ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS
HEADLINE: ** Fun, Funny, & Exciting **
Title: ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS
Quality: * * * * Acceptability: +2
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: L
Violence: VV
Sex: None
Nudity: N
RATING: PG
RELEASE: July 1, 2009
TIME: 98 minutes
STARRING: The Voices of Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Simon Pegg, John Peck, Seann [sic] William Scott, Chris Wedge, and Karen Disher
DIRECTOR: Carlos Saldanha
PRODUCERS: Lori Forte and John C. Donkin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Chris Wedge
WRITERS: Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman, Mike Reiss, and Yoni Brenner
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
DISTRIBUTOR: Blue Sky/20th Century Fox
CONTENT: (BB, C, PC, Ho, P, Ev, L, VV, N) Strong moral worldview with some redemptive elements of sacrifice, including a couple of biblical allusions, marred by some light political correctness of multicultural tolerance and a few gender bending/homosexual jokes such as male sloth pretends to be the mommy of three baby dinosaurs and character says he was there when some giant prehistoric butterflies "came out," plus a pro-American allusion of forming one "herd" out of many different animals (E Pluribus Unum) and an evolutionary reference to dinosaur extinction; one light obscenity and three butt's and a couple dangs; sometimes scary cartoon action violence involving carnivorous plants and scary dinosaurs is too strong for younger children and includes creatures falling, baby dinosaurs wreak havoc chasing and trying to bite other young creatures, scary dinosaur skeleton, giant carnivorous plant tries to eat heroes, dinosaurs grab creatures, large dinosaur chases creatures, pack of small meat-eating dinosaurs try to eat other creatures, heroes fight menacing dinosaurs, etc.; no sex, but references to having babies; fur on male squirrel gets torn off, revealing two nipples; no alcohol; no smoking or drugs; and, nothing else objectionable.
GENRE: Animated/Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: All ages
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SUMMARY: In ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS, Manny the mammoth and his Ice Age buddies must retrieve their friend Sid the sloth from a dinosaur world they have discovered in the ice below. The funny jokes and exciting jeopardy hardly let up in DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS, but some intense scary moments and a couple gender-bending references require a slight caution.
IN BRIEF:
ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS opens with the nutty squirrel Scrat falling through the ice and exposing an unknown dinosaur world below the icy world where Manny the mammoth and his friends now live. Sid the silly sloth finds three T-Rex dinosaur eggs. They hatch, but the mommy dinosaur comes back for them and grabs Sid. Manny and his pregnant wife, Ellie, go to save Sid, followed by Diego, the saber-tooth tiger, and the two possums, Crash and Eddie. They find that the dinosaur world is full of dangers. Coming to the rescue is Buck, a wacky weasel who has been trapped in the dinosaur world for years.
ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS has a driving plotline and two major new characters that prevent it from becoming stale. The jeopardy hardly lets up, and the movie is filled with funny jokes. The heroes risk their lives to save others. There are also a couple biblical references. These moral, redemptive elements are mitigated, however, by some intense, scary cartoon violence and political correctness, including a couple gender-bending references. MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children. Go to movieguide.org for the details.
