The Reel Rejects - ICE AGE (2002) MOVIE REVIEW!! First Time Watching!

Episode Date: May 27, 2024

SCRAT!! Ice Age Full Movie Reaction Watch Along:  https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Ice Age Reaction, Recap, & Spoiler Review for the 2002 animated comedy from 20th Century Fox (Disney) starring Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond), John Leguizamo (Sid), & Denis Leary (Diego) as they venture off to return a human baby to it's people. Greg Alba & Aaron Alexander watch & react to the best & funniest scenes such as Acorn Troubles, Where's The Baby, Sid and the Dodos, Ice Slide, Diego's Sacrifice, & MORE.  Follow Aaron On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealaaronalexander/?hl=en Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey, can you get me my jacket, Aaron? Yeah. Thank you so much. You know why? Because it's feeling kind of icy in here, guys. It's feeling a little bit cold for someone my age. We're watching Ice Age. We are the two ideal men who you would expect to be reacting to Ice Age today.

It's a while since we filmed something together, Aaron. It has been a minute, yeah. I don't think we've done anything since Invincent. I know. Well, we got to continue the animated journey. Let's really go even harder R this time. Or cavemen are murdering each other left and riot tearing it to each other's flesh. So you saw this like a couple decades ago. Yeah. I saw it in childhood when I was like seven and have not seen it since. I have no memory whatsoever. In decades. I don't know if I've seen it. I've definitely seen some of the they come the scrap is the name of the guy. I've seen it reference so many times.

Yeah, the little rat guy, the little squirrel. Regardless, we've been getting a lot of animated movie reactions. Welcome to Manimation Monday, by the way. We get a lot of animated movie reactions. I was like, yeah, what happens in Ice Age? If this pans out, we'd love to do the rest. Yeah. What do you think about Ice Age?

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I was born ready We did it guys We did it We got our ice age on Woo who had a good time with it yeah let's talk about it talk about it all right rejects before we hop into this review for ice age we have to confirm one thing first we checked your bank account to make sure that you buy yourself a reject nation shop shirt like one of the two that aaron i are wearing right now

because it's a fantastic way to support the channel and an amazing way that we become unified the symbiosis with all of you. It's like if we both look out of the moon together, we're in the same room. If we both wear a shirt, you and I, Aaron and you, we are wearing the same clothes. Same thing. Secondly, what is Scrat?

What is Scrat? He's a weird ass squirrel. What is he? A saber-tooth squirrel? Oh my gosh. I was right. I did not think that was a thing. You said, I didn't die.

I was like, it kind of looks like the kind of looks like Scrat, the squirrel. But I was like, that's not a thing. Damn, you nailed it. Damn. So they intentionally designed that one, I think they designed that one saber tooth, the stupid one, to make him look a little bit like Scrat. That's, exactly what I thought. Wow. What is it?

What's a real life saber tooth? Probably a lot. I mean, they probably don't exist anymore. What's his saber tooth? Squirrel. It's real. What do they look like in real life? Oh, God.

Oh, damn. That is horrifying. Oh, God. It's so muscular. Oh, geez. These are horrifying. It's like a naked morat almost. I can see that being scrapped Schellington.

Sabreto squirrels never live during an ice age. Oh, wow. Oh, God. God, this movie is foolish. It's like a buff ferret. Oh, that is such, such bullshit. Such. Sorry, I should have you shared so much on this review.

The kids movie, guys? Not the kids, no. My bad did it. Okay. And now we got a woolly mammoth. We got a sloth. Yeah, sloth. We got a saber-tooth tiger.

All right, perfect. Well, Aaron, what did you think about Ice Age? I thought Ice Age was fun. I haven't seen this movie in 20-plus years. And, you know, I understand why I liked this movie as a kid. It had heart to it. You got to see these outcasts come together for them. are different backgrounds of being outcast and the way that it used its slapstick was

was very clever and kind of an homage to slapstick of the past and yeah it was just it was fun you know it was breezy it was well-paced the music was good i had there's that one song they played the middle and at the end it was like oh yes the nostalgic feels i remember this i don't know what the song is called and apparently it's famous but it's heavy nostalgia for you it's heavy nostalgia but story-wise i remember nothing other than uh scrat who's the best part of the movie because that everything with him felt like something that I would grow up watching on Cartoon Network like it really reminded me of courage the cowardly dog in a weird way sure and just like little vignettes of cartoons of my youth so yeah even outside of the

context of the rest of the story I could just like watch that squirrel for hours because I just I liked seeing hijinks ensue and I want him to get his nut I want him to get his goals done because I believe in him because he's beautiful and he's just a fun little dude he can get hers as much as he needs to he's gonna get what he needs he's a it's it's the best visual comedy element of the movie I agree because there's nothing but physical comedy nothing but visual comedy I really like that part a lot too those what a strong through line to go from beginning to end I thought that was a blasty blast yeah and was a blasts I was some things we commented on are in the reaction that I do want to kind of reiterate.

One of them that surprised me is Ray Romano is the lead voice here. And I love everybody who loves Raymond. I love that show. Yeah. Right next to Friends, my favorite sitcom of all time. He's not really, he's got a few. Well, what would you watch? Like Sister, Sister, Fresh Prince.

Good times. Good times. Yeah. I've never seen a single episode of any of these shows. one-on-one family matters that's so raven that's so raven what's why don't i don't watch the house cori in the house i don't watch white tv to be honest with you well yeah i mean i've seen like pete does it play in your household like kids do you physically

access the channels no they're blocked yeah makes sense yeah i mean the network providers i couldn't relate to them so i didn't watch them yeah yeah I don't understand. Non-Black struggle. I just didn't get the low-brow comedy. A fresh principle. Ray Romano. No, it's no two and a half men.

But anyway, Ray Romano is, I think he's hilarious. But in this movie, he's like, has some funny moments. He's surprisingly not utilized for comedy here. No. Utilize for comedy a different way, which is to. support, like, comedy around them. Regardless, he's actually perfectly cast. Even though Bandy's a rather serious character.

He's the most serious one of them all, but he's perfectly cast. The voice work on them was excellent. John Likwazamo as Sid the Sloth, that is not a hundred percent of character I would have loved as a child. Today, I'm like, you are a lot. You are a lot to deal with. I can only imagine parents in the theater. I just, God, this fucking sloth. Yeah, like, kids would love.

love him but as an adult now it is exactly like i like when i was a kid i love jar jar binks and i understand the hatred around jar jar binks i was like i really like him then i got older i was like you're kind of annoying and that's the case here it's like when you meet a new actor who comes out to l.a and aspiring like 18 year old and they're hyper and you're like shut up be yourself calm down say i'm manny it's like you're too loud I feel like you're making reference somebody. There's no one around here. They haven't come to this household.

I'll tell you that much. You're too loud. Shut your mouth. Spiring actors. Young gung-ho trying to prove. It's not an audition. Gosh, yeah. Learn to speak with sincerity.

And Dennis Leary. Right? Dennis Leary? Dennis Leary, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's got a distinct voice. Dennis Lerry, otherwise known as Captain Spacey, from Amazing Spider-Man 2 specifically. Where he doesn't talk.

He's well-cast, too, and you do feel the chemistry with them. I do know, I think it was like around the time of Pixar's Toy Story. When that came out, when suddenly we started doing all these animated movies where everyone had to be famous when the voice work. I think that's the thing that Pixar really changed for. voiceover actors, which was you don't really have many voiceover actors anymore. Now you got celebrities doing it. And I think they were a lot more particular about who they cast. And I really felt like they cast three perfect actors for all of these roles.

