Making for a fairly uneven, but enjoyable trilogy, Ice Age 3 comes thundering at us in glorious 3-D vision. But as the title suggests, things are not quite as accurate here as perhaps the film makers aimed for it to be.

The idea of set our furry friends up versus the dinosaurs seems like an idea that was pitched in an office boardroom, and the mere inconvenience of historical inaccuracies as huge as a brontosaurus didn’t seem to be too bothersome to anyone. The matter is addressed though in the film as Ray Romano’s mammoth, Manny, does remark that he thought those guys were all dead. What we are given here is a land existing still under the ice (funny how every land existing underground seems to have a sky and a decent amount of sunlight pouring in?), which seeks to explain the narrative cheat away.

For we are in kid’s movie territory here, folks, so we have to, or should, at least expect to be giving some little space for the friends to manoeuvre. Kids do, after all, tend to enjoy things more openly than us sceptical adults.Sometime far beyond our own comprehension (did anyone say Jar Jar?). But, thankfully, the Ice Age films are the sort that harness the humour for wider audiences.

Ice Age 3 has stepped up a notch, the full returning cast are joined by a game Simon Pegg as an adventuring weasel (with one of those anonymous English accents in American films) as they descend into the world below to help rescue the clumsy klutz Sid, who has been kidnapped by an angry mother tyrannosaurus.

The 3-D revolution is really and truly with us, in other words — so without pretending we’re going into too much depth, let’s have a look at three dimensions of the latest Ice Age iteration that really matter.

At first they have a Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote-type relationship, but her hold over him becomes progressively more domestic until he’s a henpecked hubby, rearranging the furniture in their love nest while gazing longingly at the acorn from afar.The narrative is fairly straightforward. There is a many parenting going on in this film, and talk about how to be a responsible parent. It all, thus, makes perfect sense when a heavily pregnant main character goes lumbering off into danger to help rescue a friend in trouble like we all do (only to end up being more of a hindrance towards the end than help).
In fact, unlike say, Monsters Vs. Aliens, which would have been nothing at all without its special-effects spectacle (view the trailer), this is a sweet little comedy, both family-friendly and centered on a nontraditional family, and so suitable for pretty much everyone.

Everyone, that is, who can get past the not-really-minor, probably inescapable fact that come next fall, elementary-school teachers everywhere will face classes full of kids absolutely convinced that an ice age marked the dawn of the dinosaurs.

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