In chasing an acorn, Scrat ends up on a spaceship that sets off the whole asteroid debacle. There’s an oddly grotesque style to some of the character design, including the popeyed sloths, as well as the high jinks of the single-minded and physically elastic squirrel Scrat. The other characters are granted tossed-off story scraps as they are led on a hunt for magnetic crystals by the swashbuckling Buck (Simon Pegg).
The most time is given to Manny’s issues with his immature future son-in-law, Julian (Adam Devine), who plans to move away with Peaches after their wedding, in a sort of “Father of the Bride”-style story line. It’s almost as if they were on separate, equally underdeveloped story lines. Romano’s Manny remains the heart of the group, but the writing and the chemistry among the characters is profoundly lacking. When anything’s possible, centering a story on something as mundanely hetero-normative as a wedding feels wildly unimaginative. Not to get too nitpicky about a fantastical film for children where a group of animals blow up a bunch of crystals in a volcano to set an asteroid off course, but the concept of marriage is decidedly anachronistic here. In this world of ancient animals - woolly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, flying dino-birds - facing apocalyptic, era-shifting, asteroid-borne problems, it feels profoundly odd that the emotional stakes of the film are centered on the wedding of Manny (Ray Romano) and Ellie’s (Queen Latifah) daughter Peaches (Keke Palmer).
2012 ICE AGE FULL MOVIE SERIES
“Collision Course” is simply a perfunctory, watered-down entry in the series that feels like it should have been released on home video. Is it inevitable? Yes, 2012’s “Ice Age: Continental Drift” was the highest-grossing animated film that year. Fourteen years after the first “Ice Age” animated film was a hit, the fifth installment in the franchise, “Ice Age: Collision Course,” rolls into theaters.
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