Preview: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)

Synopsis:

This is the third film in the Ice Age series which follows the characters from the first and second film as they come face to face with their eventual terrestrial replacements, the dinosaurs.

• Poster: C

Review:

They don't need to make cool posters to sell the movie anymore. It's pre-sold. In spite of that fact, this poster is somewhat predictable and entirely pedantic.

• Trailer: C-; C+; B-

Review:

I am sick of the trailers for these films. It's always the same "squirrel" after the same "nut" and always about him ending up not getting it. It's mean-spirited and patently annoying. We'll hope that moving into the Age of Dinosaurs, the entire cast will get eaten so we can finally get away from these characters.

The continuance of the Scrat short films continues with this new "trailer". We learn nothing about the film itself and find there's absolutely nothing to bear on the plot. Instead, we're treated to an admittedly cuter take on the tiring teasers introducing a female squirrel.

I saw this originally in 3-D during the showing of Monsters vs. Aliens while the 2-D version is less interesting visually, all the humor and sight gags are basically the same. The stunt of 3-D won't really help the quality of the movie, but it looks like a pleasant enough time waster.

Oscar Prospects:

With the second film not even scoring an Animated Feature nomination (like the first feature did), I sincerely doubt this third film will earn any recognition from the Academy.

Release Date:

• July 1, 2009

Full Review Synopsis:

I have not seen this film.

-Wesley Lovell (April 20, 2008) Original

-Wesley Lovell (November 23, 2008) New Trailer; New Poster

-Wesley Lovell (April 12, 2009) New Trailer

-Wesley Lovell (September 13, 2009) Buy the Poster Enabled