Ice Age (2002)

User Rating:

7.4/10   

Directors:

Chris Wedge
Carlos Saldanha (co-director)

Writers:

Michael J. Wilson (story)
Michael Berg (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

15 March 2002 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family

Tagline:

The Coolest Event In 16,000 Years.

Plot:

Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.

Plot Keywords:

Ice Age | Baby | Ice | Sloth | Mammoth

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 23 nominations

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	...	Rhino / Start (voice)
Diedrich Bader	...	Saber-Toothed Tiger (voice)
Alan Tudyk	...	Oscar / Dab the Dodo (voice)
Lorri Bagley	...	Female Sloth (voice)
Jane Krakowski	...	Female Sloth (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	...	Baby Moeritherium (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Dann Fink	...	Dodo (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Chris Wedge
Carlos Saldanha		(co-director)

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

Produced by
John C. Donkin	....	associate producer
Lori Forte	....	producer
Christopher Meledandri	....	executive producer

Original Music by
David Newman

Film Editing by
John Carnochan

Production Design by
Brian McEntee

Production Management
Maria Criscuolo	....	production manager
Kendall McCarthy	....	post-production supervisor
Patrick Esposito	....	post-production supervisor (uncredited)

Art Department
Enrico Casarosa	....	storyboard artist
Peter Clarke	....	environmental designer
William H. Frake III	....	storyboard artist
Yvette Kaplan	....	head of story
Tony Kluck	....	storyboard artist
Marcie Matsui	....	set dresser
Moroni	....	storyboard artist
Kevin O'Brien	....	storyboard artist
Wilbert Plijnaar	....	storyboard artist
Dan Shefelman	....	storyboard artist
Ilya Skorupsky	....	storyboard artist

Sound Department
Craig Berkey	....	sound effects editor
Weldon Brown	....	dialogue mixer
Marko A. Costanzo	....	foley artist (as Marko Costanzo)
Scott Cresswell	....	dialogue mixer
Sean Garnhart	....	sound designer
Sean Garnhart	....	sound re-recording mixer
Sean Garnhart	....	supervising sound editor
Albert Gasser	....	adr editor
Albert Gasser	....	dialogue editor
Lewis Goldstein	....	sound effects editor
Tim Gomillion	....	sound recordist
Doug Hemphill	....	sound re-recording mixer (as D.M. Hemphill)
Bill Higley	....	dialogue mixer
Kenton Jakub	....	adr editor
Kenton Jakub	....	dialogue editor
Frank Kern	....	foley editor
Robert Kessler	....	dialogue mixer
George A. Lara	....	foley mixer
Roy Latham	....	dialogue mixer
Marissa Littlefield	....	adr editor
Marissa Littlefield	....	dialogue editor
David Lucarelli	....	dialogue recordist
Paul Massey	....	sound re-recording mixer
Tim McColm	....	stage engineer
Bill Orrico	....	first assistant sound editor
Nicholas Renbeck	....	adr editor
Nicholas Renbeck	....	dialogue editor
Charleen Richards	....	dialogue mixer (as Charlene Richards)
Mark Richelo	....	apprentice sound editor
Dennis Rogers	....	sound recordist
Carolyn Sauer	....	dialogue recordist
Bill Talbott	....	sound engineer
George Thompson	....	dialogue mixer
Paul Urmson	....	sound effects editor
Chris Varekamp	....	dialogue recordist
Steven Visscher	....	supervising foley editor
Shayna Brown	....	sound re-recording mixer (uncredited)
Derek Casari	....	adr engineer (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Oktay Ahiska	....	digital artist
Andrew Beddini	....	lead compositor
Tom Bisogno	....	CG character animation
Clifford Bohm	....	senior technical director: lighting sequence supervisor
Christopher M. Burrows	....	technical director
Danielle Cambridge	....	supervising technical assistant
Mike Defeo	....	modeling supervisor
Frank Denota	....	modeler
John K. Dodelson	....	modeler
Michael Feder	....	production supervisor: technical directors
Jason Galeon	....	digital compositor
Kirk Garfield	....	effects technical director
Pasha Ivanov	....	character modeler
Keith Daniel Klohn	....	digital effects
Mike Knapp	....	additional matte painter
Mitch Kopelman	....	lighting sequence supervisor
Alen Lai	....	lighting technical director
Ken Lee	....	modeler
Alexander Levenson	....	modeler
David V. Mei	....	digital paint artist (as David Mei)
Jenga Zamani Mwendo	....	modeler
John Paine	....	modeler
Mark Piretti	....	lead technical animator
Justin R. Rotolo	....	animation technical assistant
John Siczewicz	....	senior digital artist
David J. Smith	....	character animator
Rachel Tiep-Daniels	....	modeler
Michael J. Travers	....	managing technical director
Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi	....	matte painter
Dan Weeks	....	systems programmer
Dan Whiting	....	effects animator
Jodi Whitsel	....	lighting sequence supervisor
Ben Williams	....	modeler
Athena Xenakis	....	character texture painter
Athena Xenakis	....	digital artist
Athena Xenakis	....	digital paint artist
Michael Dvoravic	....	animator (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Rafael Castelblanco	....	lighting technician
Wooksang Chang	....	lighting technician
Keith Cormier	....	lighting technician
Michael Feder	....	lighting production supervisor
James Gettinger	....	lighting technician
Jenifer Lee Gilchrist	....	lighting technician
Bryan Godwin	....	lighting technician
Pasha Ivanov	....	rigger
Lisa Kalmanson	....	lighting technician
Inkyong Irene Kim	....	lighting technician
Fran Roberts	....	lighting technician
Zach Schläppi	....	lighting technician
Sandra Singler	....	lighting technician
Kevin Thomason	....	lighting technician
Haji Uesato	....	lighting technician
Kristi Hansen Walvoord	....	lighting technician

