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this movie would be good for little cids if your like 13-18 don't wast our money on this movie

I have seen all the movies and enjoyed each one equally. The effects are great and Peaches was sweet. I have to say my favorie part was when Buck and the "twins" take a flight through the sky...I would watch this over and over again.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs opens with Scrat’s nose sniffing around the credits frozen in the ice. Scrat is the rodent obsessed with possessing an acorn and again he opens the movie with a crazed pursuit of his nutty obsession. This time – big surprise – he has competition from a comely flying squirrel with a big, bushy tail and eyelashes that flutter like veils in a slow motion breeze.

The complaint about sequels is a common one, that the ideas dry up after one or two efforts and by the third, the creative well is dry. This is what has happened to the Ice Age franchise with the third effort. The filmmakers try to milk one more movie out of the same characters and situations. The fresh humor of the first movie is now old hat, but it is dragged out again and ramped up into 3D, but still doesn’t make it funny.

The story is all about finding Sid the sloth who has stolen three dino eggs. This puts the mother dino on his tail and she retrieves her babies and Sid and takes them to her home under the ice. Our band of heroes drops everything to rescue Sid, impossible without the aid of a crazy weasel living in the midst of dinoland by his wits and bravery. The weasel leads (some would say drags) our heroic herd of beasts towards the momma dino and a confrontation with the big beast of the underworld, Rudy. Don’t ask why he’s called Rudy, except some writer was on the floor laughing over this bit of comic genius.

The only new character is the weasel named Buck, voiced by Simon Pegg. Buck has the best lines, the most action and steals the movie from the regulars who plod around the ice and later, the secret world of dinosaurs under the ice (don’t ask how that can be) until told to stop and have a baby using the secret code word: “peaches”.

I have to admit the family sitting behind me, full of kids the target age for this movie, sat through it in rapt silence. They didn’t laugh or react too much at all, except a few oohs over the cute baby mammoth, Peaches. If you’ve seen any of the earlier movies, you won’t find anything new here. Visually, the 3D effects are great during the flying adventure over the lava and in some of the large set scenes showing the vistas of ice and dino paradise. You should stick around for the ending credits, as there are excellent kid-style drawings around the names which jump forward towards you and are quite charming.

I had not seen the first two of the series & this was better than I expected. My pre-schoolers loved it and there were lots of laughs for adults too. I especially enjoyed Buck the Weasel (voiced by the new StarTrek Scottie). Definitely worth the extra 3 bucks for 3D if you can see it.