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Ice Age
Just as A Bug's Life was a computer-animated comedy inspired by Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, the funny and often enthralling Ice Age is a digital re-imagining of the Western Three Godfathers. The heroes of this unofficial remake (set 20,000 years ago, during the titular Paleolithic era) are a taciturn mastodon named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano), an annoying sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo), and a duplicitous saber-toothed tiger, Diego (Denis Leary). The unlikely team encounters a dying, human mother who relinquishes her chirpy toddler to the care of these critters. Hoping, against all odds, to return the little guy to his migrating tribe, Manfred and his associates need to establish trust among themselves, not an easy thing in a harsh world of predators, prey, and pushy glaciers. Audiences that have become accustomed to the rounded, polished, storybook look of Pixar's house brand of computer animation (Monsters, Inc.) will find the blunt edges and chilly brilliance of Ice Age--evoking the harsh, dangerous environment of a frozen world--a wholly different, and equally pleasing, trip. Recommended for ages 4 and up. --Tom Keogh
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
The love life of a woolly mammoth--handled with U-rated delicacy--drives this sequel to the first computer-animated romp in the age of prehistoric mammals. While the first Ice Age took a delightful premise and suffocated it with a formulaic plot--in which a mammoth named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano, Everyone Loves Raymond), a sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo, Moulin Rouge!), and a sabre-tooth tiger named Diego (Denis Leary, Rescue Me) helped an abandoned human infant return to its tribe (basically, Three Mammals and a Baby)--the sequel takes the now-familiar setting, gives it a shapeless, episodic storyline, and yet somehow becomes pretty darn entertaining. Faced with the threat of a flood from melting ice, our heroic trio are on the run to escape from their blossoming valley. On the way, they meet a female mammoth (Queen Latifah, Bringing Down the House) who thinks she's an opossum and get menaced by some freshly defrosted carnivorous fish. Add into the mix a herd of lava-worshipping mini-sloths, some Busby Berkeley-style vultures, and more ingenious slapstick featuring the acorn-crazed Scrat, and Ice Age: The Meltdown will amuse even jaded adults. --Bret Fetzer
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs opens with the stitched-together prehistoric family about to become a biological one: Manny (voiced by Ray Romano) and his mate Ellie (Queen Latifah) are expecting a baby mammoth. Unfortunately, this makes Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo) and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) feel left out. Diego, who worries he’s losing his edge, decides to head out on his own, while Sid adopts three suspiciously large eggs that he’s found through a crack in the ice. Up to this point, the movie is perilously sappy--does anyone, particularly a kid, want to watch a kid’s movie about parenthood and impending middle age? Fortunately, the eggs turn out to be dinosaur eggs from a pre-mammalian underworld, and when the mama T-Rex comes to rescue her rambunctious little ones, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs transforms into a delightful comic adventure. The emotional side of the Ice Age movies has always been a tad mawkish, so it’s smart that Dawn of the Dinosaurs emphasises physical comedy. Clearly, the animators have been inspired by a wild fusion of Road Runner cartoons and Buster Keaton. The character of Scrat, with his non-verbal, monomaniacal efforts to get that last acorn (doubled in this movie with the addition of a female counterpart), is only the most obvious reflection of this sensibility. The animators have great fun with the differences in scale between the mammals and the dinosaurs, and the introduction of a deranged Australian weasel named Buck (Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead) pushes everything into Loony-Tune territory. Let Pixar tug at our heartstrings; Ice Age aims to tickle the funny bone and does a fine job of it.--Bret Fetzer
Just as A Bug's Life was a computer-animated comedy inspired by Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, the funny and often enthralling Ice Age is a digital re-imagining of the Western Three Godfathers. The heroes of this unofficial remake (set 20,000 years ago, during the titular Paleolithic era) are a taciturn mastodon named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano), an annoying sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo), and a duplicitous saber-toothed tiger, Diego (Denis Leary). The unlikely team encounters a dying, human mother who relinquishes her chirpy toddler to the care of these critters. Hoping, against all odds, to return the little guy to his migrating tribe, Manfred and his associates need to establish trust among themselves, not an easy thing in a harsh world of predators, prey, and pushy glaciers. Audiences that have become accustomed to the rounded, polished, storybook look of Pixar's house brand of computer animation (Monsters, Inc.) will find the blunt edges and chilly brilliance of Ice Age--evoking the harsh, dangerous environment of a frozen world--a wholly different, and equally pleasing, trip. Recommended for ages 4 and up. --Tom Keogh