Animation Department
Nina Bafaro	....	animator
Daniel Barlow	....	3-D layout artist
Floyd Bishop Jr.	....	animator
Thomas Bisogno	....	animator
Tom Bisogno	....	animator
Rodrigo Blaas	....	animator
James Bresnahan	....	lead animator
James Campbell	....	animator
James Campbell	....	technical animator
Jaime Castañeda	....	animator (as Jaime Andrés Castañeda)
Galen T. Chu	....	animator
Keith Cormier	....	character materials
Nick Craven	....	animator
Shaun Cusick	....	character texture painter
Jean Cullen De Moura	....	additional animator
Marcelo Fernandes De Moura	....	animator
Everett Downing Jr.	....	animator
Billy Foster	....	assistant production manager: animation
William H. Frake III	....	lead layout artist
David Gallagher	....	additional animator
David Gallagher	....	technical animator
Jenifer Lee Gilchrist	....	3-D layout artist
Jenifer Lee Gilchrist	....	additional character materials
Aaron J. Hartline	....	animator
Aaron J. Hartline	....	technical animator
James Hundertmark	....	animator
James Hundertmark	....	technical animator
Jeffrey Joe	....	animator
Lisa Kalmanson	....	character materials
Kompin Kemgumnird	....	animator
Inkyong Irene Kim	....	character materials
Tony Kluck	....	additional animator
Justin Leach	....	technical animator
Ken Lee	....	3-D layout artist
William Austin Lee	....	additional animator (as Austin Lee)
William Austin Lee	....	technical animator (as Austin Lee)
Dean Lennert	....	animator (as Dean Kalman Lennert)
Gary Macarevich	....	additional animator
Gary Macarevich	....	animation technical assistant
Sharon Mancuso	....	production assistant: animation
Eric Maurer	....	character materials
Simi Nallaseth	....	animator
Dana O'Connor	....	animator
David S. Peng	....	animation technical assistant
David S. Peng	....	animator
Lauren Prince	....	assistant production manager: animation
Andreas Procopiou	....	animator
Mika Ripatti	....	animator
Scott Robideau	....	animator
Leslie Schor-Bresnahan	....	animation production supervisor
Scotty Sharp	....	technical animator
Sandra Singler	....	character materials
Scott Smith	....	additional animator
Scott Smith	....	animation technical assistant
Steve Talkowski	....	3-D layout artist
Kevin Thomason	....	3-D layout artist
Kevin Thomason	....	technical animator
Mike Thurmeier	....	lead animator (as Michael Thurmeier)
David Torres	....	animator
David B. Vallone	....	animator
Kristi Hansen Walvoord	....	character materials
Joshua West	....	animator
Dan Whiting	....	animator
Jodi Whitsel	....	additional character materials
Ben Williams	....	character texture painter
Athena Xenakis	....	character texture painter
Dean Yeagle	....	additional animator
Philip A. Cruden	....	background designer (uncredited)

Casting Department
Alan Filderman	....	additional casting
Meg Morman	....	casting associate
Bruce Winant	....	casting: adr group

