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Let me just say that the IMDB is full of morons. Why do I say this? I just read a thread concerning the new Ice Age movie that is coming out and how that person is upset because the franchise is introducing dinosaurs and therefore ruining scientific fact about that period in history. Fortunately there was one or two people in that thread that were trying to set the record straight but they were outnumbered by the idiotic, religious fanatics and scientific douchebags and overprotective parents (which in my opinion are all a bunch of morons that need a reality check in their lives) so their intelligence got drowned out by all the stupidity of the others.
Yes there are dinosaurs in the movie. There were dinosaurs in the other two movies too. Ice Age had one frozen. Ice Age 2 had two of them for villains and now Ice Age 3 has a whole lost world so having dinosaurs in Ice Age is nothing new. The Lost World has always been a myth in human culture, a world where time had forgotten and that man had yet to discover and touch. It has never been below Hollywood to use myth and legends to make a movie entertaining, especially a cartoon movie. But there is the key word. "Entertaining". Hollywood's goal is to entertain the populace and make money off of entertaining them. If cheesy two-dimensional plots are found entertaining by the populace then Hollywood will produce such a movie. If you don't like that kind of movie, then why are you showing an interest in cartoons to begin with? Most of the time they are cheesy, two-dimensional movies.
Yes dinosaurs also did exist at one time. They don't exist now because they died out. To anyone who believes that the Earth is 6000 years old and therefore dinosaurs never existed, you need to go to a museum of natural history and ask the curator to take you back to where they clean the fossils or go to that dinosaur museum where they excavate the fossils in person or just go to Montana and to that valley that's rich for dinosaur fossils. Only a blind man would ignore what is in front of him, but only an idiot would deny the truth when it is laid out before him. I could go on how Creation and Evolution is one and the same thing but that's for another rant for another day.
Now there are the overprotective parents who dislike the Sid and Bull joke that you see in the trailer. They are afraid that little boys and girls will pull out the genitals of other boys and tug on them because of the joke. If they are under the age of 12 they are more than likely not going to get that joke and therefore won't be doing that. If they are older than they have enough sense to not do it unless they are retarded and isolated, sheltered children that haven't been told what is right and wrong then you have some basis to your concerns otherwise your children have brains of their own and you need to learn to trust them and let them be themselves elsewise they'll grow up being ignorant of the real world.
There is also nothing wrong with a child believing that animals can talk. In fact you should encourage things like that but also remind them that it is make-believe. Your child will be happier in his/her childhood and look back on those days with fondness. Parents need not worry about the child continuing to believe that animals can talk because as they grow older, they will outgrow that belief unless, again, they are mentally unwell to begin with then the parent needs to make sure that the child understands that it is make-believe. One of the things that is wrong with society today is that parents refuse to let their children to believe in the absurd and fantastical and the children grow up without an imagination and become prudes essentially. Without imaginative intuition we would have no music, no art, no stories, no movies, no inventions, nothing. We would all be mindless, unthinking, unimaginative drones with no sense of humor and very little happiness in our lives.
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