Littlefoot and his friends are back!
The second film in the Land Before Time franchise. After his tribe of herbivorous dinosaurs moves to the carnivore-free Peaceful Valley in the first film, the young brontosaurus Littlefoot and his friends chase after a pair of dangerous dinosaurs stealing an egg from the village. While running, they accidentally cause a landslide that opens up their home to outsiders. When the egg they bring back and hatch reveals not one of their own, but a carnivorous tyrannosaurus, the youngsters decide to secretly raise it. The film was released on December 23, 1994.
Tropes:
- Accidental Hero: Littlefoot and the gang accidentally stopped Ozzy and Strut’s attempts to steal eggs twice, first when they were rolling rocks down a hill near a nest the eggnappers were trying to steal from before the mother of the eggs tells them to stop, then when they shouting loud alerting the mother flyer of another nest the brothers were trying to from.
- Adults Are Useless: Averted when the adults kick some serious ass fighting off the sharpteeth. In fact, learning to accept that adults are stronger and more experienced is something of a theme in the movie.
- Animated Musical: The first of the many of animated sequels.
- Art Evolution: The first of the sequels to be animated by AKOM, and while it's not their worst work in the series, it's a definite far cry from the high-quality Don Bluth animation from the original.
- Award-Bait Song: The film ends with a reprise of "Peaceful Valley".
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: It's Chomper's parents who defeat Ozzy and Strut, chasing them out of the Great Valley when they're about to kill Littlefoot. Subverted in that they’re not truly bad guys, since they leave the valley once they’ve found their son.
- Big Bad Ensemble: Ozzy and Strut serve as the main antagonists for the first half of the film, their attempts to steal the eggs leading to many major events in the film. But Chopper's parents become the main antagonist in the second half due to being a threat to all dinosaurs in the Great Valley.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Ozzy and Strut aren't quite Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains because they do have some genuinely villainous moments they almost get away with, but as threats they are massively eclipsed by the Sharptooth couple once the pair enters the Valley.
- Big Damn Heroes:
- Littlefoot and his friends' parents and grandparents saving them from the sinking sands..
- Chomper's parents show up to save Chomper and Littlefoot from Ozzy and Strut.
- Big Shadow, Little Creature: Happens three times. First when Strut saw the main characters' shadows and thought they were full grown adults. ("Very big.") Second when Chomper saves his friends from Ozzy and Strut. They eventually wise up for the third time, although by that point they were too late as Chomper's parents were still in the Great Valley.
- Bittersweet Ending: Littlefoot and his friends, their parents and Chomper's parents manage to drive away the eggnappers and seal off the opening to the Mysterious Beyond. And Chomper is reunited with his Mama and Papa Sharptooth. But Littlefoot and his friends have to sadly bid goodbye to their friend Chomper.
- Bloodless Carnage: An especially egregious example happens when one of the Sharpteeth bites the other one on the snout, less than a second after Petrie grabs Ducky (who had jumped on the second Sharptooth's snout to create a diversion so that a fear-paralyzed Spike could run away) and yanks her away from danger. Cue the Sharptooth pair roaring angrily at one another for several seconds before noticing the dazed Ducky and Petrie, who are then saved by the arrival of the adult herbivores ready to defend their children and grandchild.
- Breakout Character: Chomper was originally just a guest character brought in for the second film. Then he was brought back for the fifth film, and then he became a main character for the TV series, almost to the point where he became a Spotlight Hog.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Littlefoot faces the audience by the end when they seal off the opening to the Mysterious Beyond. "There, now the Sharpteeth won't ever be coming back.".
- Chekhov's Volcano: The volcano erupts, naturally.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Ozzy and Strut, a comically inept Evil Duo of egg-stealing struthiomimuses with an Ear Worm of a Villain Song. Unlike Sharptooth, they have no dramatic weight, are not intimidating or frightening, and (not being obligate carnivores) pose no real threat to the protagonists until the very end of the movie. In fact, their constant failure to steal and eat a single egg is so laughable that it borders on Ineffectual Sympathetic Villainy.
- Cousin Oliver: Done with Chomper. Also, Cera, Ducky, Petrie and Spike each get new identical little brothers and sisters to join them for the musical ending.
- Cub Cues Protective Parent: The gang of dinosaur kids find an egg and, at first thinking it to be an egg from one of their parent's nests, carry the thing home. It turns out to be a Sharptooth (or T-Rex) egg, and the group starts trying to raise 'Chomper' - the parents come looking for him. Played with in this case, as the Mama and Daddy actually end up helping the main characters before taking their baby home.