Because I can sit here and go, yeah, I see Sid, this is a solid sign, right? I see Sid in the way Manny sees Sid. So it is succeeding there. And I can understand this movie is made for children. And at times he had a few funny lines. I'm not going to lie. There were a few times where he was funny. Yeah, he had his moments.

Yeah, he had his moments. He's probably everyone's favorite character. Him in and Scrat. Yeah, I can definitely, I feel like they had Manny in there and has him as the emotional anchor because, one, he's the most relatable. But two, so parents can connect in the face of their kids loving Sid because he's just so obnoxious. Yeah. Yeah. And I think that, yeah, all the stuff with him was great.

you know, just his arc of learning to take care of the baby and just seeing how he was, you know, once a dad himself and having to overcome his mistrust and hurt by humans to learn to love again. Yeah. Both with the baby and having this found family. Until another set of humans comes by and kills to kill them. You know what?

One day at a time. They're not going to be able to communicate to those other humans. Nope. They're not going to be able to save their baby. maybe we'll just encounter a different group of humans each movie yeah non-talking humans that sounds fun the part about this movie

this setup of this movie that I find really interesting like I haven't seen I've seen the good dinosaur I think I haven't seen that dinosaur movie the Disney's dinosaur I haven't seen that one I saw it in 2000 2000 and it's been 24 years

so I remember nothing about it Yeah, I never saw that because I had a hard time getting around the concept of just being aware that something terrible is supposed to happen to these guys, you know? Yeah. And that's how I sort of felt when we walked into this is, this is all kind of sad. A lot of these guys are extinct. This is really sad. Not all of them. Some of them are still around.

some of them are on the verge of being extinct right now and it makes that puts like a but i guess it's part of the point right is in the communion with the humans oh my god i'm finding the deepness in the ice age is part of the communion with the humans is to show that maybe we shouldn't be slaughtering these animals that's right you might love ice age and then hate when gregg gets all preachy about not killing animals when the movie that you love is saying the same thing that may be ought to not be doing that because look what happens the consequences of doing such a thing preach and there's a lot of animals today that are very much in danger of going extinct because a lot of them are just hunted i mean i understand back then it was more for survival

now a lot of times it's just for sport yeah for a lot of these especially these animals who are on the verge of going extinct. It's terrible. Animals are like my main love. I don't give a crap about human charities. You could all fend for yourselves. He said, suck in Africa. I won't donate to anyone in Africa,

but the animals in Africa. Those lions got my wallet. I just give the cash directly to them. Here you go. Take my credit card. Lion. Yeah, go on a spending spree. Yeah, man, I feel you on the permeating doom of it.

Yeah, there's this undertone of that. And they even make jokes about it with like the tar pits and then the, the, the, not volcanoes, but like the lava and stuff. The heaters. The heaters. The heaters and the ice. The natural earthyers. Yeah. Yeah.

And it's, it is an element of sadness. or I think these characters being able to find each other in the face of that sadness kind of alleviate some of that doom and gloom. And even like the Dodo's, like they seemingly had an end, you know? Like there's, I like that this movie was mature enough to touch on concepts of death without like going into it like in an overt way. But when they did touch upon it in a meaningful way, it was really impactful. And, you know, just the nature of going through grief, like, it's able to talk about grief in a way that you can connect with both as an adult and as a kid.

And it's, it uses grief as a form of opening yourself up to new connections, but not sitting in that grief. It was granted he was coming from a place of grief and a place of pain. We didn't know that in the beginning when he was closed off and was annoyed with Sid and didn't really want him. reluctant to have him along in his journey and then eventually was able to embrace them embrace them all yeah yeah well it's also that theme of you know you mentioned early found family people the family oftentimes it does not have to just be sentimental or based off of blood family is often who you choose yeah like my family here is terra roxy andrew john toy Yeah.

And it ends there. Yeah. Wait. What? It ends there. I've never seen fresh prince of us. I've seen the PJs. I've seen the boondocks.

