Synopsis
Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.
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Cast
- Ray RomanoManny (voice)
- John LeguizamoSid (voice)
- Denis LearyDiego (voice)
- Queen LatifahEllie (voice)
- Simon PeggBuck (voice)
- Seann William ScottCrash (voice)
- Josh PeckEddie (voice)
- Chris WedgeScrat (voice)
- Karen DisherScratte (voice)
- Kristen WiigPudgy Beaver Mom (voice)
Recommendations
- 88
Chicago Sun-Times
It involves some of the best use of 3-D I've seen in an animated feature. It also introduces a masterstroke that essentially allows the series to take place anywhere: There is this land beneath the surface of the earth, you see... - 70
Variety
With appreciably greater emphasis on action than its predecessors, and clever use of 3-D trickery to enhance storytelling as well as offer spectacle, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs could prove the third time really is the charm. - 60
New York Daily News
If "Up" is the animated equivalent of an ice cream sundae, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is the Popsicle: Neither as rich nor as memorable, but more than welcome on a long, hot summer day. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Pretty much any sign of creative life gets left out in the cold in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, the monotonous, strictly by-the-numbers third edition of the wildly lucrative digitally animated franchise. - 50
ReelViews
Never representative of more than mediocrity from a technical or story-based standpoint, the Ice Age series has reached a new nadir with its third entry. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Not bad, not good, Ice Age 3 may be OK enough to do what it was engineered to do, i.e., baby-sit your kid for a while and rake in the dough. - 50
Miami Herald
There is no faulting the big set pieces, which are shot and edited skillfully. But without involving characters to go along with them, those sequences make for awfully empty movie calories. - 50
Boston Globe
It's mostly flat, despite being presented in 3-D, and the writing is so unimaginative that at one point a character yells out "yabba dabba doo!"
