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Summary: Cute and clever
Review: This was a cute movie, with a lot of really clever humor. The running gag with the squirrel chasing the acorn all throughout the film was a stroke of genius, even though it has nothing to do with the rest of the film. Denis Leary was at his best, John Leguizamo was barely recognizable (although fitting Sid the Sloth perfectly), and Ray Romano (who I usually don't see what the fuss is all about) was Manfred the Mammoth. The animators do a great job of matching the characterizations of the animals to fit the style and performance of each actor, and the writing is crisp and witty. I should note that the storyline is totally predictable from beginning to end, but this isn't one of those movies where the end is important, it's the ride that counts. I agree with the reviewers who have said this is no Toy Story or Shrek, but while it may not be a groundbreaking piece of animation, it is well worth the price of admission. For both kid and adult alike (when I went, it was mostly the adults you heard laughing out loud in the the theater, although the kids were enjoying themselves as well). And did I mention the running gag with the squirrel and the acorn?
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Summary: worthwhile
Review: A worthwhile movie for either young or old. Worth the money, even to see a second time.
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Summary: FUNNY, SMART AND HEARTWARMING
Review: I SAW ICE AGE YESTERDAY WITH MY PARENTS AND MY FRIEND. I REALLY WASEN'T EXPECTING MUCH...
THE MOVIE STARTS OUT WITH THIS SABOR-TOOTHER SQURRL NAMED SCRET WHO IS ATTEMPTING TO BURRY HIS NUT THAT HE FOUND IN THE ICE. THAT WAS REALLY FUNNY. ANYWAY, WHEN HE TRYS TO URRY IT HE CRACKS THE ICE AND THAN HE CAUSES A AVALNCH AND THAT'S HOW THE MOVIE STARTS.THE MAIN CHARACTERS ARE MANNY A MOMMOTH WHO CAN'T STANY ANYONE AND WHO DOES NOT LISTEN TO ANYONE OR ANYTHING. A SLOTH NAMED SID WHO'S FAMILY CAN'T STAND HIM BECAUSE HE IS SO ANNOYING AND A SABOR-TOOTHER TIGER NAMED DIEGO WHO BELONGS WITH THIS GANG OF OTHER TIGERS. WHEN DIEGO'S GANG RAIDS A HUMAN CAMP THE ONLY MOTHER AND CHILD RUN. THE MOTHER JUMPS IN THE WATER TO GET AWAY FROM DEIGO WHO WAS HUNTING THEM BECAUSE IT WAS HIS JOB TO KILL THE MOTHER BUT BRING BACK THE BABY SO TO ESCAPE THE MOTHER JUMPS INTO THE WATER WITH THE BABY IN HER ARMS. AFTER MANNY AND SID MEET SID DECIDES TOO STAY WITH MANNY BECAUSE OF A WHOLE BIG TO DO WITH RHINOS THAT HAPPEND IN THE BEGENNING OF THE MOVIE. SO WHEN MANNY AND SID ARE WALKING ALONG THEY ARE BY THE WATER AND THEY SEE THE MOTHER HOLDING THE BABY SO MANNY TAKES THE BABY AND TURNS AWAY FROM THE WATER AND WHEN HE TURNS BACK THE MOTHER WAS GONE. SO SID DECIDES TO TAKE THE BABY BACK TO THE HUMANS AND THAT IS WHEN THEY FIND DIEGO. AFTER A LONG TIME DIEGO SAYS THAT HE WILL LEAD THE TWO TO FIND THE HUMANS SO SID AND MANNY GO WITH HIM. SOON THE THREE GET TO LIKE EACHOTHER AND SID KEEPS CALLING THEM A HERD. IN ONE PART OF THE MOVIE DIEGO PLAYS PEEK-A-BOO WITH THE BABY TO MAKE HIM STOP CRYING BUT IT DOESEN'T REALLY WORK. FINALLY DIEGO TELLS MANNY AND SID THAT HE HE WAS JUST WORKING WITH THEM TO GET THE BABY TO THE GANG'S LEADER LIKE HE WAS SUPPOST TO DO. HE TELLS MANNY AND SID HE IS SORRY BUT MANNY IS STILL MAD. BUT AFTER COMING ACROSSED THE TIGER GANG LIKE THEY PLANNED THERE IS A FIGHT AND THE LEADER WAS KILLED BUT DIEGO WAS HURT AND THEY THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD SO MANNY AND SID LEAVE WITH THE BABY TO STILL TRY TO GET HIM BACK TO HIS FATHER. THEY FINNALY FIND HIM AND WHEN THE FATHER PUTS THE BABY DOWN HE GOES OVER AND GUGS MANNY AND SID. WHEN HIS FATHER PICKS HIM UP MANNY AND SID SEE HIM DOING PEEK-A-BOO AND WHEN THEY TURNED AROUND THEY SAW DIEGO WELL AND FINE DOING THE SAME TO THE BABY.THAT PART REALLY MADE ME CRY ALOT. THIS MOVIE IS A GREAT MOVIE AND I HIGHLY RECMOND IT. BUT I WARN YOU IF YOU HAVE A HEART AND DIEGO WAS YOU FAVEORITE CHARACTER YOU WILL CRY FROM WHEN THE PART WHERE YOU THINK HE WAS DEAD UNTILL THE END OF THE SCENE WHERE THEY GIVE THE BABY BACK. SO GO SEE THIS MOVIE AND ENJOY IT!!!!
