March 15 , 2002


Ice Age
(20th Century Fox) Rated PG

Release Date - March 15, 2002
 


Starring: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo,
Denis Leary, Goran Visnjic, Jack Black
Directed by: Chris Wedge
Produced by: Christopher Meledandri, Lori Forte
Written by: Michael G. Wilson, Michael Berg,
Peter Ackerman, Steve Young

I would like to say something nicer about Ice Age, but if you mixed Dinosaur and Antz, you still wouldn’t have much of a movie.  (Heck, Fox may think “It’s like a mixture of Dinosaur and Antz” is a pull quite in the making.)  Chris Wedge is wonderfully talented and the film looks terrific, but… it just isn’t very interesting.  As Dinosaur proved, slow-moving animals trying to get to safe land is a yawner, no matter who voices the animals.  And while Dinosaur was timid on every level, Ice Age sets you up for some of the wildness that made Shrek such a hit.  And then, it plays it safe.  Where were the Fox-housed Farrelly Bros. to tell them to get some giant woolly mammoth crap jokes in there?  It may not be high humor, but it would have gotten me to shake the cobwebs off of my Diet Coke.

 

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