In Ice Age 1 Did Manny Have a Family

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Ice Age: Standoff Course
One small footstep for Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Pull a fast one on. One giant mess for the entire Ice Age franchise.
Genre: Animated Comedy Run a risk Scientific discipline-fiction Directed By: Mike Thurmeier Written Past: Michael J. Wilson Michael Berg Yoni Brenner Starring: Ray Romano John Leguizamo Denis Leary Josh Peck Simon Pegg Seann William Scott Jennifer Lopez Queen Latifah Photography: Color Cinematography: Renato Falcão Distributed Past: 20th Century Fox Release Date: June 19, 2016 (Sydney Film Festival) July 22, 2016 (United States) Runtime: 94 minutes Country: U.s. Language: English Upkeep: $105 million Box Function: $408.vi million Franchise: Ice Age Prequel: Water ice Age: Continental Drift Sequel: The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild

Water ice Historic period: Collision Course , (also known in other territories on domicile video as Ice Age 5: Standoff Course , or simply known as Water ice Age five ), is a 2016 American computer-animated science-fiction comedy film produced by Blueish Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Flim-flam, the fifth installment in the Ice Age franchise and the sequel to Ice Age: Continental Drift.

The film premiered at the Sydney Flick Festival on June 19, 2016^[1], and was released in the U.s. on July 22. Upon release, information technology was negatively panned by both critics and fans alike, with the film becoming the most negatively-received installment in the Water ice Age franchise.

Information technology is also the last film in the Ice Age franchise to be produced by Blue Sky Studios, as The Walt Disney Company had shut down Blue Sky Studios on Apr 7, 2021^[2]. No theatrical motion picture in the series has released since.

Plot

Manny the mammoth starts to worry when his girl Peaches announces her appointment. Still unlucky in love, Sid the sloth volunteers to plan the couple's nuptials. To Manny's dismay, zilch can stop the upcoming wedding ceremony, except maybe the cease of the world. When Scrat accidentally launches himself into outer infinite, he sets off a chain reaction that sends an asteroid hurtling toward Globe. Now, the unabridged herd must exit home to explore new lands and save itself from Scrat'due south cosmic corrigendum.

