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| image = Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs theatrical poster.jpg
  
| image = Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs theatrical poster.jpg
 
| caption = Theatrical release poster
  
| caption = Theatrical release poster
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| director = [[Carlos Saldanha]]<br />'''Co-director:'''<br />[[Michael Thurmeier]]
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| director = [[Carlos Saldanha]]<br>[[Mike Thurmeier]] (co-director)
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| producer = Lori Forte<br />John C. Donkin
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| producer = Lori Forte<br>John C. Donkin
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| screenplay = Michael Berg<br />Peter Ackerman<br />[[Mike Reiss]]<br />Yoni Brenner
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| screenplay = Michael Berg<br>Peter Ackerman<br>[[Mike Reiss]]<br>Yoni Brenner
 
| story = Jason Carter Eaton
  
| story = Jason Carter Eaton
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| starring = [[Ray Romano]]<br />[[Queen Latifah]]<br />[[Denis Leary]]<br />[[John Leguizamo]]<br />[[Seann William Scott]]<br />[[Josh Peck]]<br />[[Simon Pegg]]
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| starring = [[Ray Romano]]<br>[[John Leguizamo]]<br>[[Denis Leary]]<br>[[Queen Latifah]]
 
| music = [[John Powell]]
  
| music = [[John Powell]]
 
| editing = Harry Hitner
  
| editing = Harry Hitner
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| studio = [[Blue Sky Studios]]<br />[[20th Century Fox Animation]]
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| studio = [[Blue Sky Studios]]<br>[[20th Century Fox Animation]]
 
| distributor = [[20th Century Fox]]
  
| distributor = [[20th Century Fox]]
 
| released = {{Film date|2009|7|1}}
  
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| language = English
  
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| budget = $90 million
  
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| gross = $886.7 million
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| gross = $886,686,817<ref name=mojo>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=iceage3.htm|title=Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs|publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]]|accessdate=2009-09-08}}</ref>
  
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}}'''''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs''''' is a 2009 American 3-D computer animated comedy adventure film, produced by [[Blue Sky Studios]] and distributed by [[20th Century Fox]]. It was directed by [[Carlos Saldanha]] and co-directed by [[Mike Thurmeier]], and it features the voices of [[Ray Romano]], [[John Leguizamo]], [[Denis Leary]] and [[Queen Latifah]].
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'''''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs''''' (also known as '''''Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs''''' or simply as '''''Ice Age 3''''') is a 2009 American [[3-D film|3-D]] [[computer animated]] [[comedy film|comedy]] [[adventure film]], and the third installment in the ''[[Ice Age (film series)|Ice Age]]'' series. It was produced by [[Blue Sky Studios]] and distributed by [[20th Century Fox]]. The film features the voices of [[Ray Romano]], [[John Leguizamo]], [[Denis Leary]], [[Queen Latifah]], [[Seann William Scott]], [[Josh Peck]], [[Simon Pegg]], and [[Chris Wedge]].
 
   
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The story has [[Sid (Ice Age)|Sid]] being taken by a female ''[[Tyrannosaurus]]'' after stealing her eggs, leading the rest of the protagonists to rescue him in a tropical lost world inhabited by [[dinosaur]]s beneath the ice. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' became the fourth [[List of highest-grossing animated films|highest grossing animated film]] of all time with $886.7 million worldwide, behind ''[[Toy Story 3]]'' with $1.063 billion, ''[[The Lion King]]'' with $951.6 million and ''[[Shrek 2]]'' with $919.8 million.
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The film is the third installment of the ''Ice Age'' series and a sequel to the 2006 film ''[[Ice Age: The Meltdown]]''. The story has Sid being taken by a female ''Tyrannosaurus'' after stealing her eggs, leading the rest of the protagonists to rescue him in a tropical lost world inhabited by dinosaurs beneath the ice.
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Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' ranked at the time as the second highest grossing animated film of all time, earning $886.7 million worldwide. A sequel, titled ''[[Ice Age: Continental Drift]]'', was released in 2012.
   
