The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2005)

## Plot

Every year, as the warm season approaches, a certain tree in Great Valley blooms with pink flowers. These "treesweets" are viewed as a delicacy by the dinosaurs of the valley and everyone wants their fair share of it. However, because of the tastiness of the tree sweets, and due to the fact that there seems to only be one such tree in the entire valley, there is hardly enough for every dinosaur. Because of this, none of them may eat the treesweets until the day when they reach the "peak of their tastiness".

Littlefoot and his friends Ducky, Petrie, and Spike wait to eat the first treesweets of the season. Ducky is about to take one, but Littlefoot quickly stops her, reminding his friends that nobody may take any treesweets until "Nibbling Day". This, however, does not stop Petrie from flying to the tree's crown to attempt to take a treesweet. Cera's father, emerges and states clearly how every dinosaur in the valley has waited all year to taste the treesweets. As Cera appears before them, she boastfully reminds the group that she is the one who is supposed to eat the first treesweet, having been the one who found the treesweet-tree in the first place, although it was Littlefoot who first found it. Cera also teases Littlefoot for being too little to reach the treesweets, offending him.

Meanwhile, Cera's father is visited by an old friend, a pink female Triceratops named Tria. Cera's father, whom Tria calls Topsy, promises Tria the first treesweet of the season, and Cera becomes jealous. Cera refuses to make friends with Tria and dismisses her. In addition, Cera becomes violent toward her friends when they make any references involving Tria or her father's nickname.

Littlefoot wanders off by himself and sulks about how little he is. When Littlefoot returns to the treesweet tree, he climbs the cliff next to the tree and tries to prove that he can reach the treesweets himself. As he does, he accidentally slips off the cliff, falls right through the tree, and knocks down every single treesweet. Realizing the trouble that he is now in, Littlefoot faints in dismay. When he wakes up, he finds himself surrounded by several miniature longnecks (known by their group as tinysauruses). The tinysauruses have eaten all the treesweets and quickly run away once the shocked Littlefoot starts screaming in fear.

Upon noticing that every treesweet is gone, the grown-ups suspect that Littlefoot is responsible. Afraid to admit that he made the treesweets fall off the tree under Cera's father's threat of being banished from the valley, Littlefoot blames nearly everything that happened on the tinysauruses. At first, everyone laughs at him in disbelief, but when they find teeth marks on an eaten treesweet that are too small for Littlefoot to have made, he is believed and the grown-ups begins to search for the tinysauruses, thinking of them as pests and preparing to drive them out of the valley.

As Littlefoot and Cera search the valley, Littlefoot falls down a pothole in the ground where the tinysauruses are hiding. At first, Littlefoot is afraid of them and flees deeper into the cave, but he soon finds them to be nice and befriends the tinysauruses. Upon hearing how difficult it is for the tinysauruses to find food, Littlefoot promises to help bring them as much food as he can every night.

Littlefoot's friends find him while he is bringing food to the tinysauruses. Littlefoot's friends also fall in the pothole, and upon meeting the tiny dinosaurs agree not to tell the adults. Even Cera, who is still angry with her father, promises to keep it a secret, mainly because she finds out she can relate to them more than they would have imagined. Many of the tinysauruses, including Lizzie, in the colony feel that their leader, Big Daddy, bosses them around too much, though he is only looking out for them. To Big Daddy, the larger dinosaurs of the Great Valley only seem to think that "because they're bigger, it makes them seem more important", and he does not trust the other dinosaurs. By morning, Cera decides to be friends with Tria.

When sneaking off to see the tinysauruses the following night, Littlefoot and his friends are discovered by Cera's father. When he tries to ask them where they are going this time of night, Cera angrily throws the question back at him. He tells the children that it is the tinysauruses which they have to worry about, then warns them to not let him catch them out late at night again, and sends them home. Afterwards, he meets up with Tria and they spot two of the tinysauruses, Lizzie and Skitter. A chase ensues that ends when Cera's father and Tria finds the tinysaurus hideout. As the grown-ups prepare to block the caverns, Littlefoot, realizing what he must do, admits the full truth that he unintentionally caused the treesweets to fall from the tree first. However, just as he is finished admitting his accident with the adults forgiving him and finally leaving the little creatures alone, the tinysauruses' cave collapses, trapping them inside.

The tinysauruses escape into the Mysterious Beyond, where they encounter a pair of Utahraptors who chase them back into the Great Valley. Upon hearing that Littlefoot initially blamed everything on the tinysauruses, Littlefoot's friends become upset and do not want to talk with him. Angry at his friends' rejection, Littlefoot leaves and decides to set things right on his own. Meanwhile, Cera apologizes to Tria about her father being hard on her when she tried to stop him from hunting the little creatures down. After a tragic mistake, Petrie, Ducky, and Spike feel very bad for what they have done and begin to cry over the loss of their friend. With Cera's help, they all try to find Littlefoot and apologize for being hard on him; but they mistake the sharpteeth for Littlefoot, and the two sharpteeth chase them through the Great Valley. Just as Ducky is about to be eaten, Littlefoot shows up and saves her, Topps and Tria also appear. When all seems lost, the tinysauruses come to the children's aid and begin fighting the sharpteeth. All the grown-ups in the valley eventually reach the group and drive the sharpteeth back into the Mysterious Beyond through the same hole, which they cover up with a large boulder to prevent them from coming back.

After everything is sorted out and friendships are repaired, the tinysauruses become residents of the valley. Nibbling Day finally comes at last, and Littlefoot is able to reach the treesweets by himself.

## Voice Cast

Main article: List of The Land Before Time characters

* Aaron Spann as Littlefoot
* Anndi McAfee as Cera/Diplodocus
* Aria Curzon as Ducky
* Jeff Bennett as Petrie
* Rob Paulsen as Spike/Kosh
* Leigh Kelly as Skitter
* Cree Summer as Lizzie/Pachycephalosaurus
* Nika Futterman as Rocky
* Ashley Rose Orr as Dusty
* Michael Clarke Duncan as Big Daddy
* Kenneth Mars as Grandpa Longneck/Apatosaurus
* Miriam Flynn as Grandma Longneck
* John Ingle as Narrator/Topsy
* Camryn Manheim as Tria
* Tress MacNeille as Mama Swimmer/Petrie's mother