Ice Age (2002 movie)
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.
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 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 Charlie Adler P.J. Benjamin Sidney DeSève Dann Fink Michael Gough Josh Hamilton James Woods Steve Susskind Patrick Warburton Denny Dillon Mitzi McCall Frankie Muniz Tara Strong John Kassir |
| 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 |
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
- Diedrich Bader as Oscar, a Saber-tooth tiger
- Alan Tudyk as Lenny, a large cat
- Lorri Bagley as Jennifer, a female giant ground sloth
- Jane Krakowski as Rachel, a female giant ground sloth
- P.J. Benjamin, Peter Ackerman, Chris Wedge, Josh Hamilton and Alan Tudyk as the dodos
- Josh Hamilton as Marauchenia, a freaky mammal
- Alan Tudyk as Dab, a freaky mammal
- Denny Dillon and Mitzi McCall as two Glyptodons
- Stephen Root as Start 1
- Tara Strong as Start 2
- Tara Strong as Roshan
- Josh Hamilton as an aardvark
- Chris Wedge as Scrat, a saber-toothed squirrel
Additional voices were provided by Jack Angel, Michael Patrick Bell, Robert Bergen, Val Bettin, Barry Bostwick, Rodger Bumpass, Cameron Clarke, David Cowgill, Darin DePaul, Paul Eiding, Jennifer Hale, Carolyn Lawrence, Michael Lerner, Sherry Lynn, Danny Mann, Mona Marshall, Andrew McDonough, Rove McManus, Jerry Orbach, Bobbi Page, Peter Reneday, Lori Richardson, Michelle Ruff, Aaron Spann, Kyle Stanger, Catherine Taber, Holland Taylor, Russi Taylor, Brian Tocki, Frank Welker, Ezra Weisz and Billy West.
Related pages
Other websites
- Ice Age's Official website Archived 2012-07-18 at the Wayback Machine
- Ice Age at AllMovie
- Ice Age on IMDb