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Meanwhile, Manny brings the Christmas Rock out of storage, to Ellie's delight: the rock is intended as a surprise for Peaches, who comes sliding down a snow slope in a snowball fight with Crash and Eddie. Manny reveals that the Christmas Rock is the same one from his childhood, a family heirloom, and important as it lets Santa Claus find them to deliver presents. Diego and Sid step in to see the Christmas Rock, with Sid deriding it. Manny refuses to let Sid near the rock and Sid, to find his own means of decorations, decides to find a different decoration and chooses a tree. Crash and Eddie help him to decorate the tree with insects, small animals, and fish bones. To top the tree, Sid puts a star-shaped piece of ice on top, which is accidentally flung off like a boomerang and hits the Christmas Rock, shattering it. Furious, Manny declares that Sid is now on the "Naughty List" for ruining the Christmas rock, but dismisses the idea of Santa to Ellie, Peaches overhears this, and the young mammoth is shocked that Manny does not believe in Santa, and Sid, in tears that he destroyed the rock and is on the Naughty List, slides downhill as his tears freeze solid.
Prancer and the animals arrive somewhere near the North Pole, seeing sugar plums and peppermint bark. As they continue, they are stopped by a mini sloth and the "santourage", who keep out visitors to Santa. They move towards Prancer and the animals, causing him to fly up into a block of snow, and as they try to pull him out, the ice cracks, causing an avalanche, ruining Santa's work, and toppling the rescue trio. Angered and distraught by the mess, Santa invents the Naughty List after Manny talks about it, causing the mammoth to realize Santa is real and rally everyone to make things right. All the animals fix the mess, but Santa has much more gifts than usual, so Prancer volunteers to fly the sleigh. He realizes he can't do it alone so he goes and gets his family, Dasher, Dancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen. Then, Santa leaves through the night sky, and everyone is back on the Nice List, even Sid. Then, Scrat looks at his present from Santa (which is a small nut), but blows away and gets repeatedly kicked by the reindeer while going around the Earth.
Diego and Sid step in to see the Christmas Rock, with Sid deriding it. Manny will not let Sid near the Rock and Sid, to find his own means of decorations, decides to find a different decoration and chooses a tree. Crash and Eddie help him to decorate the tree with insects, small animals and fish bones: to top the tree, Sid puts a star-shaped piece of ice on the top, which is accidentally flung off and hits the Christmas Rock, shattering it. Furious, Manny declares that Sid is on the "Naughty List". Manny dismisses the idea of Santa to Ellie, which Peaches overhears, and the young mammoth is shocked that Manny does not believe in Santa. Sid, in tears that he ruined the rock, slides downhill as his tears freeze solid.
Peaches comes sliding down while having a snowball fight with her possum uncles, Crash and Eddie. Her parents reveal the Christmas Rock and she loves it so much she even starts to kiss it, but gets her lip stuck on the rock. Manny helps her get unstuck and tells her that the Christmas Rock is an heirloom that he had when he was a kid. Her mother Ellie then tells her that when Santa comes by and sees the rock, he will deliver presents to the mammoths.
Meanwhile, while Diego and the mammoths are still looking, Manny complains about being lost and his little girl missing. Ellie tells him to believe in the magic of Christmas. Manny does so reluctantly for his daughter and the three of them follow the northern lights.
As the army closes in on the animals, Prancer attempts to fly but gets caught in a block of ice by his antlers. While the other animals try to pull him out, the ice cracks, causing an avalanche that nearly buries Diego and the mammoths. How did they get so close? Prancer flew the animals, but he said the North Pole was too far to walk to. How did the other three animals get so close so quickly?
