Where two ages of the dinosaurs collide
Its also the third installment of the Ice Age franchise and is showing at the Tivoli on Wednesday and Thursday at 5pm and 7pm.
The prehistoric heroic trio, consisting of mammoths Manny (voiced by Ray Romano) and Ellie (Queen Latifah), and saber-toothed tiger Diego (Denis Leary), embarks on a journey to save their sloth friend Sid (John Leguizamo) after an angry mama T-Rex captures him.
Sid earns the theropod's wrath when he takes her eggs and attempts to raise them as his own.
This and other disruptive behaviour, we learn, is prompted by the impending birth of Ellie and Manny's new baby mammoth.
Soon, a rescue mission unfolds in the land of dinosaurs, and we meet series newcomer Buck (Simon Pegg), a one-eyed scavenger weasel, who incites most of the film's humour ("Time to get buckwild!") and becomes an indispensable ally in navigating the perilous tropical getaway.
Dawn of the Dinosaurs lacks the magic of the first Ice Age film, but its story is more compelling than the inane but well-intentioned global warming-themed second installment, The Meltdown.
One hopes, however, that parents won't use this film, in which dinosaurs live among Ice Age mammals, for educational purposes. Rated PG.
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