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Summary: Great movie, especially the full screen edition.
Review: Though it is a cartoon, Ice Age, starring Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, and Denis Leary, is not a "children only" movie. It is an awesome flick, for kids and adults and all in between. It has a lot of hilarious parts. And in truth, the violence is not scary at all...at all. I really like this movie. The DVD edition is wonderful, though the games aren't that good. This was the first DVD I bought, and it was a good one to start with. Get it, you won't regret it.
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Summary: Good and Touching family film.
Review: Good and touching family film that an adult can see as well. Ray Romano, Denis Leary, and John Leguizamo do good voice performances as the animation is far and a head better than most of what Disney has done in quite some time. The story is touching and heart warming, and the message about family and friends is very timely. My compliments go to all who were involved who made this movie.
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Summary: Great movie for all ages
Review: Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny and a saber tooth tiger named Diego are forced to become unlikely heroes. The three reluctantly come together when they have to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age. It has been quite a while since I've seen such a funny movie. This movie is perfect for all ages! The one reason this movie is such a hit with all ages is because it isn't geared to children, like Disney movies are.
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Summary: Really very enjoyable.
Review: Initially I just kinda' liked it... it had people whose comedy I sometimes enjoyed in it and it was pretty funny. Now, however, after having seen it countless times because it is laugh-out-loud funny to my 2.5 year old, I can tell you it's really worth getting.
Our toddler will giggle at everything that makes a 2 year old laugh... the squirrel getting trampled, the baby scenes, the football-watermelon-dodo bird scenes are hilarious to us both.. there's more...
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Summary: Funny, cute and relaxing
Review: Like so many of the better children's movies, this one is funny, cute, and has enough sophisticated humor to keep parents satisified. A major difference between this, and most other cartoon films is that none of these characters strive to be heroic. These are ordinary "guys" trying to survive the game of life. Along the way they commit accidental heroics, but eventually gel as a group and start to truly look out for one another. There are wonderful themes of team work ("That's what herds do...they look out for one another."), forgiveness (Diego's confession scene), and the pain of letting go. Bottom-line: What raises this movie above the average is realistic attitudes and personalities of the characters. They are grumpy, irritating, conniving, stressed, and yet full of hidden goodness. This is a sweet, well-grounded, yet optimistic film, well worth viewing for all but the youngest family members.
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Summary: A fantastic animated tail....uh, tale !
Review: A lot different than most animated films that rely so much on magical powers or characters that try WAY too hard to be heroic or funny, ICE AGE is a terrific tale of three totally different animals that find themselves teaming up to rescue an infant boy, and return him to his family. Set back when primative animals and humans were roaming the world, Manfred the Mammoth (the voice of Ray Romano) is seen going against the migration flow of the all the animals who are trying to avoid the oncoming winter. Grumpy and bothered by the rest of the animals, he decides to stick out the winter weather and heads for the glaciers. He runs into Sid the Sloth (John Leguizamo), who nearly gets flattened by a pair of rhinos after unintentionally eating their favourite snack, a lone dandelion. Sid is a funny character, who's clumsiness and slow witted actions are annoying, but still rewarding to viewers as a big dose of comic relief. Elsewhere, Diego the sabertoothed tiger (Denis Leary) and his 'gang' of feline predators nearly snack on a group of humans, when they are fended off-but not before a mother and child are forced to leap over a waterfall to avoid certain death. Manfred and Sid encounter the woman and child in a river later, and as the mother hands the child to the two bewildered animals, she passes on peacefully, leaving the animals with her son. Manfred wanted nothing more than to simply roam the wild on his four heavy feet, and not be bothered with such a burden. He's a classic loner with nothing on his mind but to be alone with his thoughts, yet he finds a lot of changes in himself in the days ahead. Their first meeting with Diego gives Manfred suspicions, and painfully takes charge to protect the baby, although he at first almost doesn't care. Diego does manage to convince the two that he would be an asset to their team, and tags along, playing the wolf in sheep's clothing. A lot happens with the trio, like wrestling with a large number of hilarious do-do's who are desperate to protect a mere three melons for the possible oncoming 'Ice Age', or dangerous predicaments that force them to work as a team. I gotta admit that some of the jokes that refer to modern days are so typical regardless of how great this movie is (a small volcanic hole poofs out 'red' and 'green' for 'go' and 'stop' at a crossing, and