But that makes him all the more fun to watch during a series of exciting search-and-rescue sequences that are every bit as exciting as anything in any live-action pic on view in megaplexes this summer. Long locked in an ongoing life-or-death struggle with a humongous albino dinosaur, Buck is more than just a tad mad. Once the familiar characters are below ground, traipsing across a prehistoric landscape that appears equal parts “The Lost World,” “King Kong” and “The Land Before Time,” director Carlos Saldanha (returning from “The Meltdown”) adds another colorful figure to the franchise’s steadily expanding cast of characters: Buck, a swashbuckling weasel voiced with aptly madcap brio by Simon Pegg. She also takes Sid back down with her, causing Manny, Ellie, Diego and Ellie’s two precocious possum “brothers” - Eddie (Josh Peck) and Crash (Seann William Scott) - to follow. Trouble is, those eggs were the spawn of an enormous Mommy Dino who emerges from her stomping grounds - an underground realm where supposedly extinct creatures are alive and well - to retrieve her offspring. This time out, Manny is so busy attending to Ellie (Queen Latifah), his very pregnant mate, that he lacks sufficient time and energy to deal with the personal crises of two other returning “herd” members: Diego (Denis Leary), the saber-toothed tiger who now fears he’s losing his edge after being domesticated and Sid (John Leguizamo), the rambunctiously goofy sloth who yearns for respect and, if he’s really lucky, his own family ties.Įager to find someone, anyone, who’ll look up to him, Sid adopts three baby dinosaurs hatched from eggs he’s found. Once again, the plot is propelled by the extended family led by Manny (voiced by Ray Romano), the lovably neurotic woolly mammoth, who looms large in an Ice Age environment that, in this latest adventure, appears to have recovered nicely from the “Meltdown” of the previous pic.
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