Absolute garbage -- do not waste your time

Rating: 1/10 (22 July 2009)

I have walked out on a handful of movies in my life. Ice Age 3 joins that handful. For the first 45 minutes of the film the plot meanders along aimlessly. The characters all act like self-centered boneheads, and un-comedic shenanigans feebly result.
I'm serious. I love digital animation. I love 3-d. But I realized while watching this movie that neither of those things can save a rancid stinker of a script. The only interesting aspect at all of the movie was the sabre-toothed squirrel and his acorn gag, which by the way can be seen in its entirety in the preview and was not new in any way.
My fiancée turned to me at one point during the movie and said "it's in 3-d, isn't it?" The effect was so watered-down that we could no longer tell. Plus, there was no aspect of the story which caught our interest whatsoever.
Good animated comedies are funny to the adults in their audience as well as their kids. Dozens of digitally-animated movies succeed wildly in that respect. But what we've got here is proof positive that someone will finally spend the millions of dollars it takes to put an absolute turd on the screen using the latest technology.