- The Darkness Gazes Back: Overlaps with By the Lights of Their Eyes. Ozzy is trapped under a large pile of rocks, Strut looks down to see a pair of glowing angry eyes staring back at him.
- Death Glare: Littlefoot and his friends earn one from their parents and grandparents after being rescued from their recklessness.
- Does Not Like Spam:
- Ozzy despises plants as food, even going as far as berating Strut for eating them. In fact, he refuses to eat anything other than eggs.
- Chomper does not like green food and prefers to eat dragonflies.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: While considerably Lighter and Softer than the original, it's still darker, more somber and serious than the following sequels.
- Egg MacGuffin: An egg is stolen from Ducky's family by egg-eating dinosaurs. Littlefoot and the group go after it and get it back only to find that the Swimmer egg is already back in the nest. They make a nest for the mystery egg and it hatched into Chomper, a baby Sharptooth.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Mama and Papa Sharptooth.
- Evil Egg Eater: A pair of Struthiomimus, named Ozzy and Strut, are the villains. They have their own Villain Song about it, simply titled "Eggs."
- Exit, Pursued by a Bear: The last we see of Ozzy and Strut, they're being chased away by Chomper's parents.
- Failed a Spot Check: When the gang bring back the big egg to Ducky's nest, they find that the first egg is already returned to its nest and they're left with the second remaining larger egg.
- Five-Second Foreshadowing: You can clearly see Chomper reaching up to the two Sharpteeth after adorably roaring at them, seconds before they lick and embrace him and Littlefoot realizes they're his parents.
- Forbidden Zone: The Mysterious Beyond, a Mordor-esque place just outside the Great Valley.
- Genre Shift: The sequel is much lighter and happier and musical compared to the first film.
- G-Rated Drug: Ozzy and Strut treat dinosaur eggs more like a drug than actual food. Ozzy is so addicted to eggs that it's the only thing he will eat while Strut is desperately trying to go clean by switching to a diet of plants. And to get these eggs, they have to raid several nests while not drawing attention from dinosaurs that will make an example of them.
- Growing Up Sucks: Subverted. Throughout the film, Littlefoot is constantly seeking respect, trust and freedom from his grandparents which is denied because he is too young. He then tries to raise Chomper, a baby T. Rex as a parent would. After doing this, he learns why his grandparents sometimes forbid him to do things, but he still remarks at the end that he cannot wait to grow up.Grandpa Longneck: "Kids. They want to grow up so fast."
Grandma Longneck: "Yes, and once they do, they wish they were young again." - Hand Gagging: The egg-stealers do this to Littlefoot, briefly.
- Help, I'm Stuck!: Littlefoot gets his foot stuck in a tree trunk.
- Hypocrisy Nod: Cera wanted to go after the eggnappers but once they're in the Mysterious Beyond, she stubbornly refuses. Littlefoot calls her out on it, saying it was all her idea in the first place.
- Imprinting: Chomper imprints on Littlefoot, and then on the rest of the gang. Given that throughout the series, "Sharptooth" dinosaurs are anything but friendly, this is quite amusing.
- Lame Pun Reaction: When they arrive at the Great Valley after a long trek, Strut says that he's just "egg-xausted". Ozzy kicks him in the face in response.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Ozzy referring to himself as a Struthiomimus in his Villain Song could be seen as this, given that there's no possible way he should know about the genus name that will be given to his kind by humans millions of years after the events of the film.
- Lighter and Softer: Unlike the original, no characters die, there is a constant adult presence to help protect the heroes, the characters live in a safe place full of food and water, the main group of kids mostly all get along with each other now, the main villains are funny and mostly incompetent, and while there are still Sharpteeth, they are nowhere near as vicious or dangerous as the original. They even have sympathetic traits in that they're looking for their child, and leave in peace as soon as they find him.
- Mama Bear: Chomper's mother, who is one half of angry pair of Sharpteeth looking for their missing egg.
- May It Never Happen Again: Littlefoot and his friends had unknowingly brought a Sharptooth egg in the Great Valley and attracted it's parents to look for it. After Littlefoot let the baby Sharptooth Chomper go back to his parents in the Mysterious Beyond, the adults of the Great Valley sealed the entrance so the Sharpteeth won't come back.
- Never Say "Die": Littlefoot breaks it to Ducky that he believes that the missing egg "got smushed". Unknown to them it's actually rolled back to its nest safe and sound.
- Never Trust a Trailer: The promo for the film makes you think the Sharptooth in the sequel is the Sharptooth from the original film.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: After Ozzy and Strut spend the entire movie failing to eat a single egg, they try to kill Littlefoot and Chomper by throwing them off the Wall between the Great Valley and the Mysterious Beyond, and would have succeeded if Chomper's parents hadn't arrived and chased them off.
