... I’d seen most of the films available already, but Ice Age was among those I’d not yet seen. You’ll notice this is not my typical film, but I am going to give it a go at reviewing anyway!
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computer-animated feature set 20 000 years ago as the Ice Age approaches. Seemingly anti-social Manny a woolly mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano) acts as if he just wants to be...
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were fleeing the onslaught of the new Ice Age. In this time of peril, we meet the weirdest herd of any age: a fast-talking but dim sloth named Sid; a moody woolly mammoth named Manny; a devilish sabre-toothed tiger named Diego; and an acorn-crazy sabre-toothed squirrel known as Scrat. This quartet of misfits unexpectedly, and reluctantly, come together in a quest to return a human infant to his father. Braving boiling lava pits, treacherous ice caves, freezing temperatures and a secret, evil plot, they become the world's first heroes!
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the woolly mammoth, Sid the sloth, Diego the sabre-toothed tiger, and the hapless prehistoric squirrel/rat known as Scrat are still together only this time facing the age of the Dinosaurs. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, follows the gang after the events of Ice Age: The Meltdown. Sid steals some dinosaur eggs which leads to him ending up in a strange underground world, where his herd must rescue him, while dodging dinosaurs and facing danger left right and centre! The film is due to be released in July 2009. Join their race to safety in this wonderful official Ice Age 3 2010 Calendar.
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Manny and Ellie are expecting Sid wants to be part of the new family However Manny refuses ... more
to let Sid get involved, leaving Sid feeling completely shut out and hurt. Meanwhile Sid discovers three enormous EGGS and adopts them. The 3 adorable dinos hatch and accept Sid as their mother. Until Momma Dinosaur (a T-Rex) attacks scooping up the 3 dinos along with Sid and takes them through a crack underground to a mysterious world.Diego, Manny, Ellie (and Crash & Eddie) follow to the mysterious dinosaur world and work together to rescue Sid. Luckily they meet BUCK, a swashbuckling, slightly crazy one eyed weasel who offers to help them find Sid. Crash and Eddie willingly become Buck’s pupils, becoming his wingmen of mayhem.’ Then Ellie goes into labour as dinosaurs attack. Everyone is in danger! Will the herd ever get back safely? Will Diego leave the herd and rediscover his inner predator? Will they ever find Sid?
Production Year: 1999 - Family - Director: Rob Minkoff - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Hugh Laurie, Geena Davis, Michael J. Fox, Nathan Lane, Chazz Palminteri
Advantages: Funniy, educational (to an extent), more original than I'd expected Disadvantages: A bit strange, but only a bit!
...the films available already, but Ice Age was among those I’d not yet seen. You’ll notice this is not my typical film, but I am going to give it a go at reviewing anyway!
Story
Well, you’ll never guess when this film is set! That’s right, in the Ice Age! Well, this first film is set right at the start. All the animals are migrating to better ground, except for a mammoth called Manfred or Manny, who seems to be going the ... ...who is having a confrontation with two angry rhinos, and helps him out. Unfortunately, he didn’t bank on Sid then deciding to make him his personal bodyguard and follow him around everywhere! Then the two find a baby, that a sabre-toothed tiger, called Diego is trying to claim as his own, and they decide to return the baby to its people, with the tiger guiding them. But can they trust Diego?
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I’ve just returned from a holiday in South Africa. Our journey out was in two long stretches, first to Doha, then from there to Johannesburg. Luckily, the plane did offer decent in-flight entertainment, and a few movies. I’d seen most of the films available already, but Ice Age was among those I’d not yet seen. You’ll notice this is not my typical film, but I am going to give it a go at reviewing anyway!
Story
Well, you’ll never guess when this film is set! That’s right, in the Ice Age! Well, this first film is set right at the start. All the animals are migrating to better ground, except for a mammoth called Manfred or Manny, who seems to be going the wrong way. He then meets with a sloth called Sid, who is having a confrontation with two angry rhinos, and helps him out. Unfortunately, he didn’t bank on Sid then deciding to make him his personal bodyguard and follow him around everywhere! Then the two find a baby, that a sabre-toothed tiger, called Diego is trying to claim as his own, and they decide to return the baby to its people, with the tiger guiding them. But can they trust Diego?
I love the way this film mixes in all the different animals that surely would never work together. The idea of them looking after a baby was a bit weird but I suppose you do hear about animals adopting babies of other species, and there was the story of Mowgli too. I’m not a baby person but I think for children it must be nice to see animals getting gooey over the baby.
The story is also peppered with appearances from a rat-squirrel-like creature, called Scrat, trying to bury his precious acorn for the winter. Scrat gets into hilarious disaster situations each time, almost losing the acorn and risking his life just to hold on to it. Perhaps there is a moral to all this but for me it was just very funny. The storyline about the baby may also have some meaning or moral behind it about helping out strangers and the different animals coming together may have something to do with accepting people’s differences, though I’m not sure that many people watching would take any notice. Personally I was just enjoying the film.
