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- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt 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...
- 70VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonWith 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.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanIf "Up" is the animated equivalent of an ice cream sundae, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is the Popsicle: Neither as rich nor as memorable, but more than welcome on a long, hot summer day.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenPretty much any sign of creative life gets left out in the cold in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, the monotonous, strictly by-the-numbers third edition of the wildly lucrative digitally animated franchise.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliNever representative of more than mediocrity from a technical or story-based standpoint, the Ice Age series has reached a new nadir with its third entry.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsNot bad, not good, Ice Age 3 may be OK enough to do what it was engineered to do, i.e., baby-sit your kid for a while and rake in the dough.
- 50Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezThere is no faulting the big set pieces, which are shot and edited skillfully. But without involving characters to go along with them, those sequences make for awfully empty movie calories.
- 50Boston GlobeJanice PageBoston GlobeJanice PageIt'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!"
- 50Baltimore SunMichael SragowBaltimore SunMichael SragowYou should have been able to treat this film as a grab-bag and pull out some plums. Instead it goes grabbing after you.
- 50Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyThough there are chases galore and stampeding dinos aplenty, Dawn of the Dinosaurs is a nicely rendered travelogue without storytelling. There is little to bring an audience along for the ride.