Not really worth paying the extra money for the 3D version, actually not even worth paying for the 2D version

Rating: 6/10 (6 July 2009)

I was pretty much a fan of the first Ice Age, right now I have one adjective to describe each: for the first one (released in 2002) the adjective is great and for the first sequel (released in 2006 and called The Meltdown) the adjective is boring. I don't really remember much of those both movies but certainly the feeling of being very disappointed back in 2006 is still present. Now comes for this summer the new and third Ice Age movie, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, and frankly I wasn't interested at all in seeing it however over the past few days I began to have a certain expectation, maybe it was just because Ebert who called it the best of the three Ice Age movies, said that "it involves some of the best use of 3-D I've seen in an animated feature" and well gave it 3.5/4. I just saw Dawn of the Dinosaurs today in 3D and well this more like The Meltdown, weak storytelling and about the 3D version, well it's certainly a nice-looking movie but with few exceptions (for instance the first appearance of the character Diego) there's nothing really impressive, it's certainly a better choice to save your money and pay for the standard version, actually it's a better choice to save your money (it doesn't even need you now with its gross revue, so far according to wikipedia, of $215, 506, 000!) and wait for a rental.
That squirrel is unfunny most of the times here (not really when the squirrel has now to satisfy the orders of its partner!). For me the baby dinosaurs were funnier but only at the beginning of the movie since the plot is about the character Sid getting in real troubles, he felt the loneliness then he stole three dinosaur eggs, the dinosaurs born and they loved their mom! So you can imagine when the real mom comes for her babies, Sid is in troubles so the gang, Manny, Ellie, Diego, Crash and Eddie, comes to rescue him.
I'm a fan of Simon Pegg, not quite because of his good performance in the recent Star Trek but certainly because of his stuff under the direction of Edgar Wright. Unfortunately I saw Dawn of the Dinosaurs dubbed in Spanish so I missed Simon Pegg's voice performance as the new character Buck but obviously I didn't missed the great stuff that Buck delivers. This character is one of the good things of the third Ice Age but still maybe next time not even lots and lots of good comments and a four star review of Ebert will make me go to the theater. I guess for this one a rental is just fine6/10, being generous.