{"id":69,"date":"2002-03-18T10:49:48","date_gmt":"2002-03-18T10:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ealasaid.com\/writing\/reviews\/2002\/03\/18\/ice-age\/"},"modified":"2022-06-11T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T18:40:51","slug":"ice-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/2002\/03\/18\/ice-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Rated:<\/b> PG<br \/>\n<b>Director:<\/b> Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge<br \/>\n<b>Starring:<\/b> Raymond Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Jack Black<br \/>\n<b>Parental Notes:<\/b> This film contains Roadrunner-and-Coyote style violence in small doses, and several intense sequences which might upset younger children.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a moment in &#8220;Ice Age&#8221; when a scrat (a sort of squirrel-rat hybrid) realizes he is doomed. He stares up at the mountain of ice about to fall on him and his lower eyelid twitches faintly. It doesn&#8217;t matter that his appearance is artistically mediocre, we laugh. &#8220;Ice Age&#8221; may not be a work of artistic or storytelling genius, but when it comes to details and raw visual humor, it delivers with extra to spare.<br \/>\nThe main story of the film has nothing to do with the scrat. It follows Manny, a mammoth; Sid, a sloth; and Diego, a wonderfully irritable saber-toothed tiger as they attempt to return a lost human infant to his &#8220;herd.&#8221; The scrat is a sort of mammalian running joke, appearing from time to time to make us fall out of our chairs as he tries desperately to bury a series of acorns only to meet some new, extreme problem each time (lightening strikes, explosions, and herds of large animals feature prominently).<br \/>\nThe story is riddled with the clich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rated: PG Director: Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge Starring: Raymond Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Jack Black Parental Notes: This film contains Roadrunner-and-Coyote style violence in small doses, and several intense sequences which might upset younger children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-rated-pg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oSX4-17","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}