Ice Age

Much like Lilo & Stitch... it's for the kids and those who feel just as young at heart. Not exactly exactly food for thought, though. Maybe his whole purpose is just to quit everything and laugh about it...

Is there anything I actually said? 🙄

Casey Gomez2 said:It’s basically Lilo & Stitch... perfect for kids or anyone feeling that way. It's hardly highbrow literature. Just mindless escapism and laughing along... I suppose that's its whole point.

Really? *DAMN*, and here I was thinking about recommending them to my drama club instead of William Shakespeare!

The animation was impressive. The sound design was flawless. If only I were a few decades younger, perhaps the plot would have resonated more... My takeaway: I wasted two hours in front of the TV. Though, digging through my old DVD collection eventually paid off—that Scrat bit actually had me laughing.

AI basically made a carbon copy of Shrek, just with extra details (the story)

The animation is absolutely stunning

Personally, I’ve always been drawn to the monsters and the core message of animated films

It really shows how much power a smile can hold 🙂 🙂 🙂

James Taylor51 said:IA is basically just a slightly tweaked version of Shrek (the story)

Seriously, who would have thought? 🙄

And honestly, I don't even think Shrek was that groundbreaking for the animation world anyway.

It’s all pretty much the same stuff. Like Norac always says, "it's for the kids and anyone who feels that way."

Basically, you watch it once, forget about it for two months, and then some new flick pops up to take its place, over and over again.

The only thing worth watching in this movie is that goofy little squirrel.
Especially at the end 🙂

Man, it’s like animation just caters to kids these days because adults supposedly don't watch cartoons anymore. 😢

Take Ants—that DreamWorks flick about ants starring Woody Allen. How many of you actually enjoyed that, especially considering most people didn't even care for Shrek?

Matthew Doyle73 said:Man, I guess cartoons just cater to kids these days because adults apparently stopped watching them.😢

Wait, so what, are cartoons supposed to be for adults now?

Matthew Doyle73 said:Like, take Ants—that DreamWorks movie about ants with Woody Allen voicing the lead. How many of you guys have even heard of that, let alone didn't care for Shrek?

Yeah, I've heard of it... watched it back in high school.

It was actually one of the smarter pieces coming out of the American animation industry, especially from DreamWorks... who would've thought they'd tank this hard.

But hey, there's your proof. "Ants," which is easily ten times better than that overhyped Shrek, is basically being forgotten while that other thing bagged an Oscar.... well, that's just how Americans are, I guess.

Critics make movies for kids 😢

My whole point is that most kids are going to tell you *A Bug's Life* beats *Antz* every single time. Kids are the primary audience for animation—I didn't invent that fact, and honestly, I’m not exactly thrilled about it. Look, if one kid thinks a movie is lame, they aren't just watching it alone; there’s a pack of ten other kids and at least ten parents tagging along. So, it's actually pretty impressive how well *Antz* managed to land

What does a nine-year-old even get from a name like Woody Allen?
Sure, they might vibe with Sylvester Stallone, but Christopher Walken? Sharon Stone?

And so on and so forth...

The only thing that bothers me is how much DreamWorks used to trash Disney, yet now their movies are starting to look more and more like theirs. 🙄

It’s not that *Ice Age* doesn't have plenty of jokes for adults, but it doesn't come close to Shrek, which itself isn't even in the same league as *Antz*. Think about that opening scene—you've got an ant voiced by Woody Allen lying on a psychiatrist's couch, venting about his struggle to fit into the collective hive mind. That's actual 😛 intellect.

Matthew Doyle73 said:Cartoons are made for kids, period.😢

My whole point is that most kids are going to tell you A Bug's Life is better than Antz, and since kids are basically the biggest consumers of animation, well, I didn't make that happen and I'm certainly not celebrating it. I mean, honestly, if a kid doesn't like a movie once, they’ll just end up watching ten more versions of it with a bunch of other kids and at least ten parents tagging along, so it's actually kind of surprising how well Antz managed to pull through at all...

Yeah, exactly... I still don't get why people are arguing this... I already said that cartoons are made for children, not adults (at least here in the States).

The dandelion remains the ultimate victim; it always seems to bear the brunt of it all.