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Summary: LETS SHOW THAT HUMAN WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HE MESSES WITH SABERS
Review: Ice Age is a great film!One night I wanted to watch a movie-and I was gonna watch Spirit but thought Im not that bored so I watched Ice Age instead! Ice Age is about,well the ice age and a saber tooth tiger-a sloth-and a wholly elephant trying to deliver a human baby back to his family! My favorite one was Diego-he was just drawn so neat-and he was so cool! And the sloth was funny too! This film is alot better then Spirit-becuase the animals talk in Ice Age-and its not a boring film either! NINE LIVES BABY!
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Summary: An Ice Age Comedy That's Not Frozen
Review: While the reign of the dinosaurs has been a subject movies have done to death, the era and animals that came afterwards has seen little screen time. This changed in the period between November 2001 and March 2002 with the release of the BBC's "Walking With Beasts" and Fox's "Ice Age". "Ice Age", starring the voice talents of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, and Dennis Leary, is the story of three unlikely heroes who band together to return a human child to its tribe. As the story goes, Manny the Mammoth (Romano) and Sid the Sloth (Leguizamo) run across a dying mother and her baby, both of which have been seperated from their tribe by a pack of saber-tooth cats seeking revenge on the baby's father. One of the "tigers", Diego (Leary) is sent by the pack's leader to retrieve the baby, and attempts to lead Manny and Sid to the tigers' liar for dinner, with the two unsuspecting herbivores as the main course. Meanwhile, the audience is treated to the antics of a prehistoric rodent, Scrat (voiced by the director, Chris Wedge), a combination of a rat, squirrel, and raccoon, as he tries, unsuccessfully, to bury his acorn for the winter. Coming on the coat tails of Dreamwork's "Shrek" and Disney and Pixar's "Monsters Inc.", comparisons with the latter movies are unavoidable. And there are parallels with the earlier movies; the "return the kid" plot is shared by "Monsters Inc.", Manny does have the same sort of "loner" attitude that Shrek had, and Sid has attributes that are shared by Eddie Murphy's Donkey in "Shrek". There is also elements of the original "Jungle Book" spinkled in; the lead saber, Soto, is a near perfect copy of Shere Kahn. However, "Ice Age" has enough twists in it to be unique from the other movies. If you're looking for this movie to match the animation quality seen in "Walking with Beasts", forget it. The animation is not done in any "realistic" sense, and it doesn't pretend to, unlike Disney's "Dinosaurs". Although the animators for "Ice Age" did study the fossils from this period, it is clear they took a more artistic license to the animals. However, for Blue Skies and Fox's first foray into a CGI feature film, it isn't bad. The story and humor are enough to keep even adult's minds off the more artistic animation this film presents. The character interaction is nearly priceless; despite the fact the actors more than likely never saw each other, the chemistry comes off very well. Fans of DVDs will also be pleased with the extras that can be found on the second disc. Along with "Scrat's Missing Adventure", one can find the "Making of..." documentaries, will be amused by "Sid on Sid", and can see the scenes and concepts that never made it into the final cut. There are also games for youngsters for PCs with DVD drives. In all, *Ice Age* proves that can stand up to other movies such as "Shrek" or the "Toy Story" series. Although not as funny as "Shrek", it does rank above "Monsters Inc.", IMHO. Although it will probably not become a true "classic", it will certainly keep audiences amused for years to come.
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Summary: Ray Romano doesn't have the voice for animation
Review: Ray Romano's voice was so distracting to me, I couldn't concentrate on the film. The other actors voices were fine, but there's just something about Romano that kept me from enjoying the film. I think John Goodman's role in Monsters Inc. was perfectly matched to his voice. In this film, I think the missed the mark. If you want to see one of the most recent animated films to come out of hollywood, check this out. If you like Ray Romano, by all means buy this film.
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Summary: Great movie
Review: This one is a lot of fun. The story is great, the characters are great and the animation is great. You will laugh and you will cry. Great fun for kids and adults alike.
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Summary: Good, but not great.
Review: "Ice Age" was good enough to watch twice. It had cool characters (Ray Romano makes an excellent woolly mammoth) and clever, smooth comedic dialogue, but a fairly run-of-the-mill storyline. Nonetheless a good family movie, with almost none of the annoying, pettily vulgar "humor" that so many such films seem to have nowadays. It was genuinely funny, and offbeat enough to entertain adults as well as children.
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Summary: Fabulously funny!
Review: I laughed until I cried! So did my mother and sister! I'm sure that children will love this movie, but its also a great film for adults. Start with a sloth with a speech impediment, add birds dying en masse in their bid for survival, throw in a pinch of attitude from a mammoth and you have a wonderful mix. The characters are so very loveable and the story is heartwarming. It has it all! Trust me - run out and buy it now!
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Summary: Good Family Movie
Review: Watching movies with your children can sometimes be an necessary evil. This movie it is not the case! There is humor in it for everyone. The computer animation is amazing, and the storyline is appropriate. It also has a good moral without being preachy. Both me and my 6 year old enjoyed it.
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Summary: Disney cliché coupled with dubious story
Review: The ice ages... what better subject to infuriate eco-nuts and Creationists alike, who would rather like to ignore its existence and the existence of the animals that inhabited it. This movie is not about those subjects, although it does touch them. The story is cliché : animals find a human baby, engage in a trek to get it back to its human parents, and must help each other thru obstacles and enemies while learning the meaning of friendship. It works well, though. The animals inhabit their world well, with nice touches (such as when they find cave paintings, or make fire). - The main theme of this movie (cooperation thru herd mechanics) is mixed. Sure, we understand its subtelties as regards to this movie - we are, after all, watching lower animals, not humans - but children would not understand and would likely come back with the idea that "mindless obedience and altruism is good".
- Intelligence disbalance creates a problem at many levels (for one, are the lower animals, well, "realistic" when they appear to humans ?).
- Movie is favourable to evolution and climatology.
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Summary: Well rendered but terribly written
Review: At first glance, it is apparent why Ice Age was so successful in theaters. The graphics are beautifully rendered, and the opening sequence is wonderful to watch. Unfortunately, at this point, the characters make the mistake of speaking and the viewer realizes that with them, only the graphics are three-dimensional. The characters are woefully unfunny, the plot derivative, and the pacing tedious. When I finish with a movie and feel Fox did better with Titan AE, I know something is wrong.
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Summary: I've Seen Better....
Review: Another computer animated film has come down the pike. Literally! There is an amazing 2 minute opener that will have you rolling in the aisles. The film, unfortunately, doesn't really take off anywhere unique. Judging from the Toy Storys of recent, there has been a high standard set in computer animation. No longer am I impressed by the sheer detailing, color, framing and shading of these 'cartoons'. Acting, writing, character development and direction all play a part in defining a truly good film or 'cartoon'. A fun movie for kids, but not the highest brow entertainment for those over 15 years old. *** Stars.
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