Ice Age: The Meltdown News

"I thought the dinosaurs were extinct!" The first Ice Age film was nothing special, but it was a perfectly satisfactory bit of animated entertainment for the kids.

If it's big explosions you're wantin' this summer, "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" appears to be the one for you.

If it's big explosions you're wantin' this summer, "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" appears to be the one for you.

Guinea pigs save the world in the new animated film "G-Force," which opens at local cineplexes on July 24.

Written by Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman, Mike Reiss and Yoni Brenner. Produced by Lori Forte and John C. Donkin.

Public Enemies ; Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale and Marion Cotillard; Director: Michael Mann; Rated: R Movie Review: Surprisingly, many big names are a part of this film, yet their roles are reducible to mere cameos or small insignificant bits.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Justin Souther 07/08/2009 Genre: Animated Comedy/Adventure Directed by: Carlos Saldanha and Mike Thurmeier Starring: Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, Dennis Leary, John Leguizamo, Simon Pegg When franchises start winding down and a film series starts to run out of fresh ideas, the makers often turn to gimmicks.

The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters "Ice Age" and "Ice Age: The Meltdown" are back on an incredible adventure for the ages.

REGINA a ' From the land of living skies to the bright lights of Hollywood, Michael Thurmeier is climbing the ladder in the world of animation.

My rating: 1 stars A word of caution: I researched this film after I saw it because I didn't notice a writer's credit.

Actor Sean William Scott stopped by to talk about his role in the animated film Ice Age: Dawn of Dinosaurs where he lends his voice to the character Crash.

Rated: PG Distributed By: 20th Century Fox Directed By: Carlos Saldanha and Mike Thurmeier Starring: Ray Romano as Manny; Queen Latifah as Ellie; Denis Leary as Diego; John Leguizamo as Sid; Simon Pegg as Buck As we hit the ice for the third time, mammoths Manny and Ellie are expecting their very own bundle of fur-covered joy.

Rating: NR - for some mild rude humor and peril Genre: Animation Length: 87 min Distributor: 20th Century Fox/Emerging Pictures Release Date: July 01, 2009 Starring: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Simon Pegg, Queen Latifah Plot Summary: The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters "Ice Age" and "Ice Age: The Meltdown" are back on ...

John Sturges Helming the 'Magnificent Seven' should be reason enough, demonstrating that Sturges had the happy talent of taking what was considered strictly 'male' oriented stories and making them sexy enough and humorous enough to appeal to female movie-goer as well.

I like Scrat. You like Scrat. We all, apparently, like Scrat. But no one, I suspect, likes the saber-toothed cartoon squirrel - who, along with his beloved, ever-out-of-reach acorn, made only brief appearances in both of the first two "Ice Age" films - enough to want to watch a whole movie about him.

Hey children, Uncle Flicks here. This week's movies are the gangster epic drama thing, "Public Enemies" and "Ice Age: Dawn of Dinosaurs," our topic for the week.

Although his character is immense in size, Ray Romano said that there's plenty of room for Manny the wooly mammoth to grow in the new "Ice Age" movie "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" -- and the comedy star couldn't be bursting with any more pride.

Just a few weeks after the box office meltdown of another comical, prehistoric, Summer blockbuster , we now get one that shows how it's supposed to be done.

Peter de Seve and the acorn. Peter de Seve, the illustrator in all the Ice Age films, lives and breathes the character of Scrat.

Queen Latifah, 39, has made her mark in almost every realm of pop culture from her ground-breaking hip-hop feminism in the late 1980s to her own TV shows and her Oscar-nominated turn in "Chicago." These days, she's producing films, managing her own CoverGirl cosmetics line and touting the benefits of Jenny Craig.