the little boy spots a UFO in ice and gives it the Vulcan greeting with his hand), but those references are really the only smelly parts of the film. The little boy realistically gurgles and squeaks just like any toddler would, and innocently gets into mischief from time to time. He also starts to recognize the three animals as friends, and adores them all the way. A lot of the audience will adore the tyke too, who Sid refers to as the 'cute little wormy worm'. Also on hand is Scrat, a sabertoothed kangaroo squirrel who makes several appearences and has his own little run in's with the three as he constantly tries to bury a single accorn for later, and fails at every turn. He also helps start the film by setting off a monsterous disaster that will leave you in stitches. The animation and colours are eye candy for everyone. And the sound effects are top notch, from footsteps, to echoes in ice caverns, to snowflakes falling,and it really sounds like it's snowing in the theatre/livingroom (if you have a good home theatre hooked up, listen to the flakes sprinkle!). Other voices supplied for the film, like Jack Black as the fidgity pathetic tiger Zeke, or Jane Krakowski and Lorri Bagley as two voluptious sloths who meet up with Sid in a mud bath hot tub, help round out the movie's characters. Leary plays it smart, and gives Diego a cynical shell to hide his underlying verocious intentions, but also sways him from his cunning tiger traits as he learns the value of caring. Manfred also starts to give into his heart now and then. Ramano's authoritive machoism starts to show cracks as the little boy touches them all. And Sid....what a character. John Leguizamo never lets us down. Watch how Sid gets ready for sleep, but gets under Manfred's skin immediately with his bad habits that would annoy anyone but himself. His buck toothed lisped vocabulary is just a hoot. I have never watched an animated film that has entertained me this much, than Ice Age. Meaning every word, this one's gonna be a classic.
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Summary: Classic
Review: Disney makes a great film again! dOES THAT SUPRISE YOU? no!
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Summary: My 2 year old daughter quotes this movie from memory
Review: The kids are the best to review animated movies, and my daughter has all of the great one on DVD. She quotes lines from this one more than the others, and requests to watch this one more often too. Get it, your kid will love it.
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Summary: Maximum Laughs with Minimum dissapointments
Review: Ice age, Wonderfully witty in every way. The story is basically a mammoth, a saber toothed tiger, and a sloth try to save a human child by returning it to the childs "pack." a childrens comedy with outstanding graphics and remarkable acting. (DoDo scene is a MUST SEE!) Hilariously entertaining. I hope this review has influenced you to buy this DVD. It will truly be an outstanding display to add to any collection.
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Summary: Highly Dissapointing
Review: THE computer-animated feature "Ice Age" was advertised by one of the best trailers of the past decade. Wordlessly, it told the story of a small rat-faced, squirrel-like creature trying to bury an acorn, inadvertently setting off a gigantic avalanche of ice, and racing to escape destruction along with its prize. This wonderfully witty sequence, with its deft evocation of nature's power, turns out to be the opening sequence of the movie - and all too unrepresentative. Almost everything about "Ice Age" proves to be disappointingly generic. It probably features enough slapstick humor to entertain small children, but little of the inspired visual artistry or clever dialogue that made "Shrek" and "Monsters, Inc." such a pleasure for adult viewers. All the prehistoric animals are migrating south to avoid the oncoming cold. Sid the Sloth (voiced by John Leguizamo) oversleeps and is left behind by his family. Ambling after the animal procession, he irritates a pair of (apparently homosexual) rhinos (Cedric "The Entertainer" and Stephen Root) and has to be rescued by Manfred the Mammoth (Ray Romano). A gruff loner, Manfred is traveling in the opposite direction to the other animals. Sid needs protection and insists on going along with him. Not far away, a pack of saber-toothed tigers attacks a human village. A fleeing mother and child end up in the river and the baby is rescued by Manfred. He and Sid then resolve to return the infant to its father. They are soon joined by a saber-toothed tiger, Diego (Denis Leary), who claims to want the same thing, but has his own more sinister agenda. Catching up with the humans who have moved on from their camp turns out to be a tricky business. As the three squabbling animals and their infant charge follow the humans' trail into the hills, the challenges they face create a bond among them and they end up forming an unlikely herd. Along the way, there are a couple of decent jokes about evolution, an inspired roller-coasterish sequence in some ice caves and some long, slow stretches. A plodding script gives the voice talent little chance to shine. Romano as Manfred seems particularly muffled. Leary sounds oddly like George Clooney. With the exception of Sid, the faces of the animal characters are surprisingly inelastic and uncommunicative: Manfred, at least, furrows his brows into a kind of frown, but Diego is all but expressionless. The human characters look heavy and blocky, as if they were made of wood.
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