So when I grew up in the late 90's and early 2000's some of my absolute favorite movies I remember were movies by Don Bluth. Movies like "The land before time", "an american tail" & "Anastasia" I especially loved most of the land before time movies. But there was this one movie that he made that I never saw. In fact I can't recall ever having seen a VHS box of the movie and I do remember scanning the video rental kids section when I was small but I also owned a lot of VHS movies and later dvd's. Anyway that movie was "All dogs go to heaven" , now I have heard of the movie over the years and always remembering people saying it's a pretty heartbreaking movie. Now that never struck me as odd or anything as I had watched Bluth movies before and I distinctly remember things like Littlefoot's mom dying in land before time. So this evening I decided to get comfy and finally get around to watch All dogs go to heaven. So I put on my kigu snuggled down on my couch with my blåhaj and started to watch the movie. And all I can say is at the end of it I was crying my eyes out, no joke. Now I usually have a pretty difficult time getting emotional at movies although granted it's easier for me to get emotional at animated movies, no idea why but for some reason my brain has a hard time trying to relate to a lot of characters in live action movies but with animated ones it tends to be able to relate pretty easily and that goes double for any movie with a animal protagonist. Like I don't know if this movie ended up hitting me so hard at this time because I recently lost my step-grandpa and I was at his funeral about 3 weeks ago. But I think even removed from that the movie would probably have hit me just as hard. But I also have to say it's a beautiful movie with good themes a good story sadly one or two dated jokes but overall I loved the movie. I think it also reminded me of this thing that I miss in a lot of animated movies now that were present in Don Bluth movies. And it's the feeling of real weight behind choices and such. These movies didn't back down from showing that death is something that happens and we have to deal with it. I honestly think the man himself said it best and I'll leave this journal with a quote from him that got stuck in my head after watching this movie

“If you show the dark moments, then the triumphant moments have more power." - Don Bluth