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Ice Age is Back...And Worse Than Ever | The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild Review

Not even a meteor-sized disaster of a fifth film and the loss of the franchise's studio can stop the Ice Age

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Trenton Girone

Why, Disney? Seriously, what the HECK happened here?

Hugo Segal

From the looks of your "Transformania" and "Adventures of Buck Wild" reviews, these are warm-ups for the content worth anticipating this year and I will be on board no matter what!

Bryce Gundy

I don’t think there’s any other way for them to make any more ice age movies. At this point, they’re gonna be fresh out of ideas and nothing good will come out if they keep making more movies!

Hunter O'Laughlin

Can you honestly blame the original actors like Ray Romano, Queen Latifah, John Leguizamo and Dennis Leary for not returning to this film? I think after 20 years (16 for Queen Latifah) of voicing these characters, they’re just experiencing franchise fatigue like everyone. I bet John Leguizamo agreed to voice Bruno in Encanto so he wouldn’t have to return as Sid in this sequel.

Justin Monti

That introduction to this review is honestly funnier than the entirety of this movie. When it comes to my relationship with the Ice Age franchise, I like the first 3 movies, but I pretty much pretend Continental Drift and Collision Coarse don’t exist. And with Buck Wild, I think this really is a true sign to show how the Ice Age franchise has gotten worse and worse. Honestly I agree this would have been better as a TV series than a movie, the animation just got a massive downgrade and proves why the franchise should have ended after Dawn of the Dinosaurs. And what makes this even worse is that this movie also serves as a grim reminder that Disney closed down Blue Sky Studios. Let’s be honest ever since Disney closed down Blue Sky last year they have received so much backlash, and the fact that they would make another cheap Ice Age movie just to add content to Disney+ just feels insulting to the former employee's at Blue Sky, not to mention that whenever Disney would mention Ice Age or any of the other Blue Sky properties they would get serious backlash, and considering Disney is considering on making an Ice Age 7 for Disney+, I think it’s safe to say this backlash is not gonna stop anytime soon. I think Disney needs to do the sensible thing and just let Ice Age die because it’s not helping anyone in this situation, it’s not helping the Ice Age franchise because the movies are just getting worse, and it’s not helping Disney because they are still getting so much backlash for closing down Blue Sky. But I think it’s safe to say at this point, Ice Age is basically becoming the new Land Before Time because they just keep making more sequels with this franchise.

Kenneth Stoddard

Like you I hate this sequel/spin-off film. I will agree that some of the acting were okay as they range from mediocre to not good since some of the actors outside of Simon Pegg did not come back to reprise their roles especially John Leguizamo as Sid although I’m at least glad he worked on Encanto as Bruno instead of this since he has better things than this. I’ll even give credit that the idea of focusing back on Buck Wild in his adventures of the Lost World could’ve worked if it was done as a TV series. But everything else, it sucked. From the story, the writing, the comedy, characters, and especially the animation looked terrible and as for the latter, yeah it looked like the first film but worst. My biggest problem with this movie is the idea giving Crash and Eddie their own movie as they are not enough to carry a whole feature film. They work okay as side characters in a couple of films but the fact that all they do is being stupid throughout as their characterization makes it more frustrating to get through and it just doesn’t work for a feature film. Not just them but all comic relief characters in movies and TV shows in general. It doesn’t work on Planet Sheen, it doesn’t work with the 2015 Minions film, and it doesn’t work for Cars 2 and despite the latter being considered a sequel, it feels more like a spin-off than a legit sequel as the majority of it mainly focus on Mater. I’m sorry but it just doesn’t work. With Disney digging up Blue Sky’s corpse and planning on making more Ice Age sequels, it makes me not looking forward to any future sequels that involved Ice Age in the mix. At least Sony made the right move of ending Hotel Transylvania franchise with just four films or other wise that franchise would’ve suffered more like what Ice Age went through. Screw this movie for it existence and possibly be the number one worst animated film of 2022 and Disney for making more Ice Age films for the sake adding more content for Disney+.

Hugo Segal

You forgot to mention Seann William Scott and Josh Peck.

Hugo Segal

Yeah, the misleading title of “Cars 2” alone was a gripe I’ve always had; debatably more than shifting the protagonist from McQueen to Mater. I would take “Cars 2” and “Minions” over any future “Ice Age” spin-off not just for the feature-quality visuals, but how there were (at the very least) decent attempts at fleshing out the universes and character backgrounds of their respective franchises to evoke a lived-in feel.

carla n Winchester

well they're are some spin offs movies like minions and penguins of madagascar but disney spin off of ice age it really crossed the line

Kim Lechman

So, is this screaming possum going to be a thing now whenever an Ice Age review shows up?

Hugo Segal

I think Mat has matured to a degree where he doesn’t have to rely on tired running gags as part of his material. There are more constructive (and humorous) methods of venting out his digressions than the ranting and screaming of years past.

Hunter O'Laughlin

I’m willing to bet that John Leguizamo chose Encanto just so he wouldn’t have to voice Sid the Sloth for the 6th time. I’m also glad John Leguizamo is now doing voice work outside of the Ice Age franchise and hopefully Ray Romano and Queen Latifah can find other voice work as well.

Anonymous

Not sure why you need to put quotations before the movies, but whatevs

Lady Helen Bio Rodriguez

This franchise always finds a way to its grave deeper. Its almost inspiring.