10,000 BC - Mammoths and Sabertooths

With no disrespect meant for the made-for-tv classics "Sabertooth" and "Mammoth", it's about time we had a big-budget movie that really showcased these two animals every kid learns about and is fascinated by at an early age...and no, "Ice Age" doesn't count.

The movie's named "10,000 BC", and it's slated for release in early March. In an era where CGI brings us such eye candy as cloned dinosaurs, monsters the size of skyscrapers, aliens destroying international monuments, over the top natural disasters, asteroids exploding near and/or colliding with Earth, and completely virtual characters altogether (see: LOTR, Gollum), writers have finally tapped into that veritable plethora of storylines some call the Pliocene epoch and delivered a flick essentially starring everyone's favorite woolly elephants and really big tigers with the famous smile. Oh, there are people in it too, apparently.

We'll see how good the story is, though I'm not getting my hopes up. I've been wrong before, but this looks to be a movie that will garner more praise for it's computer generated scenes (and probably complaints for it's historical inaccuracy) than it will for its character development or plot.

At least it has a title that's easy to remember, I guess.