Ice
Age is a feature-length computer-animated film created by Blue Sky
Studios and released by 20th Century Fox in 2002. It was directed by
Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge from a story by Michael J. Wilson. Its
sequels are called Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) and Ice Age: Dawn of
the Dinosaurs (2009).
Ice Age was rated PG for mild peril by the MPAA.
Characters
The characters are all
prehistoric
animals. The animals can talk to and understand each other and are
voiced by a variety of famous actors. Like many films of prehistoric life,
the rules of time periods apply very loosely, as many of the species shown
in the film never actually lived in the same areas, let alone the same
time periods.
* Manfred (Mammoth) — Ray Romano known for
Everybody Loves Raymond TV show.
* Sid (ground sloth) — John Leguizamo
* Scrat (Saber-toothed squirrel) — Chris Wedge
* Diego (Smilodon) —
Denis Leary
* Soto (Smilodon) — Goran Visnjic
* Zeke (Smilodon) —
Jack Black
* Oscar (Smilodon) — Diedrich Bader
* Lenny (Homotherium) — Alan Tudyk
* Carl (Brontops) — Cedric the Entertainer
* Frank (Brontops) — Stephen Root
* Rachel (Female ground sloth) — Jane Krakowski
* Jennifer (Female ground sloth) — Lorri Bagley
* Ice Age: The Meltdown was released on March 31, 2006. The movie
focuses on the melting of a dam (due to, as Sid puts it at the end of the
first movie, Global Warming) and the impeding flood.
* Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs is set to be released on July 1, 2009
which will focus on dinosaurs coming to Earth. The teaser trailer was
released with the movie Horton Hears A Who featuring Scrat and his acorn.
