Starring: Peter Ackerman, Diedrich Bader, Lorri Bagley, P.J. Benjamin, Jack Black Directed By: Chris Wedge Average Rating: Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: VHS Tape Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Special Edition, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Number of Items: 1 Release Date: November 26, 2002 Running Time: 81 minutes Theatrical Release Date: March 15, 2002
Amazon.com: Just as A Bug's Life was a computer-animated comedy inspired by Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, the funny and often enthralling Ice Age is a digital re-imagining of the Western Three Godfathers. The heroes of this unofficial remake (set 20,000 years ago, during the titular Paleolithic era) are a taciturn mastodon named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano), an annoying sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo), and a duplicitous saber-toothed tiger, Diego (Denis Leary). The unlikely team encounters a dying, human mother who relinquishes her chirpy toddler to the care of these critters. Hoping, against all odds, to return the little guy to his migrating tribe, Manfred and his associates need to establish trust among themselves, not an easy thing in a harsh world of predators, prey, and pushy glaciers. Audiences that have become accustomed to the rounded, polished, storybook look of Pixar's house brand of computer animation (Monsters, Inc.) will find the blunt edges and chilly brilliance of Ice Age--evoking the harsh, dangerous environment of a frozen world--a wholly different, and equally pleasing, trip. Recommended for ages 4 and up. --Tom Keogh
Description: They came... they thawed... they conquered the hearts of audiences everywhere in the coolest animated adventure of all time! Heading south to avoid the bad case of global frostbite, a group of migrating misfit creatures embark on a hilarious quest to reunite a human baby with his tribe. Featuring an all-star voice cast, including Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary, ICE AGE is "a pure delight" (New York Daily News) for all ages!
Heart warming This is such a wonderful family movie, and it is hard to find a movie the whole family will enjoy. The actors who gave their voices for these characters, also gave them amazing personalities. You will laugh, cry, and completely fall in love with these characters.
Very silly. A major disappointment. Considering it got such great reviews and was nominated for an Oscar, this animated film was a major disappointment. The main characters are Manfred (a mammoth), Sid (a sloth), and Diego (a saber-tooth). Diego? Anyway, they're on a quest to return a human infant to its migrating tribe. Manfred is the staunch and kindly leader, Sid is the comic relief, and Diego is the bad-guy predator turned good-guy protector of the innocent. And that's basically it. Much of the action involves patient plodding through the snow and there's way too much dreary and not very funny conversation. And some unanswered questions, like why is Manny headed back north when all the other animals are migrating south? The moral lessons lack even basic subtlety, which doesn't help, either. _The Incredibles_ and _Shrek_ were ten times better than this, and _Toy Story_ was twenty times better.
Very enjoyable animated film A very enjoyable animated feature, whose plot is loosely based on 1948's classic western from John Ford Three Godfathers. Set during (of course) the last Ice Age, the story has a mammoth called Manny, an annoying sloth named Sid and a duplicitous saber tiger called Diego finding a dying human mother along with her baby. They decide to return the infant to their tribe, against all odds, and facing a series of predators (especially saber tigers, who count on Diego on helping them on the inside). Punctuating the plot, a squirrel tries to save an acorn in a series of very funny vignettes. And a running joke is that the only species that do not talk during the movie are human beings. Unfortunately, the graphics are a bit below standard (they are no match for Pixar's works). The sequel has better graphics but a far less interesting plot (though it has a very funny final scene).
ice age A wonderful movie for kids and adults. I sent several to youth centers and they loved it.
Now where is that blamed acorn? Ice Age DVD
Ice Age is an animated movie from Fox featuring Manny a wooly mammoth, Sid , a sloth, and Diego, a saber tooth tiger. A secondary character,who I love, is a prehistoric squirrel who is obsessive, compulsive about acorns. In this first movie the trio find a man-child who is lost. Diego wants to eat him of course. What else would you expect? Manny and Sid seek to protect him.
All-in all a fun movie for the whole family, something unusual these days.
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