My love of holiday TV specials greatly exceeds my dislike of the Ice Age series. That, coupled with the alluring lesser demands of a half-hour feature presentation, was more than enough for me to give Blue Sky Studios' flagship franchise another chance to impress with a review of Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special.With eight months to go before Sid, Manny, Diego, Scrat, et al. return to theaters in Ice Age: Continental Drift, the gang staked out a half-hour of Thanksgiving night primetime air on Fox with this program, which raced to DVD and the Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy reviewed here a mere twenty-eight hours later last week.The Ice Age movies are set in prehistoric times, somewhere between 10,000 and three million years ago. And yet, the gang celebrates Christmas much as we know it, despite predating the holiday's namesake by at least several thousand years. Why? Probably for the same reason that there are references to Miami and barf bags here. The Ice Age series is not one for historical accuracy: the ice is melting in the second movie and then there are dinosaurs underneath in the third. Obviously, these aren't documentaries of a distant world, but computer-animated comedies set back then and built on parallels to modern times. Why bother with the charade that these ancient characters have an equivalent of Christmas, when the birth of Christ isn't going to feature either way?I maintain my position that the first Ice Age's success was largely the product of timing. It arrived in theaters March 2002, just after Shrek and Monsters, Inc.. Those two hits had established computer animation as a dominant medium, not limited to the Toy Story franchise or even just Pixar. But other studios weren't yet on board. Ice Age would be the only major CG family comedy of its season and in fact its entire year; the next two saturated releases to come would be the record-setting Finding Nemo in 2003 and Shrek 2 in 2004.Ice Age: The Meltdown also fared well on timing. It came in 2006, the year when the supply of computer animated films caught up to and surpassed the demand. If the sequel had opened in the summer or fall seasons, when nine other CG films (including several flops) did, it might not have done so much business. But it opened on the last day of March and, facing limited competition, it easily exceeded its predecessor's earnings.My timing argument falls apart on Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which debuted smack in the middle of the industry's prime season, on the week of the Fourth of July 2009. Sent to an astounding 4,100 theaters (a number of them exhibiting the film in 3D), the third installment narrowly eclipsed the first sequel's gross domestically, but the real story was in its international reception, which pushed it to a colossal worldwide total of $887 million.Clearly, there is a massive audience for this franchise, one big enough to rival almost any series on the global level. But I can't pretend that I understand it. The broad, repetitive squirrel slapstick. The mix of generic comedy and maudlin drama. The bland one-note characters. I've seen almost every computer animated American film and while there are a number that are worse than the three Ice Age movies, none of them have ever sold nearly as many tickets and DVDs. In A Mammoth Christmas Special, Woolly mammoth Manny (voiced, as always, by Ray Romano), his mate Ellie (Queen Latifah), and their daughter Peaches (Ciara Bravo) are excited to celebrate Christmas. Manny proudly displays the treasured Christmas rock of his youth, which, as forecast, clumsy sloth Sid (John Leguizamo) manages to destroy while he's trying to introduce a new tradition of decorating a Christmas tree. Manny says that the accident will earn Sid a place on Santa Claus' Naughty List, something Manny invents on the fly to teach a lesson.Peaches, troubled by her father's private dismissal of Santa Claus as fiction, and Sid, on edge at the prospect of being passed over by Santa, set out to find the North Pole and the big guy. They are joined by annoying twin opossums Crash and Eddie (Seann William Scott and Josh Peck), who are pretty sure they too might be on Santa's Naughty List. The group runs into boastful independent reindeer Prancer, a colorful "Santourage" of guard Mini-Sloths, and a dangerous whiteout.Meanwhile, Manny, Ellie, and cynical saber-toothed tiger Diego (Denis Leary) set out to find that party and in the process run into Santa Claus and change Christmas for all time.I can't say that this holiday special is any better than the mediocre to lackluster movies that preceded it. It unfolds with a series of jokes and gags, none of which carries much weight. The short runtime -- the slow, disproportionate end credits scroll begins 21 minutes in -- ensures the storyline is lean and nimble. There are new spins on two Christmas carols and few opportunities to check in with Scrat and his perilous, Nutcracker Suite-backed nut quests. Without strong characters or witty dialogue, it all falls pretty flat. Funny, exciting, suspenseful, poignant: A Mammoth Christmas Special is none of these things that seem to come so easily for Pixar, DreamWorks, and Disney. At least it looks nice.VIDEO and AUDIOThough it may not be all that good, A Mammoth Christmas Special sure looks stunning on Blu-ray. The 1.78:1 widescreen presentation is, obviously, as flawless as 1080p allows and the extremely sharp, vibrant visuals are plenty sightly. Somehow, the simplicity and frugality that have always been at the heart of TV animation have been retired in recent years. Perhaps it isn't all that hard or costly to take existing computer files and get twenty handsome minutes, or maybe the studios are just able to factor the costs into their film budgets and actor contracts and figure that they'll be eased by home video sales. Whatever the case, I see no reason that such stunning CGI would look less than great on the big screen. The 5.1 DTS-HD master audio mix is equally delightful, delivering dialogue and effects with depth, directionality, and winning crispness and clarity.The anamorphic DVD is also perfect by its own standards, but obviously not as striking as the hi-def equivalent. For some reason, the DVD presents the Spanish and French dubs in plain Dolby 2.0 Surround instead of the Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks the Blu-ray gets.
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