New to the cast is Scratte, a long-lashed female squirrel who, in a running subplot (including mini-cartoons to both start and end the flik), vies with the iconic acorn for the undying devotion of Scrat. The characters, familiar now from the 2 previous films, are well acted with distinctive personalities, and the comic-relief possums have an expanded role. The one carp I have is that 3-D simply does not lend itself to dissolves between scenes I'm guessing the filmmakers figured this out themselves, as most of the time they used cuts. The 3-D is likewise terrific, well used where appropriate (especially in conveying a sense of scale for the underworld) but not overdone. Dino babies and mammal kids are ridiculously endearing. Judging from the end credits, apparently the Astor beaver trade, long thot to be extinct, has experienced a renaissance in the animated-fur factories of California. (Well, several critters are swallowed whole but subsequently disgorged, slimy with saliva but basically unhurt family film, y'know.) The animation is terrific. It's a classic tale of nature red in tooth and claw, except for nobody actually getting eaten. (Don't overthink it.) Suddenly Manny the mammoth and his pregnant mate Ellie discover that they're not only not the largest creatures on Earth, as they'd thot, but actually pretty petite compared to the Mama T. So how does the plot explain their coexistence? Well, it seems that there's this entire hidden tropical world underneath the eponymous ice, and our heroes literally fall into it. Now those among you who haven't fallen prey to creationism are well aware that mammoths are very large mammals (and hence quite recent in geological time), while the last of the dinosaurs went extinct 65,000,000 years ago. blue wire" time-bomb scenario, but they find an ingenious way to do it. You wouldn't think a film set in the age of mammoths would be able to run a parody of the old "red wire vs. There's about an even mix of verbal and visual gags in this 3rd installment of the Ice Age family saga, they're all fresh instead of hackneyed, and they all work. I haven't had so many laff-out-loud moments in a movie for a long time.
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