Friday, May 16, 2008

Ice Age

Ice Age is a feature-length computer-animated film created by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox in 2002. This plot of this film was adopted from a story by Michael J. Wilson, and directed into a movie by Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge. This film, made on a hefty budget of $60,000,000, was a huge success at the box office, and garnered phenomenal profits. With a running time of 81 minutes, this film appealed to audiences of all age groups

The sequel to this film was called “Ice Age: The Meltdown”, which hit the theaters in 2006. This film is a beautiful narration of how a team of prehistoric animals band together to save a human infant in freezing temperatures. This digitally animated feature from Oscar-winning director Chris Wedge is a visual treat, far different from the earlier computer generated imagery efforts. The use of unique lighting software, known as “Ray Tracing“, a distinct style of the director, is what sets the movie apart from its contemporaries, and makes it a viewer’s delight. Ice Age starred Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary. The film also features the voices of Jack Black, Jane Krakowski, and Goran Visnjic. The main characters of the film are Manfred aka Manny, Sid, Diego, Soto, Zeke, Oscar, Lenny, Scrat, Carl, Frank, and two female ground sloth. Ice Age is a film that revolves around the Ice Age, when a lost human infant is discovered by some prehistoric animals. The plot is set at the time when glaciers and freezing temperatures overran the Earth. The characters of this film are all animals, with the exception of some early humans. These humans bear some Neanderthal-like facial features, and are not shown conversing, but only grunting or yelling. The animals can talk to and understand each other and are voiced by a variety of famous actors. What can also be noted is that, like many films of prehistoric life, the rules of time periods apply very loosely, as many of the species shown in the film never actually lived in the same areas, let alone the same time periods.

Ice Age shows the Earth entering into the Ice Age 20,000 years ago, and the animals are scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming sub-zero temperature. In the turn of events, Sid, a sloth who never stops talking, a woolly mammoth named Manny, a saber-toothed tiger named Diego, and an acorn-loving saber-toothed squirrel named Scrat are forced to become unlikely heroes. The four reluctantly come together when they have to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age. The film is a true entertainer, and keeps audiences spellbound till the very last minute, and even after it gets over, it does manage to leave an indelible impact on the minds of those who have witnessed the 81 minutes of this piece of visual treat. Answers

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