I actually haven't seen those. I've seen every day. episode fresh prince of film are you seen the medea movies no is that the best represented representation of black culture is actually yeah every single black person loves me i hear it represents it's definitely not suburban white woman watching medea movies that's keeping that franchise alive it's the black audiences are showing up for medea um yeah okay i'll watch it then react to media movies The evil...

I got to learn that voice of who was the, um, that one evil saber tooth. Yeah, and the way he said, babies, that was so funny to me. I don't know why it's tickled me. What's the... Oh, is it this one? Goran Vishnik. I've never seen that guy. Yeah.

John Likazamo, yeah. Okay. I know how did you say it? Oron Vishnik. Remember the boys, season two? Like one in the... and the the Scientology

like place that the deep went to? Season two. I haven't watched that season since it aired. Oh, dude. Three years ago. Oh, my God. You don't know nothing. I watch so many things, Greg.

You're so dumb. I'm... You've seen it. This is it. See it right there. The Boys season two. You really haven't seen it? I've seen the boys.

I haven't seen it in since it aired. Alistair. The boys. You're going to remember this. You must. This guy. Oh, with the beard. Yeah, he was, okay, I remember him.

Yeah, he was deep. Yeah, he ran the facility and then he like, didn't he get his head blown up? Dude, spoilers for the boys. Oopsie. Sorry, kids. Kids, make sure you log into your parents prime video. Drake's going to censor what I said. So you can watch the boys and learn about.

physical anatomy. Anyway, yeah, Ice Sage. Should we watch the sequels? Are they better? Do you guys like him? Does the Scrat get better? I know we saw his end, 2000, 200,000,

20,000 years into the future. Yeah, I got it right. Well, it undermines the stakes now. It does. Because we know Scrat's going to live. Yeah, they ruin the continuity. Unless they do a time travel element. I mean, we saw something with him going to be in,

astronaut suit so i think so at some point well maybe why was it even an astronaut i don't know i don't know if those are sure if that's another movie but they're getting crazy they're getting crazy with ice age but have you seen minions i've seen minions maybe the first one i have to watch minions and minions two how many other three i have to watch a couple of them before despicable me four comes out and that's what i've been putting on the on the i'm just like waiting i was like i don't want to sit through this Did you watch the first three? I like, oh, yeah, I really love the first two a lot.

Their one was okay. Okay. I really love the first two. Are the minions worth it? They're probably the franchise. People love those little guys. Yeah, I know. And I'm like, I like them in doses.

The entire film. I'm just, shh, yelling at me. In a language I don't speak. If I did see it, I might have tuned it out. I don't know. I don't remember. It's really. identify a manny in this group.

It's like, leave me alone. You're an old man. I'm an old man. I'm an old man. One day, I'm like, team building. Next day, I'm like, go home. I'm going to talk to you guys. Stop texting me.

Anyway, Ice Age. I give it a three icy breaths out of four I will give it two and a half icy breaths at a four

wow hater that's only half a point less than you a hater you're you're a hater three three out of five why didn't he get that four three out of four

why didn't he get that four that because you know it's like there was a lack of adult humor they had death they had death they had you know bosoms on the

on the giraffe Why the Sloth sexy in this movie? What's going on there? Who's that for? The parent in the audience? Me. It's for you. Yeah.

I'll print that out next to my photo of the bunny from Space Jam. That's her name? Lola Bunny. I need some food. Thank you guys for being here. Let's hope we should watch Ice Age 2. Dawn of... What's it called?

Is that one collision? Dawn of the Ice Age 2 Don of the Acorn The Meltdown Don of the Nut That sounds really dark Oh shoot Okay here we go

Extinction baby let's go I'm ready for Oh the director plays scrap Oh shit That's funny Wait no I thought it was um It was Terest strong in the first one Was it?

That's what it said Oh damn J. Lennon was in the second one What the hell There's some famous people in the second one Okay I'm going to light up when I see them on screen themselves. All right, guys. Let's see you soon.