Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Plus a sneak peak at Bruno

By Roger Ebert on July 2, 2009

BRUNO: Early opening. (R)


ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS: The best of the three Ice Age films, involving the best use of 3-D I’ve seen in an animated feature.  It also introduces a masterstroke that essentially allows the series to take place anywhere: There is a land beneath the surface of the Earth, you see ...  There we meet Buck the hermit weasel, while the squirrel Scrat encounters a sexy sabre-toothed squirrel named Scratte.  With the voices of Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Simon Pegg and Chris Wedge as the squeak of Scrat. (PG) Three and a half stars – Roger Ebert


PUBLIC ENEMIES: “I rob banks,” John Dillinger would sometimes say by way of introduction.  It was the simple truth.  That was what he did.  For the 13 months between the day he escaped from prison and the night he lay dying in an alley, he robbed banks.  It was his lifetime.  Michael Mann’s Public Enemies accepts that stark fact and refuses any temptation to soften it.  Dillinger was not a nice man. (R) Three and a half stars — RE


WHATEVER WORKS: Larry David stars in Woody Allen’s comic moral tale about a life-hating physicist who learns about his emotions from a homeless Southern waif (Evan Rachel Wood).  Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley Jr. co-star as the waif’s parents, who can’t believe their innocent little girl lives with this bundle of neurosis.  Primarily a verbal comedy, but what words. (PG-13) Three stars – RE