Amazon.co.uk Review
The funny and often enthralling
Ice Age is a digital re-imagining of the Western
Three Godfathers just as
A Bug's Life was a computer-animated comedy inspired by Akira Kurosawa's
The Seven Samurai. 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, sabre tooth 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 require trust between themselves, not an easy thing in a harsh world of predators, prey and pushy glaciers. If audiences have become accustomed to the rounded, polished, storybook look of Pixar's house brand of computer animation (
Monsters, Inc.), the blunt edges and chilly brilliance of
Ice Age--evoking the harsh, dangerous environment of a frozen world--are a wholly different, and equally pleasing, trip.
--Tom Keogh
Video Description
VHS Special Features:
Exclusive: Scrat's Missing Adventure
Deleted Scenes
Making-of Ice Age Documentary
3 x trailers
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