Ice Age is a 2002 American computer-animated 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, Goran Višnjić, and Jack Black. Set during the days of the Pleistocene ice age, the film centers around three main characters—Manny (Romano), a no-nonsense woolly mammoth; Sid (Leguizamo), a loudmouthed ground sloth; and Diego (Leary), a sardonic saber-toothed cat—who come across a human baby and work together to return it to its tribe. Additionally, the film occasionally follows Scrat, a speechless “saber-toothed squirrel” (Wedge), who is perpetually searching for a place in the ground to bury his acorn.
Ice Age was originally intended as a 2D animated film developed by Fox Animation Studios, but eventually became the first full-length animated film for the newly-reformed Blue Sky, which had been reshaped from a VFX house to a computer animation studio. Focus shifted from making an action-adventure drama film to a more comedy-oriented one, and several writers, such as Berg and Ackerman, were brought on to bring out a wittier tone.
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, making 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, was produced by Walt Disney Pictures without the involvement of Blue Sky Studios and released as a direct-to-streaming film on Disney+ in 2022.[2] 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.
Plot
Scrat, a squirrel, attempts lớn find a place Khủng store his acorn for the winter. Eventually, as he tries béo stomp it into the ground, he inadvertently causes a large crack phệ khung in the Fantasy Island 2023 Film Locations
that extends for miles before setting off a large avalanche which nearly crushes him. He barely escapes but finds himself getting stepped on by a herd of prehistoric animals migrating south in order béo escape the forthcoming ice age. Sid, a clumsy ground sloth, is left behind by his family và decides Khủng move on by himself, but is attacked by a pair of Brontotheres after accidentally ruining their meal và making them angry. Sid is soon rescued by Manny, a mammoth heading north, who fights the rhinos off & continues on his path. Sid joins Manny, not wanting mập be alone và unprotected. Manny is annoyed by Sid’s outgoing demeanor & wishes béo migrate on his own, but Sid nonetheless continues phệ follow Manny. Meanwhile, Soto, the leader of a Smilodon pack, wants revenge on a human tribe for killing half of his pack by eating the chief’s infant son, Roshan, alive. Soto leads a raid on the human camp, during which Roshan’s mother flees with her son. Cornered by Soto’s lieutenant, Diego, she leaps xuống dốc the waterfall with Roshan. As punishment for his failure béo retrieve the boy, Diego is sent Khủng find và retrieve him while the rest of the pack waits for him at a mountain known as Half-Peak. If he fails, he will be killed in Roshan’s place .Later, Sid và Manny encounter the mother struggling out of the lake, dying from her plunge. The mother only has enough strength phệ entrust Roshan phệ Manny before she dies và disappears into the water. After much persuasion by Sid, they decide bự return the baby, but when they reach the human settlement, they find it deserted. They meet up with Diego, who convinces the pair phệ let him help by tracking the humans. Manny does not trust Diego’s intentions towards the baby, so sánh in order Khủng keep an eye on him, decides that he will lead the way. Like Manny, Diego is also easily annoyed by Sid’s chatterbox personality. The four travel on, with Diego secretly leading them phệ Half-Peak where his pack is waiting bự ambush them .After encountering several misadventures on their way, with Manny slowly beginning lớn lượt thích Sid & trust Diego, the nhóm reaches a cave with several cave paintings. There, Sid và Diego learn about Manny’s past và his previous interactions with the human hunters, in which they slaughtered his family, consisting of his mate & child, leaving Manny a depressed loner. Later, the nhóm almost reaches their destination, Half-Peak, only bự encounter a forming river of lava. Manny & Sid, along with Roshan, make it across safely, but Diego ends up hanging on a cliff, about lớn fall into the lava. Manny saves him, narrowly missing certain death by falling into the lava himself. The herd takes a break for the night, and Roshan takes his first walking steps towards Diego, who starts phệ have a change of heart about his mission .The next day, the herd approaches the ambush, causing Diego, now đầy đủ of respect for Manny for saving his life và having also grown phệ lượt thích Sid, béo change his mind và confess bự Manny & Sid about the ambush. As the pair turn hostile towards him, Diego pleads for their trust & tries béo foil the attack. The herd battles Soto’s pack, but despite their efforts, Soto và his associates manage Khủng corner Manny. As Soto closes in for the kill on Manny, Diego jumps in the way & is injured as a result. Manny then knocks a distracted Soto into a rock wall, causing several sharp icicles béo fall onto Soto, impaling & instantly killing him. Horrified, the rest of the pack retreat. Manny & Sid mourn for Diego’s injury, which they believe is fatal, & continue their journey without him. The two manage Khủng successfully return Roshan bự his tribe, & phệ their surprise, a recovered Diego manages béo rejoin them in thời gian Khủng see Roshan leave. The trio then begin bự head off mập warmer climates as best friends .Twenty thousand years later, Scrat, frozen in a block of ice, ends up on the shores of a tropical island. As the ice slowly melts, an acorn that was also frozen in the same ice block is washed away. Scrat then finds a coconut & tries Khủng stomp it into the ground, only bự accidentally trigger a volcanic eruption .Cast
The characters are all prehistoric animals. The animals can talk mập và understand each other và are voiced by a variety of famous actors. Like many films of prehistoric life, the rules of thời gian periods apply very loosely, as many of the species shown in the film không bao giờ actually lived in the same giây phút periods or the same geographic regions .
