I don't know where to start with this film. There's a family who are too stupid to live, an appalling script which relies heavily on the word 'ok', and unbelievably bad special effects. After 30 minutes, I was definitely rooting for the glacier. There are so many holes in the plot that even a glacier 1000 miles long would have no trouble slipping through. The father looks like an overweight Grissom and it's implied that he works in some sort of 'glacier watching' place. How he got the job there is beyond me, I wouldn't employ him as a cleaner. His wife appears to be equally thick and the daughter, who we're told is more than capable of looking after herself, depends heavily on her boyfriend rather than do so. The son looked suitably horrified throughout the whole film but I think that may have been horror at being in the movie rather than horror at the imminent glacier. The special effects mainly consist of shaking the camera rapidly and lots of white dots superimposed on the film. We have people freezing to death next to people who are running around in t shirts, a shelter where all the extras face the wall and wear hoods (presumably not wanting to be recognised and associated with the film). I admit that I've never been to the USA and know nothing about New York other than what I've seen on TV, but I'd be amazed if people living close to the place really do keep planes in their garages, especially garages that don't have enough room for the wing span. In fact the garage was a bit of a miracle place all around, since the man trapped in there in a shirt and jeans didn't freeze to death despite being seriously injured and unable to move. Seriously, don't waste your money.
Review of 2012: Ice Age
