Solid as a large chunk of ice in freezing terrain

Rating: 7/10 (16 November 2006)

Equally balanced computer animated children's adventure carefully measures comedic, dramatic, and action elements to make the movie fly by for all ages. Ice Age shares most ingredients that make any successful animation work- diverse characters of opposite emotions, fast-paced and beautifully rendered visual design, heartfelt morality, and staggering zaniness (let us not forget the unsung hero of this franchise, the squirrel in his eternal quest to enjoy a little acorn). Put together in the competent manner that these animators have, and coupled with the unique setting and evolutionary insight the movie creatively offers, we have one of the more solid (non-Pixar)family computer-rendered films around.