Product Description
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Ice Age
Get ready for the coolest animated adventure of all time! Heading
south to avoid a bad case of frostbite, a group of migrating
misfit creatures embarks on a hilarious quest to reunite a human
baby with his herd.
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Trying to escape the valley to avoid a flood of trouble, Manny,
Sid, Diego and Scrat emark on a fun-filled journey across the
thawing landscape and meet Ellie, a female woolly mammoth who
melts Manny's heart.
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Your favourite sub-zero heroes are back for more thrills, more
chills and more mammoth-sized fun. In their biggest adventure
yet, the gang discovers a lost world of dinosaurs, while Scrat
goes nuts over the beautiful Scratte.
Special Features:
Ice Age
Bunny short
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
Scrat short: No Time for Nuts
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Walk the Dinosaur music video
Falling for Scratte
Buck: From Easel to Weasel
Additional language subtitles:
Ice Age--German
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs--German
.co.uk Review
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Ice Age
Just as A Bug's Life was a computer-animated comedy inspired by
Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai, the funny and often
enthralling Ice Age is a digital re-imagining of the Western
Three Godhers. The heroes of this unofficial remake (set
20,000 years ago, during the titular Paleolithic era) are a
taciturn mastodon named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano), an
annoying sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo), and a duplicitous
saber-toothed tiger, Diego (Denis Leary). The unlikely team
encounters a dying, human mother who relinquishes her chirpy
toddler to the care of these critters. Hoping, against all odds,
to return the little guy to his migrating tribe, Manfred and his
associates need to establish trust among themselves, not an easy
thing in a harsh world of predators, prey, and pushy glaciers.
Audiences that have become accustomed to the rounded, polished,
storybook look of Pixar's house brand of computer animation
(Monsters, Inc.) will find the blunt edges and chilly brilliance
of Ice Age--evoking the harsh, dangerous environment of a frozen
world--a wholly different, and equally pleasing, trip.
Recommended for ages 4 and up. --Tom Keogh
Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
The love life of a woolly mammoth--handled with U-rated
delicacy--drives this sequel to the first computer-animated romp
in the age of prehistoric mammals. While the first Ice Age took a
delightful premise and suffocated it with a formulaic plot--in
which a mammoth named Manfred (voiced by Ray Romano, Everyone
Loves Raymond), a sloth named Sid (John Leguizamo, Moulin
Rouge!), and a sabre-tooth tiger named Diego (Denis Leary, Rescue
Me) helped an abandoned human infant return to its tribe
(basically, Three Mammals and a Baby)--the sequel takes the
now-familiar setting, gives it a shapeless, episodic storyline,
and yet somehow becomes pretty darn entertaining. Faced with the
threat of a flood from melting ice, our heroic trio are on the
run to escape from their blossoming valley. On the way, they meet
a female mammoth (Queen Latifah, Bringing Down the House) who
thinks she's an opossum and get menaced by some freshly defrosted
carnivorous fish. Add into the mix a herd of lava-worshipping
mini-sloths, some Busby Berkeley-style vultures, and more
ingenious slapstick featuring the acorn-crazed Scrat, and Ice
Age: The Meltdown will amuse even jaded adults. --Bret Fetzer
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs opens with the stitched-together
prehistoric family about to become a biological one: Manny
(voiced by Ray Romano) and his mate Ellie (Queen Latifah) are
expecting a baby mammoth. Unfortunately, this makes Sid the sloth
(John Leguizamo) and Diego the sabre-toothed tiger (Denis Leary)
feel left out. Diego, who worries he’s losing his edge, decides
to head out on his own, while Sid adopts three suspiciously large
eggs that he’s found through a crack in the ice. Up to this
point, the movie is perilously sappy--does anyone, particularly a
kid, want to watch a kid’s movie about parenthood and impending
middle age? Fortunately, the eggs turn out to be dinosaur eggs
from a pre-mammalian underworld, and when the mama T-Rex comes to
rescue her rambunctious little ones, Ice Age: Dawn of the
Dinosaurs transforms into a delightful comic adventure. The
emotional side of the Ice Age movies has always been a tad
mawkish, so it’s smart that Dawn of the Dinosaurs emphasises
physical comedy. Clearly, the animators have been inspired by a
wild fusion of Road Runner cartoons and Buster Keaton. The
character of Scrat, with his non-verbal, monomaniacal efforts to
get that last acorn (doubled in this movie with the addition of a
female counterpart), is only the most obvious reflection of this
sensibility. The animators have great fun with the differences in
scale between the mammals and the dinosaurs, and the introduction
of a deranged Australian weasel named Buck (Simon Pegg, Shaun of
the Dead) pushes everything into Loony-Tune territory. Let Pixar
tug at our heartstrings; Ice Age s to tickle the funny
and does a fine job of it.--Bret Fetzer