Whatever happened to good animated movies?!

DO NOT bring your kids/nieces/nephews/babies to see Ice Age 3 because:

- They wrongfully portrayed dinosaurs as being 3 times (or more) bigger than mammoths. A freaking ankylosaurus (correct spelling? the one with the spiky club at the end of its tail) is 3 times bigger than the mammoths. Rudy's footsteps was SO MUCH bigger than the t-rex mama, but she was SO easily pushed off the cliff by t-rex mama.
- Dinosaurs did not live under the ice. Where did they get all the sunlight from anyway?!
- What does "Dawn of the Dinosaurs" mean?! They didnt even take over the ice-age land above, and there wasnt even a beginning, so to speak. They were already there, evolved and all grown up. "Dawn" does not mean "discovery" the last I checked, unless you're talking about "dawn on", which means "to understand". "Dawn of" means "the beginning of".
- They totally, and unfairly, ripped off The Land Before Time. In both movies, the big meanie dinosaur was pushed off the edge of a cliff, they chanced upon a land of greener pasture full of life. I'd rather you watch the latter because it had more heart than soul than all the 3 Ice Age movies combined. And more. MORE.
- The Scrat-chasing-acorn has always been a distraction that disrupted the pace of the movie.


Granted that some of the jokes were truely funny (like the "roger" part. And was I the only one who caught the gay reference when they met this huge colourful butterfly? Again, another wrongful play on proportions. All the dinosaurs looked like they're on steroid overdose, or part of some Honey-I-shrunk-the-mammoth joke), the whole movie felt like it was a planned trip to milk the franchise once more. The inclusion of the dinosaurs was a limp and lazy idea, which proves that they're running out of plot. It was insipid and unnecessary, and I'd rather they take 10 years for a third movie, than create one that had no plot at all. There was fun, but there was no heart. At the end, I did not come out feeling like I loved the characters, or had a connection with anyone of them.

With this, I shall pronounce all movie studios inapt and incompetent when it comes to producing a good animated movie, with the exceptance of Pixar and Disney. Disney's heydays are long gone, but even so, any Chicken Little or Cinderella sequel or Tinkerbell sequel would be better and have more heart than a acorn-chasing squirrel and its kakis.


Once again, make UP the must-see movie of the year, right up there with Harry and Trekkie and Bruno etc.