they can all make the journey to Berry Valley together.

The next night Littlefoot has another bad sleep story, involving the Yellow Bellies falling to their deaths in the same canyon as in the previous dream. This convinces LIttlefoot that he needs to help the Yellow Bellies and gets his friends to join him. When they eventually catch up with them, Littlefoot tries to each the Yellow Bellies some Wisdoms, but they don't get them, so Littlefoot decides instead, to accompany them to where they are meeting their herd, at a pile of rocks that look like a Yellow Belly. Foobie spots it in the distance, and the group set off.

On the way to the rock, Loofah gets thirsty and The Gang go on to find water while the Yellow Bellies rest. While resting the Yellow Bellies are attacked by a quartet of Sharpteeth who had previously heard Loofah shouting. After being chased the Yellow Bellies come to a dead end but The Gang pelt the Sharpteeth with stones from above and the Yellow Bellies bounce on their bellies to make rocks fall and the sharpteeth are soon buried.

Shortly after that the group find a watering hole, and Loofah and Doofah confuse Littlefoot and his friends by talking to the bushes around the water. However, it is revealed that these bushes are actually the Yellow Belly herd, who disguise themselves as bushed by burying their heads in the ground and sticking their feather tails in the air. The herd and the gang relax by the watering hole, playing and partying through the night ("Yellow Belly Bounce"). However, Littlefoot still sees no sign of the so-called Wise One, so decides to stay with the Yellow Belly herd until they reach Berry Valley. Meanwhile, the Sharptooth pack have dug their way out of the rocks and are back on the hunt.

The Yellow Belly herd keep moving across the Mysterious Beyond with Littlefoot leading them. After Cera asks if he knows where he is going, Littlefoot reasons that, since he has never been to Berry Valley, there is a chance they may find it if they go in directions he has never gone before. This logic doesn't make sense to Cera, but Loofah understands and Littlefoot is unsure if that is good or bad. Along the way they find water and berries but Littlefoot is worried because he came to teach the Yellow Bellies the Wisdoms but instead is beginning to think like a Yellow Belly. This leads Littlefoot to wonder how he can know what to think and whether he should follow logic, or his gut feeling. His friends reply that he should trust in his feelings to let him know what to listen to ("How Do You Know?").

Then an intense storm begins, which wakes up the Yellow Bellies from a snooze after eating all the berries in the berry patch. Littlefoot leads the Yellow Bellies up onto a plateau to shelter (one of the Yellow Bellies farted when he/she went under the plateau), but Doofah breaks away from the herd, heading off in her own direction. After the deluge ends, they search for Doofah and find her, wandering amiably about on a ledge. But a landslide of water and rock separates her from them, and the ledge threatens to crumble at any minute. Littlefoot convinces her to jump to them, and she make's it just before the ledge collapses.

However, almost immediately afterwards, the Sharptooth pack returns. For some reason they go after The Gang instead of the Yellow Belly herd, but soon give up. They manage to trap The Gang and the herd and they seem doomed but then Foobie gives Littlefoot the idea to get the herd to sing and dance. The sheer volume of the singing stuns the sharpteeth, and all of the herd bouncing up and down causes the ledge to collapse, sending the Sharpteeth falling into the chasm below.

Foobie leads the herd to the Berry Valley and Doofah reveals that he actually the Wise One all along. After saying goodbye to the Yellow Belly herd, the Gang resolves to head home, despite having little idea where to go. But they head off anyway, reasoning that they'll find it eventually. Luckily they encounter their parents part-way into the journey, who accompany them home. Littlefoot and his friends reason with their parents that even though they went off on their own, the still followed all the Wisdoms, about staying in a group, keeping one's eyes and ears open, etc. But Grandma Longneck comments that they forgot the most important Wisdom of all: Stay inside the Great Valley.

Ducky admits jokingly that she and her friends have a bit of a problem remembering that one, and the group return home.

Releases[]

International[]

It was released in the UK and Ireland in 2008.

Region 1[]

It was released on DVD in the United States and Canada on November 27 2007.

Bonus Features[]

  • Bonus TV episode Hidden Canyon
  • Yellow Bellies on the Loose game
  • Yellow Belly challenge game
  • Sing Along Songs
  • DVD Rom features

Home video release history[]

November 27 (2007 US)

March 3 (2008 UK and Ireland)

September 12 (2017 re-release with new cover art)

Character debuts[]

Songs[]

Reception[]

The Wisdom of Friends received a nomination for "Beast Feature Film, Ages 5-8" at the 2008 Kids First! Film Festival, losing to Barbie & the Diamond Castle.

