Peter Ackerman (1)Rezensionen

Cartoon

Despite a wonderful new character with the voice of Simon Pegg and one of the better Scrat-subplots of the entire series, this is a middling film with a weak, nearly non-existent plot and very heavy-handed character arcs (which are, of course, still better than no arcs at all). But it has some fun moments, and I have a soft spot for Hollow Earth theory nonsense.½

1969

The story revolves around sub-zero heroes: a woolly mammoth, a saber-toothed tiger, a sloth and a prehistoric combination of a squirrel and rat, known as Scrat.
Rated PG for mild peril.

I have a unique affection for phone booths. It may have tainted my opinion.

Three Prehistoric Animals And A Baby.

2.5/4 (Okay).

The story and characters work reasonably well. The comic relief is rarely funny.

A cautionary tale for parents who indulge in their kids tantrums, and a creative way to show how sometimes when you are frustrated you just need to try something different.

This book begins by describing a phone booth used by many different characters in a busy New York street area. The phone booth is described as a prized part of the community used by many people. This was until people began to use a cell phone, making the phone booth feel lonely. Then everyone's cell phones stopped after a storm and the phone booth was beginning to be used again. this made the phone booth happy.

I think that this was the first of the Ice Age series that I sat down with the kids and watched all the way through, so I might not be as tired by the repeated tropes as I might if I had seen the other movies. It was okay. I mean, it's a kids movie in a series to sell movies and keep children entertained. And my children were entertained. There was almost some internal conflict and character development with the sabre-toothed tiger, but I think that was lost by the end.

A young boy with a penchant for screaming finds his calling in this third picture-book from author Peter Ackerman and illustrator Max Dalton. His long-suffering parents, having done everything in their power to stop his screams, eventually discover that eating and cooking are the only things that shut him up. Eventually, when his prodigious culinary skills are revealed, his parents open up a restaurant - Boy - where he serves as chef. But will he revert to screaming when he has a bad night on the job...?

A humorous send-up of the classic story of the badly-behaved child, The Screaming Chef highlights the idea that when young people have something to keep them busy - something they enjoy, and that gives them a sense of accomplishment - they are less likely to behave poorly. Leaving aside the question of message, the story here is amusing, and will no doubt keep young children entertained, as they recognize a little bit of themselves in the willful main character. The artwork is colorful and every bit as entertaining as the text, matching its somewhat zany humor perfectly. Recommended to all young screamers, and to anyone searching for children's stories that address screaming and how it effects the people around the screamer.

The phone booth at the corner of 100th Street and West End Avenue provided a valuable service for many members of the local community, giving people a means of contacting employers, suppliers and loved ones. It even provided the secret agent a place to change his disguises. But then one day people started speaking into shiny objects they carried around, and it seemed that no one needed the phone booth anymore. Would it be carted away? Or would it still serve a purpose...?

This debut picture-book from screenwriter and playwright Peter Ackerman and illustrator Max Dalton, who subsequently collaborated on The Lonely Typewriter, presents an engaging, kid-friendly story, one which highlights themes such as the progression of technology over time, and the role of icons and landmarks, in the emotional life of a community. I enjoyed the story, appreciated the New York City setting, and found the colorful, stylized artwork appealing. I do wish that the author had included an afterword giving more information, as this is apparently based on a true story, but leaving that aside, The Lonely Phone Booth is one that I would recommend to those looking for children's stories that explore means of communication, or the emotional attachment people form to icons and beloved objects, as well as to anyone searching for picture-books set in New York City.

Purchased by Pearl, a woman who used it to type pamphlets for Martin Luther King, Jr., during the Civil Rights Movement, the eponymous typewriter in Peter Ackerman's story was next used by Pearl's daughter Penelope to type her award-winning poetry collection, and to write love letters to her eventual husband. But when the typewriter is replaced with a computer, and put away in the dusty attic, it grows lonelier and lonelier. Then one day, when Penelope's son Pablo needs to write a paper about penguins, only for the computer to break down at the exact wrong time, the typewriter is rescued from oblivion, and once again put to use...

The second picture-book collaboration between author Peter Ackerman and illustrator Max Dalton, following upon their earlier The Lonely Phone Booth, The Lonely Typewriter highlights a number of themes - the fact that vintage items can still be of use, the idea that objects can have interesting histories - while also spinning an engaging kid-friendly story. I appreciated the homage to an important time in American history that Ackerman included, by having the typewriter used to create pamphlets for the Civil Rights Movement, and I found the fact that Pablo's parents were a biracial couple, without that needing to be remarked upon in the text, quite appealing. The text here is rich in alliteration - words beginning with 'P' abound - and the artwork has a vintage cartoon-like charm. Recommended to anyone who enjoyed the earlier Ackerman/Dalton venture, as well as to anyone looking for children's stories that address the theme of reusing older items, or of objects having a history all of their own, that is intertwined with the histories of the humans around them.

Really like this one, the story, the voices, the beautiful animation, and especially the way Matty changes through the picture. The side story with the squirrel is a great gift, like the old time cartoons they used to show before the feature. You can keep the sequels.

Tus amigos prehistóricos favoritos de La edad de hielo y Ice Age 2: El deshielo regresan en esta nueva y espectacular aventura animada para TODAS las edades. En esta entrega, Manny y compañía descubren un mundo perdido poblado de peculiares dinosaurios, entre ellos un tiranosaurio con muy malas pulgas que tiene una cuenta pendiente con Sid. Mientras tanto, Scrat pierde la cabeza por la hermosa Scratte. Pero, ¿cuáles son las auténticas intenciones de Scratte, hacerse con el corazón de Scrat o robarle la bellota?
Con un reparto que incluye las voces de grandes estrellas como Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary y Queen Latifah, Ice Age 3: El origen de los dinosaurios ofrece más emoción, más tensión y más carcajadas para toda la familia..

En av de mest fantastiske tegnefilmene som noen sinne er laget!

With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. Along the way, the unlikely allies become friends but, when enemies attack, their quest takes on far nobler aims. (source: TMDb)

Peter Ackerman, Diedrich Bader, Lorri Bagley, and P.J. Benjamin (DVD - 2005)