Cool Age

For this summer, only one animated movie took my attention: Disney Pixar's Up. Things change when you get free movie tickets! The movie featured was Blue Sky's Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Actually I was not keen on this sequel, recalling the Ice Age 2: The Meltdown bored me.

The story of this third movie in the Ice Age franchise was that Manny and Ellie, the mammoth couple, was having a baby. The blunt sabre-tooth tiger Diego was losing his strength and was going to separate himself from his friends. The sloth Sid found three dinosaur eggs beneath the icy surface where they stayed. You must all know what would happen. Yes, the mother of the dinosaur babies came looking for her stolen children. The mother took home her children and also their 'stepmother'. So, as good-hearted friends Manny, pregnant Ellie, Diego, along with the twin Possums Crash and Eddie went to rescue Sid to the realm of dinosaurs below them. The dinosaurs kingdom was strangely packed with healthy, extremely gigantic, alive dinosaurs. The rescue team was helped by Buck, the ill-mental, pirate-eyed, dino-hunting weasel.

The story might be clichy but the way of telling it: it rocks. Maybe if there was no Simon Pegg voiced weasel Buck, the movie would be dull. I mean, who wants to watch a dumb sloth, a friend-shooing mammoth, and a 'vegetarian' tiger? According to me, Buck was the star of the movie. The good humor, the good movie scenes came from Buck with his delicate British accent. As for the animation, I think Hollywood movie industries could do better with this, just don't stop improving. With the usual friends forever theme, I think this is the best Ice Age movie compared to the previous two. Big contender for Up and Monsters vs. Aliens. Deep in my heart, I regret I did not watch this in 3D presentation. Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: rated A-.