 
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Ellie ([[Queen Latifah]]) and Manny ([[Ray Romano]]) are expecting their first child, and Manny is obsessed with making life perfect and safe for the family, since his first experiences as a husband and father went bad when his family was killed by hunters. At the same time, Diego ([[Denis Leary]]) finds himself unable to catch a cocky [[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 jealous of Manny and Ellie and "adopts" three apparently abandoned eggs that he finds in an icy underground cavern and call them Eggbert, Shelly, and Yoko. Manny tells him to put them back (saying Sid would never make a good parent, saying, "First sign: Stealing someone else's eggs. Second sign: One of them almost became an omelette."), but Sid instead looks after the eggs, which hatch into baby ''[[Tyrannosaurus]]'' the next morning.
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Ellie and Manny are expecting their first child, and Manny is obsessed with making life perfect and safe for the family, since his first experiences as a husband and father went bad when his family were killed by hunters. At the same time, Diego finds himself unable to catch a cocky gazelle he has been stalking and decides to leave the herd, believing that he is losing his predatory nature as a tiger. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own and “adopts” three apparently abandoned eggs that he finds in an icy underground cavern and call them Egbert, Shelly, and Yoko. Manny tells him to put them back, but Sid instead looks after the eggs, which hatch into baby ''Tyrannosaurus'' the next morning.
   
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Although Sid tries his best to raise the three dinosaurs, their rambunctious behavior scares away all the other animals' young and ruins a playground Manny built for Ellie's baby. A female ''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 discover that the icy cavern leads to a vast jungle populated by dinosaurs thought to be extinct. Here, an ''[[Ankylosaurus]]'' threatens the herd despite Diego's efforts to fend it off; they are saved from a further crowd of angry reptiles by an insane, one-eyed [[weasel]] named Buckminster, or Buck ([[Simon Pegg]]) for short.
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Although Sid tries his best to raise the three dinosaurs, their rambunctious behavior scares away all the other animals’ young and ruins a playground Manny built for his child. A female ''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 follow as well and discover that the icy cavern leads to a vast jungle populated by dinosaurs thought to be extinct. Here, an ''Ankylosaurus'' threatens the herd despite Diego’s efforts to fend it off; they are saved from a further crowd of angry reptiles by a deranged one-eyed weasel named Buck.
   
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Buck has been living in this jungle for some time and is chasing Rudy, an abnormally large albino ''[[Baryonyx]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-06-29-ice-age-dinosaurs_N.htm|title='Ice Age' warms up to dinosaurs in third installment|work=[[USA Today]]|date=2009-06-30|accessdate=2009-08-20 | first=Susan | last=Wloszczyna}}</ref> with the intention of avenging the loss of his right eye at Rudy's hands. He agrees to lead the herd through the jungle's perils to Lava Falls, where Momma has taken Sid and her babies. At one point, they have to cross the "Chasm of Death" which is filled with gas fumes (a mixture of [[helium]] and [[nitrous oxide|laughing gas]], causing anyone who breathes in it to laugh uncontrollably while speaking in a high-pitched voice). Although the gas is not the actual cause of death, victims usually cannot stop laughing and thus die while trying to cross the chasm. Eventually the group manages to cross the chasm. In the meantime, Sid and Momma try to outdo each other in feeding the offspring; he loses this contest, but is soon welcomed into the family regardless. The next day, however, Sid is separated 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 plummet over the falls.
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Buck has been living in this jungle for quite some time and is chasing Rudy (a huge albino ''Baryonyx''), intending to avenge the eye he lost to it when he was young. He agrees to lead the herd through the jungle’s perils to Lava Falls, where Momma has taken Sid and her babies. In the meantime, Sid and Momma try to outdo each other in feeding the offspring; he loses this contest, but is soon welcomed into the family regardless. The next day, however, Sid is separated 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 plummet over the falls.
   
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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 be chased by a flock of ''[[Quetzalcoatlus]]'' on the way. They manage to fend them off and save Sid's life. Manny reaches Ellie and hears the cry of a newborn baby, and he sees that it is a girl. He wants to name her Ellie, or Little Ellie, but Ellie instead names her Peaches after [[Peach|the fruit]] (and the codeword they had chosen for Ellie to use if she went into labor during the trip). Sid is saddened at the fact that he never had a chance to say goodbye to "his" children as he returns to the herd and learns of Peaches' birth.
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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 ''Harpactognathus'' only to been chased by a flock of ''Pterodactylus'' on the way and saves his life. Manny reaches Ellie, and there is suddenly a reaction, the cry of a newborn baby girl. He wants to name her Ellie, or Little Ellie, but Ellie instead names her Peaches after the fruit (and the codeword they had chosen to use if she went into labor during the trip). Sid is saddened at the fact that he never had a chance to say goodbye to "his" children as he returns to the herd and learns of Peaches' birth.
   
