Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Ice Age 3) (2009)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 159
Fresh: 71 | Rotten: 88
The third Ice Age film has some excellent animation, but its story is tired and monotonous.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 12 | Rotten: 25
The third Ice Age film has some excellent animation, but its story is tired and monotonous.
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As we rejoin the motley herd from the two previous Ice Age films, Manny the mammoth (Ray Romano) nervously pampers his expectant mate, Ellie (Queen Latifah), while his best friend, Diego the saber-toothed tiger (Denis Leary), bristles at the thought of Manny's domesticated existence. Meanwhile, Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo) continues to annoy everybody, and Scrat the rock rat is still trying to get that acorn. When Sid accidentally discovers an underground world populated by dinosaurs, he
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Cast
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Ray Romano
Manny -
John Leguizamo
Sid -
Denis Leary
Diego -
Simon Pegg
Buck -
Queen Latifah
Ellie -
Seann William Scott
Crash -
Josh Peck
Eddie -
Bill Hader
Gazelle -
Kristen Wiig
Pudgy Beaver Mom -
Clea Lewis
Start Mom -
Jane Lynch
Diatryma Mom -
Chris Wedge
Scrat -
Carlos Saldanha
Dinosaur Babies, Flight... -
Karen Disher
Scratte -
Maile Flanagan
Aardvark Mom -
Christian Pikes
Little Johnny (Aardvark... -
Harrison Fahn
Glypto Boy -
Eunice Cho
Diatryma Girl -
Jason Fricchione
Adult Molehog Male -
Joey King
Beaver Girl -
Kelly Keaton
Molehog Mom, Shovelmout... -
Cindy Slattery
Bird -
Allegra Leguizamo
Aardvark Girl -
Lucas Leguizamo
Aardvark Boy, Beaver Ki... -
Avery Christopher Plum
Beaver Kid 1 -
Joe Romano
Ronald (Shovelmouth Boy... -
Sofia Scarpa Saldanha
Molehog Girl 1
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All Critics (159) | Top Critics (37) | Fresh (72) | Rotten (90) | DVD (10)
The manic pace quickly grows tiresome, as does the influx of cloying baby animals.
Top CriticCertainly 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.
As with the two earlier films, it's all a mite disorderly in tempo but often highly amusing and great fun in the main.
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.
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.
Scrat-astic!
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.
Audience Reviews for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Ice Age 3)
Super Reviewer
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- Manny: [to Diego] That'll be YOU in three weeks.
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- Buck: Let's get you home.
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- Dinosaur Babies: Mommy!
- Dinosaur Babies: I'm their mommy.
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- Manny: After we save Sid, I'm gonna kill him.
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- Sid: [upon seeing Manny and Ellie's newborn child] It's a boy!
- Diego: That's her tail.
- Sid: It's a girl!
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- Manny: No one move a muscle.
- Adult Molehog Male: [running by] AAAAAAAHHHH!!! [Momma then roars loudly]
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Foreign Titles
- Ice Age 3 - Die Dinosaurier sind los (DE)
- Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (UK)
