Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

[Bourne101]

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Directed by Carlos Saldanha and Michael Thurmeier

Written by Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman, Mike Reiss

Genre: Family

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Plot Outline: The sub zero heroes are back. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever elusive nut, while maybe finding true love. Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth. Diego the saber toothed tiger wonders if he'€™s growing too soft and Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna, run amuck and meet a relentless, one eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.

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Starring: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Simon Pegg, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck

Rated PG for mild humor and peril.

Runtime: 87 minutes

While Public Enemies is the top priority, I imagine I'll catch this between now and when Bruno is released. Doesn't look great, but looks relatively enjoyable like the first two.

[robby_d]

Well, while Jimmy O gave this a 4/10 score at Joblo, I definitely disagree with him. To me, this was better then Ice Age 2 but less then the first one.
The story is pretty basic: Sid gets into trouble and is taken by a dinosaur to an undiscovered world beneath the ice. Manny and the gang go on after him to save their friend. Oh, and Ellie's pregnant.

It is a pretty simple story, but the animation is good, filled with jokes and off course Scrat (who actually meets our friends this time around). Not all the jokes work but the story itself is entertaining.

If you enjoyed the previous movies, you'll definietly enjoy this one to.

[Bourne101]

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - 5/10

The stuff with Scrat was great as usual, and the new and old characters are kind of fun to watch. Of course, there is some bad dialogue and the plot is outrageously crazy, but this is a kids animated adventure film and how many of those aren't crazy? I saw it in 3D which was very impressive (about on par with Up), but I think besides Avatar, which is using even more advanced technology, 3D is just going to be a bit of a fad that wears off in a couple of years. It's great to look at, and Up and Ice Age have managed to use it without making it a gimmick, but I don't see it lasting that long. Overall, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is an OK film filled with great animation.

BTW, the trailer for A Christmas Carol played before the film, and it looks pretty damn good.

[Crazy Dud]

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

***1/2 out of ***** (7/10)

The Ice Age series has never been synonymous with cinematic mastery. The first entry was good, though not particularly impressive, and the second was decent, but lacked energy and contained A LOT of humor which simply fell flat. Thankfully, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is more on par with the first entry in the series. This entry has the weakest overall storyline of the series, but makes up for it by being the most well-directed, as well as containing more raw energy and entertainment value than what came before it. The lush jungles of the dinosaurs are a welcome change of scenery from the snow and ice, and the film is more action-heavy than any of the others. Also, a new character is introduced who is quite enjoyable and oftentimes funny. He succeeds where the possums failed in Ice Age: The Meltdown. Also, the Scratt sketches continue to improve with each installment, and they are at their best here. These sketches have been the best part of the series since the beginning, and that's still true here. These scenes contain a delightful sense of creative whimsy reminiscent of the classic cartoon era. Unfortunately, the the rest of the series does not possess this level of inspiration, and, as usual, there is a lot of humor in this film that doesn't work as well. If you never liked the other Ice Age films, this isn't going to change that. If you enjoyed either of the first two, it is worth checking out.

[athf1980]

3.5/5

a really solid animated movie. Not much for story but the solid acton scenes make up for it. It's also quite funny also. Scrat still owns. The funny gas scene was great

[bsquared318]

Every so often a movie comes along that tests my ability to stick to one of my personal rules: never walk out on a movie, even if you got in for free. “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” pushed me to the limit, making me want to gouge out my eyes and pour cement in my ears until the movie was over.

After the less-than-positive response to “Ice Age: The Meltdown,” not too many people were expecting much from the third Installment. Despite this, I held hope that the movie wouldn’t be as bad as it looked. Not only was it just that, but it was worse than I had feared.

The animation itself was sub-par for a Dream Works film, but it was made up for by the film’s 3-D aspect. In fact, the fact that the film was released in 3-D is the only thing that seemed to matter during the production of the film. So much effort was put into making a 3-D film that vital things like an engaging plot and staying true to the characters were put on hold. Guys, just because it looks cool doesn’t make it good; you need more than just giving me the incentive to reach out and touch the 3-D ice sickle in front of me.

For this three-dimensional waste of time, we are reunited with all the gang from the first two movies and introduced to forgettable characters and dinosaurs that look like “Land before Time” rejects. Ellie is pregnant, while her mate Manny is a walking cliché as a father constantly worried about his wife and the baby she carries. Diego not only gets minimal screen time, but he also finds himself out of shape and unable to hunt. This is strange because all he ever did in the last two movies was run around and be the protector of his pack. Don’t be worried, though. He is miraculously and inexplicably cured by the end of the movie. Sid is still the same brainless klutz who has the IQ of a trash dumpster, though I’m pretty certain sure he’s gotten dumber since the last time we saw him.