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As they venture back to the tunnel, they are shocked to discover Rudy lurking inside of the entrance. Rudy exits the tunnel and attacks at full force; Buck lures Rudy away from the group and is nearly eaten himself, before Diego saves him at the last second. Manny, Sid, Diego, and Buck manage to ensnare Rudy and knock him unconscious, but as they begin to leave, Sid trips over one of the ropes and breaks it. Rudy quickly recovers and escapes, and is about to attack Sid when Momma arrives on the scene, charging at Rudy and knocking him off a cliff before roaring her victory. As she and her children wish Sid well, Buck – now without a purpose in life since Rudy is gone – decides to join the herd 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 jungle at the same time, so nobody else can go down there anymore. Manny and Ellie welcome Peaches into their frozen world and admit that Sid did a good job looking after Momma's children (though Manny tells Diego that he will never let Sid babysit Peaches). Diego decides to remain with the herd, while Buck stays where he wants to be: underground, battling it out with Rudy.
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Before they can leave the jungle, they are spotted by Rudy, who begins to attack them at full force; Buck lures Rudy away from the group and is nearly eaten himself, before Diego can save him. Manny, Sid, Diego, and Buck double back to trap Rudy by ensnaring him in vines. He breaks free and resumes his onslaught. The herd 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 purpose in life since Rudy is gone, decides to join the herd 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 jungle at the same time. Manny and Ellie welcome Peaches into their frozen world and admit that Sid did a good job looking after Momma's children. Diego decides to remain with the herd, while Buck stays underground, battling it out with Rudy.
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Like the previous [[Ice Age (film series)|''Ice Age'' films]], the film opens with the saber-toothed squirrel [[Scrat]] ([[Chris Wedge]]), who does everything he can to retrieve his precious [[acorn]]. This time, he falls in love with his female counterpart Scratte (Karen Disher), with the song "[[You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine]]" by [[Lou Rawls]] playing in the background, but an acorn appears instead after the music stops. The two fight over the acorn with Scratte is flung off the ground. As Scrat tries to save her, the two hold onto the acorn and the music starts back. Suddenly, she demonstrates her ability to glide like a [[flying squirrel]], leaving Scrat falling to the ground. The two eventually fall in love after Scrat saves her from falling to her [[death]] in the [[lava]] river while she is [[unconsciousness|unconscious]]. He even chooses to focus his attention on her instead of the acorn until the end of the film, when he tires of her finicky nature and reverts to his old ways. The ensuing fight between the couple leads to a volcanic explosion (caused by Scratte, due to slamming the acorn into the ground like Scrat had done before, though he tried to warn her of what would happen if she did) that hurls Scrat and the acorn back to the surface, leaving Scratte trapped underground. However, as Scrat is about to enjoy his acorn, a stray piece of ice falls on him and knocks the acorn back into Scratte's hands. He screams in frustration, having lost both his acorn and Scratte.
  
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* [[Ray Romano]] as Manny
  
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* [[John Leguizamo]] as Sid
 
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* [[Simon Pegg]] as Buck
 
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* [[Clea Lewis]] as Start Mom
  
* [[Clea Lewis]] as Start Mom
 
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* [[Devika Parikh]] (additional voices)
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=={{DEFAULTSORT:Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs}}Trivia==
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This was the first [[Ice Age (film)|Ice Age]] film to not release in March
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Blue Sky decided to do "more of a what-if adventure" in the third ''Ice Age'' installment, titled ''Ice Age: A New Beginning'', "like finding the giant ape in ''[[King Kong]]'' or a [[Shangri-la]] in the middle of snow," and added the dinosaurs to the story. Character designer Peter de Sève welcomed the new plot addition, since he could not think of any other giant mammal to put into the story. The "lost world" approach led to colorful dinosaurs, because "the dinosaurs didn't have to be just brown, and you can take liberties because no one knows what color they were", according to de Sève. Rudy's design was inspired by the ''[[Baryonyx]]'' because of his crocodile-like look, which de Sève considered even more menacing than the ''T. rex''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-06-29-ice-age-dinosaurs_N.htm|title='Ice Age' warms up to dinosaurs in third installment|work=[[USA Today]]|date=2009-06-30|accessdate=2009-08-20 | first=Susan | last=Wloszczyna}}</ref>
  
