Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
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| Directed by | Carlos Saldanha |
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| Story by | Jason Carter Eaton |
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| Edited by | Harry Hitner |
| Music by | John Powell |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $90 million |
| Box office | $886.7 million |
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is a 2009 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios. The third in the Ice Age film series, it was directed by Carlos Saldanha, and written by Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman, Mike Reiss, and Yoni Brenner. John Leguizamo, Ray Romano and Denis Leary reprise their roles from the first two films and Queen Latifah reprises her role from the second film. In the film, while Manny and Ellie are preparing for their baby, Sid the Sloth is kidnapped by a female Tyrannosaurus after stealing her eggs, leading the rest of the herd to rescue him in a tropical lost world inhabited by dinosaurs underneath the ice.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was released on July 1, 2009 by 20th Century Fox. It received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its animation but criticism for the story. Retrospective reviews have now seen Dawn of the Dinosaurs as the best sequel in the franchise. The film grossed $887 million worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing animated film of 2009. It was followed by two further sequels, Ice Age: Continental Drift in 2012 and Ice Age: Collision Course in 2016.