Product Details

• Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: October 27, 2009
• Run Time: 156 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002LVV3MA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,435 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs opens with the stitched-together prehistoric family about to become a biological one: Manny (voiced by Ray Romano) and his mate Ellie (Queen Latifah) are expecting a baby mammoth. Unfortunately, this makes Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo) and Diego the saber-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) feel left out. Diego, who worries he’s losing his edge, decides to head out on his own, while Sid adopts three suspiciously large eggs that he’s found through a crack in the ice. Up to this point, the movie is perilously sappy--does anyone, particularly a kid, want to watch a kid’s movie about parenthood and impending middle age? Fortunately, the eggs turn out to be dinosaur eggs from a pre-mammalian underworld, and when the mama T-Rex comes to rescue her rambunctious little ones, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs transforms into a delightful comic adventure. The emotional side of the Ice Age movies has always been a tad mawkish, so it’s smart that Dawn of the Dinosaurs emphasizes physical comedy. Clearly, the animators have been inspired by a wild fusion of Road Runner cartoons and Buster Keaton. The character of Scratte, with his non-verbal, monomaniacal efforts to get that last acorn (doubled in this movie with the addition of a female counterpart), is only the most obvious reflection of this sensibility. The animators have great fun with the differences in scale between the mammals and the dinosaurs, and the introduction of a deranged Australian weasel named Buck (Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead) pushes everything into Loony-Tune territory. Let Pixar tug at our heartstrings; Ice Age aims to tickle the funny bone and does a fine job of it. --Bret Fetzer

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Product Description

Features include:

•MPAA Rating: PG
•Format: DVD
•Runtime: 156 minutes

Customer Reviews

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54 of 56 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great movie, terrible value, October 30, 2009

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Allan M. Lees (Novato, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs + The Scrat Pack (DVD)

My children greatly enjoyed Episode Three in the ongoing saga of Ice Age and indeed it is probably the best so far, being funny and clever and very tight. There is plenty of visual humor, verbal humor, and situational humor and very little is over-played (though the birthing scene comes close to being working the joke too much). So the movie itself is a great addition to the family's DVD or BluRay collection. But this particular DVD double-pack is a shameless confidence trick. The ScratPack disc is utterly without merit. There are no new animated sequences and most of it is tedious in the extreme. It looks as if it took someone eight minutes to compile, though that might be exaggerating the effort and thought that went into it. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to buy this double-pack; just go for the movie alone.

29 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Cheaper Blu-ray contains all this -- plus Blu-ray!, October 29, 2009

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T. Linn - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs + The Scrat Pack (DVD)

For 50 cents less, the Blu-ray version of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs contains a high-def version PLUS a DVD version and all of the extras included on the Scrat Pack disc. Someone tell me what I'm missing. Why would you ever spend more for this version?

45 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Example With What Is Wrong, October 28, 2009

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The Carrot Dude - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs + The Scrat Pack (DVD)

Understand where I am coming from. In the past we'd get a DVD for about $15 when the dvd was released. In that DVD (even past Ice Age dvds) we'd get special features. Not anymore. Now you get a DVD with only the movie on it for $15 (remind anyone of VHS?), but if you want the Special Features you got to spend $8 more for that. To top it off, it's not like they don't have room for the special features on the Movie DVD. They give us another container...twice as much storage is required of the buyers. The Marketing Wizs at Dream Works then package this as the Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs Scrat Pack and tell you that you get extra. YOU DON'T GET EXTRA. YOU GET NOTHING SPECIAL. INSTEAD YOU GET ROBBED. While I'd like the features on the Scrat Pack, I am not spending $8 more to get my special features. I'm boycotting and others should boycott this also. I bet if you look on the Scrat Pack there is about 30 minutes of material. What a rip off.