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
The love life of a woolly mammoth--handled with U-rated delicacy--drives this sequel to the first computer-animated romp in the age of prehistoric mammals. While the first Ice Age took a delightful premise and suffocated it with a formulaic plot--in which a mammoth named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano, Everyone Loves Raymond), a sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo, Moulin Rouge!), and a sabre-tooth tiger named Diego (Denis Leary, Rescue Me) helped an abandoned human infant return to its tribe (basically, Three Mammals and a Baby)--the sequel takes the now-familiar setting, gives it a shapeless, episodic storyline, and yet somehow becomes pretty darn entertaining. Faced with the threat of a flood from melting ice, our heroic trio are on the run to escape from their blossoming valley. On the way, they meet a female mammoth (Queen Latifah, Bringing Down the House) who thinks she's an opossum and get menaced by some freshly defrosted carnivorous fish. Add into the mix a herd of lava-worshipping mini-sloths, some Busby Berkeley-style vultures, and more ingenious slapstick featuring the acorn-crazed Scrat, and Ice Age: The Meltdown will amuse even jaded adults. --Bret Fetzer
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs opens with the stitched-together prehistoric family about to become a biological one: Manny (voiced by Ray Romano) and his mate Ellie (Queen Latifah) are expecting a baby mammoth. Unfortunately, this makes Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo) and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) feel left out. Diego, who worries he’s losing his edge, decides to head out on his own, while Sid adopts three suspiciously large eggs that he’s found through a crack in the ice. Up to this point, the movie is perilously sappy--does anyone, particularly a kid, want to watch a kid’s movie about parenthood and impending middle age? Fortunately, the eggs turn out to be dinosaur eggs from a pre-mammalian underworld, and when the mama T-Rex comes to rescue her rambunctious little ones, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs transforms into a delightful comic adventure. The emotional side of the Ice Age movies has always been a tad mawkish, so it’s smart that Dawn of the Dinosaurs emphasises physical comedy. Clearly, the animators have been inspired by a wild fusion of Road Runner cartoons and Buster Keaton. The character of Scrat, with his non-verbal, monomaniacal efforts to get that last acorn (doubled in this movie with the addition of a female counterpart), is only the most obvious reflection of this sensibility. The animators have great fun with the differences in scale between the mammals and the dinosaurs, and the introduction of a deranged Australian weasel named Buck (Simon Pegg, Shaun of the Dead) pushes everything into Loony-Tune territory. Let Pixar tug at our heartstrings; Ice Age aims to tickle the funny bone and does a fine job of it.--Bret Fetzer
DVD Description
Ice Age
Get ready for the coolest animated adventure of all time! Heading south to avoid a bad case of frostbite, a group of migrating misfit creatures embarks on a hilarious quest to reunite a human baby with his herd.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Trying to escape the valley to avoid a flood of trouble, Manny, Sid, Diego and Scrat emark on a fun-filled journey across the thawing landscape and meet Ellie, a female woolly mammoth who melts Manny's heart.
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Your favourite sub-zero heroes are back for more thrills, more chills and more mammoth-sized fun. In their biggest adventure yet, the gang discovers a lost world of dinosaurs, while Scrat goes nuts over the beautiful Scratte.
Special Features:
Ice Age
Bunny short
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Scrat short: No Time for Nuts
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Walk the Dinosaur music video
Falling for Scratte
Buck: From Easel to Weasel
Additional language subtitles:
Ice Age--German
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs--German
Get ready for the coolest animated adventure of all time! Heading south to avoid a bad case of frostbite, a group of migrating misfit creatures embarks on a hilarious quest to reunite a human baby with his herd.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Trying to escape the valley to avoid a flood of trouble, Manny, Sid, Diego and Scrat emark on a fun-filled journey across the thawing landscape and meet Ellie, a female woolly mammoth who melts Manny's heart.
