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A one-eyed weasel named Buck (voiced by Simon Pegg), right, joins forces with possums Crash and Eddie in “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.” |
Even the comic escapades of Scrat, the ratty, nut-obsessed squirrel, are wearing thin, just like the ice in “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.”
“Dawn” brings back those lovable animated mammals from “Ice Age” (2002) and “Ice Age: The Meltdown” (2006). Now their adventures are in 3-D, and suffering from TV sitcom syndrome.
You can always tell when a TV sitcom loses ratings and becomes desperate, It invariably employs one of four measures to lure audiences back:
1. Someone gets married.
2. Someone gets pregnant.
3. The cast goes on a trip.
4. The cast starts experiencing strange dream sequences.
“Dawn of the Dinosaurs” opts for No. 2, when Ellie the woolly mammoth (voiced by Queen Latifah) becomes pregnant, turning woolly hubby Manny (voiced by Ray Romano) into a giddy daddy-to-be. The impending birth isn’t received with joy by all. (Read more…)