Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

"What killed the dinosaurs?"

2009 1h 34m EN

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6.8

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46%

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6.9

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★6.8TMDB · 9,111🥫46%Rotten Tomatoes●50Metacritic★6.9IMDB · 283,955

AnimationComedyFamilyAdventure

Synopsis

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Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.

“What killed the dinosaurs?”

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Cast

Ray Romano
Manny (voice)
John Leguizamo
Sid (voice)
Denis Leary
Diego (voice)
Simon Pegg
Buck (voice)
Seann William Scott
Crash (voice)
Josh Peck
Eddie (voice)
Queen Latifah
Ellie (voice)
Bill Hader
Gazelle (voice)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Carlos Saldanha
Writers: Peter Ackerman, Michael Berg, Yoni Brenner
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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1 / 8

MONEY

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Mid-budget at $90M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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2 / 8

MONEY

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Made its money back 9.9× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 17 years ago.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Ice Age Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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261+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by John Powell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Harry Hitner shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Ray Romano and John Leguizamo and Denis Leary carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Carlos Saldanha directs. John Powell scores. Harry Hitner cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Mid-budget at $90M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
2Made its money back 9.9× over at the box office.
3Released 17 years ago.
4Part of the "Ice Age Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5261+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Original score by John Powell. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Harry Hitner shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Ray Romano and John Leguizamo and Denis Leary carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "What killed the dinosaurs?".
10IMDB entry: tt1080016 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 12 themes, including "insanity", "ice age", "villain", "bridge".
12Released under 30 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Original score: John Powell
Editing: Harry Hitner
Production design: Marcin Jakubowski
Sound: Randy Thom
Runtime: 94 min · 1h 34m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $90,000,000
Box office: $886,686,817
Return: 985% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Rotten Tomatoes: 46% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 50/100
IMDB rating: 6.9/10 · 283,955 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

3 wins & 13 nominations total

Part of

Ice Age Collection

A collection of animated films centered around a woolly mammoth, a talkative sloth, a serious saber-toothed tiger, and a small squirrel, as they navigate through the Pleistocene Epoch.

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Carlos Saldanha

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Andre Gonzales2023-07-04
★ 8/10
My favorite out of the series. Introduces a new character and he cracks me up. I love this movie.
CinemaSerf2023-11-30
★ 6/10
When "Sid" crashes through the ice and discovers a nest of eggs, he is soon rather unwillingly adopted by their parent and finds himself in a lost, more dangerous and Jurassic, world. Meantime, atop the ice his pals are anticipating the arrival of a baby mammoth while sabre-tooth "Diego" is having a bit of a mid-life crisis and "Scrat" might just have found love during his latest acorn-tussle. The gang soon realise that "Sid" has gone AWOL and that they are going to have to risk life and limb to try and rescue their buddy from his new hostile environment - so off they head into the perilous land of dinosaurs and of the hugely annoying "Buck". He's the eye-patched, and very verbose, weasel who claims to be the sort of Allan Quartermain of dino-hunters. From hereon in there are plenty of lively escapades to be had as the franchise quite successfully morphs into the world of the T-Rex and velociraptor whilst helping "Diego" feel valued again and getting everyone ready for the arrival of the wooly wean. The soundtrack is interesting - most of it way too old for the demographic, I'd have thought - but the animation is fun to watch with a better story than "Meltdown" (2006) and even if I really would have preferred something had eaten the weasel very much earlier on, it's a solid and entertaining outing for everyone and that acorn is still elusive!
honeybee <32026-08-30
★ 6/10
Before this movie, Scrat and his nut provided short breaks between the main plot for quick comedy. But with the introduction of Scratte, comedy relief transforms into a soap opera. Just like the classic silent films of the golden age of Hollywood, no words are spoken between the two squirrels, but complex emotions still get through to the viewer. Even the scorned acorn experiences a powerful sense of loss and betrayal, shown through the heart-wrenching ballad "Alone Again." A love triangle like no other. Buck should have stayed with the herd. When he left, I was very sad. (3/5, originally reviewed 8/4/24)