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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 88821
Released: November 11, 2008 |
| Our Price: $11.39 |
| Used Price: $10.22 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
They came... they thawed... they conquered the hearts of audiences everywhere in the coolest animated adventure of all time! Heading south to avoid a bad case of global frostbite, a group of migrating misfit creatures embark on a hilarious quest to reunite a human baby with his tribe. Featuring an all-star voice cast, including Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary, ICE AGE is "a pure delight" (New York Daily News) for all ages!
Description of Ice Age (+ Digital Copy):
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 (+ Digital Copy) Reviews:
A Great Start to a Great Series 
2009-12-13 - In "Ice Age" (2002), the first of the superb three-part series, some traditions are established that hold true for later films in the series. Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel, is wrestling with his prized acorn although in this outing some of his vignettes become brief interactions with the main characters. In later movies of the series he becomes more of an independent entity and even finds a soul mate. The stage is set for the later independently embedded cartoons in which the squirrel is constantly trying to conquer that iconic acorn, at battle with nature and his nut.
At the beginning of this film there's a huge migration to warmer climes going on with lots of different species heading south. Manny, the mammoth (voice of Ray Romano) is going against the tide, headed in the other direction.
This first film is noteworthy because of the presence of human beings, a sight of Stonehenge, and the very interesting episode with the prehistoric human cave drawings. Manny sees a mammoth family and becomes very lonesome about his own isolated plight without a mate.
There is a great deal of story-building in this movie with many ideas planted for further chapters which will bring on the introduction of more characters, and mating instincts will flower.
Manny meets Sid, the sloth, and immediately develops a dislike for the pushy Sid. Later they find a human baby, and both develop a love for the child. The baby is the catalyst for forming a new herd.
Diego, the carnivorous saber-toothed tiger, is introduced as a predator, and he wants to grab the human baby for his tiger gang to devour.
There's an inspired musical section with the extinct dodo birds who seemed too dumb to survive.
For kids and adults watching there are of a lot of lessons to be learned. Manny saves Diego's life which transforms him into a loyal member of the new herd. He shows gratitude, and the baby helps to "humanize" him. The importance of friendship and loyalty, the need for belonging to a group, and the need for companionship-all of these come out of the dramatic action.
In Blu-Ray this movie has stunning color and visual effects. There are a lot of scary adventures including cascading ice, molten lava, teetering icy crags. There's some bathroom humor that kids will probably get and titter over. Even though these are animals, the moviemakers have concentrated on characterization. They give human qualities to the animals (in fact they are almost ideal humans), and, of course, the animals speak English. It's full of vocal and sight gags. The movie is a treat for all.
Ice Age Purchase 
2009-10-11 - The product that I received was claimed to be in "like new/good" condition, yet every 5-10minutes the media cannot be read from the disc. It's very frustrating when my 15mo old daughter gets bored waiting for it to re-read the disc. I also checked to make sure it wasn't my dvd player by watching around 20 other movies in it with no problem.
ice age 
2009-10-02 - if you enjoyed the ice age on dvd, then you will love it on blu-ray. all the colors are bright and sharp, and i don't have a lcd yet. i play all my blu-ray with my ps3.
the only thing is, now i have to replace almost all my dvd with blu-ray.
Great family fun!
2009-09-22 - "The little squirrel-like critter is soooo cute!"
"The sloth is hilarious!!"
"The mammoth is very brave and cool!"
...says my 5 yr old.
Great movie! The kids love it!!
2009-09-02 - Our kids loved the 3rd Ice Age that came out this summer. We looked several places for this one before finding it on Amazon. This one has lots of special features. Highly recommend.
