Review of Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) by Lifeaswe K — 05 Sep 2016

Ice Age: Collision Course is an animated comedy adventure film directed by Mike Thurmeier. Stars the voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jennifer Lopez, Simon Pegg and Chris Wedge, returning, and the new voices of Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Adam DeVine, Nick Offerman, Max Greenfield, Stephanie Beatriz, Melissa Rauch, Michael Strahan, Jessie J and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

The movie follows the old crew of Manny and his family Ellie and Peaches, Sid, Diego and his wife Shira plus some friendly faces come back, such as Buck who was first presented in the third movie. After many adventures together, now the crew has to escape an asteroid that is headed towards them.

This is a fun family friendly adventure that is definitely more on the focus of kids but adults can have some laughs here and there too. I get why a lot of people hated on this film, it is the 5th one in the franchise and the formula has become too obvious at this point. It's easy to just hate this film and be comfortable saying I HATED IT, it sucks there is nothing good about it, they should just stop making these, BUT the matter of the fact is that this is a better film than the last one, and just okay overall.

The animation is really good actually, and most of the characters are likable, especially Buck voiced by Simon Pegg. He's funny and moves the story forward in a very fast pace. Also the messages and lessons that this movie has are very much for families, and that is great. There is pretty much nothing offensively bad about this film. and while some jokes do not hit and the story is pretty generic, still it is mostly meant for kids and in that regard it works.