buih-47731 I can't count how many times i watched this amazing heartwarming movie on my ten fingers and ten toes, its just a great movie. Actually it is one of the first movies i remember watching

Python Hyena Ice Age (2002): Dir: Chris Wedge / Voices: Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Jack Black, Chris Wedge: Computer animation about new things and compromise between conflicting groups. The ice age has arrived and animals are heading south but not Manfred the mammoth. He is accompanied by a sloth named Sid and they are forced to trust a saber-tooth tiger named Diago. Ray Romano voices Manfred who faces tradition yet must care for an Eskimo child. This all climaxes upon an unrealistic compromise. John Leguizamo voices the irritating Sid whose job is to provide comic relief and be a complete pain in the frozen asshole to everyone else on this journey. Denis Leary voices Diago who has a predicted change of heart as if nobody could see that coming. And as if anyone needs to point out that it is a saber-tooth cat's nature to be carnivores and not buddy up to humongous mammoths and cuddly sloths. Besides Manfred, the only character of interest is the prehistoric squirrel that is featured periodically in his hazardous quest to obtain an acorn. Director Chris Wedge is backed by decent humour, which works best, but not so much of a script. He also provides the vocals of sorts for the prehistoric squirrel Scrat that is involved in the film's best scenes. The computer generated images are bright and colourful highlighting the era involved but they are unable to thaw out weak writing. Score: 5 / 10

Taylor Kingston I really love this movie. It is so funny and so adorable, and really interesting. I love the concept, which at the time was completely new. The cast did a great job of voice acting and the story is just so good. I especially love Sid.In this movie, back when the Earth was covered with ice and overrun with glaciers, and animals that no longer exist need to hurry to find a safe place to be when the Ice Age happens. Sid, a sloth, Manny, a woolly mammoth and Diego, a sabre-toothed tiger, all have to work together to get a child back to his home, with people. They come up against many obstacles, but manage to overcome the all.Overall, I give this movie a 9 out of 10, which in my ratings book is: Amazing.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) "Ice Age" is widely considered one of the best animated feature films of the 2000s and even if it is already 12 years old now it is still certainly worth watching. It lost the Animated Oscar to Hayao Miyazaki's "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi" and runs only for 75 minutes not counting the closing credits. It has a parallel to the very successful "Monsters, Inc" as the film's protagonists also spend most of the movie with carrying a little kid around that does not really belong into their world. Here it is an Eskimo baby and the saber-toothed tiger, the mammoth and the sloth go on a journey to bring it back to its parents. The cast is fairly unknown, no real superstars here unlike most animated films these days. The most known member may be Jack Black.Visually, it is excellent work. The animated ice world is as nice to look at as all the creatures living in there. In terms of the story, early on it is mostly fun and a kids movie, but it gets deeper towards the end with some really emotionally investing moments. One would be the mammoth seeing the cave paintings and how he reacts to them. Another would be the ending when they reach the Eskimo tribe and give back the baby. I think they chose wisely to make this the final highlight of the film and not the dramatic tiger fight which happens before. Adds a lot of heart to the movie. Apart from that, it is interesting to see how the motivations of the trio change during the journey. The sloth wants to bring the baby back from start to finish. The mammoth really only wants to get rid of the sloth early on and develops a bond with the baby as the story continues. The tiger basically takes the enemy within role and wants to trick the other two in order to feed them to his fellows, but his motivations also change quickly.Director Chris Wedge started his career with the Academy Award winning animated short film "Bunny" and most recently directed "Epic" which I enjoyed a lot. He seems to have a talent to take us to new worlds mostly including animals. There are 3 sequels to "Ice Age" by now, but Wedge only directed the original. He gave his voice to Scrat in the other films too. The scenes including Scrat will be especially loved by younger audiences and serve as intermissions between the main story parts. It's a pretty interesting concept, somehow like short films within a movie almost completely independent from the story. Co-director Saldanha worked also on the sequels and not too long ago on "Rio 2", a film also centered on animals, but in a completely different spot of the planet, especially in terms of the climate.I recommend watching "Ice Age". It could almost be described as a road movie many centuries ago and that is probably pretty unique. It has lots of humor, basically from start to finish, and heart and is worth a watch also for people who are not that interested in the animation genre.