Not quite an empty wasteland.

Rating: Null/10 (21 March 2002)

I was really looking forward to this pic, and I was slightly disappointed. What should have been an animated short entirely about the rat-thing and his acorn became an uninspired piece of schmaltz.
While Ice Age has a funny beginning, the middle is quite dull and the ending is deliberately and unsubtley emotionally manipulative.
Other than Sid the sloth (voiced by John Leguizamo) I found the character design to be unimaginative. The backgrounds, while very nicely coloured, were drab and uninteresting. I know this is supposed to be set during a pending glacial period, but a little background detail would be nice!
Not bad, but uninspired. A video rental.