The core messages of family, love, marriage, not judging people, children growing up, etc., are all here but it doesn’t bring much new to the table, which is disappointing as this has traditionally been a very creative franchise. Visually, audiences get more of the same – it looks good but even that feels like it needs to step up the game. When it is funny it is actually funny and many of the pop culture references work very well, especially a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it homage to Planet of the Apes, but some of the dialogue aimed at the younger audience sounds twee and a bit dated. You can see what they are trying to achieve but it just feels like with the already considerable number of returning cast – Simon Pegg, Queen Latifah, the aforementioned Romano, Leary and Leguizamo and so on – in addition to too many new additions that few of them really get the time or attention they deserve while some others get too much. The biggest problem with Ice Age: Collision Course is that it feels overstuffed with characters and tries to achieve too much in its 94-minute running time. As usual, on that journey, they come across a host of moderately interesting characters such as Nick Offerman’s bad dino-bird Gavin and his family, Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Shangri Llama and Jessie J’s Brooke – all of whom are either weakly developed, underused and feel somewhat wasted. Of course, Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo), Diego (Denis Leary) and the rest of their crew head off on an adventure to try and stop that happening.
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This sets off a series of events that lead to meteors hurtling towards Earth.
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It kicks off with, as usual, Scrat’s acorn-attaining ineptitude causing mayhem but this time, it ends up with him being thrust into space which, in itself, shows how far the franchise has to go now for inspiration.
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There’s nothing offensively bad about this latest entry, but there’s also not much here to draw new fans in or anyone other than the diehard longtime fans back. Five films down and the Ice Age franchise is, 14 years after it first hit screens, finally running out of steam – and the movie feels like it knows this.