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Dir: Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier. Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Simon Pegg, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck

 

Description: Sid the sloth yearns for a family of his own so he 'appropriates' a nest of dinosaur eggs. When the mother dinosaur spirits away Sid and her hatched brood, Manny the woolly mammoth and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger embark on a rescue mission accompanied Manny's partner, Ellie, who is preparing to give birth to their first mini-mammoth. Mischievous possums Crash and Eddie tag along for the ride.

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The Ice Age goes 3D

By Derek Malcolm, Evening Standard  03.07.09
 
Ice Age 3

Jaws of doom: Scrat the Weasel encounters a hungry dinosaur

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Here we go again, frolicking with a band of furry and cuddleworthy animals while well-known humans like Queen Latifah, John Leguizamo and our own Simon Pegg squawk away merrily, doubtless appreciating this heaven-sent method of improving their bank balances. Only this time it’s all in 3D.

Though there’s not much of a story, the animation is expert and imaginative — such as the dance that a female aardvark does to attract her lustful admirer. As usual, the pratfalls are splendid and, considering this is the third of the series, the makers clearly still have some inspiration left.

This one is subtitled Dawn of the Dinosaurs and has the familiar heroes dumped from their Ice Age quarters into a summery world where carnivorous plants and massive dinos await their next meal.

Manny the mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the sabre-toothed tiger and possums Crash and Eddie have to run for their lives, and are eventually led to safety by a daredevil weasel called Scrat.

The moral of the tale, insofar as it has one, is that we all need friends and no man is an island. But don’t worry about that. Just sit back and hope the kids aren’t restless.

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Ice Age takes you on a trip back in time to when the world was one great big snowball and everybody would ditch their digs and migrate south for winter so they didn't end up giant popsicles.

Enter the stars of Ice Age - Manfred (Ray Romano) the moody mammoth, Sid (John Leguizamo) the screwball sloth and Diego (Denis Leary) the sabertooth tiger with an attitude. These prehistoric weirdos have a baby dropped in their laps and ditch the yearly migration to return the kid to her parents.

That kicks off a wacky adventure that has to be seen to be believed! The misfits run across insane dodo birds, a dainty pair of rhinos, murderous sabertooths and a wild underground ice slid

- Regieeallen, new york USA


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