Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Product Description
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs opens with the stitched-together prehistoric family about to become a biological one: Manny (voiced by Ray Romano) and his mate Ellie (Queen Latifah) are expecting a baby mammoth. Unfortunately, this makes Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo) and Diego the saber-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) feel left out. Diego, who worries he’s losing his edge, decides to head out on his own, while Sid adopts three suspiciously large eggs that he’s found through a crack in the ice. Up to this point, the movie is perilously sappy--does anyone, particularly a kid, want to watch a kid’s movie about parenthood and impending middle age? Fortunately, the eggs turn out to be dinosaur eggs from a pre-mammalian underworld, and when the mama T-Rex comes to rescue her rambunctious little ones, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs transforms into a delightful comic adventure. The emotional side of the Ice Age movies has always been a tad mawkish, so it’s smart that Dawn of the Dinosaurs emphasizes physical comedy. Clearly, the animators have been inspired by a wild fusion of Road Runner cartoons and Buster Keaton. The character of Scratte, with his non-verbal, monomaniacal efforts to get that last acorn (doubled in this movie with the addition of a female counterpart), is only the most obvious reflection of this sensibility. The animators have great fun with the differences in scale between the mammals and the dinosaurs, and the introduction of a deranged Australian weasel named Buck (Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead) pushes everything into Loony-Tune territory. Let Pixar tug at our heartstrings; Ice Age aims to tickle the funny bone and does a fine job of it. --Bret Fetzer
Stills from Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Click for larger image)
 |  |  |
 |  |  |
★★★★☆ Ice Age
I saved money buying this on Amazon.I first bought it at Best Buy for $22.00.When I saw how cheap I could get it the DVD went back to Best Buy.Great choice!
★★★★★ The Best Belly Laugh of 2009
Be afraid, be VERY afraid! Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs is back and it is as funny as the previous two offerings that see us once again reunited with Manny the Mammoth, Ellie the former Possum, her adopted brothers Eddie and Crash, Diego the sabre tooth tiger, and of course Sid the Sloth. Of course Scratte the Squirrel is on hand to add to the laughter and mayhem that marks this the third in a wonderful series.
Ellie is going to be mom and there is no one more fearful about this than Manny and because of this he really putting his friendship with Diego and Sid under a lot of strain. Sid feeling left out decides to "adopt" three eggs little know they are T-Rex eggs and that Mommy T-Rex is going to come looking for them.
I could not stop laughing when I watched this movie. It has funny moments and hilarious moments. Like when Manny realizes that the world below his own world has creatures FAR bigger than him and they include a murderous dinosaur called Rudy who is hunted by the mad but exceedingly likable weasel Buck, voiced over by Simon Pegg.
In the world below the ice age we are treated to some wonderful imagery and of course adult jokes that will fly over the head of any child, but will make adults chuckle wickedly.
Watch out for Sid's relationship with the at first cheesed off Mommy T-Rex and how she comes to aid in his hour of need and how the three baby T-Rex's take after Sid by scratching their bum and looking delightfully sweet but dim.
I loved this movie and I love the Scratte scenes with the acorn loving squirrel falling in love and the wonderful Scratte Tango which brings tears to your eyes.
Worth a watch and definitely worth a buy!
Ellie is going to be mom and there is no one more fearful about this than Manny and because of this he really putting his friendship with Diego and Sid under a lot of strain. Sid feeling left out decides to "adopt" three eggs little know they are T-Rex eggs and that Mommy T-Rex is going to come looking for them.
I could not stop laughing when I watched this movie. It has funny moments and hilarious moments. Like when Manny realizes that the world below his own world has creatures FAR bigger than him and they include a murderous dinosaur called Rudy who is hunted by the mad but exceedingly likable weasel Buck, voiced over by Simon Pegg.
In the world below the ice age we are treated to some wonderful imagery and of course adult jokes that will fly over the head of any child, but will make adults chuckle wickedly.
Watch out for Sid's relationship with the at first cheesed off Mommy T-Rex and how she comes to aid in his hour of need and how the three baby T-Rex's take after Sid by scratching their bum and looking delightfully sweet but dim.
I loved this movie and I love the Scratte scenes with the acorn loving squirrel falling in love and the wonderful Scratte Tango which brings tears to your eyes.
Worth a watch and definitely worth a buy!
★★☆☆☆ It's getting a little old...
Before you get all up in arms, note that I adore the first two `Ice Age' films. In fact, I recently gave the first one a 5-star review. I agree that these films layer on the sap sometimes and that Pixar is far better equipped to actually illicit emotions out of us, but these films have (up until now) delivered sheer comedic enjoyment.
