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Ice Age
Review of Chris Wedge's film
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| Three animals who have nothing in
common must team up to bring a lost baby back to his father: Sid, a lazy sloth, Manfred a lone mammoth and
Diego, a tiger. As crazy dangerous and hilarious adventures follow one
from the other, ties begin to form between them and they become the strangest pack that ever walked the ice
age. Occasionally, their path crosses the one of Scrat, an overstressed squirrel whose only treasure is an
unbreakable nut, which he holds dearer than his own (frequently threatened) life. However, Diego was originally sent
to capture the child and bring it to his chief willing to kill it for vengeance against men.
So will this new friendship conquer his old killing instincts or will he betray his companions and send them to
the deadly trap set by his tribe? And more important, will Scrat finally manage to eat his nut? |
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| Technically as impressive as the other
excellent animated films which came out this year, Ice Age features greatly
convincing characters, brought to life through the great realism of their facial and bodily expressions, as well
as an effective use of framing giving the illusion of camera moves. The interest of the film lies definitely
not in the story, but in humour, great timing, dialogues, hilarious characters and comic situations. Not to be
missed, 80 minutes of absolute high-quality animated fun to unwind, a necessary intake of laugh that should be
prescribed by doctors, so people never become as stressed out as poor old Scrat! |
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| Highly agitated
nervous squirrel Scrat is
probably one of the best animated character ever created, pulling the most hilarious faces ever seen, alternating
between the paroxysm of joy and the deepest despair, mostly characterised by his recurring eye twitching triggered
by stress. People can only
sympathise with him, at his tragic
doomed quest for nurishment, at the constant painful catastrophic failures of his clumsy attempts and at his refusal
to give up. Thus he bears an intrinsic similarity with great classic Warner Bros cartoon character Wile E. Coyote. |
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