![]() After months of teasers and trailers bombarding movie screens everywhere, Ice Age finally debuted to record numbers. Debuting last spring, Fox’s Ice Age is one of the year’s most entertaining pictures and has brought Fox back on the map as an animation powerhouse. One of the year’s most popular movies is an independent one, some old franchises did not measure up to their potential, and the year’s biggest animated movie is not from Disney, Pixar, or Dreamworks. This year has been a very peculiar year for the movie business, especially when it comes to boxoffice receipts. ![]() This is when their journey begins as they face ice, fire, a baby, a flock of dodos, and each other. However, Manfred, doubtful of Diego’s intentions, decides that they will all go together. When they find the human village abandoned, Diego tries to convince the others that he knows where the humans are headed and will take the baby back. Suddenly, Diego appears to take the baby, but his intentions are questioned by Manfred who decides that they all should go together and return the baby. Sid wants to take the baby back to the human village, a suggestion that Manfred refuses to take part of. At the bottom of the waterfall, the mother places her baby on shore in front of an amazed Manfred and Sid. When the baby’s mother runs away, Diego, one of the members of the pack, goes after her, but soon loses her when she jumps from the top of a waterfall. The tigers are really scary and cats haven’t looked this menacing since The Lion King’s Scar or The Jungle Book’s Sher Khan. A campfire is attacked by a pack of Saber-toothed tigers whose leader wants the baby son of the tribe leader. This is when we meet the humans in the story. Faced with impending danger, Sid decides to stick around near Manfred even when Manfred tells him to go away. Soon, Sid encounters trouble with some angry rhinos that are scared away by Manfred who unwillingly protects the annoying Sid. We are soon introduced to Sid who awakens from his sleep to find that all of his pack has started migrating without him. There is an animal on the verge of an evolutionary breakthrough (“I can fly!”) and some kids playing extinction in a lava pit (“You can play extinction later kids.”). There are many jokes and gags in this introduction. The introduction enhances the environment and the powerlessness of the characters against it. This is where we find Manfred going in the opposite direction of the crowd. Lucky for the small animal, he survives the crash and lands with his acorn intact, but is then stomped on by some migrating animals. Unfortunately for him, the pressure on the ice causes a giant crack to form which runs along the ice to break a nearby iceberg which comes flying in his direction. He scurries across the white snow like a small dot and when he finds the perfect spot he tries to bury it. Ice Age begins with Scrat running around in the snow in search of the perfect place to bury his acorn. ![]() Blue Sky Studios (March 15, 2002), Twentieth Century Fox (November 26, 2002), 2 disc set, 81 mins plus supplements, 1.85:1 original anamorphic widescreen and 1.33:1 pan & scan, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated PG, Retail: $29.95 Storyboard: ![]()
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