Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Category: Animation
All Genres: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA
Runtime: 94
Languages: English
Director: Carlos SaldanhaMike Thurmeier
Sound: DTS, Dolby
Taglines:
  • America's Most Wanted

  • Writing by: Peter Ackerman - screenplay
    Michael Berg - screenplay
    Yoni Brenner - screenplay
    Jason Carter Eaton - story
    Mike Reiss - screenplay

    Produced by: John C. Donkin - producer
    Lori Forte - producer

    Cast: Eunice Cho - Diatryma Girl (voice)
    Karen Disher - Scratte (voice)
    Harrison Fahn - Glypto Boy (voice)
    Maile Flanagan - Aardvark Mom (voice)
    Jason Fricchione - Adult Molehog Male (voice)
    Bill Hader - Gazelle (voice)
    Kelly Keaton - Molehog Mom / Shovelmouth Mom (voice)
    Joey King - Beaver Girl (voice)
    Queen Latifah - Ellie (voice)
    Denis Leary - Diego (voice)
    Allegra Leguizamo - Aardvark Girl (voice)

    Music: John Powell
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    Plot Outline: When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him.
    Plot: After the events of "Ice Age: The Meltdown", life begins to change for Manny and his friends: Scrat is still on the hunt to hold onto his beloved acorn, while finding a possible romance in a female sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte. Manny and Ellie, having since become an item, are expecting a baby, which leaves Manny anxious to ensure that everything is perfect for when his baby arrives. Diego is fed up with being treated like a house-cat and ponders the notion that he is becoming too laid-back. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own, and so steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to Sid ending up in a strange underground world where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left and right, and meeting up with a one-eyed weasel known as Buck who hunts dinosaurs intently.

    Movie Quotes: Sid: I know what it's like to feel abandoned.


    Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The dinosaurs famously died out millions of years before animals such as the woolly mammoth and saber-toothed tiger appeared. However it's stated in the movie that the dinosaurs they find are a few that managed to survive underground, and that the mammals thought they were extinct.

    Trivia: There are 4 entries in the trivia list - like these:
    • The largest Dinosaur, Rudy, is most likely a Suchomimus. Closely related to the Spinosaurus, which we know to be bigger than a T-Rex, Rudy is without the sail on its spine but instead has scales on its back, which cancels out him being a Baryonyx. The shape of its snout and the dimensions of its teeth further suggest this.
    • Buck was based not just on Crocodile Dundee but also Frank Buck adventurer and actor in the 30s and 40s.
    • Before Buck starts to escort the herd to rescue Sid in the underworld he says "abandon hope all ye who enter there", a reference to the inscription above the gates to hell according to Dante Alighieri, Italian poet and author of Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy).