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Ice Age

Play trailer 2:23 Poster for Ice Age PG Released Mar 15, 2002 1h 21m Kids & Family Comedy Adventure Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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Twenty-thousand years ago, Earth is a wondrous, prehistoric world filled with great danger, not the least of which is the beginning of the Ice Age. To avoid a really bad frostbite, the planet's majestic creatures - and a few small, slothful ones - begin migrating south . The story revolves around sub-zero heroes: a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth and a prehistoric combination of a squirrel and rat, known as Scrat.
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Even though Ice Age is treading over the same grounds as Monsters, Inc. and Shrek, it has enough wit and laughs to stand on its own.

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David Ansen Newsweek In the time-honored tradition of kids' films, Ice Age mixes broad displays of physical cruelty with a sweet message, which in this case is about the need of each member of a herd to look after the other. Mar 9, 2018 Full Review Janice Page Boston Globe Rated: 2/4 Nov 24, 2011 Full Review Ian Freer Empire Magazine Delivers solid laughs and thrills wrapped up in an infectious sense of character. Rated: 4/5 Dec 30, 2006 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review After the first three wordless minutes of Ice Age, where a mute squirrel creature named Scrat hilariously struggles to bury his sole remaining acorn in a newly formed glacier, everything goes downhill. Rated: 2/4 Sep 4, 2023 Full Review Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) Innovative illustration, sharp scripting and vibrant vocalising gives this sprightly animated comedy a knack for melting down the frostiest resistance. Rated: 3/5 Aug 14, 2020 Full Review Steve Biodrowski Cinefantastique The highlight of the film turns out to be the character least integral to the "plot" ... [Scrat's] apparently eternal quest for a beloved chestnut...plays like a series of classic cartoon short subjects... Jul 6, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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Cudalbu R A great tale that marks the beginnings of many movies with similar themes. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/22/24 Full Review Audience Member Absolute cinema, Scrat was the best part but other than that the movie was awesome Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/20/24 Full Review Nick R It doesn't stand out like any Dreamworks or Disney films, but 'Ice Age' is still a solid flick worth watching. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/19/24 Full Review Daniel N Absolutely brilliant. Loved it as a kid and love it as an adult. Great characters, great writing and great storytelling. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/11/24 Full Review Dimitra T Ice Age ist tatsächlich für mich einer der besten Animationsfilme allerzeiten.Die Charaktere sind sehr toll geschrieben und jeder einzelne von ihnen hat seine eigenen Charakter Eigenschaften.Auch wenn die Animation nicht so gut gealtert ist sah sie für darmalige Verhältnisse extrem gut aus.Wirklich ein sehr toller und unterhaltsamer Film für alle Altersgruppen.Kinder werden bei diesen Film den Spaß ihres Lebens haben.Ice Age hat auch ein sehr großes Franchise erschaffen.Nur schade wenn man bedenkt was für schlechte Filme aus dieser Reihe wir noch bekommen haben aber dieser Film mit dem alles anfing ist extrem gut. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 12/03/24 Full Review Jay W "Ice Age" came out still in the early days of CGI animated features. The "Best Animated Picture Oscar" had only just been introduced the previous year. It wasn't made by Pixar or Dreamworks it was made by Blue Sky Studios. Blue Sky was basically what was left over from Fox animation after the bombing of "Titan A. E.". In fact, there was a time where Don Bluth was attached to direct this film. The director of "Land Before Time", directing another prehistoric animal adventure, sounds like a good fit to me. But alas, it was not meant to be. The actual story in the movie "Ice Age" is about as cookie cutter as they come. A grumpy no-nonsense loner is paired up with a fast-talking comedic relief sidekick. The two of them team up to return a baby to its family. Added to the mix is a tiger named Diego, voiced by Denis Leary, who wants the baby for purposes of revenge. He teams up with the duo in plans to betray them later. Hijinx ensue. The marketing at the time focused most of its time on the squirrel, Scratch. Enough so, that when I went to watch the film, I was surprised what little impact he makes in the story. He could be completely cut out of the movie and nothing would be missed. He is just a source for slapstick humor when the movie needs to wake the kids up. It is a sad state of things when I say that the filler is the selling point of the movie. The movie also spends 5 minutes on the animals going to change the baby's diaper. Despite being voiced by the lady who voices every cartoon baby, Tara Strong, the baby doesn't have much of a personality. It is just there as the plot device. To be cute at sometimes to warm up a character's heart, and to cry when the story needs a detour. It is a kids' road trip buddy comedy with no real surprises. It follows all the plot points you'd expect and tells most of the jokes you'd expect. Not awful, but nothing worth going out of your way to see. "Ice Age" gets a cold reception from me. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 11/26/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Twenty-thousand years ago, Earth is a wondrous, prehistoric world filled with great danger, not the least of which is the beginning of the Ice Age. To avoid a really bad frostbite, the planet's majestic creatures - and a few small, slothful ones - begin migrating south . The story revolves around sub-zero heroes: a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth and a prehistoric combination of a squirrel and rat, known as Scrat.
Director
Chris Wedge
Producer
Lori Forte
Screenwriter
Michael J. Wilson, Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman, Michael J. Wilson
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Production Co
Blue Sky Studios, Fox Animation Studios
Rating
PG (Mild Peril)
Genre
Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 15, 2002, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA)
$176.4M
Runtime
1h 21m
Sound Mix
Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)
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