I Promise You The Dawn Is Coming

The Dawn of The Dinosaurs, apparently.

The Dawn, even though in Ice Age 3, the dinosaurs had been extinct, a point they make many times, it's still just starting for them, unless dinosaurs are nocturnal in this metaphor for lifespan.

So when we last left our intrepid pre-historic heroes they were... Erm. I can't finish that sentence. I only made it through 3/4 of the first one, and never bothered with number 2, it was too cutesy, not enough comedy, though Scrat's Looney Tunes style antics were a highlight, and the added 3-D and boredom drew me to see this new one.

So, the basic premise, in this KIDS film, is conventional 3rd film antics, i.e. childbirth is coming, yep, a kids film about parents preparing for kids. So the mammoths, incredibly poorly voiced by Queen Latifah, who's vocals seem too serious for anything, and gives the horrible line as she rids a Brontosaurs neck "Yabbadabbadoo" to which Ray Romano's mammoth replies "Lets not ever Yabbadabbadoo that again" I shit you not, Honest To Blog bad!

Dennis Leary is the sabretooth tiger who wants to do stuff on his own, then doesn't, has about 5 minutes to do anything, and spends most of it with a funny gazelle cockily voiced by uber-funny man Bill Hader.

2 new characters I'm guessing sprang up in the sequel are Weasels or something who make jock style jokes and add nothing and detract a lot, voiced by the awesome Josh Peck and Seann William Scott, two great talents being just dire.

Hell, even Scrat suffers with a love story that's not funny nor interesting.
Add on Simon Pegg's boringly over the top insane weasel Buck who tells tall tales and helps the herd find the one saving grace of this picture.
Sid.

John Leguizamo, last seen in the Mark Wahlberg Talks To Plants film Boogi.... Erm, The Happening. What Happened? Nothing.
I never cared for the series, but I caught Surviving Sid on the Horton Hear's A Who Blu-Ray expecting some poor unfunny kids cheery cheese, and laughed an awful lot, he's a fool that you know will fail, but the way he's done is perfect, so loveable and idiotic you just know he's too innocent to comprehend the situations he gets himself into, this time wanting to be a parent too, finds 3 eggs and nurtures them, though when odd coloured T-Rex mama comes round and drags them all off, the quest begins.

It's all cliched, and almost all awful, but Sid's brilliance really does add this film a boost, and the 3-D is spectacular, not Monsters Vs Aliens good, but better than Coraline, Bolt or Up. A scene involving hte eggs, a piece of wood like a bobsled and Sid is just marvellous, and really draws you in.

The graphics are impeccable, cartoony in a great way, and have really improved to a ridiculous amount that it's just stunning.

I wouldn't buy it unless it's cheap, but it's fun enough, and I'm sure kids love the dumbness of it all, I think highly of the as you can tell.
7/10