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The film was released in [[RealD Cinema]] where available. The release sparked some controversy when Fox announced that it would no longer pay to supply 3D glasses to theaters,<ref>{{cite news| last = Sperling| first = Nicole| title = 'Ice Age 3' at the center of a struggle over 3-D exhibition| publisher = Entertainment Weekly| date = 2009-04-01|url=http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/04/01/theater-chains/| accessdate = 2009-06-15 }}</ref> which led to a number of exhibitors threatening to only show the film in standard 2D projection.<ref>{{cite news|last = Taylor| first = Dawn| title = Regal to Fox: No 3D Glasses? Then No 'Ice Age 3D' at Regal| publisher = Cinematical| date = 2009-04-03|url = http://www.cinematical.com/2009/04/03/regal-to-fox-no-3-d-glasses-then-no-ice-age-3-d-at-regal/| accessdate = 2009-06-15 }}</ref>
  
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The film's original trailer debuted with the film ''[[Horton Hears a Who! (film)|Horton Hears a Who!]]'' on March 14, 2008, then online on April 7, 2008. There are three others that have been released, with the third and fourth (which shows Buck) being the most closely resembling each other. [[Queen Latifah]] recorded a cover of the song "[[Walk the Dinosaur]]".
  
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The film received mixed reviews from critics. As of June 27, 2011, [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reported that 45% of critics gave positive reviews based on 157 reviews with an average score of 5.4/10.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1194515-ice_age_dawn_of_the_dinosaurs/ | title=Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Movie Reviews, Pictures | publisher=IGN Entertainment | work=Rotten Tomatoes | accessdate=2012-02-20}}</ref> Among Rotten Tomatoes' Cream of the Crop, which consists of popular and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television, and radio programs, the film holds an overall approval rating of 37% based on 27 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1194515-ice_age_dawn_of_the_dinosaurs/?critic=creamcrop | title=Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Movie Reviews, Pictures - Cream of the Crop | publisher=IGN Entertainment | work=Rotten Tomatoes | accessdate=2009-07-04}}</ref> Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 top reviews from mainstream critics, gives the film an average score of 50 based on 25 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/iceage3 | title=Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009): Reviews | publisher=Metacritic | accessdate=2012-02-20}}</ref>
 
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However, [[Roger Ebert]] gave the film three and a half stars out of four claiming that "''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' is the best of the three films about our friends in the inter-species herd of plucky prehistoric heroes. And it involves some of the best use of 3-D I've seen in an animated feature."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090629/REVIEWS/906299995 | title=Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Review | author=Roger Ebert | publisher=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] | date=2009-06-29 | accessdate=2009-07-04}}</ref> Lou Lumenik of the ''[[New York Post]]'' awarded the film 3 stars stating that the film is "much more of an emphasis on action in this nicely crafted, fast-paced sequel."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/07012009/entertainment/movies/nice_age__176999.htm | title='Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs' Will Melt Your Heart - New York Post | date=2009-07-01 | accessdate=2009-07-04 | publisher=New York Post | first=Lou | last=Lumenick}}</ref> Keith Phipps of the [[A.V. Club]] graded the film a C+ claiming the sequel "throws its commitment to the era away with movie number three, a ploy sure to anger ''Ice Age'' purists everywhere."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/ice-age-dawn-of-the-dinosaurs,29880/ | title=Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs - A.V. Club | date=2009-07-01 | accessdate=2009-07-05 | publisher=A.V. Club}}</ref> Carrie Rickey of the ''[[Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' enjoyed the "film's animation art is Seuss-imaginative", but panned "the flatness of the story and indifferent voicework all the more obvious."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/20090630_Ice_Age__Dawn_of_the_Dinosaurs.html | title='Ice Age': The search for a plot | publisher=Philadelphia Inquirer | date=2009-06-30 | accessdate=2009-07-04}}</ref>
  
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The film earned $196,573,705 in North America and $690,113,112 in other counties, which gives it a worldwide gross of $886,686,817. Worldwide, it is the [[2009 in film|third highest-grossing film of 2009]], the [[List of highest-grossing films|24th highest grossing film of all time]] and the fourth highest-grossing animated film of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/|title=All Time Worldwide Box Office|publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]]|accessdate=2009-08-27}}</ref> It is also the highest-grossing animated film of 2009 worldwide.<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/?pagenum=1&sort=osgross&order=DESC&p=.htm WORLDWIDE GROSSES]</ref> It set a worldwide opening weekend record for an animated feature ($218.4 million), previously held by ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'' ($170.9 million). It marks the highest grossing film of the ''[[Ice Age (film series)|franchise]]'',<ref name="'Ice Age' Smackdown">[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?id=iceagevs.htm 'Ice Age' Smackdown]</ref> the second highest-grossing film of [[20th Century Fox]] for 2009 (after ''[[Avatar (2009 film)|Avatar]]'') and stands as the studio's third largest film of all time behind the latter and ''[[Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/|title=WORLDWIDE GROSSES|publisher=[[Box Office Mojo]]|accessdate=2010-02-16}}</ref>
  