Sadly, `Dawn of the Dinosaurs' just doesn't cut it.
I'm going to make this short and (not so) sweet. The film is basically too much of the same shtick. There really is nothing new here. The sequences seem like regurgitated moments from the two earlier (better) installments, and the whole `adventure' aspect of the films second half felt like a poorly realized `Dora' episode. The funny moments were far and few in between. That's what really upset me. I can forgive a film like `Ice Age' for being slightly redundant if that redundancy produces the funny, but this film made me chuckle twice that I can think of (that helium scene was hilarious, but helium is always hilarious). The `unusual' family aspect of this film is a great idea, but it just doesn't hold together so wonderfully here. The films first half is too sappy and uneventful and the films second half is too predictable and uninspired.
I really wanted to love this movie.
The film borrows too heavily from more well rounded and better thought out films. There are obvious comparisons to be made to Shrek, which is sad since this film should be able to stand on its own. I also want to call to attention to crude jokes inserted in this film. There were a handful of them, and I was kind of shocked. I'm no prude, but this is a kid's movie, and some of the things done and said were highly inappropriate. I didn't expect that from this movie.
Scrat was the films main highlight (as he was for the first two films as well) and yet here his sub-plot also felt a tad forced. The inclusion of the female counterpart was an obvious attempt to spruce up his storyline and add a layer of freshness to his tired routine, but it only worked in parts.
All in all I can't really recommend this film. The first two films are far better. It's not awful, but it is far from good. If you love the first two and have yet to see this, see it. Simon Pegg is always welcome, and his character Buck has some nice moments. Sadly though, this film fails to live up to what I expected and all that it could have (and should have) been.
Sadly, `Dawn of the Dinosaurs' just doesn't cut it.
I'm going to make this short and (not so) sweet. The film is basically too much of the same shtick. There really is nothing new here. The sequences seem like regurgitated moments from the two earlier (better) installments, and the whole `adventure' aspect of the films second half felt like a poorly realized `Dora' episode. The funny moments were far and few in between. That's what really upset me. I can forgive a film like `Ice Age' for being slightly redundant if that redundancy produces the funny, but this film made me chuckle twice that I can think of (that helium scene was hilarious, but helium is always hilarious). The `unusual' family aspect of this film is a great idea, but it just doesn't hold together so wonderfully here. The films first half is too sappy and uneventful and the films second half is too predictable and uninspired.
I really wanted to love this movie.
The film borrows too heavily from more well rounded and better thought out films. There are obvious comparisons to be made to Shrek, which is sad since this film should be able to stand on its own. I also want to call to attention to crude jokes inserted in this film. There were a handful of them, and I was kind of shocked. I'm no prude, but this is a kid's movie, and some of the things done and said were highly inappropriate. I didn't expect that from this movie.
Scrat was the films main highlight (as he was for the first two films as well) and yet here his sub-plot also felt a tad forced. The inclusion of the female counterpart was an obvious attempt to spruce up his storyline and add a layer of freshness to his tired routine, but it only worked in parts.
All in all I can't really recommend this film. The first two films are far better. It's not awful, but it is far from good. If you love the first two and have yet to see this, see it. Simon Pegg is always welcome, and his character Buck has some nice moments. Sadly though, this film fails to live up to what I expected and all that it could have (and should have) been.
★★☆☆☆ One Ice Age too many
It used to be that cartoons were never turned into sequels. But it seems Hollywood is running out of ideas, so we have the third Ice Age movie in about a decade. This time we have dinosaurs as both protagonists and antagonists, along with a mate for Scrat. All the other main characters are back from the first two movies, with the same actors and actresses providing the voices. Like the first two movies, this one is a combination of comedy and family drama. The soundtrack is lackluster, the comedy is primarily one-liners and some screwball comedy, and the action is OK. Overall, a slightly boring movie that might keep your kids occupied for a while.
★★★★★ Hilarious for the entire family--best Ice Age so far!
Wonderful and great clean fun for the entire family. I laughed out loud through out the movie--best one so far and they have all been funny. I can't wait until Ice Age 4 comes out---and I don't have any young kids to watch it with me!
Similar Items
●Ice Age - The Meltdown (Widescreen Edition)
●Ice Age (Single Disc Edition)
●The Ice Age Collection (Ice Age/ Ice Age: The Meltdown) - Full Screen Editions
●Madagascar - Escape 2 Africa (Widescreen)
●Monsters vs. Aliens