Monsters Inc. meets Shrek

Rating: Null/10 (4 April 2002)

Pair up a big furry guy and a little googly-eyed guy, throw in a cute kid that they have to get back to where it came from, and what do you have?
Ice Age.
"Hey, I know," one of the Previous Century Fox execs must have said, "We'll start out the movie where the big guy accidentally rescues the little guy from being chased! But the big guy wants to be left alone, all he wants is his privacy, but the little guy keeps following him and annoying him! And eventually the big guy develops a soft spot for the little guy and looks out for him as they reluctantly go on a quest together! It's never been done before, especially not in a computer animated movie!"
The humans in the movie were as realistic as the mannequins in the 'Small World' ride at Disneyland. Their clothing appeared to be made out of the same stuff as their skin was made out of, which appeared to be the same stuff as Goodyear tires are made out of.
In the movie, the snuffleupagus complained a lot. "You're a disgrace to evolution," he told the sloth, and I had to agree. I agreed with most of his complaints, in fact. It was nice that the main character in the movie disliked it as much as I did.
Like Dinosaur, the movie was advertised by a really wonderful teaser, which turned out to be the first scene in the movie. Also like Dinosaur, the material in the teaser was the only good material in the whole movie.
My advice: Watch the trailer as many times as you have to, get all your laughs in, then save yourself the eight bucks and go watch Shrek again instead.