Editorial Department
Gary Burritt	....	negative cutter
Shannon Carey	....	assistant editor
Anthony L. Jamison	....	first assistant editor
Dan Madden	....	assistant editor
Tim Nordquist	....	associate editor
James Palumbo	....	assistant editor (as James M. Palumbo)
Jim Passon	....	color timer
Steve Calalang	....	dailies colorist (uncredited)

Music Department
Sandy DeCrescent	....	scoring contractor
Marty Frasu	....	scoring sound designer
Richard A. Harrison	....	music editor
Gregory Jamrok	....	orchestrator
John Kurlander	....	scoring mixer
Rebecca R. Liddle	....	orchestrator
David Newman	....	conductor
David Newman	....	orchestrator
Krystyna Newman	....	scoring consultant
Bobbi Page	....	vocal contractor
John Rodd	....	orchestral scoring recordist
Justin Skomarovsky	....	composer: additional music
Joshua Winget	....	music editor: temp music
J.J. Holiday	....	musician (uncredited)

Other crew
Jeremy Arambulo	....	production assistant: art/lighting/effects
Mark Baldo	....	sequence director
Merrick Arthur Baldo	....	ice age baby
Victor Banks	....	additional digital paint artist
Laura Bellantoni	....	staff: Blue Sky Studios
Samantha Berg	....	assistant production manager: lighting/character group
Floyd Bishop III	....	ice age baby
Erik J. Borzi	....	environmental materials/staging
Bruno Bowden	....	associate programmer
Annabelle Rae Bresnahan	....	ice age baby
Adam Burr	....	effects
Roburta Burroughs	....	assistant production manager: production
Joseph Domenic Cardone	....	ice age baby
Robert Cardone	....	3-D layout supervisor
Jan Carlee	....	sequence director (as Jan Carlée)
Nicholas Carne	....	composite/render wrangler
Robert V. Cavaleri	....	effects lead
Cresta Chamberlain	....	production assistant: staging
Cresta Chamberlain	....	production coordinator: digital paint/rendering
Eric Daniel Cruz	....	ice age baby
Emma Eun Hee Cusick	....	ice age baby
Shaun Cusick	....	lead modeler
Jerry Davis	....	pre-production supervisor
Sophia Cullen De Moura	....	ice age baby
Paulina Sae Byul De Sève	....	ice age baby
Aaron Dimunno	....	lead composite/render wrangler
Michael Eringis	....	environmental materials/staging lead
David Esneault	....	master lighting lead
Mona Falvey	....	staff: Blue Sky Studios
Angela Fay	....	staff: Blue Sky Studios
Rachel Viola Fay	....	ice age baby
Zachary Dylan Fay	....	ice age baby
Eden Sophia Gallagher	....	ice age baby
Kirk Garfield	....	effects (as Kirk A. Garfield)
Meghan Rose Garfield	....	ice age baby
Robert Gordon	....	supervising accountant (as Bob Gordon)
Alexander Gradet	....	production assistant: story/editorial
Laney Gradus	....	studio manager
Thomas Graham II	....	pro tools technician
Mary Grandpré	....	additional visual development
Gary Graves	....	technical assistant
Leo Gullotta	....	voice double: Ray Romano
Richard Hadsell	....	senior research associate
Jack Ham	....	unix systems administrator
Karl Herbst	....	character materials lead
Joe Higham	....	manager: software tools
Grace Aslinn Hitchens	....	ice age baby
Hugh Hitchens	....	assistant production manager: production
Pino Insegno	....	voice dubbing: Denis Leary
Lydia Kristina Joe	....	ice age baby
Elvin Jorge	....	lead desktop systems administrator
Yvette Kaplan	....	head of story
Brian A. Keane	....	staff: Blue Sky Studios
Shannon Rose Keane	....	ice age baby
Kelly Kimball	....	additional visual development
Mitch Kopelman	....	effects
Chris Kuwata	....	production coordinator: layout/staging
John Lajvort	....	audio/video support engineer
Peregrine Keegan Lennert	....	ice age baby
Alexander Levenson	....	additional visual development
H.B. 'Buck' Lewis	....	visual development artist
Carl Ludwig	....	research and development director
Joseph Marcello	....	production assistant: production
Eric Maurer	....	effects
André Mazzone	....	production programmer: Blue Sky Studios
August Raphael Asch Mei	....	ice age baby
Pia Miniati	....	production programmer
Amy Ning	....	additional visual development
Anthony Nisi	....	assistant production manager: lighting/effects
Anthony Michael Nisi III	....	ice age baby
Vincent Noh	....	ice age baby
Baby 'Ketchup' Nordquist	....	ice age baby
Yannah Elizabeth Nordquist	....	ice age baby
Paul Ohrt	....	production accountant
Melvin Ortiz	....	desktop systems administrator
John A. Patterson	....	effects TA
Luis Peña	....	staff: Blue Sky Studios
Laura V. Perrotta	....	assistant production manager: story/editoral
Deanna Pizzuti	....	production coordinator: editorial
Daniela Polcari	....	staff: Blue Sky Studios
Sara Marie Polcari	....	ice age baby
Michael K. Reed	....	research associate
Sarah Rice	....	production coordinator: digital paint/rendering
Charles Leland Richardson	....	staff: Blue Sky Studios
Anita Roper	....	staff: Blue Sky Studios
Vanessa Ross	....	production coordinator: lighting (as Vanessa M. Ross)
Marlin Rowley	....	production programmer
Railyn Monét Rowley	....	ice age baby
Sofia Scarpa Saldanha	....	ice age baby
Leslie Schor-Bresnahan	....	assistant production manager: pre-production/character group
Bonnie Scott	....	unix systems administrator
Cynthia Lynn Scott	....	production assistant: technical direction
Ross Scroble	....	technical lead
Irka B. Seng-Bloom	....	assistant production manager: layout/staging
Will Shefelman	....	additional visual development
Andrew Siegel	....	head of systems
David Silverman	....	story consultant
Tim Speltz	....	effects
Tom Steel	....	stage crew
Mariana Suarez	....	staff: Blue Sky Studios
Stephanie Swengel	....	production executive: Ms. Forte
Damon Tedesco	....	stage crew
David Tesch	....	programmer: applications
Colin Hayes Thompson	....	environmental materials/staging
Julian Riley Thomson	....	ice age baby
Trevor Thomson	....	senior developer (as Trevor G. Thomson)
Joselly A. Torres	....	staff: Blue Sky Studios
Eugene Troubetzkoy	....	chief scientist (as Eugene S. Troubetzkoy)
Vinh Truong	....	additional visual development
John Turner	....	senior research associate
Nina Lim Uesato	....	ice age baby
Maurice Van Swaaij	....	software development manager
Jon Vitti	....	story consultant
Dave Walvoord	....	supervising technical director
Jason Wasserman	....	staff: Blue Sky Studios
Emma Whiting	....	ice age baby
Weera Tom Wichitsripornkul	....	environmental materials/staging
Danny Williams	....	lead modeler
Ursula Wing	....	modeling TA
Todd Winter	....	workbook artist
Athena Xenakis	....	additional digital paint artist
Athena Xenakis	....	additional visual development
Linda Zazza	....	marketing coordinator
Blanca Camacho	....	adr loop group (uncredited)
Michael Feder	....	technical director (uncredited)
Kimberly Logan	....	assistant: Cedric the Entertainer (uncredited)
José Antonio Macías	....	translator: Spanish (uncredited)
Catherine Winder	....	production executive (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Blue Sky Studios
• Twentieth Century Fox Animation

