Fox make a good animated film?

Rating: 8/10 (22 February 2002)

forget your wizards and rings. The REAL big genre is still animated cinema. And 20th century Fox add admirably to the genre, for the first time it looks like they have a box office winner.
Starting with a crazed squirrel character,who is in the whole film, and has nothing to do with the main story,(getting human child back to his pack,don't ask),who heavily resembles a benzidrine addled speedy gonzales, ice age settles into being an entertainment xtravaganza. bad news, Ray Ramano, the obviously cheap star from a t.v.show that doesn't play outside of the US - his manfred the mammoth is as dreary a voice as garry shandling doing a cartoon voice, boring. he sucks a lot of energy out of the film, but John Leguiazamo as syd the sloth provides much needed energy, and great sequences with the dodo's, (it plays like a pixar short) and the ice itself,(even though the ice age is barely touched on in the story, apart from Ray Ramano probably hurting overseas markets, a great piece of animated entertainment