Ice Age
| Movie | |
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| German title | Ice Age |
| Original title | Ice Age |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 81 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
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| Director |
Chris Wedge Carlos Saldanha (co-director) |
| script |
Michael Berg Michael J. Wilson Peter Ackerman |
| production | Lori Forte |
| music | David Newman |
| cut | John Carnochan |
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Ice Age (English for "Ice Age") is an American computer animation film from Blue Sky Studios from 2002. The film by directors Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha is about the shared adventure of a mammoth , a giant sloth and a saber-toothed tiger during the Ice Age. After the film's financial success, the sequels Ice Age 2 - Now Thawing 2006, Ice Age 3 - The Dinosaurs Are Going In 2009, Ice Age 4 - Fully Postponed 2012 and Ice Age - Collision Ahead! In theaters in 2016.
action
The film is set about 20,000 years ago in the last ice age , and winter is just around the corner. Therefore, the entire Ice Age animal world is on the run to the south. Only the lonely mammoth Manfred (Manni) resists the group pressure and wanders north.
Like every year, the giant sloth and pain in the ass Sid is left alone by his family. When he is chased by two Brontotherien , from which he has eaten away one of the last dandelion flowers before winter, he is rescued by Manfred. From then on he joins the mammoth, much to its chagrin.
Meanwhile, a pack of saber-toothed tigers under their leader Soto assaults a horde of Stone Age people in order to kidnap and kill the chief's baby in revenge for their slain conspecifics . But his mother can get her child to safety from saber-toothed tiger Diego just in time and flee with the baby. Diego continues.
By chance, Manni and Sid discover the woman who, cornered by Diego, jumped down a waterfall and is now close to drowning. She hands her little son ashore to the two astonished animals before she is swept away again by the stream of water.
Diego gets the order from his pack leader Soto to bring the human child back to eat. Under the pretext of wanting to help Manfred and Sid to give the child back to their conspecifics, Diego tries to join them. In fact, he wants to lead her into an ambush, where his comrades want to receive the child. Finally, despite Manni's doubts, he is accepted as a tracker by the disagreed Manfred and Sid.
On the way back to the people, the three unequal animals have to survive different adventures - for example defend themselves against the Brontotherien or Dodos (these exterminate themselves through clumsy and self-overestimating behavior as well as food envy ) and the perils of cold and ice , lava and fire defy. Manfred, Sid and Diego have to build trust in each other, which turns out to be not so easy in a world full of hunters and the hunted. The prospect of meeting people who - as you saw with cave drawings - apparently invented weapons to kill the animals, does not simplify their situation.
Shortly before the planned ambush, after Manni had previously saved his life at the risk of his own life, Diego confesses his original treacherous intentions and takes the side of his companions. Together they successfully defy the attack of the other saber-toothed tigers. While trying to grab the child, Soto is thrown against a rock with icicles by Manni, whereupon they fall and stab Soto.
In the end, the child is given back to the father, who searches extensively for his family. The companions Manfred, Diego and Sid move south together.
background
The film was originally planned as an animated film by 20th Century Fox . Due to the commercial flops of the films Anastasia and Titan AE , which were made with traditional animation technology, as well as the success of the computer-animated Pixar productions, Ice Age was then completely computer-animated by Blue Sky Studios . For this purpose, the number of employees in the production studio was temporarily increased from around 65 to more than 170. They worked on the implementation for almost two years before most of them were terminated. A multitude of different trailers and other advertising measures for the Internet and the cinema increased the total production costs to 59 million US dollars .
Scrat
Scrat is a representative of a fictional species, a "rat squirrel", a mixture of squirrel and rat with the teeth of a saber-toothed tiger , with large eyes and a bushy tail. The name is derived from the English names of the genera squirrel (squirrel) and rat (rat) . Although Scrat is a fantasy creature, an Argentine mammal fossil was unveiled in 2011 that looks very similar to Scrat. The "saber-toothed squirrel" Cronopio dentiacutus did not live in the last ice age, but about 100 million years ago.
Role in the first film
Originally, Scrat was only designed for the trailer for the film Ice Age . However, the audience reaction quickly made it clear that more of this animal should be seen. As a result, the designers started creating some scenes with Scrat. However, it quickly became clear that there was no way to integrate Scrat as a full figure into the film, which was already in post-production. Therefore, the scenes in which Scrat appears and tries to bury an acorn run parallel to the plot of the film and only intersect in two places, where he has little influence on the plot of the film.
Nevertheless, he denies the first and last scenes of the film. This epilogue shows how a block of ice was washed up on a tropical island 20,000 years later (i.e. today). It traps an acorn and the Scrat frozen in pursuit. Although he - because frozen - is not able to save the glans before being washed away, it is but with a huge coconut reward which he uses the same tollpatschigerweise to divide the entire island and the thereon volcano to bring the outbreak .
On the DVD for the film, the producers thought again about Scrat. In addition to some trailers with Scrat, the short film Scrat's New Adventure will be presented as bonus material - quite apart from the fact that the operating menu is also animated with Scrat and his mishaps.
In the short film Scrat's New Adventure , the viewer learns new things about continental drift . Scrat has stored an immeasurably large supply of acorns in a hollow tree stump. Trying to add another acorn to the center of this collection will tip the whole thing over. All the nuts - and scrat - fall down a deep precipice. The continental drift is finally triggered by the impact of the last acorn. Ultimately, Scrat is left without a single acorn. Scrat is voiced by director Chris Wedge .
