When I went to see movies last summer, I remember seeing a trailer about this scrawny squirrel trying to bury his acorn in the ice. He initiates a large break-off of ice that rivals even the most recent glacier maker in the Antarctic. This was the trailer for the movie “Ice Age.”I really liked the trailer, so when I heard that the movie was coming out, my girlfriend and I set the date.It was no surprise the movie started out with the entire trailer. The plot to this movie was good. A pack of sabre tooth tigers vow revenge on a Cro-Magnon tribe of men who killed members of the pack a few days earlier.One of the tigers, Diego, is assigned to retrieve the child of the tribe. Diego attempts to accomplish this, but is rejected because of the cunning wits of the child’s mother. In the melee, the mother dies and the baby is left behind.A surly mammoth named Manny and a sloth named Sid find the child. Diego catches up the odd threesome and suggests an idea. Since winter is coming and the humans are migrating, Diego will show them the way, so Sid and Manny can give the baby back to his father. However, Diego is really setting them up to be ambushed by the other members of the tiger pack.The movie was very fluid and very funny. I was surprised by some of the plot’s twists and turns, but I did predict the clich twist, where Diego eventually cares for the child and, in the end, saves him.The voice characterizations were well done and each voice matched its computer-generated counterpart. Dennis Leary voices Diego. Ray Romano and John Leguizamo voiced the characters of Manny and Sid.Every character in this movie was predictable. However, I found the character of Diego strikingly interesting and almost intellectual: a character assigned to kill someone who, in the end, prevents the death of the very person he is assigned to destroy. Though it is rather clich, I found it very interesting for a children’s movie.Throughout the movie, the squirrel keeps trying to hide an acorn. In the earlier part of the movie it was cute and funny, but after a while it became annoying.This movie ends just as it began, with the squirrel, frozen complete with acorn, being drifted off to a remote tropical island sometime in the future. The block that contains the pair slowly melts and the squirrel is reunited with his blessed acorn. Of course, the acorn eventually floats off in the ocean. As the squirrel watches it drift off, he gets slammed on the head with a coconut.