Year: 2016
Directors: Mike Thurmeier and Galen T. Chu
Starring: Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, and Simon Pegg
Tagline: One small step. One giant mess.
Synopsis: Buck (the crazy, dinosaur hunting weasel) teams up with Sid, Diego, and Manny to stop an asteroid (unintentionally triggered by Scrat in a UFO) from hitting Earth. Other side plots happen.
Tagline: One small step. One giant mess.
Synopsis: Buck (the crazy, dinosaur hunting weasel) teams up with Sid, Diego, and Manny to stop an asteroid (unintentionally triggered by Scrat in a UFO) from hitting Earth. Other side plots happen.
Review
Remember the original Ice Age? The fun film about a mammoth, sloth, and sabre-tooth tiger coming together to return a human baby to its family? The filmmakers clearly don't remember it. And this is a long, long way from that movie.
Pretty much I saw this movie because the person I was with wanted to see this movie. And while I'll agree there were a few moderately amusing moments (such as Buck singing "Figaro's Aria" by Rossini whilst dodging dinosaurs to rescue a different dinosaur's egg), overall the film doesn't justify its existence. It's not particularly funny. It has no real heart or soul. The characters have gotten stale. And I'm really, really done with the "mild rude humor" that is not the least bit humorous.
Buck, the one-eyed weasel, goes from crazy eccentric to overboard crazy (he adopts a pumpkin). Manny is reduced to an overbearing father fretting over his daughter's upcoming nuptials and headbutting with his future son-in-law. Diego is there because ... he's one of the main characters? Sid is Sid. And there are even more characters with their own side plots that don't really amount to much beyond feeble justification for said characters being still in the story. And frankly, I can only watch Scrat get squashed, splatted, and vaporized so many times.
Don't waste your money on Collision Course. And don't waste your time. Maybe then we'll be spared Ice Age 6: The Zombie Apocalypse or whatever plot device they'd come up with. Go back and watch the first one instead.
Pretty much I saw this movie because the person I was with wanted to see this movie. And while I'll agree there were a few moderately amusing moments (such as Buck singing "Figaro's Aria" by Rossini whilst dodging dinosaurs to rescue a different dinosaur's egg), overall the film doesn't justify its existence. It's not particularly funny. It has no real heart or soul. The characters have gotten stale. And I'm really, really done with the "mild rude humor" that is not the least bit humorous.
Buck, the one-eyed weasel, goes from crazy eccentric to overboard crazy (he adopts a pumpkin). Manny is reduced to an overbearing father fretting over his daughter's upcoming nuptials and headbutting with his future son-in-law. Diego is there because ... he's one of the main characters? Sid is Sid. And there are even more characters with their own side plots that don't really amount to much beyond feeble justification for said characters being still in the story. And frankly, I can only watch Scrat get squashed, splatted, and vaporized so many times.
Don't waste your money on Collision Course. And don't waste your time. Maybe then we'll be spared Ice Age 6: The Zombie Apocalypse or whatever plot device they'd come up with. Go back and watch the first one instead.
Quotable Quotes
- "The weasel has landed." -- Buck
- "What are you doing?" "Helping?" "What does not helping look like?" -- Peaches, Manny, and Diego
- "I have found a prophecy!" -- Buck
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