Graphics
The characters look computerised in an artistic way, and made more like cartoons than realistic creatures. This does make them seem less real or animal-like, and somehow I prefer this as then it is more convincing that they could be cute rather than scary! There is some emphasis on the things that distinguish the character as a certain animal, like the teeth on Diego and the Manny’s trunk and tusks. Also the characters all have very amusing expressions drawn on them that make them more individual, especially with Scrat, who has to be the favourite for me! The rest of the detail is left out, to keep the characters nice and simple. The background graphics are pretty impressive and slightly more realistic without spoiling the overall picture.
Voiceovers
Manny’s voice sounded very familiar to me, and turned out to be Ray Romano, as I guessed, and recognised from his famous show “Everybody Loves Raymond”. It was an unusual choice of voice for a mammoth that you might rather expect to have a very deep and powerful voice. To be honest I did find it a bit hard to believe his character because of the voice, but it was at least original and sort of cute.
The other creatures’ voices didn’t really stand out to me very much, probably because unlike the mammoth, they had the sorts of voices you might expect. Sid the sloth, played by John Leguizamo, had a more humorous and tone and lisp to his voice. Scrat barely spoke, and rather made lots of struggling noises as he moved the acorn about that somehow added to his funny characteristics. Diego, played by Denis Leary, and the other tigers sounded rather calm, cool and collected for most of the time, in that sort of way you’d expect the bad guys to sound anyway. It might have been interesting for all the animals to have unlikely voices, but then like with the mammoth it would probably have just made it all a bit too weird for my liking.
Classification
The film is classified as a PG. I didn’t feel that there was anything in this film to stop small children from watching it, because even where bad things happen, like death or fighting, it is not so much out of evil as typical animal behaviour and is not made to look scary or gruesome. I don’t think any real injury is shown, to keep the whole film light-hearted and easy on the eye.
Conclusion
I’d heard about this film when it came out but was not that interested in seeing it back then. A lot of people were making negative comments about all these animated films coming out and being the same old thing with different animals. Actually I think this is a clever way to learn some basic things about pre-history that might even enhance a child’s interest. As well as this, it really is quite funny, especially the squirrel bits. These days, you don’t have to be a child to enjoy animated films, and I think this is the sort of film anyone of any age can watch. If it comes on telly, you might as well give it a go, but to be honest I wouldn’t bother too much with buying or renting it as I’m not sure after you’ve seen it once you’ll want to see it again. Unless, of course, you are a big fan of animated movies already.
Advantages: Great family entertainment, Great cast, good sountrack, stunning animation and very funny Disadvantages: Stolen plot line, the baby's first steps scene
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Ice Age is a computer animated feature length film not too dissimilar from the likes of Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Shrek and Monsters Inc.
~~~~~~WHAT’S THE MOVIE ABOUT?~~~~~~
The movie is set at the beginning of the ice age when all of the Earth’s animals are heading for warmer pastures, all except Manfred, a huge woolly mammoth who simply wants to be on his own.
He soon ends up running into a clumsy tree sloth named Sid who ... ...them all through a bottle ice cave full of dangerous slides and caverns, a race over a scorching molten lava pit and perilous ice age weather conditions. Along their travels though, the foursome constantly run into the star of the movie, a prehistoric squirrel rat named Scrat, his only mission in life is to find and bury as many acorns as he can collect to hilarious consequences. ~~~~~~THE MAIN CHARACTERS~~~~~~
MANFRED: Voiced by Ray Romano
Manny ...
deano_76 06.12.2002
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Advantages: the football game; Scracht's appearances Disadvantages: lame jokes, lame plot and lame characters
...stupid thing sets free the ice age and gets almost stuck between two colliding icebergs. Finally it escapes, but gets stamped on by a embarrassed mammoth. “Ice Age” is coming...
This quite funny slapstick routine offered not much info about the film’s plot, but already introduced us to one of the most appealing characters. If the rest of the film could offer the same amount of frantic pacing, weird ideas and hilarious slapstick, one could hope for ... ...moving south to escape the Ice Age. Not all of them, to be sure, as a melancholic mammoth named Manfred (spoken by standup comedian Ray Romano) walks in the opposite direction. Meanwhile a especially ugly and unlikeable sloth named Sid (spoken by John Leguizamo) awakens on his family tree to realise his family left without him... again. The jerk then accidentally gets in a quarrel with two sensitive Rhinos who want to kill him for eating their last ...
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Advantages: CGI is pretty good, Manni is quite funny Disadvantages: Sid is just annoying, too sentimental
...haven't, you'll have heard of Ice Age. It's the animated children's comedy from a few years ago, set in the chilly world of - yep, you've guessed it - the ice age. It went on to spawn a sequel, Ice Age 2: The Meltdown, which was released last year, but the general consensus was that it's not as good as the original. It must be pretty bad then.
Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo) is a fast talking, generally annoying sloth, who is rescued by woolly mammoth ... ...story for the kids. Ice Age is very much not one of these films, being as it is firmly aimed at the youngsters.
