ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Jesper Brun Ice Age is an enjoyable family film with something for everybody. I don't think it's something spectacular, but what we get is enjoyable. This is a buddy comedy story we've seen before, but it is executed well with each character providing their own sense of humour ranging from the mostly goofball slapstick of Sid to the deadpan from Manfred and the similar style from Diego. But it's not only fun and gags, because these characters are actually pretty well made. Even though Sid primarilly plays the role of the socially inept one whom nobody wants he is both kind and brave when he needs to. Manfred may seem grumpy and stern, but their is a sad reason to that (no spoilers). Diego gets into their trip with a completely different agenda than when he pretends to have and that makes some good tension between the three of them. My only little issue with Ice Age is that the animation hasn't aged very well. Even compared to other animated features of its time it is not that great which is shown best in the human characters' unnatural look. You can't blame it for that, because it's a first from Blue Sky Studios and they did a great job. Even though it's been milked with pointless sequels which went in a completely different way than I had hoped, people seem to like it, because the box office performances sure don't lie. It all started with this enjoyable feature with good humour, good characters and some powerfull moments.

invisibleunicornninja Most of the "comedy" from this movie is based in poop jokes and characters being stupid. The animation in this movie is lazy, and the story is dumb. When I was younger and the target audience of this movie, I was bored for most of the runtime so I'm not going to make the claim that kids will like this movie. I wouldn't recommend watching this movie. Side note, one time in the 4th or 5th grade a teacher showed us that clip where the character Scrat created the continents and then told us that that was how the continents were actually made. She did not then go on to tell us that that was a joke and then tell us how the continents were actually made. That clip aside, this movie is filled with bad science.

taylort-62416 I first saw this movie when I was five years old. I'm now sixteen and I still love it every bit as much! I love the comedy the best.This story is about animals who are migrating South for the winter in the prehistoric times. Two of the animals, Sid, who is a sloth and Diego, a saber-toothed tiger, befriend a woolly mammoth named Manny. Sid and Diego try to help Manny as he migrates north, while caring for a human baby. For years, Manny has kept his past a secret from everyone, but Diego and Sid help Manny work through his painful feelings along the way. They experience many other challenges on their journey to return the baby to his "herd".Ray Romano did an excellent job at playing Manny and I especially loved Sid, voiced by John Leguizamo. Diego was played by Denis Leary. You will love this heartwarming, comedic, family feature film, which carries a hidden message saying, "No one can make it through life on their own". I'm ready to see it again!

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.