The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water

2002 animated film directed by Charles Grosvenor

The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water is a 2002 animated film in which Littlefoot befriends a mysterious, fun-loving dolphin-like creature named Mo, who is trapped in "new water" caused by heavy rain. The gang then goes on an adventure to the "big water" to bring Mo home. It is the ninth film in The Land Before Time series.

Directed by Charles Grosvenor. Written by Dev Ross.

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Littlefoot: [regarding the rain] I wish it would stop.
Grandma Longneck: Oh, Littlefoot. It will stop; it always does. [lightning threshes through the sky] Although I'm beginning to have my doubts.

Littlefoot: [with the second mention of his mother from the original The Land Before Time] I wish that my mother had given me a brother! And then I would always have somebody fun to play with!
Grandma Longneck: [telling Littlefoot the truth of why he had no siblings] Now young one, your mother would've loved to give you a brother (or sister).
Grandpa Longneck: [also telling Littlefoot the truth of why he had no siblings] Yes. But since you were her only child, you were very, very special to her.

[as Littlefoot drinks water, Mo blows bubbles onto his face, in the form of a beard. He then moves his own head through the remaining bubbles, and rises to show Littlefoot]
Mo: Now Mo have bubble face, too!

Littlefoot: And since we can't get home the old way, maybe we can a new way home by going that way. [they all look] And while we're at it, we can take Mo to the Big Water. What do you say?
Ducky: Well, I say yes. [jumping around] Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And what about you, Spike?
Spike: Uh-huh.
Petrie: Count me in, too! What you say, Cera?
Cera: Well...
Littlefoot: Great. Petrie, you fly around and see if there's any water paths that lead to the Big Water.
Petrie: Okay. [flies off Cera]
Littlefoot: You'll see, Cera. Mo will make this trip so much fun.
Cera: Yeah, right.



Cera: [panicking over the crab on her horn] Let go, let go, let go!!!
Mo: [rapid squeaking. The crab lets go...]
Littlefoot: Wow. Good going, Mo!
Petrie: Me want to learn to squeak like that! It sure come in handy!
Ducky: What did you say to it, Mo?
Mo: [repeats the squawking]
Cera: Uh, right. Which means?
Mo: Let go!
Cera: Oh, well. Yeah! I knew that!

Mrs. Mama: [realizing the gang are not a threat to her eggs] Why, you're not much more than babies yourselves!
Cera: Not much more than babies? Why I'm practically all grown up!

Cera: Get him. [jumping up] Yeah!

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