Why Information technology'southward an Accented Collision Course

1. 1 of the main problems of the film is that it barely has whatever originality, with several scenes, characters and concepts either existence heavily clichéd or rehashed from other films; granted, this tin exist executed well (even Star Wars, of all things, was influenced by The Subconscious Fortress, plot-wise), simply hither they tend to feel quite hollow and unsatisfying, and even aside from that clichés practise tend to be repetitive and tiring.
   • Co-ordinate to an interview, Collision Course was inspired from a scene in the starting time Ice Historic period film where the Herd and Roshan (the baby) are walking inside an ice cave, during which a UFO is briefly shown encased within water ice^[3]; this alone reinforces the lack of originality the film has; in fact, this feels every bit though the filmmakers had run out of ideas.
     • It should be noted that Dawn of the Dinosaurs was similarly based on a shot during the sequence in which a Tyrannosaurus rex is shown encased in ice^[four].
   • The basic concept of Scrat trying to go his acorn is tired and overused, especially considering how it has been done over and over over again for the by four films up until this point; every bit such, the audience pretty much acknowledges by now that Scrat will not succeed in getting his acorn, and here it does feel kinda predictable.
     • 1 might compare this to most Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry shorts, but at least those were executed in a much better way in comparison to the storyline with Scrat here in Standoff Course.
     • Like the previous film, it full-on exaggerates the cartoony gags with his shenanigans(See #7). At one bespeak, Scrat was SKINNED-ALIVE by the high gravity of the ship and fixed himself like information technology was cipher.
   • The subplot of Manny non merely being emotionally overly-clingy towards Peaches to the point where he refuses to permit her leave and explore, but also seeming to dislike and refuse to practise anything to exercise with Julian, her fun-loving fiancé who is reasonably overnice, is basically a carbon re-create of that of Hotel Transylvania.
   • The moving picture, overall, suffers from the "heroes embark to save the world from impending doom" cliché.
   • In addition, information technology completely rehashes the plots of The Meltdown and Continental Drift of the heroes embarking on an run a risk as they struggle to survive in a catastrophic disaster and a main character, who, in this case, is Sid, gets a love interest.
   • Manny is not only substantially has the "overly-clingy father" cliché for the second fourth dimension in a row, just also has the "father who hates his girl'due south boyfriend" cliché.
   • One sequence virtually the end of the showtime human action revolves around the "forgotten anniversary" cliché.
   • Peaches has the "grown-upwardly character who wants to run into the world" cliché.
   • Sid has the "loser who gets the girl" cliché.
   • Julian has the "time to come son-in-police who is trying his all-time" platitude.
   • Cadet has the "liar revealed" cliché.
   • Gavin, Gertie and Roger all have the "redeemed villain in the end" cliché.
   • The picture has the "ominous and ancient prophecy almost something coming" cliché.
   • It as well has the "ending with a party around which everyone dances to a song" platitude.
2. The story tends to be rather predictable, as it is obvious the Herd volition succeed in stopping the asteroid from hitting the Earth and eradicating the planet of its lifeforms; thus, information technology becomes a bit difficult to go emotionally invested in the story due to its outcome being quite obvious.
3. Fifty-fifty though the animation is a stride up from the previous 4 films, it can be over the top with its movement being style too fast in specific scenes and usually acts and feels every bit though it is the kind of animation manner used in the production of a Hotel Transylvania film; this is too even more jarring when taking into consideration as to how well-nigh of the non-Scrat animals in the previous four films moved quite similarly to animals in existent life.
4. On a like topic, there is an overusage of disgustingly purple color filters and schemes throughout the motion picture, notably inside the UFO, scenes set during evening, on the asteroid and its pieces themselves and fifty-fifty within Geotopia.
5. Information technology follows upwardly on 1 of the flaws Continental Drift suffered from in that it scarcely feels like an Water ice Age film at times, mainly due to its usage of... things which feel rather out-of-place in an Water ice Age pic. In fact, it feels more like an entirely different motion picture, but of which happens to accept characters and settings from the Water ice Age franchise.
   • The film feels the credible "demand" to be hip and cool, seemingly to pander to 2010s' audiences; this is obvious in scenes with dated references to 2010s' pop culture which feel as though they fail to fit in with the time period the films are ready in; blatant examples of this include Crash and Eddie constantly referencing hashtags in one scene, equally well as Francine criticizing Sid for looking "aught like [his] profile pic".
   • It features v rather odd and pointless cameos from Neil DeGrasse Tyson (the offset one being a narration in the opening scene), who also literally serves equally a scientific consultant... for an Ice Historic period pic.
   • The colonnade itself which describes the prophecy, alongside UFOs, magical crystals that grant eternal youth and other sci-fi and fantasy elements all feel rather out-of-place in a series revolving around prehistoric animals; this would essentially be what would happen if there were another sequel to Finding Nemo in which the characters embark on an adventure in outer space of all things.
     • Now, one could argue that at that place was a shot in the beginning Ice Historic period pic where a UFO is shown encased in ice, only this was not exactly a major focus of said motion-picture show and seemed to exist more of an in-joke, and even so none of the previous movies had storylines that were majorly either sci-fi-themed nor fantasy-themed.
