Ice Age Critic Reviews

The coolest animation in town.Read the full review

A pleasure to look at and scarcely less fun as a story. I came to scoff and stayed to smile.Read the full review

Ice Age never matches the brilliance of ''Toy Story'' or the heartfelt heft of ''Shrek,'' but it's an antic and sweet-spirited pleasure.Read the full review

The problem rather is the wholesale embracing of what has become de rigueur in animation, the practice of treating major characters as if they were stand-up comics working a room in Las Vegas.Read the full review

They center on the devilishly clever, exceedingly enjoyable interludes featuring the aforementioned rodent in situations and circumstances that recall the great animated work of the recently departed Chuck Jones.Read the full review

Comes closer than any other recent animated film to the Looney Tunes ideal. Just as Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny entertained without either condescending to kids or lobbing adult jokes over their heads.Read the full review

The blandly likable computer-animation extravaganza Ice Age actually seems like a fossil, a relic from another era.Read the full review

Kids won't mind a bit, but adults accustomed to "Shrek" and Pixar will have no trouble spotting what's missing.Read the full review

A minor delight but a delight just the same.Read the full review