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The manic pace quickly grows tiresome, as does the influx of cloying baby animals.
Certainly not terrible, but ultimately forgettable and that means you should skip it.
The whole movie is more of the same and I'm afraid the franchis is running out of steam.
Rather than evolving, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs treads on familiar and infertile ground.
There's a sense of ineptness in a script that constantly reaches, with only modest success, for amusing things that the mammoths and their friends can do.
There are chases and escapes, morals and messages, comedy and character... but when the fur stops flying, it still feels more frozen than fresh.
The coolest thing about this sequel is the use of dinosaurs.
An improvement over its massively forgettable predecessor.
When the story does get underway, the incident that sets it into motion seems thrown in%u2014precisely what you'd expect for the third installment in a series that was already tired by the second.
Extras are predictably numerous, including a filmmaker commentary, three featurettes and a good-sized handful of Fox Movie Channel pieces on the movie.
I'm mystified by those who find these characters appealing.
The quality of the stories has gradually declined in each succeeding sequel since the original film was released in 2002, but the technical quality of computer animation has improved during that same time.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs works on its own terms, as a distraction for the children and an inoffensive, if unfulfilling, time at the theater for their parents.
Those who complain about the feeble jokes and contrived situations should be forced to watch the first two films and defend them.
It is not the year for pre-historic comebacks.
There's not much for audiences over the age of 10 to warm to during this third, and hopefully final, Ice Age.
A baby's on the way, a new acquaintance adds to the fun/confusion, and some old friends are back.
...the dinosaurs, especially mama T-Rex rival anything you'd find in "Jurassic Park."
...never properly invites the audience into its messy world of familial trust.
The Ice Age series' creativity is clearly melting.
The most reliable laugh-getter in the past Ice Age films, the acorn-seeking Scrat, is saddled with a dull subplot in which he meets a lady Scratte.
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