Movie Recommendation Of The Week: Ice Age (2002)

'Ice Age' is a 2002 American animated film by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge. It was based off a story by Michael J. Wilson. The story follows three Paleolithical mammals attempting to return a lost human baby to its parents. With Diego (Leary) secretly leading the pack into a trap, but throughout the journey he becomes fond his new 'friends' and is torn between them and his own kind. The film stars Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Goran Visnjic.

I picked 'Ice Age' this week due to the recent release of 'Ice Age 4: Continental Drift' and the fact that 'Ice Age 2: The Melt Down' seems to never be off the TV at the moment. i can't defend the sequels, they are pretty bad, but you can't deny the fact that the first one was a darn good film. It is funny, the voice acting is really good and the stories not bad either. Plus the little scenes with Scrat the squirrel chasing his beloved acorn are absolutely hilarious. It's a good film for all the family, it is just a shame that it spawned so many terrible sequels (the second ones not bad, I'll give it that much), and since in recent years we've only seen the bad ones, we forget that the first film was actually really enjoyable.


'Ice Age' is definitely worth a watch, I would give the film a 7.5/10. If you enjoy it then you might as well watch the sequels, I haven't seen the fourth one yet but the second and third are enjoyable if you like the characters. The stories are nothing special, they get quite ridiculous, especially 'Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs', don't know what they were thinking with that one.