Hey folks, Harry here.. ICE AGE is almost here and it only makes sense that way up in Norway we'd find an early look at the impending ICE AGE!!! Koola has been reporting for us for quite some time now and he's back with a glimpse at the goings ons between them wacky varmits from long ago....
Hey Harry!
I am so god damn happy. Koola the Norwegian strikes back. I mean, delightful pinapple and juicy strawberries, I was the luckiest guy in Oslo the other day. Got to attend an early screening of ICE AGE. And here it comes in a l-o-n-g time. Here comes my review:
ICE AGE is a really goodfelt and creative piece of pure and gifted animation. It's CGI allright, but still lively in the most Pixar-esque way you could imagine. I mean, one would fear, at least I did, before going into this film that they cannot, and should not, be in any way similar to what Pixar creates. But hell, this film, is just as fun and witty as Pixar- creations, and still a totally different and independent style. Sure ICE AGE wil remind you of both Disney and Pixar, but my biggest fear, that it would be unoriginal and cliché, was luckily put to rest. ICE AGE is a fantastic joy!
Probably everone has seen the trailer by now with the funnylooking animal who passionately cares about his nut, and by trying to hide it in the ice causes the whole thing to break.... crack... and so he‚s stepped on by a mammoth and Ice, ice Baby plays... y‚know the trailer? Well, without the Vanilla Ice-theme; That is the opening-sequence of the film! Really funny! It sets the tone for the film, and from there we are treated to a clever-written, beautifully told road-moviethingee (reminds me of the Dinosaur-plot) with a mammoth, a sabretooth, a baby and this unidentified animal Sid the Sloth. These four characters on a journey to deliver the baby to it's human tribe. Ok, so that does not sound like one hell of a script, but it all lies in the scenes, the great voicetalents (Hallelujah for the sabretooth-Denis Leary. Fantastic!) and the in-jokes concerning the animals views on themself in the ICE AGE ("Global warming? Like that's ever gonna happen..."). And also really fun jokes about animals and humans ("Come on... you know humans can't talk!"). All this and more (in ICE AGE there is a slide-scene through tunnels inside the ice, in MONSTERS INC there was the door-swapping-scene) ends up being this film.... ICE AGE, that lives up to the fantastically cool trailer. Actually, the film is undescribably funny.
Sure there's some things that don‚t work so well, for example how the humans look and some pacing-problems (eventhough the movie is no more than 80 minutes). But overall: REALLY FUN FILM!!!!!
Koola
