This film blends some wonderful influences from animation greats like Chuck Jones and Tex Avery with more traditional methods to deliver stunning environments, and delightful characters capable of making the audience howl with laughter. Every so often we get visited by that twitchy, scraggely saber-toothed rat-squirrel SCRAT! Scrat never fails to elicit huge laughs with his relentless pursuit and harvesting of acorns while outrunning the forces of nature. On their adventure they find friendship, team work, and fast action when they race down a huge ice slide. Sid the Sullen Wooley Mammoth, Diego the sleek and fiendish Saber-toothed tiger, and Sid the silly bumbeling sloth. Our story revolves around three distinctive misfit characters with very different agendas who find a bond in attempting to return a missing baby boy to his tribe after his mother dies. After seeing "Ice Age" I am fully reminded of why I love animation so much and the power it has to deliver heart-warming material, loveable characters, and a boat load of laughs. The company was born out of an earlier group called "Magi" who were responsible for much of the computer animation in the 1982 groundbreaking film "TRON". Blue Sky has been around since 1987, and is responsible for many effects of high profile films such as "Alien Resurrection", "Joe's Apartment", "Star Trek: Insurrection", and "Fight Club". A new player to the big screen arena is Blue Sky Studios with their amazing film "Ice Age". There has also been a wonderful enhancement of many traditionally animated films with CGI like "Tarzan" and the "Treasure Planet". As an animator myself I was thrilled to see this finally happen and continue to happen with better and better films like "A Bugs Life", "Toy Story 2", "Monsters Inc.", and the 2 PDI productions, "Antz" and "Shrek", as well a more realistic and experimental CGI films like "Final Fantasy". Pixar came at us first with the all computer animated feature, "Toy Story" - and it was brilliant.
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