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Jul 4
2009
01:00 AM ET
'Ice Age 3': Does historical accuracy matter when you're talking kids' movies?
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Lmao, it’s funny but even though I realize that dinosaurs were extinct for close to 60 million years before the appearance of the first mammoth, it never even occurred to me until now that Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is extremely inaccurate. I haven’t seen it but I’m sure that it’s worth the historical blunder. Although, it will probably cause a great deal of confuse for the kids when they finally visit the Natural History Museum.
Go to youtube and watch
LITTLE MONKEY BOY CLIMBING
such a cute and funny video!
I do love it when the nutjobs and the juveniles who make fun of them turn up on PopWatch, don’t you? Fear the wrath of Laura.
Anyway, I suppose it is kind of paleontologically disappointing, considering that, for a talking-animal movie, Ice Age had a nice grasp of the pre-modern if not strictly Pleistocene bestiary, and referenced stuff like the Missoula Floods and other glacial-dam bursts. And the first one had truly touching moments, like the human mother’s defiant suicide dive, or what happened to the mammoth’s family (Manny?) To go from that to dinosaurs … eh.
However, if you look at it as an homage to Verne, well, why not?
Yes, it bothered me when I saw the previews. There is a suspension of disbelief when it comes to talking animals, but that is so obviously not real, whereas kids could be learning about dinosaurs for the first time from this movie and very much think it’s accurate.
Ok, first of all, this movie was created for CHILDREN…you people must seriously have nothing to do with your life if your are going to criticize the facts of a movie made for pure enjoyment. If you want ‘facts’ go to a museum. Or try ‘Night At The Museum” Let kids be kids because sooner or later, if they don’t get to watch these insignificant fictional movies, they will end up like you people critisizing the movies that will probably be less factual with time. By the way you payed to watch this movie so you are helping a cause you obviously don’t support. I am a teen and I like this movie.
It is disgusting that the people that made this movie thought it was ok to add in some dinosaurs when according to history they existed millions of years before the ice age. STUPID. In the first Ice Age movie they go past the frozen cavern with all the frozen extinct animals trapped in ice and a Tyrannosaurus Rex is trapped in the ice, therefore, there is no consistency when they decide to put dinosaurs in the third movie. But i think what is really disgusting is all the people that responded to this post by saying “if you want history, take your kids to a museum, this is just fun”. Wow. Seeing how kids learn from movies, and will now think that dinosaurs existed after the ice age, it is not smart to put inaccurate information in a movie like this. Yes its not entirely realistic, but they should’ve tried a little harder, and if they wanted to make a movie about dinosaurs, do it before the ice age.
What bothers me is that over 40% of the United States believes that dinosaurs and humans lived together and that the Earth is only 10,000 years old. This ‘what if’ scenario from Ice Age 3 is disturbing… child propaganda perhaps? Watch the movie ‘Jesus Camp.’
The enitre movie bugged me, and yes, in part because of the dinosaurs – that’s why I didn’t go see it at the movies initially (that and 2 too young kids I couldn’t get babysat!). In any case, my sone is 4 and now loves IA and IA2, but I won’t be showing 3 to him, since (a)I can barely stand Crash and Eddie in 2 and (b) Buck sucked. Also How Big were those ‘saurs! Yeah, I know, Dinos were big beasts, but I reckon they could have paid a bit more attention to the actual sizes of dinosaurs (as far as we know them that is) relative to other creatures – you thought picking on having Dinosaurs in the movie was nitpicking? well, what am I doing then – lol. The movie began well, even allowing for Crash, Eddie and Scratte’s presence and dealt with the dynamics of the “herd’ touchingly, but then fell instantly apart once captain buck sparrow (sorry, weasel) was shoehorned in for no apparent reason.