The Ice Age movies were some of the most emblematic children’s animated movies of all time. They were unusual for using famous actors’ voices in an ensemble cast that paired up voices with pre-historic animals that looked like characteristic caricatures of what those animals would have looked like in the past.
Ice Age was an historic movie for kids that got a 7.4 rating out of 10. Several million people watched this movie, and hundreds of thousands adored it and gave it a high rating. The director was Chris Wedge, and there was a unique addition of a co-director, Carlos Saldanha. This movie was called the coolest event in 16,000 years, and it sure lived up to its name. That pun really established that movie as one of the pre-eminent Ice Age movies of the whole millennium. This movie featured the appearances of a sabertooth tiger, sloth, wooly mammoth, and a lost human infant as they make their way through the icy tundra as they try to find their way back home. This movie received 4 award wins, an Oscar nomination, and another 23 nominations from various award sources.
This movie featured the stellar voices of an all-star celebrity cast that included Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Groan Visnjic, Jack Black, Cedric the Entertainer, Stephen Root, Diedrich Bader, and Alan Tudyk. This all-star celebrity cast featured an ensemble motley crew of some of the funniest, most entertaining, and unusual voices in the industry. Some of the characters had historically memorable names like Manfred, Sid, Diego, Soto, Zeke, Carl, and Rhino. This movie got a PG rating, not the characteristic G rating that all children’s movies get because it featured some mild peril.
This movie was about 1 hour and 20 minutes long so most parents should be able to watch it without any problems. It doesn’t take that much time to sit through it. However, the jokes are for parents and children too so there is no danger of it dragging or being uncomfortable to watch or sit through. The budget for this film was $60 million, but it still managed to become one of the hottest animated films of all time. Ice Age was a movie that captured the fantasy of a pre-historic timeline like the film classic, The Land Before Time.
Films like this take children to a pre-historic time and can be educational too.