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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Ice Age 3 - a bland, forgettable experience
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.
Madagascar (2005)
It was OK
Moderately funny movie. Decent lines, some funny moments. I have to admit I liked Ali G as the king lemur singing "Move It" as did my 7 and 4 year olds. Some funny visuals as well (won't spoil those here) but this movie is nowhere in the league of Shrek or the better Disney stuff, and certainly not as funny as the highlight reel that was the trailer being shown for the last couple of weeks on television. If you haven't gone yet, you might want to wait until it hits your local second-run discount theater, or just rent it because as another poster mentioned, it is in no way worth spending $50+ for a family of four. And the poster who gave it a 10-star review, along with his blathering drivel of a review ("reel" indeed, ugh) is an obvious studio plant, pay it no mind.