Ice Age (2002 movie)

Ice Age
Official logo of the movie
Directed by	Chris Wedge Co-director: Carlos Saldanha
Written by	Michael J. Wilson
Screenplay by	Michael Berg Michael J. Wilson Peter Ackerman
Produced by	Lori Forte Executive producer: Christopher Meledandri Associate producer: John C. Donkin
Starring	Ray Romano John Leguizamo Denis Leary Goran Visnjic Jack Black Diedrich Bader Alan Tudyk Cedric The Entertainer Stephen Root Peter Ackerman P.J. Benjamin Josh Hamilton Chris Wedge Denny Dillon Mitzi McCall Tara Strong
Edited by	John Carnochan
Music by	David Newman
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	March 15, 2002
Running time	81 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$59 million
Box office	$383,257,136

Ice Age is a 2002 American computer-animated comedy-drama movie. It was produced by John C. Donkin and Lori Forte and was directed by Chris Wedge. The movie was released on March 15, 2002.

The movie was positively welcomed from both audiences and film critics which praised its story, humor, characters, emotional weight, voice cast performance (especially those of Leguizamo and Leary), David Newman's musical score and the ending.

The movie currently has four sequels, Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009), Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012), and Ice Age: Collision Course (2016). There has also been a Christmas special and a series of short movies revolving around the comic relief character in the movies.

Cast

The characters are all prehistoric animals. The animals can talk to and understand each other.

• Ray Romano as Manny, a woolly mammoth
• John Leguizamo as Sid, a giant ground sloth
• Denis Leary as Diego, a Saber-tooth tiger
• Goran Višnjić as Soto, a Saber-tooth tiger
• Jack Black as Zeke, a Saber-tooth tiger
• Cedric the Entertainer as Carl, a rhinoceros-like animal
• Stephen Root as:
  • Frank, a rhinoceros-like animal
  • A start.
• Diedrich Bader as Oscar, a Saber-tooth tiger
• Alan Tudyk as:
  • Lenny, a large cat
  • A dodo
  • A freaky mammal
• Lorri Bagley as Jennifer, a female giant ground sloth
• Jane Krakowski as Rachel, a female giant ground sloth
• Peter Ackerman as:
  • Another dodo
  • Another freaky mammal (Macrauchenia)
• P. J. Benjamin as another dodo
• Chris Wedge as:
  • Another dodo
  • Scrat, a saber-toothed squirrel. Wedge only provided vocal effects (such as his screams), but no dialogue.
• Josh Hamilton as:
  • Another dodo
  • An aardvark
• Denny Dillon and Mitzi McCall as two Glyptodons
• Tara Strong as:
  • Another start
  • Roshan, an infant. He is never referred to by name in the film, instead being nicknamed "Pinky" by Manny

Related pages

• Ice Age: The Meltdown
• Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
• Ice Age: Continental Drift
• Ice Age: Collision Course

Other websites

• Ice Age's Official website Archived July 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
• Ice Age at AllMovie
• Ice Age on IMDb