Ice Age

Pros: Entertaining family movie.
Cons: The movie is rated PG, so it isn’t appropriate for all children

Ice Age is the third animated movie made by Fox. I had seen previews for the movie for a long time and thought it looked cute. I did want to see it, but I wasn’t in a big hurry. I recently got Anastasia on DVD, the first ...

Pros: story, moral, characters, animation
Cons: death of a parent

One of my son’s favorite films that he will watch over and over again is Ice Age. He’s even gotten to the point where he knows some of the script by heart and repeats is with the characters. Sid is a sloth who’s ditched by ...

Pros: cute, funny, sweet story, great animation and casting
Cons: death in the movie??

Yesterday we, that is, my husband, 4 year old son and myself, went to the movies. I'm not sure who wanted to see Ice Age more, my husband or my son. After watching previews and before actually seeing the movie, I really could have cared less about...

Pros: Romano, Leary, and Leguizamo make a good team
Cons: The directors did not

The comic tone set at the beginning of “Ice Age” is one not maintained throughout the film. In the opening sequence, a squirrel tries feverishly to preserve his acorn for the winter. As he tries to stash it, he causes an avalanche. As a result, he loses...

Pros: Characters, acting, animation, duration.
Cons: The values weren't good and there was lots of violence.

I love watching these films that are wonderfully animated. I like the 3d effect, and I think the technology is at a tremendous level. I really enjoyed Monsters Inc., Shrek, and Toy Story 1 and 2, so you can see why I was dying to see Ice Age. I bought my...

Pros: Fast paced, cute story, adorable characters.
Cons: Might be considered a little dark in places for very young children.

Ever since we saw the first trailers for Ice Age, my son Ethan has been counting down the weeks and days until it opened up in movie theaters. Today was the day.

Let me tell you how clueless I was. When I saw the previews for Ice...

Pros: Humor, animation, character development, story
Cons: a missing segment?

This animated movie has got to be the best one I’ve seen this year. It offers some surprisingly well developed characters in a story that is really simple, but moving. Directed by Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, this story hits where others...

Pros: cutting-edge animation, great pacing, lots of action
Cons: slows down from the midpoint onward, gets predictable

Here's a cartoon that came out in the aftermath of 9/11, when the world was suddenly in flux and people wondered about their future. One way to weather the storm was to emphasize family (Finding Nemo). Another was to say, "Folks, we've been here ...

Pros: It's funny, it's heartfelt, it looks good, and the Rusted Root song!
Cons: The characters and story are pretty much routine.

Wow, so how long do you suppose we've been watching the trailer to this one? It feels like about a year and a half. I was never too terribly interested in "Ice Age". But a combination of hype (Yes, I'm a sucker for hype, especially of the...

Pros: Some delightfully absurd diversions that keep the plot from getting schlocky.
Cons: A predictable plot that frequently flirts with "family movie" schlock.

Okay, so I’m not an animation buff. Especially animation of the post-millennial variety – that pristine, digital kind of stuff. It just doesn’t have the same warmth as classic Disney. Then again, maybe I’m just being crotchety. ...

Pros: Has some great laughs, and friendship lessons
Cons: As the movie site put it, "Has some mild peril."

One might think that my now seven-year-old nagged me to the theater on opening day. If you are the one, you are wrong. No, my 22 year-old- brother drug me there. He might as well be seven though, if that counts for something.

I thought oh...

Pros: Dialogue and inner story about taking care of others in the group.
Cons: Predictable.

I dunno.

These days when you want to take the whole family to a children's comedy, the one you have to worry about sometimes is Grandma. They put all those little jokes in there about gastrointestinal phenomena and such and while the kids...

Pros: Cute Story
Cons: Somewhat Predictable

My daughter and I decided to have some mommy/daughter only time. We figured we’d hit the mall and then maybe a movie while we were there. When we got to the theater we discovered that there were 4 age appropriate (more or less) movies playing....

Pros: The second half, with its action sequences, outlandish landscapes, and character development.
Cons: The first half and its parallels to other film's like Shrek.

The Story: Manfred the mastodon (Ray Romano), Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo), and Diego the saber-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) are getting ready to migrate, separately, when Fate brings them together and puts a human infant in their care. They ...

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I had been meaning to see this movie for a while. I think that it might be one of the movies that I had originally put in my rental queue when I first signed up for NetFlix. I finally got around to watching it the other day. The premise is simple. A ...