TV Airings[]

Starzkids (2020)

Trivia[]

  • This film is widely regarded by fans as the worst film in the series, due to its considerably less serious tone and the bizarre nature of the Yellow Bellies. Similarly, fans have also credited the film's failure as the reason Universal refused to continue the series, before the franchise was continued with Journey of the Brave in 2016. It is also possible this was intended to be the last film in the franchise.
  • Chomper and Ruby do not appear in this film because it takes place before the TV series. It is also the last film to do so, as the next film The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave had presumably taken place after the events of the TV series.
  • This is the first Land Before Time film that was released in America the same year as the last one.
  • This was the first Land Before Time Film since The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists to not be directed by Charles Grosvenor, though he was the supervising director.
  • This film, along with The Great Day of the Flyers, are the only ones in The Land Before Time franchise that haven't been released in Japan.
  • This is the first movie in which Grandpa Longneck doesn't have a speaking role since the original. This is because Kenneth Mars, who voiced him previously, was forced to retire from acting due to a diagnosis of metastasized pancreatic cancer, which ultimately killed him on February 12, 2011.
  • This is the last Land Before Time film to feature John Ingle. Like Kenneth Mars, he was also diagnosed with cancer which killed him in 2012.
  • This is the only film where Cody Arens voices Littlefoot, though he voices him in the TV series.
  • This is the first Land Before TIme film to have 2 actors voicing Littlefoot.
  • This is the last Land Before Time film to have any involvement from Charles Grosvenor.
  • This is the first Land Before Time film to have a fart joke.
  • This is the first Land Before Time film to not have numeric titles.
  • This is the last film to use the 1997-2012 Universal Pictures logo.
  • This is the second Land Before Time film in which nobody cries.
  • This is the last Land Before Time film to be animated by Wang Film Productions.
  • Tricia makes no appearance in this film.
  • Spike is never mentioned by name in this film.
  • The music that plays during the rock sled scene and when Loofah, Doofah, and Foobie escape the sharpteeth is from Mr. Magoo.
  • Like the original movie, this movie revolves around a group of dinosaurs heading toward a safe valley with food and water.
  • As of February 2, 2016, this is the last Land Before Time film not to use many cartoon sound effects.

Goofs[]

  • In one of the most major goofs, the three subordinates of the leader sharpteeth turn into three Tyrannosaurus in one short scene. Earlier in the film in the first chase, the yellow sharpteeth turns into a T. rex twice, and the red sharpteeth seems to appear as a T. rex once.
  • The number of fingers on the sharpteeth erroneously change constantly throughout the film.
  • The sclera of Cera's eyes turn green and her irises turn white when she instructs Littlefoot to "tell them one of your Wisdoms."
  • Petrie's eyes flash brown during the scene where Loofah, Doofah And Foobie are drinking water in the Great Valley and Cera asks the three where their herd is located.
  • During the song 'Say So', when the camera focuses on Littlefoot, his right eye briefly becomes transparent.
  • During the song 'Say So', Spike's chin flashes green.
  • Before Cera jumps over to the rock and falls into the river, prior to the song "Say So", her pupils become very large for a couple frames.

Gallery[]


External links[]

The Land Before Time
The Land Before Time films
The Land Before TimeThe Land Before Time II: The Great Valley AdventureThe Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great GivingThe Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the MistsThe Land Before Time V: The Mysterious IslandThe Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus RockThe Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold FireThe Land Before Time VIII: The Big FreezeThe Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big WaterThe Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck MigrationThe Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the TinysaurusesThe Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the FlyersThe Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of FriendsThe Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave
The Land Before Time television series
Season One
The Cave of Many VoicesThe Mysterious Tooth CrisisThe Star Day CelebrationThe Canyon of Shiny StonesThe Great Log Running GameThe Brave Longneck SchemeThe Meadow of Jumping WatersThe Days of Rising WatersEscape From The Mysterious BeyondThe Hidden CanyonThe Legend of the Story SpeakersThe Bright Circle CelebrationThe Lonely JourneyThe Missing Fast-Water AdventureThe Spooky Nighttime AdventureThe Lone Dinosaur ReturnsStranger From the Mysterious AboveThe Forbidden FriendshipThe Amazing Threehorn GirlThe Big Longneck TestThe Hermit of Black Rock • "Return to Hanging Rock" • March of the Sand CreepersSearch for the Sky Color StonesThrough the Eyes of a SpiketailThe Great Egg Adventure


References[]

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