Ice Age 3 - a bland, forgettable experience

Rating: 4/10 (6 July 2009)

I'm really shocked at all of the raving comments for this movie. It was an utterly bland, humorless, and predictable film. I wasn't expecting much based on the trailers, and I wasn't disappointed in that respect. This was the same sort of bland that Shrek 3 was; not a bad or terrible film, but just obviously stretching for laughs (and falling short), and completely rote and predictable dialog and situations. The actors sounded tired recording their parts. I said to my wife during the film "this should have been released directly to video, like one of the Land Before Time sequels". That all said, the animation is fantastic, for what it's worth. This film is nowhere near as funny as the original Ice Age, but then the kids enjoyed it and that's the main point, I suppose.