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90This digitally animated movie, filled with a cast of charming, funny critters from long ago, is family entertainment at its most bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
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83Ice Age never matches the brilliance of ''Toy Story'' or the heartfelt heft of ''Shrek,'' but it's an antic and sweet-spirited pleasure.
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80No matter your age, this is one great AGE to be at.
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80Marvelously funny.
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80A clever, pleasingly sentimental tale of prehistoric times.
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Full of visual dazzle, engaging characters and a reasonably sprightly narrative.
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75A pleasure to look at and scarcely less fun as a story. I came to scoff and stayed to smile.
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75It's a fast, funny picture, and the worst thing you can say about it is that it's no "Toy Story," no "Shrek." That may be true, but one thing Ice Age proves is that the new digitized cartoons are a form whose time has come.
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75Its story, characters, dialogue, humor and voice performances are first-rate.
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75Comes closer than any other recent animated film to the Looney Tunes ideal. Just as Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny entertained without either condescending to kids or lobbing adult jokes over their heads.
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75A minor delight but a delight just the same.
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75The coolest animation in town.
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75They center on the devilishly clever, exceedingly enjoyable interludes featuring the aforementioned rodent in situations and circumstances that recall the great animated work of the recently departed Chuck Jones.
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70To complain about the lack of originality is to ignore the real wit and joy behind this very fun film.
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70An entertaining story that, while not terribly original, is sufficiently arresting and often laugh-out-loud funny.
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67Cute and often clever, there's nothing particularly memorable in this computer enhanced rerun, but this harmless little comedy has an unexpected warmth that melts the frozen plot.
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63Almost everything about Ice Age proves to be disappointingly generic.
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63Diverting, if undistinguished.
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63There are too many moments in Ice Age when you find yourself thinking: less bonding and fewer anti-Darwinian life-lessons please; more of that anarchist Scrat.
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63Ice Age snaps with visual wit whenever director Wedge breaks the stale story to pieces and pumps in some bracing fresh air. So it's fitting to find, when the final credits roll, that he played Scrat.
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63How odd that some of the most appealing elements of this new animation should be action sequences as old as cinema itself.
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60If Ice Age lacks the fit and finish of top-of-the-line films from Pixar, DreamWorks or Disney, it's still an impressive piece of work for a new feature animation group, and a harbinger of cool cartoons to come.
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The animation is remarkable, except for the stiff, marionettelike humans.
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50Has a heart bursting with good intentions, something that goes a long way in dimming from memory its inherent routineness.
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50Kids won't mind a bit, but adults accustomed to "Shrek" and Pixar will have no trouble spotting what's missing.
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40It's a shame no one gave the three voice stars of this appealing animation -- Ray Romano, John Legui zamo and Denis Leary -- a shot at the script.
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40Has only its stylized designs to recommend it.
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40The problem rather is the wholesale embracing of what has become de rigueur in animation, the practice of treating major characters as if they were stand-up comics working a room in Las Vegas.
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40The blandly likable computer-animation extravaganza Ice Age actually seems like a fossil, a relic from another era.
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40It yearns for Pixar-style wit without quite earning it.
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30Renders it a cross between "Three Men and a Baby" and "Monsters, Inc." But it's bereft of the charisma of the former and the energy of the latter; stuck in a frozen wasteland, it possesses all the vigor of a Popsicle.
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It is a fun and charming animated movie that has it's moments.
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"Ice Age", unlike its frigid name, has a warm spirit of love and power that equals to those of Pixar's. A outstanding movie to watch.
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