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Ice Age
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Ice Age (2002) -- Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.
Ice Age (2002) -- Scrat tries to hide his acorn high up in a tree during a thunderstorm (not a good idea).
Ice Age (2002) -- Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.
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Ice Age (2002) -- Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.

Overview

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Directors:
Chris Wedge
Carlos Saldanha (co-director)
Writers:
Michael J. Wilson (story)
Michael Berg (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
15 March 2002 (USA) more
Tagline:
The Coolest Event In 16,000 Years. more
Plot:
Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 23 nominations more
User Comments:
A time in history when animals could talk, but humans couldn't yet! more
US TV Schedule:
Mon. July 64:00 PMFX   

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Ray Romano ... Manfred (voice)

John Leguizamo ... Sid (voice)

Denis Leary ... Diego (voice)

Goran Visnjic ... Soto (voice)

Jack Black ... Zeke (voice)

Cedric the Entertainer ... Carl (voice)

Stephen Root ... Rhino / Start (voice)

Diedrich Bader ... Saber-Toothed Tiger (voice)

Alan Tudyk ... Oscar / Dab the Dodo (voice)
Lorri Bagley ... Female Sloth (voice)

Jane Krakowski ... Female Sloth (voice)
Peter Ackerman ... Dodo / Macrauchenia (voice)
P.J. Benjamin ... Dodo (voice)
Josh Hamilton ... Dodo / Aardvark (voice)
Chris Wedge ... Dodo / Scrat (voice)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Ice Age (Canada: English title) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG for mild peril.
Runtime:
81 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | DTS

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Trivia:
Some additional character names: the baby is Roshan, his mother is Nadia, his father is Runar. The sabers are Soto, Zeke, Oscar ("haughty saber") and Lenny ("fat saber"). The female sloths in the pool are Jennifer ("He's not much to look at...") and Rachel ("All the sensitive ones get eaten."). The "rhinos" are Carl (the one with thick horns) and Frank (the one with thin horns The source for this information is from an autographed original script purchased at auction. There is a signed COA from 20th Century Fox Archives, auction item number ICE0032. more
Goofs:
Continuity: During the fight with the dodos, Diego disappears when Manfred is keeping the melon away from the dodos. When the melon goes flying, Diego is back beside Manfred. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Freaky Mammal: Well, why don't they call it The Big Chill? Or The Nippy Era? I'm just sayin', how do we know it's an Ice Age?
Freaky Mammal: Because... of all the ice.
Freaky Mammal: Well, things just got a little chillier.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Levels (2008) more
Soundtrack:
Send Me on My Way more

FAQ

What type of animal is Scrat?
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21 out of 28 people found the following comment useful:-
A time in history when animals could talk, but humans couldn't yet!, 4 January 2003
Author: TxMike from Houston, Tx, USA, Earth

In what amounts to a throw-back to the early, manually-animated cartoons, "Ice Age" chooses a very simple story around which is wrapped clever and exciting animation. Highly intelligent sabre-tooth tigers want to get revenge for the killing of one of their pack, so plot to steal the baby son of the human tribe leader. A goofy sloth (Lugiezamo) and a kind wooly mammoth (Ray Romano) rescue the child and attempt to find his parents, joined by a sly tiger (Denis Leary) who at first is planning to lead all of them into a corner so his tiger friends can help get the child back and eat the mammoth. But a series of events, and the tiger's being saved by the mammoth, causes all of them to "bond".

The DVD is flawless. The Dolby surround sound is remarkably good, truly surrounding you with sound. The direct digital to DVD video transfer is as good, colorful, and sharp as the other recent ones like "Toy Story 2", "Shrek", and "Monsters Inc." There is a whole second disk of "extras" which take you through the whole animated film-making process. Also a short animated film "Bunny" which won an oscar in 1998. Plus another "short" which shows the little squirrel, 20,000 years later, in an ice block drifting onto a deserted island, and his pounding of a coconut into the ground triggering the continental drift which resulted in the present day continents! Very inventive and funny.

Watching "Ice Age", my wife and I noticed that much of the action and pratfalls reminded us of the old "Roadrunner" cartoons. In the DVD extras the director mentions that those old cartoons of Chuck Jones were the insriration of many of the scenes. Yes, a throw-back to the old manually-animated cartoons, and a worthy tribute.

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Just saw this movie for the first time kclax14
Sid = Mr. Bean???? pmedina-1
Baby is SM greenec3-1
IF humans killed his family then why wasn't he afraid to help??( SPOILER vangellv
jack black?????????? missdubois
Who would win in this hypothetical fight? greenec3-1
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