Ice Age: Collision Course review: Animated franchise frozen in time as lazy jokes fall flat.
This is the fifth Ice Age movie in 14 years, which means that Fox Studios now holds the record for the most successful animated franchise ever inspired by a mass extinction event.
It also means we’re getting to the point when viewers who saw the first film as preteens will be able to introduce their own children to Manny the mammoth (Ray Romano), Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo) and company, though I’m not sure anyone is likely to view these characters with deep nostalgia.
An exception might be made for Scrat (Chris Wedge), the hapless, acorn-obsessed squirrel who pops up in wordless slapstick interludes separate from the rest of the cast. This time he finds himself in outer space, where he bounces around as if trapped in a pinball machine, inadvertently launching a deadly meteor at Earth.
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