Ice Age
Originally posted a long time ago on Paul’s Reviews Page
I’ll be rating movies on a three zone, 5-star scale. Each movie will be rated
on “Visual Appeal”, “Audio Appeal” and “Story Appeal”. Each of these three
zones can be rated up to 5 stars (or asterisks…. they load faster than
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A HREF=”http://us.imdb.com/Title?0268380″>Ice Age
V: *****
A: ****
S: *****
Synopsis: An unlikely ‘herd’ of ice-age-era animals comes together to return a lost human baby to its tribe.
Thoughts: The trio of star voice talent that heads up Ice Age is just about as unlikely as the animals to which they supply voices. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Dennis Leary voice a mammoth, a sloth and a saber-toothed tiger, respectively. Ice Age is not really a dialog-heavy film, although the dialog that is there is relevant, fitting and quite often funny. Ice Age is quite well stacked with sight gags and slapstick, but is also bristling with stunning landscapes, fluid, lifelike animation and remarkably evident emotion in the characters’ faces. I’ll admit it… I choked back a few tears at various points through the film. Sadly, I saw it on a plane during a transcontinental flight, so I missed most of the real subtlety; still an excellent flick… I can’t wait for it to come out on DVD this fall!! .