ICE AGE : DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, also known as Ice Age 3, is a 2009 3-D computer cartoon feature film. It is the third and final chapter of the Ice Age series, produced by Blue Sky Studios.

Ellie (Queen Latifah) and Manny (Ray Romano) are expecting their first child, and Manny is obsessed with making life ideal and protected for the family. At the same time, Diego (Denis Leary) finds himself not capable to catch a overconfident gazelle (Bill Hader) he has been stalking and decides to leave the herd, believing that he is losing his predatory nature as a tiger. Sid (John Leguizamo) grows envious of Manny and Ellie and adopts three abandoned eggs that he finds in an icy underground cave. Manny tells him to put them back, but Sid instead looks after the eggs, which hatch into baby Tyrannosaurus.

The three dinosaurs' rambunctious behavior scares away all the other animals' babies and ruins a playground Manny built for Ellie's baby. Tyrannosaurus, Momma, whose eggs Sid stole, soon returns and carries both Sid and her young underground, with Diego in pursuit. Manny, Ellie, Crash, and Eddie (Seann William Scott, Josh Peck) follow as well and realize that the icy cavern leads to a big jungle populated by dinosaurs thought to be extinct. Here, an Ankylosaurus threatens the flock despite Diego's efforts to fend it off; they are saved from a further crowd of angry reptiles by a weasel named Buckminster, or Buck (Simon Pegg).

Buck is chasing Rudy (a huge albino Baryonyx), intending to take vengeance the eye he lost to it. He accepts to guide the herd through the jungle. The next day, however, Sid is estranged from the family and attacked by Rudy. Sid is knocked onto a loose rock slab that is floating on a river of lava and about to tumble over the falls.

As the herd moves toward Lava Falls, Ellie goes into labor and a Guanlong pack strikes, causing a rock slide that separates her from Manny and Diego. Manny doubles back to protect her and Diego fends off further attacks, while Buck takes Crash and Eddie ahead to rescue Sid. Just as he goes over the falls, the trio swoops in on a commandeered Pteranodon only to been chased by a flock of Quetzalcoatlus on the way and saves his life. Manny reaches Ellie, and there is the cry of a newborn baby girl. Ellie names her Peaches (and the codeword they had chosen for Ellie to use if she went into labor during the tour). Sid is disappointed at the fact that he never had a chance to say goodbye to "his" children as he returns to the flock and learns of Peaches' birth.

Before they can exit the forest, Rudy attacks at full force; Buck lures Rudy away from the group and is nearly eaten himself, before Diego saves him at the last second. They then snare him briefly, but he escapes and resumes his onslaught. The group is saved by the timely arrival of Momma, who charges at Rudy and knocks him off a cliff before roaring her victory. As she and her children wish Sid well, Buck now without a reason in life since Rudy is gone decides to join the group and live on the surface. However, a distant roar tells him that Rudy is still alive; he changes his mind and sends the herd home, blocking off the path to the underground forest at the same time so that no one else can go down there. Manny and Ellie welcome Peaches into their icy world and admit that Sid did a good job looking after Momma's kids (though Manny tells Diego that he will never let Sid baby-sit Peaches). Diego decides to remain with the pack.

It was released on 1st July 2009.As of August 12, 2009. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 44% of critics gave positive reviews based on 140 reviews with an average score of 5.4/10. It is the second highest-grossing picture of 2009 behind Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and the second highest gross for an animation, behind Shrek 2.