Mammoths Manny and Ellie, along with possums Crash and Eddie, traverse a dangerous underground world of dinosaurs in “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.”
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Return of ‘Ice Age’
By The Washington Post
Published: October 30. 2009 4:00AM PST“Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” is the third and barely-more-than-middling-funny installment in the series of animated features about the prehistoric adventures of Manny (voice of Ray Romano), Diego (Denis Leary) and Sid (John Leguizamo), a woolly mammoth, saber-toothed tiger and ground sloth stuck in a snowbound world.
Simon Pegg makes a nice acerbic addition to the cast as Buck, a one-eyed weasel who carries a sharpened dino tooth for a dagger and acts as a guide when our heroes discover a tropical world of dinosaurs under all that ice. But the movie feels manufactured, a product not of evolution — or even intelligent design — but of cynical, soulless opportunism.
Contains cartoon violence and toilet humor.
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