Continuing to be the starter of chaos and mayhem, Sid discovers that the dinosaurs have been living under them all this time and have three eggs waiting to hatch. Doing something that even a toaster would recognize as a bad idea, he takes these eggs, draws faces on them, dubs himself their mother after they hatch and calls them his own. He even goes to milk a yak, soon after running away because it turned out to be a guy. Really, guys? In a kids movie? I can’t wait to see the male anatomy joke you have for us! (Yeah, that’s in there too).

When the real mother turns up and takes Sid and her three children with her, Manny and the rest of the gang set out to rescue Sid from a dinosaur that doesn’t want to eat them anyway. They’re guided by a deranged, one-eyed weasel named Buck, voiced by Simon Pegg. This guy was supposed to be the funniest part of the film, but he made the film seem to drag on longer. He says things like, “Let me tell you about the time I turned a Tyrannosaurus Rex into Tyrannosaurus Rachel,” making us want to split our veins with a rusty piece of glass instead splitting our sides with uncontrollable laughter.
Not only is the plot mundane and something we’ve seen before, but it borrows from better movies, including “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Apocalypse Now,” “Princess Bride,” and “Jurassic Park.” Sorry, but you can’t borrow from far better movies to make up for the fact that yours is terrible.

In what was personally the most shockingly nightmarish scene for me, we are given hints that future sequels could involve volcanoes and space travel. If this is truly the case, I’m definitely breaking my rule and leaving before the movie even starts.
1/10

[Crazy Dud]

Every so often a movie comes along that tests my ability to stick to one of my personal rules: never walk out on a movie, even if you got in for free. “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” pushed me to the limit, making me want to gouge out my eyes and pour cement in my ears until the movie was over.

After the less-than-positive response to “Ice Age: The Meltdown,” not too many people were expecting much from the third Installment. Despite this, I held hope that the movie wouldn’t be as bad as it looked. Not only was it just that, but it was worse than I had feared.

The animation itself was sub-par for a Dream Works film, but it was made up for by the film’s 3-D aspect. In fact, the fact that the film was released in 3-D is the only thing that seemed to matter during the production of the film. So much effort was put into making a 3-D film that vital things like an engaging plot and staying true to the characters were put on hold. Guys, just because it looks cool doesn’t make it good; you need more than just giving me the incentive to reach out and touch the 3-D ice sickle in front of me.

For this three-dimensional waste of time, we are reunited with all the gang from the first two movies and introduced to forgettable characters and dinosaurs that look like “Land before Time” rejects. Ellie is pregnant, while her mate Manny is a walking cliché as a father constantly worried about his wife and the baby she carries. Diego not only gets minimal screen time, but he also finds himself out of shape and unable to hunt. This is strange because all he ever did in the last two movies was run around and be the protector of his pack. Don’t be worried, though. He is miraculously and inexplicably cured by the end of the movie. Sid is still the same brainless klutz who has the IQ of a trash dumpster, though I’m pretty certain sure he’s gotten dumber since the last time we saw him.

Continuing to be the starter of chaos and mayhem, Sid discovers that the dinosaurs have been living under them all this time and have three eggs waiting to hatch. Doing something that even a toaster would recognize as a bad idea, he takes these eggs, draws faces on them, dubs himself their mother after they hatch and calls them his own. He even goes to milk a yak, soon after running away because it turned out to be a guy. Really, guys? In a kids movie? I can’t wait to see the male anatomy joke you have for us! (Yeah, that’s in there too).

When the real mother turns up and takes Sid and her three children with her, Manny and the rest of the gang set out to rescue Sid from a dinosaur that doesn’t want to eat them anyway. They’re guided by a deranged, one-eyed weasel named Buck, voiced by Simon Pegg. This guy was supposed to be the funniest part of the film, but he made the film seem to drag on longer. He says things like, “Let me tell you about the time I turned a Tyrannosaurus Rex into Tyrannosaurus Rachel,” making us want to split our veins with a rusty piece of glass instead splitting our sides with uncontrollable laughter.
Not only is the plot mundane and something we’ve seen before, but it borrows from better movies, including “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Apocalypse Now,” “Princess Bride,” and “Jurassic Park.” Sorry, but you can’t borrow from far better movies to make up for the fact that yours is terrible.

In what was personally the most shockingly nightmarish scene for me, we are given hints that future sequels could involve volcanoes and space travel. If this is truly the case, I’m definitely breaking my rule and leaving before the movie even starts.
1/10

Dude, seriously? I can understand you not liking it, but ranking it 1/10 essentially says it has the quality of a Uwe Boll movie, and you cannot possibly reasonably defend that, nor did the body of your review suggest a score THAT low. Did your version of the film remove the Scratt sketches or something? Ah, well, your review was good for a laugh. You were aiming for comedy with this review, right?