Animation:
Ice age lacks the visual beauty of Pixar films. Pixar's animators are very detail oriented which makes the story more believable. Ice Age = a rock here, a tree there, another rock. Not stunning at all.

Story:
Pretty much Land before time material. I loved the casting. I thought the voice actors chosen for their respective roles were perfect but there just weren't many jokes for anyone over the age of 5.

Yeah, I suppose the "Family gets attacked by wolves, mom saves baby by jumping into icy river then dying RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE BABY" is much lighter fare. -rolleyes-

I guess this thread has turned into a "Ice Age" fanboy page as most folks I know who have seen it thought it was no great shakes while every other person posting here loved it. I have to agree with cruzness - it has zero replayability for me. Glad I caught it on my TiVo suggests instead of buying it.

I personally loved Ice Age. I put it up there with Monster's Inc. and Finding Nemo, maybe even on the same level of Toy Story. I can't say that I've watched it more than Toy Story, and itt's one of my favorite dvds to watch with my daughter. Everytime I watch I find myself cracking up laughing.

1. Toy Story/Ice Age
2. Monsters Inc.
3. Finding Nemo

But there is no accounting for taste, I can't imagine anyone disliking it.

My CGI animation faves:

1) Shrek
2) Finding Nemo
<b>3) Ice Age</b>
4) Toy Story 2
5) Toy Story
6) A Bug's Life
7) Monsters Inc
8) Antz

Pixar - Keeper
Fox Animation/Dreamworks - Renter

Here's how I rank them:

1) Toy Story
2) Toy Story 2
3) A Bug's Life
...then a gap then
4) Monsters Inc
5) Finding Nemo
...another gap
6) Shrek
7) Antz
...another gap
8) Ice Age

So I guess I prefer Pixar to non-Pixar :)

I thought Ice Age looked pretty good, but overall didn't hold my interest.

I rank Ice Age very high, second only to Toy Story.

I thought Ice Age was the least impressive of the Dreamworks animated movies. As for Antz, I am surprised most have listed it lower than Bug's Life. I much prefer Antz over Bug's Life. I guess I just felt it's more of an adult movie.

Nope . . . Antz is a kids movie . . . Debbie Does Antz is the adult movie . . .

ICE AGE is not a Dreamworks film, it's a Blue Sky Studios film that was distributed by 20th Century Fox.

Such a one dimensional definition of what "adult" means. I feel sorry for you.

C'mon now . . . surely by the time you've reached "DVD Talk Gold Edition" you've learned to recognize joking/sarcastic posts . . .