Ice Age 3 is wittier than Kung-Fu Panda, certainly as slick as Toy Story. The Ice Age franchise shows no signs of thawing out. Come on 4!
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07/04/09
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
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Reviews Counted:144
Fresh:65
Rotten:79
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: The third Ice Age film has some excellent animation, but its story is tired and monotonous.
Theatrical Release:01-07-2009
Synopsis: Manny, Sid, Diego, and Ellie are back in this third film in the computer-animated Ice Age series. With those creatures in starring roles, fans also get another dose of the vocal talents of Ray... [More]
Starring: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Reviews for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
As with the two earlier films, it’s all a mite disorderly in tempo but often highly amusing and great fun in the main.
07/03/09
Top CriticWhereas the previous chapters were sweetly anarchic, full of wisecracks and narrative digressions but also curious about eco-issues such as global warming and the extinction of species, this effort is dramatically inert and uninspired.
07/03/09
Top CriticIce Age series comes fully endorsed as a safe ride for all ages.
07/03/09
Top CriticSure, this threequel is more plasticine than Pleistocene, but as a zippy summer diversion it’ll do more than nicely - in fact, it’s comfortably the best of the series.
07/03/09
Top CriticWith derring-do and a bold spirit, Ice Age 3 rockets along nicely, even if character concessions are made.
07/03/09
Fantastic animation, lively dialogue and some terrific new characters spice up this franchise. It'll delight existing fans and probably win over some new ones too.
07/03/09
The Ice Age animators, who have always successfully managed to reinvent the series with each fresh instalment - expand their considerable range with this third offering.
07/03/09
3D heats up a cooling franchise nicely, alternating the familiar friends-forever ‘aw’ factor and chucklesome comedy chases with some ace in-your-face visuals.
07/03/09
This is the coolest film of the summer as far as family fun goes.
07/03/09
It's not unusual for a film like this to be full of post-modern, sarcastic dialogue, but Ice Age 3 has a sharper sabretooth than 99 per cent of its contemporaries.
07/03/09
It’s a pacey, enjoyable yarn for the most part, but the franchise’s key strength is its characters and the relationships, tired by part two, are seriously running out of steam.
07/03/09
Top CriticIce Age part three - a competent water-treader which use a cast of cutesy animals to disguise their lack of ambition.
07/03/09
The laughs are balanced with some outstanding action sequences.
07/03/09
Ice Age is cool and if you want to shield your kids from the sun for a while, this is one diversion they'll love.
07/03/09
Even the little boy in the second row, dragged along by a parent for a treat, was frozen in silence, victim of that cyclical ice age that affects audiences powerless to fend off the cryogenic effect of a sub-zero digimation romp.
07/03/09
It's not nearly as funny or as cute as it needs to be, but it will do as holiday entertainment for children who liked the first two and have reasonably short memories.
07/03/09
It isn’t as fresh or as funny as the earlier Ice Age animated features but then it doesn’t embarrass its predecessors either.
07/03/09
Though there’s not much of a story, the animation is expert and imaginative.
07/03/09
This is beautifully animated and stays watchable thanks to its likeable cast of characters, but it's never as funny as it should be and the 3D effects are under-used.
07/03/09
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