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Metascore®50 out of 100 | Mixed or average reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It involves some of the best use of 3-D I've seen in an animated feature. It also introduces a masterstroke that essentially allows the series to take place anywhere: There is this land beneath the surface of the earth, you see... Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    With appreciably greater emphasis on action than its predecessors, and clever use of 3-D trickery to enhance storytelling as well as offer spectacle, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs could prove the third time really is the charm. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The movie settles into a mode of nice, sweet, safe, and -- sorry, I have to say it -- slightly dull family fun. Read full review

  • 58
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith Phipps

    The series kept it going for one more entry, but throws its commitment to the era away with movie number three, a ploy sure to anger Ice Age purists everywhere. Read full review

  • 50
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    Never representative of more than mediocrity from a technical or story-based standpoint, the Ice Age series has reached a new nadir with its third entry. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    Pretty much any sign of creative life gets left out in the cold in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, the monotonous, strictly by-the-numbers third edition of the wildly lucrative digitally animated franchise. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Couldn't the creative minds at the 20th Century Fox animation studios, hoping to wring a few hundred million dollars more out of their prized family-animation franchise, have come up with something more original? Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Betsy Sharkey

    A sometimes lively, sometimes listless wilderness adventure that will keep the kids cool and mildly entertained for a little while. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Once fresh, the story is now buried under a hoary coating. Read full review

  • 40
    Village Voice | Ella Taylor

    There's no breathing life into a formula that ought to have bowed out gracefully while the going was good. Read full review