Ice Age

ICE AGE (2002)

Its 2006 and I am eagerly waiting for “Ice Age – The Melt Down”. I love sequels. ‘Ice Age’ is an excellent movie. Animation is just wonderful. Storyline is superb. Set during the Ice Age, a tiger, a sloth, and a mammoth find a lost human baby, and they try to return him to his tribe ‘Ice Age’ is a combination of fun, warmth and wit. It makes you smile most of the times and touches your heart at the end. In most of the sequences, background on screen is amazingly beautiful.

Dialogues like “This is what you do, when you’re in a Herd.” goes deep down your heart. Characters have been portrayed spectacularly. You will fall in love with Manny, the mammoth, the squirrel, the sloth Sid and even Diego the tiger. Baby is too cute to miss. All roller coaster sequences are interesting too. Only thing which I missed in this movie was that punch of anxiety and unpredictability. Most of the sequences were too predictable. Movie is neither an outrageous comedy nor a melodrama. Even when this is an animated picture, it can’t be compared with ‘The Incredibles’ or ‘Finding Nemo’ or ‘Shrek’.

This movie can’t be categorized as any classic but kids will fall in love with this movie. There is a nice moment in the movie when animals trot through a cave whose walls are covered with pictographs. Animation work may not look as state of the art as Pixar's standard, but it uses lighting effects and innovative backgrounds to an equally impressive degree. This movie could be watched once and can be enjoyed too. As a matter of fact, I don’t remember a single animation movie, which I didn’t like. Animation rocks!!!!!

My Rating: 6.99/10
Entertainment Value: 90%