Rating: 
Summary: Profound AND Funny
Review: I got indignant when one of my favorite reviewers panned this film and decided to rise to its defense. Not only does this film work brilliantly as an allegory about bridging ethnic and cultural divides, but it is by turns hilarious and deeply touching. The story follows a group of migrating prehistoric mammals (a saber-toothed tiger which is a predator; and a sloth and woolly mammoth, which are prey species) who find a lost human infant and ultimately make the difficult and dangerous decision to reunite it with its human tribe. The personalities of all three are well developed, and their nonstop bickering is a riot. Naturally, there are many internal divisions, and the saber-toothed tiger is secretly plotting to ambush the group, but in the end the shared experience of bonding with the infant unites them. There is a highly entertaining scene where the group travels through an ice cave in which is embedded hilarious references to other life forms including extraterrestrials. There is a very touching scene in which the mammoth contemplates human pictographs of hunters killing a family of mammoths with spears, only to be comforted by the human infant in his care. The animation, especially the facial expressions for the animals, and of course the ill-fated squirrel whose attempts to gather and store nuts form a cruelly funny sub-theme, is incredibly clever. The film is just brimming with sly humor, tenderness, and witty sight-gags; I've probably seen it five times and haven't gotten bored yet.
Rating: 
Summary: A very funny movie!
Review: Summary:Clever jokes, some slapstick, fairly well developed script, good animation, solid story development, and good music. Review:
Ray Ramano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary create a good team together and a touching story. Story:
In the beginning of the ice age, 3 unique animal adversaries are drawn together to bring a human baby back to migrating father. A depressed wooly mammoth (Manfred - Ray Ramano), a good natured, happy go-lucky, but less than intelligent sloth (Sid - John Leguizamo) and a mean saber-toothed tiger (Diego - Denis Leary) put up with each other during their journey Northward and the entire animal world goes south; with a squirrel unsuccessfully capturing his acorn. Audience Reaction: The entire audience seemed to liked / loved the movie. My daughter liked it so much that two other movie goers noted how much fun she had during the movie. (She often gets noticed because she is severely handicapped, but very charming). Children: Seems ok for young children as well. Not as scary as Jimmy Neutron (as a comparison). But, there are a couple of animal fighting scenes, and the final fight scene could be a bit much for sensitive children under 3 or 4 years old.
Rating:
Summary: Ice Age Is Hot
Review: A perfect screenplay and the way it is set up is just exciting and a new experience. It brings a different kind of laugh to the screen as it is all based on an ice age which is supposed ot occur. It brings together an annoying sloth, an annoyed woolly mammoth, a hungry carnivore, and a human baby. This movie is pure family fun for everybody who wants a good laugh or even a good cry.
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Summary: healthy entertainment for the entire family
Review: Ice Age is a fun comedy with good morals that's tailor-made for the entire family, and of course people of all ages.
With Manfred the mastodon being a little too serious, Sid the sloth being a complete joker, and Deigo the "flip-flopping" Tiger trying to be clever, you have 'The Herd' living out positive morals about saving lives & doing good deeds, all in a humorous way. I don't know where that squirrel came from though. He's just too funny. He'll have u rolling-on-floor-laughing throughout the whole movie, especially at the beginning.
I'm glad I saw this movie because I got some real good laughs. The ending with squirrel setting off the volcano was kinda odd but it was all good. From start to finish it's just non-stop comedy that's definitely worth watching again.
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Summary: The babysitter is in the House!!!
Review: I watched this movie with my Children. My 17 month old giggled and laughed throughout this movie. My 6 year old giggled throughout. My wife came to see what I was laughing so hard about..a cartoon?...She watched and laughed.
We watched it over and over.. AHEm... I mean the kids FORCED me to watch it over and over and over...and I still laugh and they still giggle like the first time.
Despite the laughter there are important lessons about friendship and doing the right thing to be learned in this movie.
If you want peace and quiet for a while...pop this baby in and voila..instant absorption. This DVD should come with a warning..."Your children will be engrossed..they will laugh...You will be free for an hour...Resistance is futile!"
Every house with children should have a copy!
Rating:
Summary: pre-cambrian perfection
Review: You cannot tell me that ICE AGE did not make you laugh until your ribs were sore. While Ray Ramano may be the focal point as Manny the Mammoth, it is the one and only John Leguizamo, providing the voice of the lisping, comical sloth Sid, who steals the movie.
