![]() ![]() The mix of generic comedy and maudlin drama. The broad, repetitive squirrel slapstick. But I can't pretend that I understand it. Sent to an astounding 4,100 theaters (a number of them exhibiting the film in 3D), the third installment narrowly eclipsed the first sequel's gross domestically, but the real story was in its international reception, which pushed it to a colossal worldwide total of $887 million.Ĭlearly, there is a massive audience for this franchise, one big enough to rival almost any series on the global level. My timing argument falls apart on Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which debuted smack in the middle of the industry's prime season, on the week of the Fourth of July 2009. But it opened on the last day of March and, facing limited competition, it easily exceeded its predecessor's earnings. If the sequel had opened in the summer or fall seasons, when nine other CG films (including several flops) did, it might not have done so much business. ![]() It came in 2006, the year when the supply of computer animated films caught up to and surpassed the demand. Ice Age: The Meltdown also fared well on timing. Ice Age would be the only major CG family comedy of its season and in fact its entire year the next two saturated releases to come would be the record-setting Finding Nemo in 2003 and Shrek 2 in 2004. Those two hits had established computer animation as a dominant medium, not limited to the Toy Story franchise or even just Pixar. It arrived in theaters March 2002, just after Shrek and Monsters, Inc. I maintain my position that the first Ice Age's success was largely the product of timing. Why bother with the charade that these ancient characters have an equivalent of Christmas, when the birth of Christ isn't going to feature either way? Obviously, these aren't documentaries of a distant world, but computer-animated comedies set back then and built on parallels to modern times. ![]() The Ice Age series is not one for historical accuracy: the ice is melting in the second movie and then there are dinosaurs underneath in the third. Why? Probably for the same reason that there are references to Miami and barf bags here. And yet, the gang celebrates Christmas much as we know it, despite predating the holiday's namesake by at least several thousand years. ![]() The Ice Age movies are set in prehistoric times, somewhere between 10,000 and three million years ago. return to theaters in Ice Age: Continental Drift, the gang staked out a half-hour of Thanksgiving night primetime air on Fox with this program, which raced to DVD and the Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy reviewed here a mere twenty-eight hours later last week. With eight months to go before Sid, Manny, Diego, Scrat, et al. Was more than enough for me to give Blue Sky Studios' flagship franchise another chance to impress with a review of Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special. That, coupled with the alluring lesser demands of a half-hour feature presentation, My love of holiday TV specials greatly exceeds my dislike of the Ice Age series. Three single-sided, single-layered discs (1 BD-25, 1 DVD-5, and 1 DVD-5 DVD-ROM)Īlso available as standalone DVD ($7.98 SRP), on Instant Video, and Instant Video HDīuy Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special from : Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy Release Date: Novem/ Suggested Retail Price: $14.99 Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish DVD Closed Captioned Extras Not Subtitled, Captioned Original Air Date: Novem/ Running Time: 26 Minutes / Rating: Not Rated (TV-PG on air)īlu-ray: 1.78:1 Widescreen / 5.1 DTS-HD MA (English), Dolby Digital 5.1 (Spanish, French)ĭVD: 1.78:1 Anamorphic Widescreen / Dolby Digital 5.1 (English), Dolby Surround (Spanish, French) Miller (Prancer), Billy Gardell (Santa Claus), Judah Friedlander (Head Mini Sloth), Karen Disher (Molehog), Cindy Slattery (Miscellaneous Animals), Chris Wedge (Scrat) Voice Cast: Ray Romano (Manny), John Leguizamo (Sid), Denis Leary (Diego), Queen Latifah (Ellie), Seann William Scott (Crash), Josh Peck (Eddie), Ciara Bravo (Peaches), T.J. Director: Karen Disher / Writers: Sam Harper, Mike Reiss / Executive Producers: Lori Forte, Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha / Producer: Andrea M. ![]()
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