Review of Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) by Lee R — 13 Dec 2012

Is there a point at which these movies will become direct-to-video sequels? I can't imagine who was begging for another Ice Age flick, but the sizable amount of money this made will likely justify yet another installment in this ten year old series.

Yes, Ice Age has now been around for ten years and those years are starting to show. Ice Age: Continental Drift has nothing new to share with us other than expanding the world of these characters to include even more characters.

After three films the world is already a little over populated but the one thing this fourth entry gets right is isolating out original three heroes and giving them a somewhat entertaining adventure to go on.

Manny (Ray Romano) is still grumpy and a control freak, Sid (John Leguizamo) is still the comic relief though his Granny sloth (Wanda sykes) should go ahead and keel over. Diego (Denis Leary) gets a love interest in Shira (Jennifer Lopez) but his character design looks lazy and poorly animated for such a high profile film.

There is a fun run in with a pirate named Captain Gutt voiced by Game of Thrones Peter Dinklage and his crew which includes several big names for such small parts but hey, they prove to get a few moments.

Except for Drake and Nikki Minaj who are intentionally as annoying and material as they likely are in real life. Still, there is no need for another adventure as they've already covered the meltdown, the dinosaur age, and as the land now shifts into its current state it won't be long before we see Ice Age: Extinction above the marquee.