   • There is a presence of out-of-identify cartoon-ish audio effects throughout the movie, the most blatant example of this beingness when cartoon-ish "squawking" sound effects are inappropriately plopped into a brief scene where a series of asteroids are literally annihilating a flock of birds.
   • Like with the previous movie, some of the vocal choices are rather questionable for an Ice Age film, with blatant examples including "Fireball" by Pitbull briefly playing during the first interaction in the film betwixt Buck and the Herd, besides equally "Dream Weaver" past Gary Wright playing when Brooke meets Sid for the first time.
   • In the scene where Crash and Eddie are inside Buck'southward mind, there is literally a robot version of the latter... even though robots are pretty much non-real in the time period the films are prepare in, peculiarly considering how no such homo technology existed yet at that point; information technology is too even more than bizarre when taking into consideration as to how Buck should be unfamiliar with robots for obvious reasons.
   • Different in the previous four films, Scrat never loses his acorn in the ending nether it ends with him screaming.
6. The pic feels rather overstuffed when it comes to the characters, and as a result the plot constantly has to sidetrack with subplots — information technology has to shift effectually from Manny and Ellie struggling to come to terms with Peaches' determination to move out, Sid looking for a dear interest, Diego and Shira wanting to heighten children, the misadventures of Scrat and his acorn in his UFO, Manny having to go along with Julian, the Dino-Birds plotting to kill Cadet and let the asteroid to hit the Earth, and Buck raising a small pumpkin.
   • In fact, one cursory scene in the movie with Sid running out of fingers when he counts anybody to ensure they are present fifty-fifty takes a jab at the pic'due south huge listing of characters.
7. The characters are even more than intolerable than they were in Continental Migrate, each of them having their own prepare of issues, including simply not express to:
   • Scrat is ruined as a character altogether; he seems to exist the antagonist (it should be noted that an antagonist does non necessarily need to exist [knowingly] evil, equally an adversary is typically a graphic symbol or force that opposes a protagonist^[v], basically the matter that causes the disharmonize) as he is not merely responsible for the ending, but also causes a storm on Jupiter to end upwardly on the World, pushes the asteroid headed towards the World further during his attempt to return and literally eradicates all life on Mars; this could be compared to his actions in Continental Drift, just at least that did not have the potential to eradicate all life on Earth.
     • In addition, the scale of his antics are upped to such an absurd degree his comedic nature is tarnished, and Scrat is also affirmed as the equivalent of God , the latter of which is mainly due to how he is responsible for the creation of the entire Solar Arrangement; in fact, his antics seem to be even more over-the-top and absurd in comparison to especially in Continental Drift.
   • Manny has been reduced from a slightly standoffish, but lovable grump to a whiny and moping wiggle; basically, he has been flanderized as a character.
   • Sid is too flanderized similarly to in Continental Drift, his stupidity having been exaggerated in comparing to in the get-go 3 films.
   • Even Ellie lacks any interesting characterizations; at one point she simply just appears to side with Manny on his overly-clingy attitude towards Peaches, and at another to gear up the forced "forgotten anniversary" plot point that is resolved as quickly every bit it shows upward.
   • Several returning characters, especially Diego and Shira, both of whom were major characters in the previous films, respectively, are heavily sidelined and barely do anything to motility the plot forwards; the underutilization of Diego is even more insulting, because the fact that Diego was one of the original main characters of the series. Similarly, Louis from Continental Drift is reduced to nix more than a background character who barely appears in 2 shots.
   • Crash and Eddie are very annoying, every bit most of their scenes consist of them spewing out horrendous dialogue and rather unfunny attempts at humour; they inappreciably fifty-fifty work off of the other members of the Herd properly.
   • Granny was also flanderized, equally she went from a crazy but witting grandma that genuinely loved Sid and cared nigh her friends to merely a senile former lady. At one point, subsequently the Herd got out of a electric tempest, she doesn't even care about Buck possibly dying when he came back to rescue a baby, easily moving on from information technology.
   • And speaking of Cadet, the come-back character returning to accept his first major role in the films since Dawn of the Dinosaurs, is reduced to an overly-wacky and awkward character who constantly spews out exposition; one could argue he was a scrap crazy in Dawn of the Dinosaurs, but he was neither this wacky nor this awkward.
   • The characters introduced here in Collision Course either barely have any personality, are forgettable, unfunny, i-dimensional (especially Brooke) or, in the cases of Roger, Shangri Llama, and Julian, annoying; in addition, Julian, Francine and the Dino-Birds never receive a proper introduction as to how they came into the other characters' lives; we merely randomly start off with them from beginning to end (though, in the case of Francine, she breaks upwardly with Sid in her merely scene in the flick and afterwards is never seen again), as if they but came out of thin air, which is jarring.
     • On the topic of Brooke, she overall, is a one-dimensional dearest interest who just falls for Sid.
