Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

The dinosaurs famously died out millions of years before animals such as the woolly mammoth and saber-toothed tiger appeared.

However it's stated in the movie that the dinosaurs they find are a few that managed to survive underground, and that the mammals thought they were extinct.

When Buck agrees to help the herd find Sid, he drops his knife to his left.

When he starts explaining the rules, the knife is missing from the background, but is visible again when they start to move ahead.

An Ankylosaurus (large herbivore with an armoured back and tail club) is shown attacking the main characters when they first enter the dinosaur world.

Although some will wrongly think that the dinosaur is portrayed here as a carnivore, it is more likely that it attacked the group because it felt threatened by them, like a modern rhinoceros.

In the movie, a relict population of dinosaurs continued breeding for nearly 65,000,000 years after their kindred became extinct.

They have been sequestered away, allowing them to evolve to larger sizes as the competition would be more fierce and would need to grow bigger for the need for resources.

Also, 65,000,000 years is sufficient to evolve who new taxonomic families and orders, as mammoths, sloths, cats and humans sprung from humble roots in a fraction of that time.

Since the scope of this "what if" scenario can accommodate many speculations, alleged inaccuracies about size, color, posture, diet, etc.

, become redundant.

The movie is set around 10,000 BC, yet Crash and Eddie sing a line from the _Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)_ (qv) song"Please Christmas don't be late.

" Christmas was named after Jesus Christ who was born in Bethlehem in 1 AD.

As in _Ice Age (2002)_ (qv) and _Ice AgeThe Meltdown (2006)_ (qv), some of the "Ice Age" creatures shown were in fact extinct before the Ice Age.

(This does not count the "secret" dinosaurs they meet, which is not a goof as explained above, but to the above-ground community which Sid, Diego, and Manfred have always lived in.

) As in _Ice Age (2002)_ (qv) and _Ice AgeThe Meltdown (2006)_ (qv), the woolly mammoths' neighborhood includes creatures who in fact lived on different continents, and never saw mammoths.

- PLOTWhile Crash, Eddie and Buck were on their way to save Sid, Buck says "roger" but Crash and Eddie couldn't understand the correct meaning.

However, in _Ice AgeThe Meltdown (2006)_ (qv) Crash and Eddie used the term "roger" with correct meaning while they were checking the perimeter for Ellie.

The 3 eggs are falling and Ellie manages to catch the third one.

Then Sid walks down to where she is, carrying the other 2 eggs in his hands.

But a minute later, (when Manny discourages him) he puts the eggs to the wooden sledge waiting nearby.

The sledge was not there when Sid walked down.

In fact it gets lost when Sid and the eggs are tossed into the air a few minutes ago.

When Diego first finds the tracks, Ellie makes several steps forward to join him.

The next time we see her, she is standing next to Manfred again, with no indication that she moved.

Although Ice Age never needed a sequel to begin with, the success of the second chapter did give its studio another franchise to milk for all its worth. The third instalment in the Ice Age series once again fails to offer a compelling story but for me it is the most enjoyable chapter in the saga so far, thanks in particular to its energetic pace & vibrant slapstick humour.

Manny (Ray Romano) and Ellie (Queen Latifah) are expecting a baby. Diego (Denis Leary) is having trouble and decide to leave the herd.

Had enough emotional and funny moments to last a while and as on par with the original as you could get, plus Buck was amazing.

Ice Age series should be deep-meaning.I don't want to watch a movie which is somewhat tedious and doesn't tell us something meaningful.

The highlight of this film was the animation of the dinosaurs and the weasel. They were fresh additions and had great action.

Passable adventure that departs from the Ice age aesthetic and tries to be a bit more Jurassical and Vernesian.It works, it feels fresh, Manny's family drama doesn't improve it but this is a likeable adventure that never gets to any emotional intensity but for a very long saturday morning cartoon, it's not half bad.

Can a film still be called "Ice Age" when it takes place somewhere that resembles the tropics? For two whole films now, we've followed the adventures of a mammoth; a sloth and a sabre tooth tiger across the barren, icy lands at a time when land and continents intercepted with one another as one great big piece of terrain.

Para ser sinceros fui a ver esta película en 3D, y me encantó, pensé (en un principio), que rebasaba las 2 primeras, pero no fue así.Luego de mirarla un par de veces más, se nota que es muy graciosa, más que la segunda, pero casi a pasar la primera en risas, eso tal vez que sea verdad, pero de historia y lo demás, no las sobrepasa.