A funny movie that may make adults laugh too!

Rating: Null/10 (28 March 2002)

(Caution: there may be some spoilers here, but I don't think there are that many.)
I saw this today and it was really cute. All the little kids in the audience (it was packed) seemed to love it and there were no really scary scenes that freaked them out. It's a clever movie, not amazingly original but still very cute.
The plot is fairly simple. A mammoth reluctantly becomes friends with an annoying sloth (think Shrek here). They discover a Neanderthal/Cro Magnon baby who has got lost from his "herd" (family), and some saber tooth tigers want to eat the baby because he might grow up to be a hunter, and as revenge. The mammoth and sloth decide to return the baby to his parents with the help of a reluctant saber tooth tiger. A rat/mouse type of mammal who just really, really, really wants to eat its nut rounds out the cast, offering some humor throughout the way but never actually helping the mammoth, sloth, and saber tooth.
The plot is kind of simplistic--there are no big twists--but that's because it's a kid's movie. As a kid's movie it succeeds very well, and there were lots of gags that I (a teenager) and my mom laughed at.