- Ode to Food: Ozzy sings a song about how much he likes eggs.
- Oh, Crap!: Littlefoot and his friends reactions when they realized they've been rescued by their parents and their parents are not happy at their reckless behavior.
- Ozzy and Strut when they are spotted by Littlefoot and his friends running after them in the distance.
- Ozzy's reaction when he sees how big a drop the gap is they have to jump in the Mysterious Beyond.
- Cera's reaction when it starts raining in the Mysterious Beyond.
- Littlefoot and Ozzy's reactions' when he almost ate his head mistaking it for an egg. Cue Freakout.
- Cera when she realizes the eggnappers Ozzy and Strut are headed for the Mysterious Beyond.
- Littlefoot when he thinks Duckey fell down the cliff gap. Thankfully she caught onto Cera.
- Grandpa and Grandma Longneck when they hear the roars of Sharpteeth in the Great Valley, the place that was supposed to be safe.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted in the case of the term "Sharptooth". Not only is it the name of the Big Bad of the original movie, the term is also used to specifically describe Tyrannosaurus rexes, and is a general term for carnivores, meaning the following is a valid sentence: "Sharptooth is a Sharptooth, which makes him a Sharptooth."
- Orphaned Etymology: Ozzy refers to himself as a Struthiomimus in his Villain Song, using a term that would be coined by humans millions of years after he and the rest of his kind went extinct.
- Outliving One's Offspring: The fact that Littlefoot's grandparents have lost their daughter is obliquely referenced; while lecturing Littlefoot on the importance of being careful, they flat out tell him "you are all we have."
- Papa Wolf: Chomper's father, who is the second half of a pair of angry sharpteeth looking for their missing egg.
- Permissive Parents: The kids find a seemingly abandoned egg and decide to take care of it, even after it's revealed to be a sharptooth's offspring. At first, they believe that being a good parent means letting the child do whatever they want, but after the egg hatches, they realize that being a permissive parent is easier said than done.
- Picky Eater: Ozzy and Strut are both this, but in different ways. Ozzy is fixated on eating eggs and is implied to dislike anything else. Strut, meanwhile, prefers to eat green plants, much to Ozzy's dismay.
- Quicksand Sucks: Littlefoot and his friends almost drown in the tar pit sinking sands trying to reach the sheltering grass.
- Seal the Breach: A trick using a tree to catapult a rock becomes a Chekhov's Gun to close a hole in the Great Valley wall where Chomper’s parents came through.
- Sleepless Alarm Clock: A variant occurs where after spending the night chasing egg thieves and winding up in the Mysterious Beyond, Littlefoot goes back to the hole he sleeps in only to be woken up by his grandmother.
- Serial Escalation: Downplayed. The first film had one Sharptooth villain while this movie has two. (Even if they aren't quite as scary or dangerous as the original.)
- Sudden Musical Ending: After Littlefoot has gained the patience of waiting to grow up, the gang sings an extended version of "Peaceful Valley" while the eggs in their families' nests finally hatch and the newborns quickly get acquainted with them.
- Tempting Fate: Cera, when jumping from rock to rock to reach the sheltering grass. Then she falls into the sinking sand and needs help. "Whew! See? Whoa!".
- Terrifying Tyrannosaur: Tyrannosaurus rex (aka Sharptooth) is still the most feared dinosaur amongst the leaf-eaters that even a baby T. rex is enough to scare Littlefoot and friends. But it's subverted when Chomper is reunited with his parents, showing a nurturing and caring side to the predators not seen in the first movie. That said, don't get on their bad side or they'll remind you why they are still Sharpteeth.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Cera going "Oh no...!" when the rain starts pouring in the Mysterious Beyond.
- Tree Buchet: Used as a way to close up a hole in the Great Valley wall. Littlefoot was in awe of his grandfather earlier in the film for being able to bend a large tree, and it turns into a sort of Chekhov's Skill by the end, when Littlefoot uses it on a smaller tree to knock stones down over the hole.
- True Companions: Constantly. Well summarized with the line, "We're a family and you're one of us now!" They change their tune pretty quickly when Chomper bites Cera's tail immediately after said song.
- Villain Song "Eggs", a song where Ozzy sings to Strut about how much he loves to eat eggs, and the lengths he'll go to get them.
- Wham Shot: Midway through the film, a Sharptooth enters the Great Valley through the breach in the wall... closely followed by a second Sharptooth.
