Watch Ice Age 3 ? — Maybe Not

 Watch Ice Age 3 yet?  It’s really here!

 It’s true, Ice Age 3  finally opened this weekend! It’s been a long time coming  but after seeing it, I’m thinking if you only have one good plot you should stop there or get a ghost!  While there have been some notable trio successes–I mean, look at Indiana Jones—3^rd one was the best!  But sadly Ice Age 3 joins the ranks of the new sorry Star Trek prequel—drawing its today from yesterday.

The only fireworks this weekend were for the 4^th of July—not at the theatres!  Seriously, Ice Age 3 introduces a new character who loosely spoofs a combination of the homicidal psychopath bad guy from the Shining and something like Winnie the Pooh’s pink friend Piglet.  Add that to giant herd devouring dinasours that don’t even talk and you get great family entertainment? Hardly. Way too scary for the tots.

Sadly, while we do see the return of our favourite pre-historic herd from Ice Ages 1 & 2, there’s not much of a story to put them in! Something went wrong for this summer’s movies all the way around. 

Ok… there is Peaches and that almost makes it worth the watch… I confess! But my favourite part was

remembering Lou Rawls… now there were some fireworks!

Movies, movies, movies… 

How funny that we spend so much time talking about, reading about and thinking about the movies… ever wonder why?