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The film made $13,791,157 on its opening day in 4,099 theaters.<ref name="mojo"/> It reached $41,690,382 on its first weekend, marking the least-grossing first weekend for the franchise, although it had a Wednesday release and therefore burned off attendance until the weekend.<ref name="'Ice Age' Smackdown">{{cite web|url=http://boxofficemojo.com/showdowns/chart/?id=iceagevs.htm|title='Ice Age' Smackdown|publisher=Box Office Mojo|date=2009-07-06|accessdate=2009-09-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2602&p=.htm|title=Weekend Report: 'Transformers' Fends Off 'Ice Age' in Close Independence Weekend|publisher=Box Office Mojo|date=2009-07-06|accessdate=2009-08-20}}</ref> The film became 20th Century Fox's third largest 2009 release in North America behind ''Avatar'' and ''[[Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel]]''. It is the third-highest-grossing animated feature of 2009. It heavily out-grossed its predecessor, ''[[Ice Age: The Meltdown]]'' which earned $195,330,621 three years before,<ref name="'Ice Age' Smackdown"/> to become the highest-grossing movie in the franchise, but it was way behind the two first ''Ice Age'' movies in estimated attendance.<ref name="LoftyMile">{{cite web|url=http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2605&p=.htm|title=‘Ice Age 3’ Climbs to Lofty Foreign Milestone|publisher=[[Amazon.com]]|work=Box Office Mojo|first=Brandon|last=Gray|date=2009-09-15|accessdate=2010-09-12}}</ref>
  
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On its opening weekend it earned $151.7 million, which is the biggest opening for an animated feature<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2602&p=.htm Weekend Report: 'Transformers' Fends Off 'Ice Age' in Close Independence Weekend]</ref> and the 13th largest of all time.<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/weekend/opening/ OVERSEAS TOTAL ALL TIME OPENINGS]</ref> Oustide North America, it is the seventh highest-grossing film of all time<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/?pagenum=1&sort=osgross&order=DESC&p=.htm WORLDWIDE GROSSES]</ref> and the highest-grossing animated movie of all time (out-grossing ''[[Finding Nemo]]'').<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2608&p=.htm Weekend Report: ‘Funny People’ More Pauper Than King of Comedy]</ref> Its highest-grossing market after North America was Germany ($82.2 million), followed by France and the Maghreb region ($69.2 million), and the UK, Ireland and Malta ($56.9 million).<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=iceage3.htm ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS]</ref> It was the highest-grossing animated film of the year in all major countries, except Spain<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/spain/yearly/?yr=2009&p=.htm Spain Yearly Box Office]</ref> and Australia.<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/australia/yearly/?yr=2009&p=.htm Australia Yearly Box Office]</ref><ref name="LoftyMile"/>
  
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As of March 2012 it is the highest-grossing animated film of all time in Hungary,<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/hungary/yearly/ Hungary Yearly Box Office]</ref> Slovakia,<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/slovakia/yearly/ Slovakia Yearly Box Office]</ref> the Czech Republic,<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/czech/yearly/ Czech Republic Yearly Box Office]</ref> Romania,<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/romania/yearly/ Romania Yearly Box Office]</ref> Bulgaria, where the film holds the opening-weekend record,<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/bulgaria/opening/ BULGARIA ALL TIME OPENINGS]</ref> Finland,<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/finland/yearly/ Finland Yearly Box Office]</ref> Norway,<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/norway/yearly/ Norway Yearly Box Office]</ref> Denmark,<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/denmark/yearly/ Denmark Yearly Box Office]</ref> Estonia,<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/estonia/yearly/ Estonia Yearly Box Office]</ref> Latvia,<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/latvia/yearly/ Latvia Yearly Box Office]</ref> Lithuania,<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/lithuania/yearly/ Lithuania Yearly Box Office]</ref> Italy,<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/italy/ Italy Box Office Index]</ref> Greece,<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/greece/yearly/ Greece Yearly Box Office]</ref> Serbia and Montenegro,<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/serbia/yearly/ Serbia and Montenegro Yearly Box Office]</ref> Slovenia,<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/slovenia/yearly/ Slovenia Yearly Box Office]</ref> Croatia,<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/croatia/yearly/ Croatia Yearly Box Office]</ref> France and the Maghreb region,<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/france/yearly/ France and Algeria, Monaco, Morocco and Tunisia Yearly Box Office]</ref> the Netherlands,<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/netherlands/opening/ NETHERLANDS ALL TIME OPENINGS]</ref> Germany,<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/germany/yearly/ Germany Yearly Box Office]</ref> Austria,<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/austria/yearly/ Austria Yearly Box Office]</ref> Brazil,<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/brazil/yearly/ Brazil Yearly Box Office]</ref> Peru,<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/peru/yearly/ Peru Yearly Box Office]</ref> Uruguay<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/uruguay/yearly/ Uruguay Yearly Box Office]</ref> and Venezuela.<ref>[http://boxofficemojo.com/intl/venezuela/yearly/ Venezuela Yearly Box Office]</ref>
  
