Directed by: Carlos Saldanha and Mike ThurmeierStarring: John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Ray Romano, Simon Pegg
Running Time: 1h 34min
This installment of the Ice Age series proves the franchise has overstayed its welcome. The highlight of the films has always been the little squirrel Scrat, and his overzealous quest to secure a nut. These ingenious little cartoon segments work extremely well as advertising fodder and short films, but when the characters are stretched out to feature length, and then sequelled two times over, the material runs rather thin.
Roger Ebert claims this "the best film of the franchise yet". i claim Roger Ebert "well past his prime". He completely missed the mark on this one (and several other films this summer). This is basically The Land Before Time with other prehistoric animals thrown in. i'm actually quite fond of Leguizamo, but his voicing of the character Sid gets very sickening only minutes in. SImon Pegg tries to save the film as a new character Buck, and his inspired work barely manages to make this film worth watching. The 3D doesn't really add anything special to the film, which makes it all the more disappointing. i'm all for more Scrat adventures, (maybe as short films before Fox films), but as for the rest of these characters, banish them to the stone age, please.
Grade: C
1 comment:
I'm not a huge fan of this series anyway but I found the 3D kept me interested far longer than I would have been. ( I still managed to fall asleep though.) I appreciated the flying scene and the little baby Raptors but not much more to it than that.
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