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Ice Age is a 2002 American computer-animated fantasy adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios (in its debut film) and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Chris Wedge (in his feature directorial debut) and co-directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay by Michael Berg, Michael J. Wilson and Peter Ackerman and a story by Wilson, and features the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Chris Wedge, Goran Višnjić, and Jack Black. The film was released in the United States on March 15, 2002. It received mostly positive reviews from critics and was nominated at the 75th Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. It was a box office success and grossed over $383.2 million, marking it the eighth highest-grossing film of 2002 and the highest-grossing animated film of 2002. It started the Ice Age franchise, being followed by four sequels: Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016). A sixth installment, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, without the involvement of Blue Sky Studios and released as a direct-to-streaming film on Disney+ in 2022. Two holiday specials were also released: 2011's Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (taking place between Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Continental Drift) and 2016's Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (taking place between Continental Drift and Collision Course). Several Ice Age short films were also released between 2002 and 2022.

Storyline[]

Plot[]

Once upon a time, Twenty-thousand years ago, Earth is a wondrous, prehistoric world filled with great danger, not the least of which is the beginning of the kingdom of Ice Age. To avoid a really bad frostbite, the planet's majestic creatures - and a few small, slothful ones - begin migrating south . The story revolves around sub-zero heroes: a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth and a prehistoric combination of a squirrel and rat that is known as Scrat.

Genres[]

  • Children's film
  • Adventure
  • Comedy
  • Fantasy
  • Mystery
  • Animation
  • Road
  • Family film

Motion Picture Rating[]

  • Atp (Argentina)
  • G (Australia)
  • PG (Australia) (Google Play)
  • KT/EA (Belgium)
  • Livre (Brazil)
  • A (Bulgaria)
  • G (Canada)
  • TE (Chile)
  • T (Colombia)
  • U (Czechia)
  • A (Denmark)
  • K-7 (Finland)
  • Tous publics (France)
  • 7 (France) (TV rating)
  • 0 (Germany)
  • K (Greece)
  • I (Hong Kong)
  • KN (Hungary)
  • L (Iceland)
  • U (India)
  • SU (Indonesia)
  • G (Ireland)
  • ALL (Israel)
  • T (Italy)
  • G (Japan)
  • V (Lithuania)
  • U (Malaysia)
  • PG (Maldives)
  • AA (Mexico)
  • AL (Netherlands
  • PG (New Zealand)
  • G (New Zealand) (recommended rating)
  • G (Nigeria)
  • A (Norway) (2002, cinema rating)
  • Apt (Peru)
  • G (Philippines)
  • b.o. (Poland)
  • M/6 (Portugal)
  • 6+ (Russia)
  • G (Saudi Arabia)
  • G (Singapore)
  • G (South Africa)
  • All (South Korea)
  • 7 (South Korea) (VHS and DVD rating)
  • A (Spain)
  • 7 (Sweden)
  • 7 (Switzerland) (canton of Geneva)
  • 7 (Switzerland) (canton of Vaud)
  • 6 (Switzerland) (canton of the Grisons)
  • G (Turkey) (self-applied)
  • U (UK)
  • PG (USA)
  • TV-PG (USA) (ABC Family Worldwide)
  • P (Vietnam)

Images[]

Cast and Crew[]

Directors[]

  • Chris Wedge
  • Carlos Saldanha (co-director)

Writing Credits[]

  • Michael J. Wilson (story by)
  • Michael Berg (screenplay by) and
  • Michael J. Wilson (screenplay by) and
  • Peter Ackerman (screenplay by)
  • James Bresnahan (additional story)
  • Doug Compton (additional story)
  • Jeff Siergey (additional story)
  • Michael Thurmeier (additional story) (as Mike Thurmeier)
  • Galen T. Chu (additional story)
  • Xeth Feinberg (additional story)

Cast[]