Occurrences in sequels
- Ice Age 2 - Now it's thawing : As last time, he denies the opening and closing scenes and occasionally appears as a running gag . At the same time he is the star of the PC game for the film. Here it is now up to the player whether the little squirrel finally gets down to it. A second short film with Scrat was made under the title No time for nuts .
- Ice Age 3 - The dinosaurs are on the loose : In addition, a saber-toothed squirrel woman named Scratte is there to fight him for the acorn. Like the main characters of the film, he enters the underground realm of the dinosaurs in search of his beloved acorn.
- Ice Age 4 - Fully postponed : When he tries to steal an acorn from a mountain, it splits and starts the continental plate shift. This has serious consequences for the main characters.
- The latest achievements in the steelbook edition include numerous small Scrat specials, i.e. additional short films on the bonus DVD.
- Ice Age - Collision Ahead! : Scrat is also playing again.
- Scrat also makes a cameo on Family Guy and is also parodied on The Simpsons .
Trivia
- Ice Age is now available for purchase in several different DVD versions in German-speaking countries . Including the Extrem Cool Edition with a bonus DVD and the Collector's Edition , which includes a lot of unpublished material and a snow globe.
- In the cinema was as biasing Ice Age of the debut film of Blue Sky Studios , the short film Bunny shown. This subtly deals with the subject of death and is equipped with melancholy music by Tom Waits . Bunny had previously earned Chris Wedge an Oscar and can also be found on the Ice Age DVDs for sale.
- In Movie Park Germany near Bottrop-Kirchhellen there was the Ice Age Adventure , one of the main attractions. It is an elaborate themed trip that was housed in a large hall. The visitors drove in boats through recreated scenes from the film, which were populated with numerous animatronic figures. This ride closed in 2016 because the license had expired and the contract between 20th Century Fox and the park was no longer renewed.
- The official novel of the same name for the film was published in April 2002 by Pestalozzi-Verlag with the title Ice Age - Das Buch zum Film . In February 2006, an anthology was published with the novel and the second part of the novel Ice Age 2 . This time it was written by Glenn Dakin and was published in German by Dorling Kindersley .
- The film pays homage to the Vulcans from the Spaceship Enterprise series . In an ice cave Diego, Manfred, Sid and the baby find a typical looking frozen UFO. The baby "welcomes" the UFO with the typical hand signal of the Vulcans.
- Since the character Scrat was only added to the film at the last minute, the license was not part of the merchandising contracts , but was sold separately to another company. While the other figures (Diego, Sid, etc.) came into the toy retail trade, Scrat soft toys (albeit with the officially authorized IceAge logo) were only sold through secondary sales channels (especially at fairs) in Germany until the contracts expired .
synchronization
The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Michael Nowka under his dialogue direction on behalf of Berliner Synchron AG .
| role | English speaker | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Manni | Ray Romano | Arne Elsholtz |
| Scrat | Chris Wedge | (Original voice) |
| Sid | John Leguizamo | Otto Waalkes |
| Diego | Denis Leary | Thomas Fritsch |
| Soto | Goran Višnjić | Christian Brückner |
| Zeke | Jack Black | Lutz Mackensy |
| Carl | Cedric the Entertainer | Douglas Welbat |
| Frank | Stephen Root | Jörg Hengstler |
| Oscar | Alan Tudyk | Pure beauty |
| Dab | Alan Tudyk | Michael Pan |
reception
Reviews
Most of the reviews have been positive. Technically speaking, the animations were also up to date. Compared to publications from the competing house Pixar , however, the figures were more angular and designed less according to the child scheme.
“Ice Age is not as subversive as Shrek or aesthetically sophisticated like Die Monster AG . But in the mixture of The Jungle Book and Three Men and a Baby , the characters and their quirks, the dialogues and punch lines, situational comedy and touching sentimentality are delicious and perfectly coordinated. "
"Cool fun with a clear message: Disney has to dress very warmly."
“Computer-animated cartoon made up of tried and tested components from successful genre role models, which entertains quickly without reaching the same level as its role models in terms of dramaturgy and trick technology. The highlights are the sympathetic, very entertaining supporting characters. "
Success, awards and sequels
Despite various reviews, the film was a great success with the public. On the first weekend, Ice Age earned the production team the third-best start of an animated feature film in the United States and grossed $ 383.3 million worldwide.
In 2003 the film received an Oscar nomination for “best animated film” as well as a nomination for the Saturn Award , the Golden Satellite Award and the Young Artist Award in the same category.
The film was so successful that a sequel, Ice Age 2 - Now Thawing , was released in cinemas in spring 2006 . On July 1st, 2009 the third part Ice Age 3 - The dinosaurs are going on in the cinema. The fourth part started on July 2, 2012 with the title Ice Age 4 - Fully moved in theaters. Ice Age - Collision Ahead! , in the original Ice Age: Collision Course , started in Germany on June 30, 2016.
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- Ice Age in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ice Age in the online movie database
- Official website of the first film
- Ice Age atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Ice Age . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2006 (PDF; test number: 90 032 V / DVD / UMD).
- ↑ Age designation for Ice Age . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Ice Age (2002) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Spiegel: Saber-toothed squirrels roamed Patagonia
- ↑ a b Ice Age. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on September 20, 2012 .
- ↑ Oliver Hüttmann: "Ice Age": Early jungle book. In: Spiegel Online . March 27, 2002, accessed March 16, 2015 .
- ^ Ice Age. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Overview of worldwide cinema revenues
- ↑ Start plan on Insidekino.de
- ↑ Get Ready for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs! comingsoon.net
- ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/nachrichten/18469062.html
- ↑ deadline.com , accessed on August 11, 2015