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Summary: A Witty, Engaging Delight
Review: This fast-paced, beautifully realized film is enjoyable for children and adults alike. Witty and sophisticated, it follows an unlikely band of mis-fit animals trying to help a tiny human baby find its family. Both adults and the eight year old in my family all enjoyed it immensely, and I would definitely recommend it to children and light-hearted adults. With lots of really funny lines and great visuals here, the film keeps you smiling, yet don't be surprised if you shed a tear towards the end.
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Summary: A Great Message & Funny Too !
Review: Ice Age is a funny movie with lots of slapstick, jokes and funny scenes. But it also offers an important mesage about accepting others as they are. The Mammoth, Sloth and Tiger beccome a "pack" in order to return the baby to the humans. They come together and become friends dispite their differences. The cartoon characters were very cute, mainly the animals. The only thing I didn't like, was the humans did not look very-well done. It was alittle distracting, especially since the rest of the film was well-done. Overall, this is a great childrens movie. They will love the cute characters. Adults will like it as well, because of the meaningful story line and well-written script.
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: Ice Age is (obviously) set in the age of ice and glaciers, when all the strange prehistoric mammels are on the move to warmer climates. The story tells the tale of three very different creatures; a lonely mammoth (Ray Romano) called Manfred, a hypo sloth (John Leguizamo in yet another wonderful performance) called Sid and a fierce saber-tooth tiger (Denis Leary) called Diego whose leader Soto (Goran Visnjic) - has a craving for a certain human baby in a nearby incampment.
However, when the tigers attack the humans, the baby's mother flees with her child, eventually managing to give him to the passing duo of Manfred and Sid before she dies. Diego quickly catches up to them and, under the pretext of helping them take it back to the humans, leads them towards an ambush that the tigers have prepared. But on the journey, the baby forces them to come together, creating what Sid describes as 'the weirdest herd I've ever seen.' Gradually all come to terms with each other and themselves - Manfred with his isolation, Sid with his quirkiness and Diego with his guilt at leading his new found friends into a trap. Along the way they come across such obstacles as food-shortages, avalanches, rhinoes, dodos, ice caves, volcanic eruptions, and the re-occuring Scrat, a squirrel who just wants to bury his acorn.
This movie is a perfect one for either taking the kids to, or if you just want to have a very good laugh, as there's a joke every minute thanks to the combined efforts of Sid, Scrat and the baby. The plot of a lost baby in unlikey company has obviously been done before (Monsters INC, Tarzan, Willow, Dinosaur and Three Men and a Baby) but it looses none of it's appeal.
If you want to be picky however, you could say none of the characters get a proper background or introductions - all of them just suddenly appear on screen mid-way through their lives with much to explain what their doing, and the moments of sentimentality are not very tear-jerky. Also, even though the animals and the backgrounds (especially rivers and waterfalls) were incredibly real-looking, the humans were too stiff and bulky to look life-like.
