Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Critic Reviews

It involves some of the best use of 3-D I've seen in an animated feature. It also introduces a masterstroke that essentially allows the series to take place anywhere: There is this land beneath the surface of the earth, you see...Read the full review

With appreciably greater emphasis on action than its predecessors, and clever use of 3-D trickery to enhance storytelling as well as offer spectacle, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs could prove the third time really is the charm.Read the full review

The movie settles into a mode of nice, sweet, safe, and -- sorry, I have to say it -- slightly dull family fun.Read the full review

The series kept it going for one more entry, but throws its commitment to the era away with movie number three, a ploy sure to anger Ice Age purists everywhere.Read the full review

Couldn't the creative minds at the 20th Century Fox animation studios, hoping to wring a few hundred million dollars more out of their prized family-animation franchise, have come up with something more original?Read the full review

It's mostly flat, despite being presented in 3-D, and the writing is so unimaginative that at one point a character yells out "yabba dabba doo!"Read the full review

Once fresh, the story is now buried under a hoary coating.Read the full review

A sometimes lively, sometimes listless wilderness adventure that will keep the kids cool and mildly entertained for a little while.Read the full review

Will satisfy its young fan base and is bound to make a ton of money. At this point, though, the series is no longer an artistic pursuit; it's a business deal.Read the full review