Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (also called Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs or simply known as Ice Age 3) is an American computer animated adventure comedy movie. It was released on July 1, 2009. It is the third movie in the Ice Age series and the first movie of the series released in 3D. The movie was produced by Blue Sky Studios. It was distributed by 20th Century Fox. The movie was also released on Real 3D anywhere available. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was the first 20th Century animated movie and the first Blue Sky movie released in 3D.

In the movie, Manny, Diego, Ellie, Crash and Eddie travel in a underground dinosaurs' world. They set off a journey to save Sid who was taken by a female T-Rex for kidnapping her children. The group is helped by an eccentric one-eyed weasel named Buck.

This movie is the second sequel to the 2002 movie, Ice Age. The other Ice Age movies are: Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016).

Queen Latifah recorded and performed a version of the song "Walk the Dinosaur" with John Leguizamo.

The movie was positively welcomed from audience, cost $90 million to make and it earned $886,686,817 worldwide. In 2017, the movie was ranked as the 47th highest earnings amount worldwide.

Cast
The other characters are all prehistoric animals. The other animals can talk to themselves.

Ray Romano as Manny, a woolly mammoth 
Denis Leary as Diego, a Saber-tooth tiger
John Leguizamo as Sid, a giant ground sloth
Queen Latifah as Ellie, a woolly mammoth
Seann William Scott as Crash, an opossum
Josh Peck as Eddie, an opossum
Simon Pegg as Buck, a one-eyed weasel
Chris Wedge as Scrat
Karen Disher as Scratte

Crew
 Directed by Carlos Saldanha 
 Story by Jason Carter Eaton
 Storyboarded by Karen Disher
 Character designer by Peter De Sève
 Music by  John Powell

Video game
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, a video game based on the movie, was published by Activision Publishing.

References

Category:2009 computer-animated movies
Category:Movies about dinosaurs
Category:English-language movies
Category:Ice Age (franchise)
Category:Movies directed by Carlos Saldanha
Category:2009 adventure movies
Category:American adventure movies
Category:2009 comedy movies
Category:American comedy movies
Category:2009 3D movies
Category:American 3D animated movies
Category:Movies composed by John Powell
Category:American sequel movies
Category:2000s sequel movies

Category:Blue Sky Studios movies