Customer Reviews

Ice Age

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

To those of you interested in this CD in lieu of finding the "songs with lyrics" in the movie ICE AGE, got bad news for you. They are NOT here! I really do hate it when a soundtrack is put out for a movie and they don't include the best or features songs in the movie. Anyway, the song that pretty much everyone wants when Manny, Sid, Diego and the baby are together and walking towards Half Peak is called "Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root. It is on their latest album "When I Woke". Put Rusted Root in the Amazon search engine and you should find it. Hope this helps those looking for this song.

I would have to disagree with the earlier reviewer who uttered his disappointed about this soundtrack for missing the parts of the score reminiscent of `American Beauty'. These parts most certainly are included, in tracks 9 (Checking out the cave) and 13 (Giving back the baby).
For those who are compelled to buy this cd for those pieces of the score, I would like to mention that if you like those, you will certainly like score music by David Newman's brother Thomas. The style David uses here actually is the style of his brother, not the other way around. Some soundtracks by Thomas Newman I would recommend are `American Beauty' (there are two cd's: one containing the songs used in the film, another solely for the score. Be sure to get the second one: ASIN: B00003XACV!), `Meet Joe Black' and `The Shawshank Redemption'. All three of these scores are absolute gems!
As for the score for `Ice Age'... though there are quite a few tracks that are less imaginative, there are some wonderful pieces of music here, and on the overall it really is quite an enchanting score that I would not want to miss in my collection.
This soundtrack is score-only. For those people wondering what that 'upbeat, quirky song' was that was featured in the movie: you'll probably mean 'Send me on my way' by Rusted Root (from the album 'Cruel Sun') which, incidentally, was also featured in the film 'Matilda' during the end credits.

The other reviewers are quite right to praise David Newman's excellent score to Ice Age; the problem with this CD is not Newman's music but the lack of it here! Everyone's favorite cuts from this score are the catchy opening travel theme (which IS here, briefly) and the extended travel song in the middle ("Send me on my way" with Newman's orchestration to it, ALL of which is MISSING). NO songs are on this disc. This partial soundtrack thus lacks the most memorable and enjoyable music in the film. The CD also lacks the reprise of the travel music played during the end credits; you will find ZERO end credits music here, leaving the music experience to end oddly abruptly. There is exactly 1 minute and 15 seconds of the travel theme here and that's ALL. The entire CD is only 34 minutes long! Both the listener and Newman [are not fairly represented] by this crummy job of producing. The praise in the other reviews is for David Newman's fine work, not for its "mis-"presentation this CD. You'll do better to record the movie music off your DVD than accept this very brief sampling. This release does no justice to a really enjoyable job of movie scoring. This CD is mainly frustrating.

This CD is absurdly short and incomplete. All the coolest pieces of music aren't here - what's up? There is space for 76 minutes of music on a CD, and it's not even half used up. There's a track that's only 42 seconds, for pete's sake! And most of the others are only a couple of minutes or less. The final track ends like it's cut off part way through.

This is a weird selection, and I can't fathom it. Even Shrek had the decency to release two versions of its soundtrack: one of the score, one of the pop songs that were scattered through it, which made it geekily complete. I see no reason for at the least a single CD of a similar compilation of score and song.

I am stunned. The music that IS here is worth 4 stars, while the music that is NOT here would bring it up to 5. Its absence, however, drags it down to 3 stars only.

Why have a soundtrack that has all of the songs people don't care about? Basically this cd has all the background music that you never notice and quite frankly don't care about. Most of you who want to buy this cd is the same reason why you would buy any other, because it has one or two (very rarely three) songs that you want to get. The song that you are probably looking for is when the three of them with the baby are walking to the peak (where they ride in the ice caves) togather. It's called "Send Me On My Way" by Rusted Root. Hope that helps

I would like to thank everyone for listing the song Send me on my way. I was specifically looking for this song and did expect it to be on the CD. So thank you all for looking out for the other people interested.

If you're looking for the lovely, quirky, upbeat numbers you
heard in the film, this recording isn't the place to find them.
All the impressive, inventive songs, reminiscent of the work in "American Beauty" are missing, and we are left with the orchestral and very incidental music only; it meets minimum standards for background music, period. Pity. Where's the beef?

The orchestration is great. Fun to listen to as David Newman weaves the orchestra with rich themes, varied styles and tone colors. Perfect for a movie that has a big mammoth with a big heart. Grand fun beginning with strong pulsing fun Jungle style with a twang, strong themes, moods, characters of adventure, suspense, innocence, a fun dainty mood, majestic, a polka style crazy ride, a magical ethereal theme, casual walking shifting to a rich emotional feel with seemingless transitions.

While this 13-track original score is largely incomplete and (as many have commented) full of the more useless cues; stuff we could do without, there is a 34-track bootleg floating around. I don't know how to get a hold of it, but it's circulating through the internet, giving David Newman the true audio release he deserved for one of his best musical efforts.

I expectd the background music sure...but where are all the songs where there was singing? For instance when they set off on thier journey the " I want to live my life" song? Sure as hell is not on this CD. I would like to know where the hell it is. I'll be expecting it soon... :| If you are looking for ALL the music for this movie dont find it here. Only background music people...no singing parts from the movie.I gave it a three only because the music is well done and does fit the movie very well.