"Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs"

The "Ice Age" series is a bit like one of those long running sitcoms that stays on the air, even though you're hard pressed to find anyone who would admit to watching it much less liking it.

Well a series that was never really all that inspired to begin with doesn't get any better in "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs."
Ray Romano and Queen Latifah's family of wooly mammoths is about to have a baby.
And John Leguizamo's Sid the sloth is feeling a little left out so he adopts three seemingly abandoned dinosaur eggs.
The filmmakers get around the obvious historical incongruities simply by opening up a Jurassic park like world below the snow.

The animators do make some good use of the 3-D technology, and the action sequences will keep some non-discriminating kids amused.
But there's precious little for the adults stuck in the audience. And you could go extinct waiting for any laughs from labored, sub-sitcom level script.


"Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs:" C-