Still, you experience it as being funnier, not just laughing because the person next to you is laughing as well. Because I don’t do that, I laugh at stuff other people don’t laugh at, and the other way around as well. 
Me too! I was like that when watching Up in the cinema. I just remember me snorting real loud in the middle of silence… 
Anyways, I’ve always loved the IA franchise and am excited for the fourth. And like a few people, I wonder if the humans, vultures, or Buck will make any appearences too.
All I can say is, Bring On 2012! What a great year for movies; Pixar doing the Double and a Blue Sky Quaddroople Act. 
4??? The first one was ok, the 2nd one was ok, haven’t seen the third one, but this is just crazy. Let’s just hope this is the last one.
Which is why we always hear canned laughter on AFHV and family sitcoms. Basic human psychology, see. 
No, that’s because they pay a crowd to laugh whenever they hold up a sign that says “LAUGH”.
Let me rephrase that. The producers use canned laughter (which, as you said, is made from the recordings of the crowd who is paid to laugh whenever they hold up a sign that says “LAUGH”) to… make us laugh because of the nature of ‘shared emotional empathy’. It’s the basic principle of Common Coding Theory, we experience the emotions and feelings of character on-screen due to our innate human nature (unless there’s damage to the ‘mirror neurons’ in the cortex due to mental disabilities like autism). That’s why when Bruce Willis steps on broken glass, or when Wall-E falls on his face, we wince, even though we don’t actually experience the physical pain of the action.
But yeah… I know about teleprompting. 
I meant the psychological reason for using it.
Really? I mean, what more ideas can they come up with? I LOVE the first one, it’s my favorite non-Disney animated film. The 2nd one was okkay. And I haven’t seen the third one yet. But it seems like it’s time to stop, haha.
Hmmm… interesting. I didn’t really notice that the first time I read your post…
But to be honest, I find these kind of sitcoms to be quite annoying, especially these Disney Channel shows where the crowd laughs after every single spoken sentence… while it’s not even close to being actually funny. I barely look at shows like that.
I laugh the hardest at shows like Scrubs (which doesn’t make use of ‘canned laughter’ in the first place )
This doesn’t really surprise me, to be honest. As soon as the worldwide box office grosses were made public, I knew that it was only a matter of time.
I don’t actually mind the Ice Age movies - they’re entertaining enough, and seldom reach Dreamworks heights of obnoxiousness, it’s just that none of them have ever been terribly big on plot. ALL of them, without exception, are basic journey stories, which involve getting from point A to Point B and back again. It’s pretty facile story-telling, since all you have to do is throw a handful of physical obstacles along the way (be it lava pits, unsteady rocks, vultures, or dinosaurs), and you’ll have enough set-pieces to fill 80-odd minutes. That’s certainly how it felt with Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which seemed notably more action-orientated than its prodecessors - the first two movies offered a bit more in the way of character development, though by the third film the only character who seemed to be grappling with any deep, personal issues was Diego, and in the end very little was made of it. I’ll admit to being somewhat fond of possums Crash and Eddie, however - I seem to be the only person who actually is. 
I feel so alone…I love these movies!! Come on, they weren’t that bad!! 
Hmm, maybe I was a bit overly critical in my post above. Truth be told, I do actually rather like The Meltdown. It’s not Shakespeare, but it’s entertaining. And the Scrat short “No Time For Nuts” is fantastic.
Oh yah, I read this some where.
I heard the plot will be about the gang getting stuck in our time.
I loved the first two but I didn’see the third one yet.
sid was always my favorite character though.
As long as they keep him one of the main ones I’ll be fine.
Sid is awesome because he’s voiced by Luigi
(Sid’s voice is the same guy who did Luigi in the old Super Mario Bros movie (even though he looks nothing like the real thing) IMO, that film’s an insult, but it’s a funny coincidence, aye?)
And I really like the Ice Age series too, don’t worry xD
Hmm…I hope that’s not true, since it sounds like it would be an even greater contrivance than the whole dinosaurs thing. True, in “No Time For Nuts” Scrat acquires a time-travelling device and winds up in all sorts of historical periods, but then I guess that the shorts, not being part of the main film series itself, have a licence to play a bit looser with its conventions.
Real or fake, that poster is rather funny.
Is that Peaches? Peaches is big? squeals I can’t wait to see this now!!
Oh boy, to be honest, I’m not really too high on this.
That poster looks shopped. Really. I mean, I recognize their poses from old renders from the first and second movie.
And still I like the third one even though it is so unrealistic
somewhere a paleontologist is crying indeed