From the moment Sid angers two rhinos and hides behind Manny for protection, there is a spectacular laugh almost everyone thirty seconds, literally, and scenes such Sid changing a babies diaper, a football game with some pesky dodo's, and a rollercoaster ride through an icy cave with almost require you to have an oxygen tank nearby from all the laughter.
Rating: 
Summary: Left Me Cold...
Review: Pardon the pun, but Ice Age really left me cold. I didn't find much to like about this film at all.
Sid the ice-age Sloth annoys his family so much, they leave for the southern migration without him. He bumbles ahead on his own, and befriends Manfred Mammoth, a rather grumpy old fellow who saves Sid's hide. On their journey, they find a human woman drowning in a stream, clutching a parcel in her arms. With her last ounces of strength, she passes the parcel to Manfred before washing downstream. Within the parcel is a baby. They decide to return it to his father, and set out on a journey across the tundra, joined by a sabre-toothed tiger, making friends now, but eager to eat the sloth, the mammoth or the baby with his pack as soon as he gets the chance.
The landscapes are drab, as are the colours of the animals, not the best decor for a kids animation. A lot of the scenes are very empty apart from the main characters. Not that emptiness is neccessarily bad, open spaces often can be really evocative. But here it's a sterile emptiness, similar to a blank canvas (or a blank computer screen). Since the whole story was a journey, it might have been good to have something interesting to look at on the way. This atmosphere added to the blandness of the film, I thought.
As for humour, barely a scene made me smile, let alone laugh. The plot and the script were pretty cliche even for a children's film, and when it wasn't I just didn't find it funny. Ray Romano (Manfred Mammoth) didn't put much effort into his voice-work at all, it's without expression or detatched mostly. I watched this with my girlfriend (a big movie lover), and she fell asleep, if that's saying anything.
Quite a few special features here, detailing the ins and outs of the animation process, which you'll enjoy if you're into the technical side of things. The deleted scenes were interesting. There was Sid's mate who didn't make the cut, which is a shame, because she probably would have been one of my favorite characters. She's colourful, she's entertaining, she's funny, much funnier than the two rhinos she was written out for.
Kids will enjoy this enough, but I didn't. Just because it's computer animated, doesn't automatically make it a great film, I don't think.
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Summary: Both kids and parents watch it again and again
Review: When I first watched this movie I noticed a couple of flaws, like the squirrel falling from a mountain top that seemed to appear out of the blue and the movement of the humans to be less than smooth. Some of the gags went over the top, like the ice slide ride.
However, it was love at first sight, and I may warn you that this review is going to be overly positive!
The sabertooth tiger Diego playing peek-a-boo with the baby had us crying with laughter.
Ice Age is the preferred choice of our sons of 5 and almost 3, when they are allowed to watch a dvd. It usually drags the adults in the room towards the tv too - luckily we have a tv in the kitchen. Friends and family with kids have borrowed this dvd from us and have been just as positive. My sister has now bought one for her kids as well. We have also had the experience of putting it on to get some peace and quiet from the kids, when we had a friend visiting - and then we all ended up watching it. Our friend's curiosity and amusement was kept alive to such an extent that she was unable to leave the tv.
Like I said - we love it.
The story is predictable and the humans still walk and run in an unnatural way. I no longer laugh out loud at the peek-a-boo scene. But I've gotten used to the over the top ice slide ride and all in all this movie continues to amuse me, my husband and my kids. I recommend it very strongly.
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Summary: Ice Age Has A Morale To Its Story
Review: I love this film . Even though it is animated, it has a morale
to its story about animal cruelty. It was sad whn Manny was
thinking back to when his mate and baby got killed by hunters.
Manny was alone for so long but then found friends. He took
care of a human baby with the help of his friends and he taught
the baby's father a lesson when he gave the baby back to him.
There were funny parts and my favorite is when they were
sailing on the ice and Sid talks into Manny's trunk "Captain,
Iceberg Ahead!"
This is my favorite animated film so far.
Rating: 
Summary: Solid Movie But Not Spectacular
Review: Ok, so I'm one of those people that finds Ray Romano's voice gratingly irritating which is why I gave it only three stars. But John Leguizano surprised me in this movie. It took me a while to recognize his voice as that of the sloth. I didn't figure it out until he used his famous "I'll let you marinate in there for a while."
This movie was cute but not spectacular. It covers the odyssey of a sabre tooth tiger, a wooly mammoth and a sloth on a mission to return a baby human back to its human tribe. They have some laughs and some bonding experiences along the way. It's not in the league of a Shrek or a Lion King, but your kids will enjoy it.
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