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''Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' was released on [[High-definition video|high-definition]] [[Blu-ray Disc]] and standard [[DVD]] in [[North America]] on October 27, 2009 and in the [[United Kingdom]] on November 23, 2009. Two versions of the DVD exist: a single-disc DVD, and a "Scrat Pack" Double DVD Pack with three Scrat games.
  
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is a 2009 American 3-D computer animated comedy adventure film, produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha and co-directed by Mike Thurmeier, and it features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah.

The film is the third installment of the Ice Age series and a sequel to the 2006 film Ice Age: The Meltdown. The story has Sid being taken by a female Tyrannosaurus after stealing her eggs, leading the rest of the protagonists to rescue him in a tropical lost world inhabited by dinosaurs beneath the ice.

Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, Dawn of the Dinosaurs ranked at the time as the second highest grossing animated film of all time, earning $886.7 million worldwide. A sequel, titled Ice Age: Continental Drift, was released in 2012.

Plot

Ellie and Manny are expecting their first child, and Manny is obsessed with making life perfect and safe for the family, since his first experiences as a husband and father went bad when his family were killed by hunters. At the same time, Diego finds himself unable to catch a cocky gazelle he has been stalking and decides to leave the herd, believing that he is losing his predatory nature as a tiger. Sid begins to wish for a family of his own and “adopts” three apparently abandoned eggs that he finds in an icy underground cavern and call them Egbert, Shelly, and Yoko. Manny tells him to put them back, but Sid instead looks after the eggs, which hatch into baby Tyrannosaurus the next morning.

Although Sid tries his best to raise the three dinosaurs, their rambunctious behavior scares away all the other animals’ young and ruins a playground Manny built for his child. A female 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 follow as well and discover that the icy cavern leads to a vast jungle populated by dinosaurs thought to be extinct. Here, an Ankylosaurus threatens the herd despite Diego’s efforts to fend it off; they are saved from a further crowd of angry reptiles by a deranged one-eyed weasel named Buck.

Buck has been living in this jungle for quite some time and is chasing Rudy (a huge albino Baryonyx), intending to avenge the eye he lost to it when he was young. He agrees to lead the herd through the jungle’s perils to Lava Falls, where Momma has taken Sid and her babies. In the meantime, Sid and Momma try to outdo each other in feeding the offspring; he loses this contest, but is soon welcomed into the family regardless. The next day, however, Sid is separated 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 plummet 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 Harpactognathus only to been chased by a flock of Pterodactylus on the way and saves his life. Manny reaches Ellie, and there is suddenly a reaction, the cry of a newborn baby girl. He wants to name her Ellie, or Little Ellie, but Ellie instead names her Peaches after the fruit (and the codeword they had chosen to use if she went into labor during the trip). Sid is saddened at the fact that he never had a chance to say goodbye to "his" children as he returns to the herd and learns of Peaches' birth.

Before they can leave the jungle, they are spotted by Rudy, who begins to attack them at full force; Buck lures Rudy away from the group and is nearly eaten himself, before Diego can save him. Manny, Sid, Diego, and Buck double back to trap Rudy by ensnaring him in vines. He breaks free and resumes his onslaught. The herd 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 purpose in life since Rudy is gone, decides to join the herd 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 jungle at the same time. Manny and Ellie welcome Peaches into their frozen world and admit that Sid did a good job looking after Momma's children. Diego decides to remain with the herd, while Buck stays underground, battling it out with Rudy.

Voice cast

Trivia

This was the first Ice Age film to not release in March

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