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Your favourite sub-zero heroes are back for more thrills, more chills and more mammoth-sized fun. In their biggest adventure yet, the gang discovers a lost world of dinosaurs, while Scrat goes nuts over the beautiful Scratte.
Special Features:
Ice Age
Bunny short
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Scrat short: No Time for Nuts
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Walk the Dinosaur music video
Falling for Scratte
Buck: From Easel to Weasel
Additional language subtitles:
Ice Age--German
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs--German
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55 of 56 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
These films provide three highly entertaining animated comedies for both young and old.
The first film is an unexpected delight. Several mismatched animals from the Palaeolithic age of a mammoth, a sloth and a sabre-toothed tiger end up travelling together when they come across an abandoned human child. The comedy never lets up and the film manages to avoid descending into cutesy schmaltz as it delivers a strong story involving the child being pursued by a pack of tigers, culminating in a moving ending. There are numerous comic set-pieces, not all of which are relevant to the story. Some of these sections work such as the squirrel Scrat and his endless pursuit of nuts and some don't such as the kamikaze dodos, an idea that was probably hilarious on paper, but not on screen. But even when they don't work there's some fun to be had. Especially good is the voices. With Ray Romano playing the not-so-obvious role from his sitcom persona as the mammoth, and Dennis Leary making good use of his small role as the tiger. John Leguizamo as Sid, the annoying Sloth steals the bits of the film that don't involve Scrat.
The second movie sadly presents an inevitable drop in entertainment value that usually happens with sequels. New good voices and characters are added such as Queen Latifah's Ellie the mammoth, and the animation takes a massive leap forward, but the story is slight. The animals must go from A to B to avoid a big flood, while learning valuable lessons about life and friendship and all those things that get forced into these type of films, although usually in a subtler manner than here. As with the first one there are some fine comic interludes, usually involving the persistent Scrat and his nutty exploits that are pure Tex Avery. And the relationship between the mammoths is both funny and actually quite touching, but too much time is taken up with elements that are designed for only the kids. Making something that works for both adults and kids is hard and in many sections the film fails as the animals face complicated dangers that are meant to provide roller-coaster excitement but which rapidly become tedious.
Any fears that the series would go down the diminishing returns route that Shrek did are put to rest with the third movie. Again the animation leaps forward in quality, and so does the story. The mammoths' relationship moves on as you'd expect with Ellie expecting, but this time the tiger and Sid have more to do when Sid finds some dinosaur eggs and is plunged into danger in a jungle filled with non-extinct dinosaurs. Any thought of the film playing too loose with history is cleverly and quickly dealt with, and with Simon Pegg voicing another new character that works there's little time for the many interludes that marred the earlier film. The format of the story also splits up the herd, and although that was viewed previously as the worst thing that could happen, it actually works well as it keeps the story rattling along. And Scrat is back again and his parts avoids the danger of repetition by the addition of his very own Scratette as a sparring partner.
So, three films in and I'm already looking forward to Ice Age 4.
The first film is an unexpected delight. Several mismatched animals from the Palaeolithic age of a mammoth, a sloth and a sabre-toothed tiger end up travelling together when they come across an abandoned human child. The comedy never lets up and the film manages to avoid descending into cutesy schmaltz as it delivers a strong story involving the child being pursued by a pack of tigers, culminating in a moving ending. There are numerous comic set-pieces, not all of which are relevant to the story. Some of these sections work such as the squirrel Scrat and his endless pursuit of nuts and some don't such as the kamikaze dodos, an idea that was probably hilarious on paper, but not on screen. But even when they don't work there's some fun to be had. Especially good is the voices. With Ray Romano playing the not-so-obvious role from his sitcom persona as the mammoth, and Dennis Leary making good use of his small role as the tiger. John Leguizamo as Sid, the annoying Sloth steals the bits of the film that don't involve Scrat.
