NEW ON DVD

"Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs": This is the third and barely funny installment in the series of animated features about the prehistoric adventures of Manny (voice of Ray Romano), Diego (Denis Leary) and Sid (John Leguizamo), a woolly mammoth, saber-toothed tiger and ground sloth stuck in a snow-bound world. Simon Pegg makes a nice acerbic addition to the cast as Buck, a one-eyed weasel who carries a sharpened dino tooth for a dagger and acts as a guide when our heroes discover a tropical world of dinosaurs under all that ice. 1:27. Rated PG (cartoon violence and toilet humor).

"Nothing Like the Holidays": Lifting several pages from the Tyler Perry playbook, the film tells a familiar story of a Puerto Rican-American family in Chicago that sorts out domestic problems during Christmas. Anna (Elizabeth Peña) and Edy Rodriguez (Alfred Molina) are ready to welcome their three adult children home. Jesse (Freddy Rodriguez) is coming back from a tour of duty in Iraq. Mauricio (John Leguizamo) and his wife, Sarah (Debra Messing), are in from their high-powered New York jobs. Rox (Vanessa Ferlito) is a struggling actress in Los Angeles. 1:39. Rated PG-13 (language and adult subject matter).

"Whatever Works": This toxic, contemptuous, unforgivably unfunny bagatelle finds Woody Allen playing the same misanthropic one-note. Larry David plays Allen's alter ego as a grumpy, growling Boris Yellnikoff, a self-described genius who has been living on Manhattan's Lower East Side since trying to escape his first wife by jumping out a window. One night he finds a runaway named Melodie St. Ann Celestine (Evan Rachel Wood), who has fled her life in Mississippi. She takes up residence in Boris' loft. Eventually, Melodie's painfully stereotyped evangelical parents arrive on the scene. With its preposterous, self-serving climax, the film plays like a warped summation of Allen's tortured relationship with women. 1:32. Rated PG-13 (profanity, sexuality and brief nudity).

-- The Washington Post