Director: Carlos Saldanha
Full of great one liners, the third installment of the Ice Age series is sure to please 'sbut not as much as the first two, there is only so much comedy one can pull out of the ice age.
The movie starts off where it left off in the second film.
Diego the saber-toothed tiger, voiced by Dennis Leary, returns a little older with thoughts of leaving the rag-tag group of mixed mammals.
Mammoths Ellie (Queen Latifah) and Manny (Ray Romano) are expecting their first baby mammoth, while the lispy sloth Sid (John Leguizamo) gets jealous and adopts three baby eggs. These eggs turn out to be dinosaurs, leading him and his crew into an underground jungle populated by dinosaurs, thought to be extinct.
There they meet Buck, an Australian Indiana Jones weasel type creature missing an eye. Buck helps the gang avoid being eaten by enormous dinosaurs and help Sid find his dinosaur babies.
After entering the dinosaur world, the movie sort of goes downhill a bit, and becomes pretty much endless fighting, lava and vicious dinosaurs.
A bright interlude comes when the saber-toothed squirrel finally finds love. Even during one of the film's happy moments, when Ellie is giving painful birth, Diego helps, while fighting off several sharp toothed dinosaurs intent on eating everyone.
Eventually the gang gets out of the dinosaur world and back to the land of ice and snow where, presumably, everyone lives happily ever after.
The film is definitely fun for adults as well as children, though it is rated PG for violence.
While the film doesn't necessarily disappoint, unlike the first two films there is a lot more dialogue than physical comedy.
The film may be a bit scary for children, what with all the roaring dinosaur scenes and mysterious caves with dinosaur skeletons.
In all three countries the film is shown in 2-3 different languages, so make sure to check. Supposedly the movie is also in 3-D, although be sure to ask, as some language versions are not in 3-D.
Now showing in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
