Dinos.

Is there a reason that Ice Age 3 is subtitled "Dawn of the Dinosaurs?"

I'm gonna assume, and correct me if I'm wrong here, that dinosaurs will feature prominently.

Now I know I'm not Ms. Wizard over here, science was never really a forte, but I did take a class entitled "Dinosaurs and their Relatives" in college, and while I may not remember the branching phylogenic trees that delineate, in 11 features including lengthening of the ilia, how ankylosaurs break off from their close relatives the stegosaurs, I AM pretty sure that the dinos weren't hanging out during the last ice age.

Just throwin' that out there. 11,000 or so years ago not being exactly equal to 250,000, or whenever dinos were last seen. They were definitely NOT last seen as friends of mammoths, is the point.

You're right, you're right, I'm not paying attention - as the poster clearly shows, they weren't EVER friends of mammoths, more like mortal enemies, DUH!

I've had this beef with kids movies for a long time, though. The "why change really basic facts that kids don't have to learn WRONG" beef. First consciously realized it when seeing Pocahontas, sometime around age 12.

Now I know "John Smith" is a good, strong name, indicating a good, strong man, and I know that the sorts of things you expect your Disney heroines to get into, clothing-wise, would make an 18-year old in the part more appealing, legally, than a minor.

Here, though, I will beg you all to notice that the little mermaid, Ms. Ariel, was turning sixteen in that film.

More importantly, though, for Pocahontas, these were cosmetic choices. She ended up with John Rolfe, not John Smith...why not get the name right? If you want to bend history, why not just make it that he was the first John to speak with all the colors of the wind?

Also, she was dead in England by 18. Would it kill you to make another barely-legal heroine, for this one time when you're not screwing up a fairy tale, or a classic of children's literature, or a long-standing traditional legend that you''ll claim you made up yourselves; could you see your way to doing this for the time when you're screwing up real, teachable history, not fantasy?

Of course there IS the possibility that this film is meant as a Christian allegory, demonstrating the fundamentalist belief that fossils were put there by god to test our faith, makin' it LOOK like there's that tricksy evolution, but REALLY, you just gotta believe. In that case, the Dinos can exist whenever, alongside whomever, they like.

Barring that, though, the dumbing down of America is in full swing without your help, kids movies. Please refrain.