
MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children. These moral, redemptive elements are mitigated, however, by some intense, scary cartoon violence and political correctness, including a couple gender-bending references. There are also a couple biblical references. The heroes risk their lives to save others. The jeopardy hardly lets up, and the movie is filled with funny jokes. ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS has a driving plotline and two major new characters that prevent it from becoming stale. Coming to the rescue is Buck, a wacky weasel who has been trapped in the dinosaur world for years. They find that the dinosaur world is full of dangers. Manny and his pregnant wife, Ellie, go to save Sid, followed by Diego, the saber-tooth tiger, and the two possums, Crash and Eddie. They hatch, but the mommy dinosaur comes back for them and grabs Sid. Sid the silly sloth finds three T-Rex dinosaur eggs.


ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS opens with the nutty squirrel Scrat falling through the ice and exposing an unknown dinosaur world below the icy world where Manny the mammoth and his friends now live.
