A visual spectacle that is a must see

Rating: 9/10 (10 December 2002)

I'll admit that when I saw the trailer for Ice Age in the theater, I thought it was extremely comical but it didn't spark my interest to go and see the movie. Some of this reluctance is due to my love of the CG animated film Shrek. But I wish now that I had seen this film on the big screen as it is a really magnificently done film, considering it was a first effort by Blue Sky Studios and Fox.
The acting was brilliant and very very believable. The animation was some of the best CG stuff that I have seen yet. The story was well written and contained a very good and solid plot that never left the audience feeling that the movie had bogged down. The movie contains many scenes which have double entendres and inuendos that are definitely geared for a mature audience but are so well disguised that the average young viewer is not going to pick up on them in the double meaning in which they were intended.

Two very emotional and touching moments occurred in the film that were much warmer than hardly any film I have seen live action or animated in a long time. All in all, I would have to say that this is one of the best films that I have seen come out in a long time.
In addition, since I saw the film for the first time on a DVD format, I would also have to comment on the content of the DVD. Absolutely breathtaking and in many ways as funy and entertaining as the film itself. There is even two animated short films on the DVD which in and of themselves are amazing with their fluid clean crisp CG graphics.
Congratulations to the animators, director, studio and producers for generating an instant classic.