Plot
Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.
Release Year: 2002
Rating: 7.5/10 (125,006 voted)
Critic's Score: 60/100
Director:
Chris Wedge
Stars: Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Ray Romano
Storyline Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a stupid sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed tiger named Diego are forced to become unlikely heroes. The three reluctantly come together when they have to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age.
Writers: Michael J. Wilson, Michael Berg
Cast: Ray Romano
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Manfred
(voice)
John Leguizamo
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Sid
(voice)
Denis Leary
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Diego
(voice)
Goran Visnjic
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Soto
(voice)
Jack Black
-
Zeke
(voice)
Cedric the Entertainer
-
Carl
(voice)
Stephen Root
-
Frank
/
Start
(voice)
Diedrich Bader
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Saber-Toothed Tiger
(voice)
Alan Tudyk
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Lenny
/
Oscar
/
Dab
(voice)
Lorri Bagley
-
Jennifer
(voice)
Jane Krakowski
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Rachel
(voice)
Peter Ackerman
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Dodo
/
Macrauchenia
(voice)
P.J. Benjamin
-
Dodo
(voice)
Josh Hamilton
-
Dodo
/
Aardvark
(voice)
Chris Wedge
-
Dodo
/
Scrat
(voice)
Opening Weekend: $46,312,454
(USA)
(17 March 2002)
(3316 Screens)
Gross: $188,600,000
(Worldwide)
(25 August 2002)
(except USA)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
Blue Sky Animation has been developing improvements in computer-generated characters for over 15 years now. It was responsible for some of the aliens in
Alien: Resurrection and the talking cockroaches in
Joe's Apartment.
Goofs:
Continuity:
During the fight with the dodos, Diego disappears when Manfred is keeping the melon away from the dodos. When the melon goes flying, Diego is back beside Manfred.
Quotes:
[first lines]
Freaky Mammal:
Well, why don't they call it The Big Chill? Or The Nippy Era? I'm just sayin', how do we know it's an Ice Age? Freaky Mammal:
Because, of all...
[shouts]
Freaky Mammal:
the *ice*! Freaky Mammal:
Well, things just got a little chillier.
User Review
Great fun for everyone that has a sense of humour.
Rating: 9/10
With a relatively small budget for an animated film of only $60 million the
people at Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios have done an incredible
job.
They have combined state-of-the-art digital animation, the perfectly cast
voice talents of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Dennis Leary (among many
others) to create a highly entertaining, family film with a strong message
about cooperation, friendship and caring for your fellow herd members. And
how sometimes it takes many different creatures to make up a
herd.
While watching this film I got a strong political message about getting
along with the people that share your space -- maybe it should be required
viewing for all world leaders!
David Newman -- yet another member of the Newman family of Hollywood
composers -- provides a superb score that is not intrusive yet serves to
move the action along and, at times, is positively toe
tapping.
The overall look of the film is incredible; an intensely coloured, strangely
believable fantasyland of snow, geysers, mud, rocks and ice. The individual
characters were delightfully believable too, with the facial expressions of
Ray Romano's ‘Manfred' being a particular treat.
The entire sequence with the DoDos will leave no doubt as to where the
expression `Dumb as a DoDo comes from.'
This is a good family film that keeps the things that could alarm or
frighten children pretty much sanitized -- but real nonetheless.
It would be a great movie to see in the theater and to buy for
home.
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