  • Ray Romano - Manfred (voice)
  • John Leguizamo - Sid (voice)
  • Denis Leary - Diego (voice)
  • Goran Visnjic - Soto (voice)
  • Jack Black - Zeke (voice)
  • Cedric the Entertainer - Carl (voice)
  • Stephen Root - Frank / Start (voice)
  • Diedrich Bader - Oscar (voice)
  • Alan Tudyk - Lenny / Oscar / Dab (voice)
  • Lorri Bagley - Jennifer (voice)
  • Jane Krakowski - Rachel (voice)
  • Peter Ackerman - Dodo / Macrauchenia (voice)
  • P.J. Benjamin - Dodo (voice)
  • Josh Hamilton - Dodo / Aardvark (voice)
  • Chris Wedge - Dodo / Scrat (voice)
  • Denny Dillon - Glyptodon (voice)
  • Mitzi McCall - Glyptodont (voice)
  • Tara Strong - Roshan / Start (voice)

Producers[]

  • Lori Forte (producer)
  • Christopher Meledandri (executive producer)
  • John C. Donkin (associate producer)

Composer[]

  • David Newman (music composed and conducted by)

Editor[]

  • John Carnochan (edited by)

Casting Director[]

  • Alan Filderman (casting director: additional)

Production Designer[]

  • Brian McEntee

Details[]

Country[]

  • USA

Language[]

  • English

Release Dates[]

  • March 14, 2002 (Indonesia)
  • March 14, 2002 (Mexico)
  • March 15, 2002 (Canada)
  • March 15, 2002 (Sweden)
  • March 15, 2002 (USA)
  • March 20, 2002 (Venezuela)
  • March 21, 2002 (Australia)
  • March 21, 2002 (Switzerland) (German speaking region)
  • March 21, 2002 (Germany)
  • March 21, 2002 (Dominican Republic)
  • March 21, 2002 (Israel)
  • March 21, 2002 (Lebanon)
  • March 21, 2002 (Malaysia)
  • March 21, 2002 (New Zealand)
  • March 21, 2002 (Peru)
  • March 22, 2002 (Austria)
  • March 22, 2002 (Brazil)
  • March 22, 2002 (Colombia)
  • March 22, 2002 (Denmark)
  • March 22, 2002 (Finland)
  • March 22, 2002 (UK)
  • March 22, 2002 (Ireland)
  • March 22, 2002 (Iceland)
  • March 22, 2002 (Norway)
  • March 23, 2002 (Hong Kong)
  • March 26, 2002 (Philippines) (limited)
  • March 27, 2002 (Jamaica)
  • March 28, 2002 (South Africa)
  • April 3, 2002 (Philippines)
  • April 4, 2002 (Chile)
  • April 10, 2002 (United Arab Emirates)
  • April 12, 2002 (Greece)
  • April 24, 2002 (Italy)
  • April 25, 2002 (Netherlands)
  • May 3, 2002 (India)
  • May 31, 2002 (Czechia) (Zlín Film Festival)
  • June 1, 2002 (Mexico) (Cineteca Nacional)
  • June 4, 2002 (Kuwait)
  • June 6, 2002 (Hungary)
  • June 7, 2002 (Poland)
  • June 7, 2002 (Taiwan)
  • June 21, 2002 (Uruguay)
  • June 26, 2002 (France)
  • July 3, 2002 (Belgium)
  • July 4, 2002 (Argentina)
  • July 5, 2002 (Portugal)
  • July 10, 2002 (Egypt)
  • July 12, 2002 (Spain)
  • July 19, 2002 (Madagascar)
  • August 3, 2002 (Japan)
  • August 9, 2002 (South Korea)
  • August 22, 2002 (Russia)
  • August 23, 2002 (Kazakhstan)
  • August 23, 2002 (Ukraine)
  • September 28, 2002 (China)
  • October 17, 2002 (Czechia)
  • October 25, 2002 (Estonia)
  • October 25, 2002 (Latvia)
  • October 25, 2002 (Romania)
  • October 28, 2002 (Japan) (Tokyo International Film Festival)
  • November 1, 2002 (Lithuania)
  • January 31, 2003 (Turkey)
  • April 4, 2003 (Bulgaria)
  • January 27, 2004 (Russia) (DVD premiere)
  • March 1, 2005 (Singapore) (DVD premiere)
  • April 22, 2012 (China) (Beijing International Film Festival)

