You're gonna meet a nice girl with.uh.low standards, no real options, or sense of smell. Manny: Sid, I know what you're going through. Sid: No! They were underground in ice! If it wasn't for me, they'd be. Second sign: one of them almost became an omelet.Д®llie: Sid, somebody's probably worried sick looking for them. Manny: First sign: stealing someone else's eggs.

Manny: Sid, whatever you're doin', it's a bad idea. For anybody wondering when Gilbert OвЂ™Sullivan would make a comeback, the answer is here, with Alone Again, Naturally.Sid: I'd like to present Egbert, Shelley and Yoko. Running time is spot on at 93 mins soundtrack is tongue-in-cheek amusing. The voice cast is effective, with Pegg a cheeky new addition to the family and LeguizamoвЂ™s talents getting a good show. Technically, this feels like a step forward in terms of 3D animated imagery in service of the story while children may readily accept it as all part of the adventure, adults will be suitably impressed by how far 3D has come, seemingly so quickly. Viewers old and young can appreciate the points this film makes about the nature of family without being expressly and repeatedly told so. When Saldhana isnвЂ™t focused on Ice AgeвЂ™s search-and-rescue aspect, amusing cuts to Scratt, his new love Scratte, and the contentious acorn provide light relief, but the core story itself manages to be steadily warm-hearted and adventurous without feeling the need to be aggressively вЂњon-messageвЂќ. The resulting births lead the clan off on a rescue-adventure to a land beneath the ice where dinosaurs still rule the world and wascally weasel Buck (Simon Pegg) is locked in an epic Captain Hook/crocodile-style battle with an enormous prehistoric beast.

Sabre-toothed tiger Diego (Leary) and sloth Sid (Leguizamo) react in differing ways to the eagerly-waited arrival: Diego feels threatened and sets off alone, while Sid finds some dinosaur eggs and decides to hatch them himself, not the best idea the sloth has ever had. The Ice Age clanвЂ™s frozen environment seems to be relatively solid following Meltdown and the main issue preoccupying woolly mammoth Manny (voice of Ray Romano) and his wife Ellie (Queen Latifah) is the impending arrival of their first child. Saldhana (co-director on the first and sole helmer on the second) returns here in tandem with the creative powerhouse that is Blue Sky Studios and the characters we have come to know and love. The franchise traditionally hasnвЂ™t performed well in Asia, and this all-action adventure could improve its fortunes there.

Ice Age should make the most of this happy gap, playing well domestically (the last took $195m in 2006) and internationally (where Ice Age: The Meltdown grossed a combined $150m in France, Germany and the UK alone). Opening mostly day-and-date on July 1, Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs goes out against Public Enemies in the US and in the wake of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13) meaning it has the family audience to itself until July 17 when Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince is unleashed worldwide (again, a possible PG-13). Young viewers should be rapt from the by-now traditional acorn-snatching prologue to Dawn of the DinosaursвЂ™ end credits, viewing this as an equally immediate experience to live action, if not more so given the jutting beaks of the pterodactyls & co. While refraining from direct hits on the adult audience with knowing, wink-y jokes, it still manages to keep the attention of more mature viewers вЂ“ the rhythms of peril here come close to the intense travails of Finding Nemo. Ice Age 3 is an exemplary marriage of precise, well-paced storytelling enhanced by 3D effects in an adventure-packed ride. A rattling 3D ride which gives the live action blockbuster competition a run for its money, this third installment in the popular franchise looks likely to outperform its predecessors (which grossed $383m and $652m worldwide in order) despite the tougher mid-summer release date. Parents will have to dig out the pre-history-books to convince their enchanted offspring that dinosaurs did not, in fact, share the earth with woolly mammoths and sabre toothed tigers but Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs is unlikely to draw any complaints.

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