Production
Development
Ice Age was originally pitched to 20th Century Fox in 1997 by producer Lori Forte.[4] The film, originally envisioned as a traditionally animated movie with an action-oriented comedy-drama tone, was intended to be developed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman’s Fox Animation Studios.[4] Around the same time, Blue Sky Studios, a small visual effects studio in White Plains, New York, was bought out by Fox and reshaped into a full-fledged CG animation film studio.[5] In light of this, Fox Animation head Chris Meledandri and executive producer Steve Bannerman approached Forte with the proposition of developing the film as a computer-animated movie, which Forte realized was “basically a no-brainer,” according to her.[4] Michael J. Wilson, who had written and developed the film’s original story treatments in conjunction with Forte, wrote the first draft for the script, and Chris Wedge, a co-founder of Blue Sky, was brought on to the project as the director in late 1998.[4] Fox also opted for the movie to take a more comedy-oriented direction, and brought writer Michael Berg to help emphasize a more comedic tone. After being hired, Berg reportedly told the studio that he couldn’t write a film made for children, to which the studio responded, “Great! Just write a good story.”[4]
Story development began in spring 1999,[6] and official production on the film began in June 2000, one week after the closure of Fox Animation Studios.[7] 150 employees were hired to work on the film,[7][8] and a budget of $58 million was granted by Fox.[4] Peter Ackerman was hired as a third writer for the film, and collaborated extensively with Berg for three years before the two eventually moved on from the project. Jon Vitti and Mike Reiss, both former writers for The Simpsons, were added later on after Berg and Ackerman left to further polish the script.[4]
For research, the film’s development đội took several trips bự the Museum of Natural History early on in production in order béo make sure that the film authentically felt lượt thích the Ice Age. [ 9 ] Ultimately, the đội translated the information that they had compiled in their research by stylizing it in order mập fit with the film’s story. [ 10 ] A đội of 32 animators went out và did research bự figure out the movements of different animals ; for instance, for the movement of Scrat, animators visited a park và observed local squirrels, taking note of their ” twitchy ” way of moving. [ 6 ]
Writing và character development
Michael J. Wilson stated on his blog that his daughter Flora came up with the idea for an animal that was a mixture of both squirrel & rat, naming it Scrat, và that the animal was obsessed with pursuing his acorn. [ 11 ] The kế hoạch bự have Scrat talk was quickly dropped, as he worked better as a silent character for comedic effect. The name ‘ Scrat ‘ is a combination of the words ‘ squirrel ‘ và ‘ rat ‘, as Scrat has characteristics of both species ; Wedge has also called him ” saber-toothed squirrel. ” Scrat’s opening adventure was inserted because, without it, the first real snow và ice sequence wouldn’t take place until about 37 minutes into the film. This was the only role intended for Scrat, but he proved bự be such a popular character with chạy thử audiences that he was given more scenes. The filmmakers made it so sánh that many of the scenes with Scrat appear directly after dramatic moments in the film .In a 2012 interview with Jay Leno, Denis Leary revealed that his character, Diego, originally died near the kết thúc of the film. However, it was reported that kids in the demo audience burst into tears when his death was shown. Leary warned the producers that something lượt thích this would happen. When it was proven true, the scene was re-written phệ ensure Diego survived .Originally, Sid was supposed mập be a con-artist & a hustler, và there was a finished scene of the character conning some aardvark kids. His character was later changed mập a talkative-clumsy sloth because the đội felt the audience would have disliked him. There was also an alternate scene of Sid in the hottub with the ladies which shows him saying bự them ” Let’s jump in the gen pool & see what happens. ” One of the female sloths then kicks him in the groin. This was cut because it was not suitable for children & may have gotten the film a PG-13 rating. Other innuendos with Sid were also cut from the film. Sid was also supposed Khủng have a female sloth named Sylvia ( voiced by Kristen Johnston ) chasing after him, whom he despised và kept ditching. All the removed scenes can be seen on the DVD .