Home Media Release Dates[]

  • October 21, 2002 (UK) (VHS)
  • October 21, 2002 (UK) (DVD)

Reception[]

Box office[]

Ice Age was released on March 15, 2002, and had a $46.3 million opening weekend, a large number not usually seen until the summer season, and way ahead of Fox's most optimistic projection of about $30 million. Ice Age broke Liar Liar's record for a March opening (later surpassed in 2006 by its sequel, Ice Age: The Meltdown) and at the time was the third-best opening ever for an animated feature—after Monsters, Inc. ($62.6 million) and Toy Story 2 ($57.4 million). Ice Age finished its domestic box office run with $176,387,405 and grossed $383,257,136 worldwide, being the 9th highest gross of 2002 in North America and the 8th best worldwide at the time. It was one of the two animated films of that year to make over $100 million, with the other one being Lilo & Stitch.

Critical response[]

This film has a 7.5 rating on IMDb and a 77% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Company Credits[]

Production Companies[]

Distributors[]

Technical Specs[]

Runtime[]

  • 81 mins

Color[]

  • Color

Aspect Ratio[]

  • 1.85:1
  • 4:3 (Full screen prints)

Trivia[]

  • While critics did give the film positive reviews, the audience loved the film even more.
  • Was a box office hit when it was released in 2002.
  • Grossed $383 million worldwide against it's $59 million budget.
  • Only film in the Ice Age franchise where David Newman composed the musical score.
  • Is the highest-rated Ice Age film with a 77% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 60 on Meatcritic.
  • Often considered to be the best Ice Age film.
  • The film's massive success helped launch Blue Sky Studios into a successful animation studio.
  • Was originally going to be a dramatic, non-comedic hand-drawn animated film directed by Don Bluth, but was given to Blue Sky and they turned it into the computer-animated film that we all know.
  • 20th Century Fox would only take this film if it was turned into a comedy.
  • Many love this film for it's heartwarming story and it's well-written and likable characters.
  • David Newman also composed Anastasia, another 20th Century Fox animated film.
  • Every actor was encouraged to improvise as much as they can to keep the animation spontaneous.
  • This was the only film to use Blue Sky Studios' old "blue dash" logo as it only appears on trailers and posters (even on the poster to Robots), as later with the release of Robots, it would use the iconic one (the "blue circle shield") logo.
  • The only Ice Age film to not come out the same year as a Pixar film.
  • Many of the animals appearing in the sequels to the film were designed initially for the first Ice Age but were cut.
  • This is the only Ice Age movie to have the humans.
  • This is the only Ice Age movie to be THX Digitally Mastered on DVD.
  • This was the only Ice Age movie to be released on VHS.
  • During a scene before the sliding on ice, there was some foreshadowing of the future Ice Age movies like the fish for The Meltdown, a dinosaur for Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Sid’s ancestors for Continental Drift, and the ufo for Collision Course.
  • Blue Sky Studios' 1st feature film.
  • The fourth computer-animated film to be rated PG by the MPAA after Antz (1998), Dinosaur (2000) and Shrek (2001).
  • This is the only Blue Sky Studios film to have the "Twentieth Century Fox presents" credit.

Connections[]

Followed by[]

References[]

Referenced in[]

  • Robots (2005) - Sid the Sloth in robotic form in train station
  • Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) - The first film had brown glyptodonts, not green ones.
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) - Captain Sparrow (Depp) sniffing and catching a peanut just like Scrat in Ice Age.

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