#Prehistoric Gay rhinos

[just-dontfall]

Trying to do more Fanart so have a little doodle of everyone’s favourite prehistoric gay rhinos, Frank and Carl from Ice Age!

[unblinded-by-nostalgia-blog]

I have reviewed a lot of films, it's hard to believe it's taken me this long to finally cover Ice Age.

Ice Age is a film no one really talks about, other than it being a franchise that has pretty much died in a tar pit. Even though everyone talks about the bad sequels. No one really talks about the original. Why? Probably because it isn't really 100% kid-friendly like its sequels. Heck, in most countries (such as the United States and Australia), this film got a PG rating. Why did it get a U rating here in Britain? Ask the people who gave Watership Down the same rating!

The Story

The story is about three animals who try to return a baby to its family.

The story in this film is dark. It's much darker than it's competitors at its time (Shrek and Monsters Inc) which were more-or-less light hearted comedies. Yes, Shrek did have some dark undertones, but this film has a lot of on-screen deaths, talks about how characters will kill each other (such as disembowelment and ripping their throat out) in quite explicit detail! And other stuff that I won't mention due to spoilers. And that is why it sticks out so much, it's willing to take risks that other films won't do. In fact, a a family film wouldn't get away with anything like Ice Age nowadays.

I'm not saying the film is perfect. Some of the jokes are cringeworthy, but it won't distract you too much.

The Characters

The main characters seem bland at first and... Well... Sid is a bland character. But the other two are very well done with their development.

This film is also the first film that I saw homosexual characters in a film. Even before I knew the words 'gay' and 'homosexual', I have always thought that the Rhinos (with the dandelions) were a couple. They act like a couple and what is so great about them is that they don't explicitly say that they are a gay couple. They are treated as any other couple by not saying they're gay. Even though many people give older films a bashing due to not being accepting to homosexual characters. Maybe they should check this film out and see what they think about the Rhino couple.

The Animation/Special Effects

The fur detail on the animals is very well done for its age (get it? Ice Age?) but the human hair looks terrible. They all look like they have dreadlocks. Even the baby has them!

The designs of the animals are very accurate to the original animals that they are based on, but also a unique flair to them. All of them except Sid. My god, they made him so ugly! He looks nothing like the prehistoric sloths and he looks like a deformed weasel more than anything!

The backgrounds have very little draw distance on them. They only go... Say, a few hundred kilometres and then they just stop and end up looking like a background from Super Mario 64!

Final Thoughts

Overall, this isn't the best film out there for very young children. But for children aged 7 and up, it is the perfect film to show them when they are doing biology at school.

It's a shame that this film now shadowed by its sequels because this is a great movie to watch. Even though it is over a decade old, it is definitely a film you and your family will enjoy.

The Story 4/5 The Characters 4.5/5 The Animation/Special Effects 3.5/5

Overall 4/5

[frednought]

not exactly lore, i just wanted to spice up horses a bit for the fantasy comic i’ll never actually write. in a visual medium it’s beneficial to have some worldbuilding elements that don’t require an explanation or new vocabulary words, i think. of course as domesticated animals they ought to come in the typical flavors....normal, fancy, large,,,etc

i like thinking about prehistoric animals and alt evolution and such bc i’m a gay nerd ass bitch 😔 rhinos and horses are distant cousins (closer than e.g. antelopes or something as far as i can tell) so it seemed appropriate to go the rhino horn route :)

here are some old boring sketches since i don’t have time to draw jack shit lately lol. thought about going for something more goatish instead

some normal unicorns (and one bicorn)

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