Customer Reviews

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs + The Scrat Pack

5 star:		(21)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

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.

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?

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.

This rating does not reflect my opinion of the 'film part' of this Pack but the Pack itself, of which the second DVD is called "The Scrat Pack" for no other reason than that it contains a couple of old short Scrat films and that's about it. A very cheap marketing trick to make you pay 50% more. Buy the film!

The third movie was good. I saw it in the movie theater in 3D and that was really neat. (Too bad the DVD couldn't be 3D). It was a real waste of money to get the Double DVD pack because the extra DVD that came with it only had about 3-5 minutes of new stuff on it and the rest you can find on the previous DVDs (the first two movies) as Special Features. I was very very disappointed. It was old stuff with one or two new ones and then the history of how Scrat came to be. Interesting if you are into the cartoon and movie creating business, but most people don't want to watch 10-20 minutes of that stuff.

The Dawn of the Dinosaurs was great but the "scrat pack" wasn't worth the extra money~

The makers of Ice Age have done it once again! Ice Age 3 seems like the perfect capstone for the Ice Age trilogy. It might not be quite as hilarious as the first two movies, but it is pretty funny. Sid is as clueless as ever. Manny becomes a stressed out parent. Buck is a decent addition (best line: "He who has gas, travels at the back of the pack.").

More importantly, Ice Age 3 is a good all-round movie. The blu-ray version has great graphics and amazingly rich sound - easily the best of them. The movie has some exciting action scenes, including a ride on the back of a pteranodon reminiscent of Star Wars.

Granted the idea of a lost world filled with dinosaurs below the Ice Age snows doesn't make a whole lot of natural history sense. Then again, we're talking about mammoths who make fart jokes. That being said, the dinosaurs are well done (better in my opinion that Land of the Lost).

If you liked the first two Ice Age movies, don't miss out on this one!

The computer animators who are responsible for the Ice Age movies are fantastic--they go to great pains and expense to get everything perfect. The movies are hilarious for children as well as adults. I am a retiree and I can't wait for Ice Age 4! I strongly recommend these movies.

In this day of questionable movies to watch with your family it is nice to sit down and enjoy this funny film without concern as to what everyone will see next. Genuinely funny and entertaining movie.

Good movies at a great price. The Scrat Pack could have been longer though. It was still a good deal.