Distributors

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (2002) (USA) (theatrical)
• Fox Network (2004) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• 20th Century Fox Italia (2002) (Italy) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox Netherlands (2002) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox de Argentina (2002) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox of Germany (2002) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Fox-Warner (2002) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Hispano Foxfilms S.A.E. (2002) (Spain) (theatrical)
• UGC-Fox Distribution (UFD) (2002) (France) (theatrical)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment España S.A. (2002) (Spain) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (Brazil) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (Brazil) (VHS)
• 20th Century Fox (Far East)
• FS Film Oy
• Gativideo (Argentina) (DVD)
• Gativideo (Argentina) (VHS)
• Gemini Film (Russia)
• SF Film
• Star Channel Plus (2007) (Japan) (TV)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2002) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2003) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2008) (Netherlands) (DVD) (Blu-Ray Disc)
• Yorin (2005) (Netherlands) (TV) (first national airing)

Other Companies

• 20th Century Fox Studios  sound mixing
• C-5  foley recorded at
• C-5  sound post-production
• Cinesite  filmout
• Compaq  renderplex
• Custom Film Effects  title opticals
• Elizabeth Bardsley & Associates  research [DVD bonus material]
• Howard Schwartz Recording  recording/adr facilities
• Jo Anne Kane Music Services  music preparation
• Kessler Media Productions Ltd.  recording/adr facilities
• Kona Cutting  negative cutting
• L.A. Studios, The  recording/adr facilities
• Loopers Unlimited  group adr casting
• M5 Studios  music mixed at
• Newman Scoring Stage, Twentieth Century Fox Studios, The  music recorded at
• R!ot Manhattan  telecine transfers
• Scarlet Letters  end titles
• Sound One Corporation  sound transfers
• Twentieth Century Fox Sound Department  sound transfers
• Varèse Sarabande  soundtrack published by