The second movie sadly presents an inevitable drop in entertainment value that usually happens with sequels. New good voices and characters are added such as Queen Latifah's Ellie the mammoth, and the animation takes a massive leap forward, but the story is slight. The animals must go from A to B to avoid a big flood, while learning valuable lessons about life and friendship and all those things that get forced into these type of films, although usually in a subtler manner than here. As with the first one there are some fine comic interludes, usually involving the persistent Scrat and his nutty exploits that are pure Tex Avery. And the relationship between the mammoths is both funny and actually quite touching, but too much time is taken up with elements that are designed for only the kids. Making something that works for both adults and kids is hard and in many sections the film fails as the animals face complicated dangers that are meant to provide roller-coaster excitement but which rapidly become tedious.
Any fears that the series would go down the diminishing returns route that Shrek did are put to rest with the third movie. Again the animation leaps forward in quality, and so does the story. The mammoths' relationship moves on as you'd expect with Ellie expecting, but this time the tiger and Sid have more to do when Sid finds some dinosaur eggs and is plunged into danger in a jungle filled with non-extinct dinosaurs. Any thought of the film playing too loose with history is cleverly and quickly dealt with, and with Simon Pegg voicing another new character that works there's little time for the many interludes that marred the earlier film. The format of the story also splits up the herd, and although that was viewed previously as the worst thing that could happen, it actually works well as it keeps the story rattling along. And Scrat is back again and his parts avoids the danger of repetition by the addition of his very own Scratette as a sparring partner.
So, three films in and I'm already looking forward to Ice Age 4.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Brilliant! The humour in these films operates at several levels. Cute animals for the youngsters and a more subtle type for the older viewer. It also comes with a free download of each film so I can now carry and watch them wherever I want on my iPod.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Had the ice age 1 and 3 on dvd and took the plunge to replace the two films i had for the 3 film box set on blu ray...................Wow what a difference, each film is so much better sound and picture quality, especially the last film in the trilogy.............do not have any problem in giving these films a five star review as they are real great family fun and look totally fantastic on blu ray! and at under £20.00 quid a real bargain.........now where did i leave that acorn?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Ice Age 1 2 3
Geat value for money as you would spend more buying it individually
funny cleaver and whitty film good for all family and friends etc. Read more
funny cleaver and whitty film good for all family and friends etc. Read more
Published 1 month ago by maria
Great Film Series Let Down By Third
The Ice Age trilogy has intrigued me for an age so the bluray box set was a good time to get them into the home. Read more
Published 1 month ago by DannyG
ICE AGE 1-3
LOVE THESE FILMS. SCRAT THE SQUIRREL TYPE ANIMAL IS FUNNY BUT SYD THE SLOTH IS EVEN FUNNIER. IT'S DEFINATELY A FAMILY FILM. *****
Published 2 months ago by yomama
Absolutely Brilliant
The Ice Age trilogy delivers everything for the kids and so much for the adults in all three films. BlueSky really hit the nail on the head with these three. Read more
Published 2 months ago by William Templar
Great Value for Money
The Ice Age 1 to 3 Box Set is great. Good fun and entertainment for any age. Very good for grandparents when looking after chilren on a rainy dayto keep them occupied. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mrs W
ICE AGE 1. 2. AND 3
i TREATED MY GRANDCHILDREN TO THESE VERY GOOD FILMS AND THEY LOVED THEM HAVE PLAYED THEM OVER AND OVER AGAIN MOST THEY LOVED ICE AGE 3.
Published 3 months ago by Jenny
The Ice Age movies
These terrific animations are for any age, as they are both witty and thought-provoking. Also highly inventive, laugh-out-loud hilarious, and touching on themes of love,... Read more
Published 3 months ago by galadriel
Fantastic!
This trilogy is great. My son loves all three films and watches them alot. The best thing is that all 3 discs come in just one case, very handy for storage or taking out.
Published 3 months ago by JTee
Ice Age
many many amazing reviews and high rating for ice age and rightly so, fun for all ages to watch, there are loads of levels of entertainment, you have the silly humour which makes... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Rob
Triple fun!
I bought the 3DVDs for a friend for Xmas as I am always telling her how funny they are. She cannot believe that she had not seen any of them before. Very fast delivery. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Lucy_Lou
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