The third Ice Age movie appears on the list now! Wow another animated movie scratching its way into the 70’s can’t be bad. Released in 2009 this was a box office success costing around $90m to make it made close to $900m at the box office. OUCH that’s a lot of money. Similar to the previous movie its stars the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, and Josh Peck. With the first three from the original movie. You can tell the success by the number of bigger stars added to the cast with each movie. If you look at the list on this one it’s a long one and some of them just made a grunty noise for some beast eating some greenery as the main cast walks by.
Anyway, enough of my impressed knee bending the story basically revolves around Sid the Sloth (he is a Sloth isn’t he) discovering three massive eggs and decides to adopt them in way of making them safe from the big bad world. It turns out that surprisingly they are dinosaur eggs and mother is not happy about the idea of her kids being taken by a Sloth. She switches role and takes not just baby T-Rex children she also takes Sid with her and takes them to a secret underground world full of Dinosaurs thought to be extinct. So why were her eggs on the surface and not down there with her? I hear you ask – well please allow me to explain, that I have no idea either.
So, they meet a swashbuckling one-eyed weasel named Buck (played by Simon Pegg) (Well in fact not he was the voice of Buck really wasn’t he!). The gang team up with Buck, so he can safely navigate through this new world to Lava Falls where Sid was taken to so they can unleash the grand escape plan. OK is that enough to whet your appetite to go watch this movie? Better because I am not adding anymore plot for you to get excited about.
Again, in this section I find myself saying its an alright film. I went to the cinema to see the original movie and it was not anything like what I would enjoy on a night at the cinema but I really enjoyed it and got emotionally attached to the little kid left behind and the unspeaking words at the end where the beasts and the beasts stair into each other’s eyes without words they know what the situation is and turn and go their own ways. Very clever, well this movie doesn’t have that. Its funny and silly and kids will love it and so will the adults who may feel forced into this one. I my humble opinion it doesn’t have the emotional journey of the first and not the comedy of the second but it holds it own so stop moaning and go enjoy it.
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