| 90 |
Washington Post
This 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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| 83 |
Entertainment Weekly
Ice 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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| 80 |
Newsweek
A clever, pleasingly sentimental tale of prehistoric times.
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| 80 |
TV Guide
No matter your age, this is one great AGE to be at.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Full of visual dazzle, engaging characters and a reasonably sprightly narrative.
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| 80 |
New York Magazine
Marvelously funny.
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| 75 |
ReelViews
They 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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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Its story, characters, dialogue, humor and voice performances are first-rate.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Comes 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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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
It'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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| 75 |
Boston Globe
The coolest animation in town.
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| 75 |
USA Today
A minor delight but a delight just the same.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A pleasure to look at and scarcely less fun as a story. I came to scoff and stayed to smile.
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| 70 |
Variety
An entertaining story that, while not terribly original, is sufficiently arresting and often laugh-out-loud funny.
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| 70 |
Film Threat
To complain about the lack of originality is to ignore the real wit and joy behind this very fun film.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Cute 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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| 63 |
Charlotte Observer
How 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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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Diverting, if undistinguished.
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| 63 |
Baltimore Sun
Ice 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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| 63 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
There 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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| 63 |
New York Post
Almost everything about Ice Age proves to be disappointingly generic.
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| 60 |
Chicago Reader
Hank Sartin
The animation is remarkable, except for the stiff, marionettelike humans.
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| 60 |
Wall Street Journal
If 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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| 50 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Kids won't mind a bit, but adults accustomed to "Shrek" and Pixar will have no trouble spotting what's missing.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Has a heart bursting with good intentions, something that goes a long way in dimming from memory its inherent routineness.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
The blandly likable computer-animation extravaganza Ice Age actually seems like a fossil, a relic from another era.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
It'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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| 40 |
Village Voice
Has only its stylized designs to recommend it.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
The 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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| 40 |
Time
It yearns for Pixar-style wit without quite earning it.
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| 30 |
New Times (L.A.)
Renders 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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