Journey to the Blue Sky Episode 5: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Patricia and Arun
discuss about the 2009 Blue Sky Studios animated film Ice Age:
Dawn of the Dinosaurs, the third installment in the Ice Age
franchise. Manny and Ellie are about to have a baby and that
leaves Sid jealous that he isn't getting any more attention and
Diego feeling like he's too old to being a part of the pack. Sid
finds three eggs and decides to raise them as his own. That is
the eggs hatched into three tyrannosaurus rex babies and the
mother takes them and Sid underground into a lost world where the
dinosaurs have been residing. It's up to Manny, Diego, Ellie,
Crash, Eddie, and an adventurous weasel named Buck Wild to rescue
Sid. Meanwhile, Scrat finds a flying squirrel who is both after
the acorn he's been chasing and has a major crush on him. Who
will he choose?


When the film was released, it made over $886 million dollars out
of a $90 million dollar budget. It was not only the highest
grossing animated film of 2009, but the third highest grossing
film of 2009 behind Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and
Avatar. In a year where studios such as Disney, Pixar,
DreamWorks, and Sony were producing critically acclaimed animated
films with The Princess and the Frog, Up!, Monsters vs. Aliens,
and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs respectfully and newcomers
such as Laika and Cartoon Saloon were entering into the
competition with their big premieres Coraline and The Secret of
Kells, how does Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs stack up? Listen
and find out.