Out Now: Ice Age 3

With the kids on their summer holidays what better way to get them out of the house and into the cinema than the latest chapter in the Ice Age story.

Sid the sloth steals three dinosaur eggs longing for a family of his own. But as soon as he thinks he has got off without any consequences the mother turns up. Sid find himself taken captive and whisked off to an underground world where the dinosaurs still live.

Friends Manny, Ellie and Diego go in search of him in a world where they are the first choice on everyone's menu. And Scrat the squirrel is still on the hunt for that ever elusive nut.

The animation has improved very little compared tot he revious two movies which is a little disappointing considering the original came out seven years ago now. The third film also appears to have lost some of the lustre of its predecessors with tiresome jokes.

Scrat spending the entire first movie trying to nab an elusive acorn was hilarious in the second film it was still funny if not entirely original but now it is just reprtitive and dull.

That said if your kids are under the age of 10 or not seen any of the others in a while they will still really enjoy Ice Age 3.