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Ice Age 2 wasn't that great.

Maybe Ice Age 3 will be better.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/iceag ... dinosaurs/


Thing is....you gotta wait over a year to see it.

I don't know, usually the originals are the best, but you never know, they may actually do a good job of it.

Uhhh... Doesn't somebody have things a little backwards? Dinosaurs weren't even history any more when the Ice Age crew started doing things.

Or are we looking at the "Hey, we just got un-frozen! Let's go out for a beer!" type of Dinosaurs?

Something's gone pear-shaped here...

I'm guessing its a "lost world." You know, kinda like that island in "King Kong."

Figarou wrote:I'm guessing its a "lost world." You know, kinda like that island in "King Kong."

*nods* Or Dinotopia. The setting is still prehistory, so they theoretically could get away with some creative licensing, maybe imply that the events of IA3 were the actual extinction instead of the written records (cept I'm willing to bet there will be at least one dinosaur that'll walk away with the protagonists as the last of his/her kind or whatever). I'm sure they'll come up with some excuse for how they survived the cataclysm as opposed to just throwing dinosaurs in and expecting everyone to accept it. They already did sort of hint at their "lost world" explanation in the trailer already.

Glad Im not the only one who noticed it because there were humans in the first one. And dinosaurs were way before humans. I guess I can see them doing a "lost world" but it's called "DAWN of the dinosaurs" so I dont know.

*shrugs* We also recently had a movie called "DAWN of the Dead."

In a movie context, 'dawn' doesn't always have to mean 'birth' or 'beginning.' Sometimes it can mean 'return' or 'reawakening.'

Didn't we see that dino, frozen solid in the first one?

Yeah. Frozen Dino>unfrozen=dino slush. Freezing destroys cells, that's why nobody is trying to revive all those corpsicles in nitrogen. They'd be dead ( still) and slushy, all in one!

RedEye wrote:Yeah. Frozen Dino>unfrozen=dino slush. Freezing destroys cells, that's why nobody is trying to revive all those corpsicles in nitrogen. They'd be dead ( still) and slushy, all in one!

Dinoslushies?
(sounds like something Diego might like...)

RedEye wrote:Yeah. Frozen Dino>unfrozen=dino slush. Freezing destroys cells, that's why nobody is trying to revive all those corpsicles in nitrogen. They'd be dead ( still) and slushy, all in one!

Poor Walt.

RedEye wrote:Yeah. Frozen Dino>unfrozen=dino slush. Freezing destroys cells, that's why nobody is trying to revive all those corpsicles in nitrogen. They'd be dead ( still) and slushy, all in one!

Yeah, freezing causes the water int he cells to crystalize, which destroyes the cell walls as they expand. The only way you could freeze something and then basicly revive it would be if you dehydrated it somehow first, then froze it. Dehydration though has it's own negative effects on the cells of a body.

Um, guys?

It's a cartoon.

Set wrote:Um, guys?

It's a cartoon.

Bah! No excuse!

We saw the standie in the theatre a month ago. My friends and I stood there, glaring at it, and eventually summed it up as "The Ice Age franchise is catering to the bloody Creation Museum."

Sorry, but having mastodons and Ty Rexes running around a movie together is too silly at best, and acknowledging Creationism at worst. The Flintstones can get away with it because back in the '60s, most people didn't know any better. Now we do and we continue to be bliss-ninnies about it.

This will be a great movie.

vrikasatma wrote:We saw the standie in the theatre a month ago. My friends and I stood there, glaring at it, and eventually summed it up as "The Ice Age franchise is catering to the bloody Creation Museum."

Sorry, but having mastodons and Ty Rexes running around a movie together is too silly at best, and acknowledging Creationism at worst. The Flintstones can get away with it because back in the '60s, most people didn't know any better. Now we do and we continue to be bliss-ninnies about it.

I think you might be breathing too much into this.

For one thing, the first two never had any mention of dinosaurs except for the frozen remains of one, and the introduction of the dinosaurs clearly plays on a "lost world" theme, which is a common theme in fiction (King Kong, The Land That Time Forgot, Dinotopia, etc).

And secondly, it's a cartoon. Yes, dinosaurs and humans never walked the Earth together, but sabertooth tigers, giant sloths and woolly mammoths never spoke English and hung out together either.

So while I do question the intent of this movie, I seriously doubt it's origins lie in creationist propaganda, and I seriously pity the creationists that will be dumb enough to point to this movie as a reference.

Spiritbw wrote:

RedEye wrote:Yeah. Frozen Dino>unfrozen=dino slush. Freezing destroys cells, that's why nobody is trying to revive all those corpsicles in nitrogen. They'd be dead ( still) and slushy, all in one!

Yeah, freezing causes the water int he cells to crystalize, which destroyes the cell walls as they expand. The only way you could freeze something and then basicly revive it would be if you dehydrated it somehow first, then froze it. Dehydration though has it's own negative effects on the cells of a body.

It's surprising how many people actually believe that if you unfreeze something frozen alive that it will come back to life. *shakes head* I work in a pet store that sells frozen mice for snakes to eat and you'd be surprised how many times Ive been asked that question by teens or preteens.

One of my coworkers also believed that when you cloned someone, you ended up with an exact match standing right next to the person. Like when cells split. *facepalm*

Might see the movie though.

But wait, didn't the fish in the second movie unfreeze? 'Cause Manny walk away riiiight before the ice block turned and showed the fish and it's eye moved... So they've actually already done the whole unfreeze=come back to life thing.

Just a cartoon folks.

JUST.....A.....CARTOON :}

The other 2 films were fun, not so sure about this new one though...

Irish Wolf wrote:But wait, didn't the fish in the second movie unfreeze? 'Cause Manny walk away riiiight before the ice block turned and showed the fish and it's eye moved... So they've actually already done the whole unfreeze=come back to life thing.

They did it at the end of the first movie too. They closed it with Scrat frozen in a block of ice and melting out of it on a tropical island thousands of years later.

So yes, it is a cartoon. And as a rule of thumb, cartoon characters are always more durable than their real life counterparts.

Silveera-Ice, your signature is making my brain hurt.

I did enjoy this a lot more then the second Ice Age, so the first and third were better then the second.

Xiroteus wrote:I did enjoy this a lot more then the second Ice Age, so the first and third were better then the second.

Thing is that you need to see the second to understand the continuity.

Spill.com tried to do a review of it, but the only guy that actually went to watch it hadn't freakin' seen the second one so he had no idea where Queen Latifa and the two possums had come from. That was the first review they ever did where I felt like they'd failed miserably.