Saying that, there were still a few scenes in this film that I found quite funny. Ray Romano's grumpy voicing of Manni was a treat; he had plenty of pithy one-liners, and prevented it all from becoming too unbearably happy. There were also some entertaining set-pieces, including the bit with the dodos and their three melons (again, an ...
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Advantages: Animations, soundtrack, SCRAT, the Dodos, interactions between the characters... Disadvantages: Ummmmmmmmm possibly predictable...
...called Scrat inadvertently triggers the Ice Age trying to bury his precious acorn. All living creatures begin heading south except Manfred the very moody mammoth who’s going the other way! He doesn’t get very far before he comes across Sid, an incredibly nerdy, hapless and ugly sloth. Sid is trying to escape two rhino’s he’s upset by ruining their final salad (well he tramped poop all over it and then ate the last dandelion so I guess they had a ... ...pits and slide perilously through ice tunnels. We gain an insight into why Manny is so downbeat and interspersed throughout the film we keep coming across the hapless Scrat and his acorn burying traits… Will Diego follow orders or do what deep down in his feline heart he knows is the right thing? ~ CHARACTERS ~
MANFRED (Manny) voiced by Ray Romano:
A big softie under that moody exterior and he hides a secret that, as I said earlier is revealed ...
rachels_ratty 27.12.2002
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Advantages: great hilarious family fun Disadvantages: none
Director: Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha
Producers: John C. Donkin and Lori Forte
Writers: Michael J. Wilson and Michael Berg Stars: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary
Released in March 2002 this hour and twenty minute computer generated masterpiece follows the conflicting prehistoric lives of both animal and man… with some brilliant yet bizarre results…
* BRIEF PLOT **
When Sid the sloth, (voiced by John Leguizamo) is left behind, ... ...on his own, only to run into some rather big trouble in the shape of two rhinoceros looking mammals, (Brontops), named Carl, (voiced by Cedric the Entertainer) and Frank, (voiced by Stephen Root)…
Fortunately for Sid he stumbles upon Manfred "Manny" the Woolly Mammoth, (voiced by Ray Romano)… who saves him from a fate worse than death, so Sid then decides to tag along with Manny for protection…
Meanwhile, a pride of Saber toothed tigers, (Smilodon), ...
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Advantages: A great family film with plenty of giggles for all. Disadvantages: None!
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Advantages: Great sequel with genius moments- Check out the midget sloths! Disadvantages: Seemed to go too quickly.
Im a big kid at heart and absolutely adored the first IceAge movie, in fact I saw it several times in the cinema. When I heard they were making a sequel my first comment was "I have to see it" I had no idea what the film would be about but I simply had to see it, naturally there was a risk of being dissapointed but I was willing to take that risk. Sadly I missed it when it was released in the cinema(was busy having a baby at the time) and so had to wait until it was released on DVD, finally I have a copy in possesion and im not dissapointed.
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Some people may not have seen the first movie so I thought it would be a good idea to give a little background information, otherwise you wont understand how the 3 main characters come to be travelling together.
IceAge is set, you guessed it, in the iceage, after the dinosaurs have ...
At the dawn of the Ice Age, twenty thousand years ago, a group of three creatures finds an infant child and team up together to return him to his father. There's Manfred, a depressed woolly mammoth, Sid, an amusing sloth and Diego, a mischievous sabre-toothed tiger. Along the way they are joined by a squirrel named Scrat, who is constantly trying to bury his much-loved acorn...
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United States of America
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Deluxe Video Service - Fox, 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT, BOULEVARD ENTERTAIMENT; D3 DIRECT
John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Denis Leary, Jack Black, Jane Krakowski, Goran Visnjic
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English
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English
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English
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Special Features
Scrats New Adventure Gone Nutty, Directors Commentaries, Deleted Scenes And Multi Angle Sequences, Scrat Reveals Segments, Sid On Sid Character Development With Commentary, Design Galleries And Trailers And International Clips, Under The Ice Behind The Scenes Featurette, Making Of Documentary, 6 Blue Sky Featurettes, Booklet
A star-studded cast provides the voices for the prehistoric creatures in this computer-animated feature set 20,000 years ago as the Ice Age approaches. Seemingly antisocial Manny, a woolly mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano), acts as if he just wants to be left alone. When he meets Sid (voiced by John Leguizamo), a sloth, the two become unlikely traveling companions. The plot thickens when the duo finds a human infant and decides to try to return the child to its herd. Manny slowly but surely reveals his heart of gold, while Sid continues to provide comic relief. Diego (voiced by Denis Leary), a saber-toothed tiger with ulterior motives, soon joins them in their search for the humans. Ultimately, this group of misfits becomes its own herd, learning about friendship and loyalty as they brave snow, ice, freezing temperatures, predators, hail, and even boiling lava pits. All the while, a snaggle-toothed squirrel, Scat, provides comic relief as he valiantly struggles with an acorn. A well-written, humorous script and endearing characters mesh well with the state-of-the-art technology and effects. Other stars lending their voices to the feature include Goran Visnjic, Jack Black, and Jane Krakowski.
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