The Preview Review

Ice: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Previews involving Skrat the prehistoric squirrel can only mean one more thing, you've already seen the best part of the actual movie. Unfortunately for you fellow parental types, this only means the addition of another mildly amusing animated movie to the movie night playlist. In the Dawn of the Dinosaurs theatrical trailer we find Manny, Sid and Diego accompanied by Ellie in another Ice Age adventure. From my estimations this trio should be, according to common scientific standards, 67.9 million years old considering that they encounter a T-rex in this trailer, which lived 68 million years ago, a Neanderthal family in the first movie, 35,000 years ago, and Noah's Ark, 7,000 years ago. (Ironically, this series holds more closely to the Biblical account of creation with the trio encountering dinosaurs, cave men and Noah all in a standard lifetime.)

This trailer was very entertaining. I found myself snickering at the jokes, Skrat's misfortunes and sight gags. It does not leave me with an overwhelming desire to pay $5.75 (matinee-I'm a cheap skate) to see the entire movie. My younger daughter enjoys the commercials and when it's her date night we will probably end up in a theater next to where Transformers 2 is showing watching IA3.

*** Spoiler Alert ***

If you don't want this trailer ruined do not continue reading!

Manny, Moe and Jack, I mean Manny, Sid and Diego, go on a journey to the center of the earth where they find the great valley and of course encounter dinosaurs. They are chased by the T-Rex, Will Ferrill LOL style. Sid becomes the surrogate mother of the T-rex's hatched eggs and tries to milk a yak. I almost laughed out loud at the last Skrat bit where he again, gasp, looses his acorn. Ray Romano is perfect as the whiney Mammoth and Queen Latifah's attitude is a great contrast even though her "Talk to the trunk" line was lame.

Rating: G for Great, another movie I'll have to watch at least three times a year until my grandkids are grown.