Also Known As:

The Ice Age (Canada: English title) (working title)
La era de hielo (Argentina) (Peru) (Venezuela) [es]
La era del hielo (Colombia) (Venezuela) [es]
Ледниковый период (Russia) [ru]
Ísöld (Iceland) [is]
A Era do Gelo (Brazil) [pt]
A Idade do Gelo (Portugal) [pt]
Buz devri (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Epoka lodowcowa (Poland) [pl]
I epohi ton pagetonon (Greece) [el]
Ice Age (Finland) [fi]
Ice Age (Germany) [de]
Ice age - Jäätikön sankarit (Finland) (DVD box title) [fi]
Ice age. L'edat del gel (Spain: Catalan title) [ca]
Ice age: La edad de hielo (Spain) [es]
Istid (Norway) (dubbed version) [no]
Jääaeg (Estonia) [et]
Jégkorszak (Hungary) [hu]
L'âge de glace (France) [fr]
L'ère de glace (Canada: French title) [fr]
L'era glaciale (Italy) [it]
La edad de hielo (Spain) [es]
Ledeno doba (Croatia) [hr]

MPAA:

Rated PG for mild peril.

Runtime:

81 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Switzerland:6 (canton of the Grisons) | Denmark:A | Iceland:L | Malaysia:U | Australia:G | USA:PG | Portugal:M/6 | New Zealand:PG | Norway:7 | Argentina:Atp | Brazil:Livre | Canada:G | Finland:K-7 | France:U | Germany:o.Al. | Hong Kong:I | India:U | Netherlands:AL | Peru:PT | Philippines:G | Singapore:G | South Korea:All | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:U | Indonesia:SU

Company:

Blue Sky Studios

Trivia:

The human characters never talk in the film.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When the sabertooth pack is chasing Sid and he "skis" away, Sid is kicking up powder and leaving tracks in the snow, but during the early stages of the chase, his pursuers are running across the top of the snow leaving no tracks.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Freaky Mammal: Well, why don't they call it The Big Chill? Or The Nippy Era? I'm just sayin', how do we know it's an Ice Age?
Freaky Mammal: Because... of all the ice.
Freaky Mammal: Well, things just got a little chillier.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: (#4.2)" (2009/I)

Soundtrack:

Sound Off (Duckworth Chant)

cute, clever, entertaining

`Ice Age' emerges as one of the better animated films of recent years, cleverly designed and even more cleverly written. Scenarists Michael Berg, Michael J. Wilson and Peter Ackerman have devised a story set 20,000 years ago about an unlikely trio of companions who find themselves making a long trek through a harsh environment in an effort, ostensibly, to return a baby human to the tribe from which he has become separated. The triumvirate is made up of a deadpan, cynical mammoth, a wisecracking, over-the-top sloth (whose mile-a-minute mouth more than makes up for his legendary slowness) and a malevolent saber-tooth tiger, who learns a thing or two about friendship and teamwork before the adventure is over.

`Ice Age' is at its most amusing in those scenes in which the characters make prescient jokes about their own place in the evolutionary scheme of things. One particularly clever scene involves the three travelers discovering what looks like an underground museum of natural history encased in ice, replete with ancient creatures caught in naturally occurring, chain-of-life exhibits. Like most animated films set in the past, `Ice Age' derives much of its humor through the use of anachronism. We chuckle to hear these creatures applying modern, scientific knowledge to the pre-scientific era in which they are living.

The animators and designers have done a beautiful job in achieving just the right look for this tale. The backgrounds have a colorful, clean, streamlined look to them, and the animals themselves, in their appearance and design, provide a witty commentary on evolutionary history. Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary do superb voiceover work, each achieving just the right tone for the character he has been assigned to play. One could wish, perhaps, for a bit less sentimentality at the end, but that is a minor quibble in a film that works so well for both children and adults. The kids will revel in the cuteness of the animals and the clever action sequences, while adults will savor the sly knowingness of the evolutionary and historical in-jokes. Not bad in an era when most films can't find a way to please even ONE audience demographic.