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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is a 2009 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the sequel to Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) and the third installment in the Ice Age film series.
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After the events of Ice Age: The Meltdown, life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female saber-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and his new wife Ellie are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect f...
Sid's New Family
One year after the events of Ice Age: The Meltdown, Ellie and Manny are expecting their first child, and Manny is obsessed with making life perfect and safe for the family. He is shown bringing a shell full of water to Ellie believing that she is giving birth, although this is just a false alarm. At the same time, Diegofinds himself unable to catch an antelope he has been stalking. The antelope starts to taunt him. Believing that he is losing his predatory instincts. As a tiger, he decides to...
The Journey Begins
Although Sid tries his best to raise the three dinosaurs, their rambunctious behavior scares away all the other animals' young and ruins a playground Manny built for Ellie's baby. Manny tries to get Sid to return the eggs back to where he found them but it's already too late, as they hear booming footsteps in the distance. The mother dinosaur has returned for her eggs, causing a bit of chaos for the animals. Once she find where her babies are, she carries both Sid and her youth underground. D...
Survival in the Lost World
Awed by the sight of a hidden lost world filled of fauna and dinosaurs, an Ankylosaurus suddenly threatens the herd, making them run but the appearance of such a larger beast causes Crash and Eddie to get scared enough to play dead. Unaware that they're about to be crushed by its tail, Diego springs into action and saves them in time. The herd tries to run away from th edinosaur until they are stuck at a cliff, Diego tries to roar at the Ankylosaurus but his efforts to fend it off doesn't wor...
Additional voices
1. Michael Bell (uncredited) 2. Kimberly Brooks (uncredited) 3. Cam Clarke (uncredited) 4. Billy West (uncredited) 5. Bob Bergen (uncredited) 6. John Cygan (uncredited) 7. Rodger Bumpass (uncredited) 8. David Kaye (uncredited) 9. Scott Menville (uncredited) 10. Jan Rabson (uncredited) 11. Jess Harnell (uncredited) 12. Jim Ward (uncredited) 13. April Winchell (uncredited) 14. Tress MacNeille (uncredited) 15. Jack Angel (uncredited) 16. Bill Farmer (uncredited) 17. Russi Taylor (uncredited) 18....
Critical Response
The film received mixed reviews from critics, scoring a 46% on Rotten Tomatoes. The site's critical consensus reads, "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs boasts some excellent animation -- in particular, the dinosaurs are wonderfully realised -- but its story is tired and monotonous." It holds a score of 50 "mixed or average reviews" on Metacritic.
Audience Response
Audiences gave the film positive reviews. Many loved the film for Buck, who proved to be such a huge popular character, that he was brought back 7 years later in the 5th film. The film holds a 62% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and a rating of 6.9 on Metacritic for the user score. The film also earned a positive rating of an "A-" from CinemaScore. The film is often considered the last good Ice Age, due to how the other two sequels that followed caused a massive split with audiences.
Box Office
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs grossed $196.6 million domestically and $690.1 million from other territories for a worldwide total of $886 million worldwide against a production budget of $90 million, making it a massive blockbuster success. It set a worldwide opening-weekend record for an animated feature ($218.4 million), previously held by The Simpsons Movie ($170.9 million). However, it was later surpassed by Incredibles 2 ($235.1 million) in 2018. It marks the highest-grossing film of th...
The musical scores were done by John Powell who did the scores for the previous movie. Queen Latifah's cover of Walk the Dinosaurwas used to promote the movie though it doesn't appear in the soundtrack.
A few video games were released that were more loosely based on the film. The most well-known of them being the game that came out for the Wii, PS3 and Xbox360.
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on October 27, 2009 in the US, and in the United Kingdom on November 23, 2009. Two versions of the DVD exist: a single-disc DVD, and a "Scrat Pack" double DVD pack with three Scrat games. On September 21, 2010, a 3-D DVD was released as a two-disc set, with the first disc being the TrioScopics 3-D (gree...
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was followed by two sequels: Ice Age: Continental Drift and Ice Age: Collision Coursein 2012 and 2016, respectively.
Dawn of the Dinosaurs is the highest-grossing Ice Agefilm.Despite mixed reviews from critics, Dawn of the Dinosaurs was well-received by Ice Agefans and the general public.Dawn of the Dinosaurswas a massive blockbuster success.Dawn of the Dinosaursgrossed $886 million worldwide against its $90 million budget.Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs/QuotesIce Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs/GalleryIce Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs/Home mediaIce Age is an American media franchise centering on a group of mammals surviving the Pleistocene ice age. It consists of computer-animated films, short films, TV specials and a series of video games. The first five films were produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by its then parent company 20th Century Fox.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is the third installment and based on horton hatches the egg in the Ice Age shows. It was produced by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox. It was released in July 1, 2009 with a sneak trailer shown nationwide at selected theaters on Father's Day in the USA.
Summaries. When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him. After the events of "Ice Age: The Meltdown", life changes for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance with ...
After Sid (John Leguizamo) pilfers some dinosaur eggs, Manny (Ray Romano), Diego (Denis Leary) and the rest of their prehistoric pals enter a mysterious, underground world to rescue the hapless...
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is the third installment in the Ice Age series. It was produced by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox. It was released in July 1, 2009 with a sneak preview shown nationwide at selected theaters on Father's Day in the USA.