Cute Journey to the Land of the Lost

Rating: 6/10 (5 July 2009)

My boys and I saw this movie in 2D. I did not really see any scene that I felt would have looked better in 3D. While I'm sure it would look better in 3D, but I suspect not by much.
In this third installment, Manny the Mammoth and his gang make a journey to the center of the earth where they discover a lost world where dinosaurs still rule. We have seen this story many times before. The only thing that carries this story forward are the cute characters and their staunch friendship with each other. The dialogues are quite funny. The art work is commendable with its sense of depth and texture, as before. The action scenes (especially that one with Sid sledding in the snow grappling with three dinosaur eggs) were very well-executed.
The new character, a swashbuckling weasel named Buck was cutely heroic, but I felt I have seen this character many times before in other animated films. Not very original again, including his eye patch. There were a lot of mushy love scenes of Scrat and his female partner. However, treating this situation as a love triangle with the Acorn was comedic genius for me ("Alone Again Naturally, haha!) Some scenes would seem very scary for kids like the meat-eating dinosaurs coughing out entire animals they had eaten, small raptors attacking Ellie while she was in labor or any scene with the giant white dinosaur named Rudy.