Animation
The characters and environments in Ice Age were modeled and animated using WaveFront’s Maya animation software. Rendering was completed using CGI Studio, an in-house ray tracing program being developed since Blue Sky’s formation in 1987 and previously used for Wedge’s 1998 short film, Bunny. While Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, released three months before Ice Age, became the first computer-animated film to make use of ray tracing technology, Ice Age would have received the distinction had it been released at the time Blue Sky began work on the movie.[6]
In order mập keep the film at a more exciting pace, the development nhóm took certain liberties with Sid in terms of realism ; although real-life ground sloths were slow-moving và rigid, Sid was given a fast movement tốc độ in certain scenes, as well as a more flexible range of motions. Conversely, the character’s arm movements were more restricted in order béo retain a sense of laziness true bự the nature of sloths. Manny was a particularly difficult character bự animate due lớn his chất lượng attributes as a mammoth, such as his long fur và massive trunks that covered up his face. Dealing with a creature which had seldom appeared in animation at the giây phút, the đội needed Khủng figure out how Manny would realistically move with character designer Pete DeSeve explaining that “ a wooly mammoth isn’t simply an elephant with long fur ”. According mập co-director Carlos Saldanha, Diego was one of the most complexly animated characters in the movie, with some scenes showing off his high movement tốc độ as a sabre-toothed tiger while others kept his movement more contained & focused on his facial expressions phệ carry the moment. [ 12 ]
Voice casting
The voice cast of Ice Age was encouraged to make up their own dialogue during recording. Several lines in the film were improvised by the actors.[13]
For Manny, the studio was initially looking at people with big voices. [ 14 ] James Earl Jones và Ving Rhames were considered, but they sounded too obvious & Wedge wanted more comedy. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Instead, the role was given phệ Ray Romano because they thought his voice sounded very elephant-like. Wedge described Romano’s voice as deep & slow in delivery, but also with a ” sarcastic wit behind it. ” [ 16 ]John Leguizamo, who provided the voice for Sid, experimented with kết thúc 40 voices for the character, including a slower-sounding voice lớn fit with the lazy nature of a giant sloth. Leguizamo came up with the final voice và trademark lateral lisp for the character after watching footage of sloths và learning that they store food in the pockets of their mouths which ferments kết thúc phút giây. [ 17 ] Leguizamo remarked in an interview with Đài truyền hình BBC that he had wanted mập contribute mập an animated project for a while, claiming that cartoon voice actor Mel Blanc was ” one of my comedy Gods ” và a large source of inspiration for him as a child. [ 18 ]
Music
The official soundtrack to Ice Age was released on May 14, 2002 by Varèse Sarabande. The soundtrack consists of the original musical score composed for the film by David Newman and performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony. The song “Send Me on My Way” by Rusted Root is also featured in the film but is absent from the album.[19]
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).[20] 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.[1] It was one of the two animated films of that year to make over $100 million, with the other one being Lilo & Stitch.[21]
Critical response
Ice Age holds a 77% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 167 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The site’s consensus reads: “Even though Ice Age is treading over the same grounds as Monsters, Inc. and Shrek, it has enough wit and laughs to stand on its own.”[22] Similar site Metacritic had a score of 60% out of 31 reviews, meaning “mixed or average reviews”.[23] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 stars out of 4 and wrote “I came to scoff and stayed to smile”.[24] Elvis Mitchell of the New York Times called the film a “blandly likeable computer-animation extravaganza”, comparing the film’s plot to the Western film 3 Godfathers.[25]
CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave Ice Age an average grade of “A” on an A+ to F scale.[26]
Accolades
Ice Age was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2003, losing to Spirited Away.[27]
The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists :
trang chủ truyền thông
The initial home video release for Ice Age was accompanied by an $85 million marketing campaign involving promotional partnerships with 14 different companies,[29] including Microsoft, Pizza Hut, Carl’s Jr., Dole, Langer’s, Valpak, Cold Stone Creamery, and the National Hockey League.[30] The movie was released on 2-disc DVD, VHS and D-Theater[31] on November 26, 2002. All three releases included Gone Nutty, a short film starring Scrat and detailing his further antics as he tries to bury his acorn.[32] The DVD release was THX certified and gave the viewer the option of viewing the film in either widescreen or pan and scan fullscreen.[33] Another single disc release was released on February 5, 2005,[34] and the next year a new two-disc release with extra features on March 14, 2006.[35] The film was released on Blu-ray on March 4, 2008, and beside Gone Nutty, it included 9 minutes of deleted scenes.[36]
Ice Age was included on The Walt Disney Company’s streaming service Disney+ on March 1, 2020.[37]
Video game
A tie-in video clip game was developed by Artificial Mind & Movement và published by Ubisoft for the trò chơi Boy Advance. A platform game, it has the player controlling Sid & Manny through 10 levels as they carry Roshan. The game holds an aggregate ranking of 46.00 % on GameRankings [ 38 ] & 47/100 on Metacritic. [ 39 ]
Sequels
Since the release of Ice Age, several sequels have followed. Ice Age: The Meltdown, the first sequel, was released on March 31, 2006, following the main characters trying to escape a massive flooding due to global warming, as well as Manny’s concern over whether or not his species is going extinct. A third installment, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, was released in 2009, followed by a fourth film, Ice Age: Continental Drift, in 2012. The fifth and latest installment, Ice Age: Collision Course, was released on July 22, 2016.[40] With the release of Collision Course, the Ice Age series became the first computer-animated movie franchise to house five theatrical installments, not including spinoffs.[41] The sequels suffered a decline in critical reception, but were still box-office successes.
Following Disney’s purchase of 20th Century Fox in 2019 and the closure of Blue Sky Studios in 2021, a spin-off film titled The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild and produced by Walt Disney Pictures was released directly to streaming on Disney+ in 2022.
See also
References
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