I don’t even remember the first movie, to be honest with you. But, did all nine movies go to theatres, or did some go straight to the small screen? Thanks, Jinx
Most of them went direct to video. I’m even inclined to say from the second one on, but that’s off the top of my head and I have nothing substantive to back that up.
Nine?! They’ve made nine of those movies? So how much longer until the series catches up with the present day?
I remember a while back my brothers, sister, and I went and saw the first one in theatres one christmas eve.
I had no idea they kept making them though. Nine? wow!
I think the first two were in theatres. May be the third, but I doubt it.
Miller, I WAG that, eventually, Star Trek (ST) will find them, if the ST sequels keep racking up! 
…Or Rocky or Rambo will punch them all out…whatever comes first! 
- Jinx
I was pretty shocked too. They’re getting into porno territory. But it seems the first one made over $100 million. And it was also the only one to have a wide theatrical release.
Poor poor Robert Guillaume.
I love the short user comment from VIII in the IMDB, heh heh.
Only the first (made by Don Bluth) was released theatrically. All the others were straight-t-video. If you have kids, you can understand the attraction, especially when the attraction seemsa to be genetic (I was a major dinosaur freak as a kid). We have all of them on video or DVD, and MilliCal watches them constantly.
The later ones werem’t of the same quality as the first, although this most recent one looks as if it’s of higher quality. They’ve maintained a pretty decent standard of writing and actors (I think Kenneth Mars – “Triton” in The Little Mermaid, and the Inspector in Young Frankenstein (!)-- has appeared in every one of them), and even the songs are palatable.
If you think these are awful, then a.) you clearlt have no kids; b.) it would’ve been very easy for them to be much worse.
In the first one, Littlefoot’s mom dies in the big “earthshake” and he is taken in by his Grandparents.
Ducky (yup, yup, yup) the swimmer,saves an egg that he believes to be his brother or sister and it turns out to be Spike (the spiketail), who becomes his adopted brother.
I love these movies and can watch them over and over.
Just in case some one hasn’t actually seen it.
Wasn’t the first one supposed to have taken place when the dino’s were on the way out? I mean, the whole point of the movie was finding food or something, wasn’t it?
I only ask as a concerned parent (concerned for my sanity and wallet that is):
How many more sequels until they’re extinct???