However, there is no shortage on laughs. Someone gets stepped on, hit over the face, squished, slapped, trampled, crushed, struck by lighting, or thrown off a cliff on a regular basis, and on the whole is a worthy 'decendant' of the likes of Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Monsters INC, Antz and Shrek.
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Summary: Poor casting, cool humans, hilarious squirrel!
Review: First of all, the movie is fun; and somewhat interesting. The adventures of the little squirrel are hilarious. But there was so much more they could have done with it. The casting was pathetic. Ray Romano is known for his boring television show on CBS that is the opposite of the truth: Everybody Loves Raymond. Here he plays a wooly mammoth "Manfred" that is the center of the movie. His delivery of dialogue is as usual blatant and without emotion or expression. Every quip and joke the writers put into the movie for the character was petrified and stomped on by Romano. Then there is the way they put Romano's hair-style perched atop a lump on the mammoth's head. Really annoying and distracting. There is also John Leguizamo as "Sid" the sloth. He usually has a great time with these roles, as the actor is witty and hilarious with a style that the editors of Ice Age must have trimmed out to cut the movie shorter. I was truly disappointed. Dennis Leary voiced the Sabretooth Tiger "Diego." Here he has also been cooled by the editors and he is soothing and charming. Not at all like what would be expected of him. The rest of the cast of voices include an un-noticed Jack Black and others no one has ever heard of. I am sure kids will love this movie, even though it is devoid of any sense of reality. From the collaboration and friendship between rival species to the hairstyle on the mammoth, very little is believeable and the movie has no ground to build on. Even the threat Diego makes to Sid that he would eat him is made to be a joke and everyone laughs about it (except the audience). The redeeming factor in this is the animation. The artists rendered a world of fantasy with a style that, while impressive, still reminded us that it was animation. The humans, while not quite human, are very appealing and beautiful to look at. They reminded me of the humans in Age Of Empires (the game from Microsoft) in their AI and the way they run. They seem do innocent yet powerful. The characters were rendered in CGI that reminded me of the "Lion King" characters. The Dodo birds are a mere sidetrack for a quick laugh that really never happens. Three stars is my rating due to the fact that the humans in the film are not humiliated by voice actors who don't impress. Also, the squirrel is hilarious chasing the nut throughout the movie. Fox has a long way to go to redeem themselves from Titan A.E. The jokes here were toned down as if they were afraid to make us laugh. Ice Age is a decent start, but not quite the nut we were searching for.
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Summary: Toy Story Meets Dinosaur, with style
Review: I am a big fan of digital animation, including films like Shrek, Toy Story (1 and 2), and Disney's Dinosaur. These films succeeded partly because they showed us something new in cinema technique, but mainly because they told a good story and introduced us to characters we could like. Ice Age is in good company here. The animals are highly stylized, almost caricatured, in a way that adds interest and (this may seem a contradiction) credibility. The character voices are also well done. One caution -- very young children may be frightened by some of the scenes with sabre-tooth tigers (I was).
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Summary: Cracks you up... like a nut!
Review: First few minutes I was under the impression that we were in front of a Fox-made prehistoric version of Shrek, but shortly into the movie, we laughed as hard as we have in a long time in the theater, in particular with the squirrel-with-the-nut character... It's so much like us: going nuts after a tiny bit of life, trying to uncover something or save something for later. But the movie is not just about laughs: it has a message, and one of hope and understanding that you'd hope today's world processed a little better. In terms of animation, I didn't find it too innovative, compared to the productions that have come out in the past year and a half (Dinosaurs, Shrek, Monsters, Inc.) Overall it's worth taking the kids, but also checking it out yourself! Who knows? You might find out that you sleep like a sloth... or like a mammoth! ;)
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Summary: What a thrill ride!
Review: Wah!!! What a great film, Cartoons are really changing. The characters are cute and fun, the plot is simple and gripping, the graphic is exhilarating and realistic...... I am definitely getting a DVD. It's really one of those movies for everyone.
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