Alison Grant begins teaching ice skating students on a friend's frozen pond after being fired from her rink job. On the first day of class her old high school sweetheart and now famous hockey player, Ivan Hall, unexpectedly shows up when he brings his niece for her skating lessons. While an initially cold reunion ensues, eventually Alison warms up to Ivan again.

Reeling from the recent loss of his mother, Riley Harrison claims he has seen a real dinosaur, to which his dad Wyatt Harrison and love interest Dr. Starr quickly write it off as a coping mechanism for his grief. Villians, Mr. Bigg and Dr. Vandersaurean responsible for the creature and its accidental release, try in desperation to recover it and capture young Riley before the public finds out about their diabolical plans.