   • The Dino-Birds are forgettable antagonists with lame motives, consisting of them intending to fly out of range as loftier into the atmosphere as possible equally the asteroid hits and eradicates all other lifeforms, making it incommunicable to take them seriously when the audience knows their own idiocy is only going to result in their deaths, and even if they do survive the initial standoff there would barely exist any food for them to consume, which would simply result in them starving to death; in fact, the presence of a real adversary is rendered redundant past the fact that the asteroid is basically the master threat of the film.
     • In fact, there are at to the lowest degree two scenes where the moving-picture show is self-aware of how stupid their motives are; however, stating the problems of a film does not automatically erase them.
   • At one point, the Herd and Buck come across a river and at no bespeak does anyone think information technology to be a good idea to cross it, to the point where Buck literally demands said river to "let his mammals pass"; this, therefore, paints the characters to be this idiotic.
8. Specific scenes in the film are rather pointless and seem to only serve to pad out the length, as neither of them serve any real purpose in the story at all nor fifty-fifty explore the relationships between characters in a style information technology pays off story-wise; one case is the minor subplot of Diego and Shira wanting to raise children, which does zero to move the plot forward and seems to be only at that place for the sake of having both characters actually getting to do something in the film.
   • Even the side of the story with Scrat falls prey to this, with some of his individual scenes seemingly being longer than in the previous films, seemingly for the sake of padding out the runtime.
9. Plot hole: In one scene Scrat causes the internal gravity of the UFO to subtract, inadvertently flattening him and rendering information technology impossible for him to exercise specific actions such as jumping, and the next fourth dimension he is shown the gravity of the UFO has somehow returned to normal without any explanation why.
10. The pacing during the travel is very inconsistent, with the filmmakers seemingly being unable to decide equally to how fast or slow the travel should progress; most of the fourth dimension the travel seems to exist gear up at a rather "normal" speed, merely at various points its pace is slowed down due to filler and rather failed attempts at sense of humor.
11. As stated, much of the attempts at humor neglect and either come across every bit awkward, predictable, immature or suffer from botched timing; some even remove suspense and tension inside the film, since it barely seems to take itself seriously; Crash and Eddie provide some of the worst attempts at humour here, consisting of either gross-out or toilet humor.
    • On the topic of toilet humor, at that place is even one scene where actual animal feces are shown, which Eddie almost licks nether the assumption that information technology is a inkling for something until Buck points out otherwise.
12. False advertising:
    • In some posters, it heavily advertises Scrat in infinite and him wearing a spacesuit, but in the bodily film, he is only seen wearing information technology in three scenes.
    • Despite beingness heavily advertised on motion-picture show posters, neither Brooke nor Shangri Llama appear until the final act of film and even then aren't even given proper screen time and characterization.
    • The dorsum of the blu-ray and DVD calls it the best Ice Age movie when information technology'southward really not.
13. There are several cringe-worthy, awkward and disturbing shots present in the film, such as ane where the low internal gravity of the UFO causes Scrat'due south pare to autumn off and thus expose his skeleton correct before he pulls information technology support, as well as another in which he lifts upwards his pare to reveal his nipples have been briefly transformed into acorns.
14. The use of the aforementioned "forgotten anniversary" cliche feels rather forced, and information technology is supposed to set upwards something so important when it comes to Manny and Ellie, but its payoff — during their reflection on themselves raising Peaches and come to terms with her time to come — ends up beingness not too satisfying nor important.
    • The employ of the "liar revealed" cliché runs into a similar consequence, as it never changes nor develops the characters nor even moves the plot forrad; to recap, during the travel, Cadet discovers he is being followed by the Dino-Birds and is hiding this from the Herd, and before they arrive at Geotopia, the Herd, particularly Diego, discover what is actually going on and realize that Cadet was being dishonest virtually this; one would recall this would set up some sort of conflict between Buck and the Herd, merely this is not paid off in any real major manner whatsoever.
15. The subplot involving the romance betwixt Sid and Brooke feels rather rushed; this is clear when Brooke proposes to Sid, fifty-fifty though they have only known each other for twelve in-universe minutes and thus barely had any chemistry. Say what you will about the fourth film, just at least Diego and Shira's romance sub-plot was well-written and natural, thus creating a great chemistry between the two, despite it being pointless to the master plot of that movie.
16. It shares the problem of the previous four films of featuring historical inaccuracies; for example, Buck remarks how an asteroid would striking the Earth every one hundred meg years, as if it were some sort of tradition, even though the asteroid that eradicated the non-avian dinosaurs hit effectually sixty-five 1000000 years agone, while the prior mass extinctions weren't caused by (an) asteroid(south) striking the Earth.
17. Extremely cheesy dialogue, especially the "That, however, is a turd!" line from Buck.
18. Several characters from the previous iv films, specifically Rudy and Ethan, no longer seem to even exist anymore without any given reason whatsoever equally to why; it feels jarring and questionable.
19. John Debney's soundtrack, despite being decent, is the weakest in the franchise, being inferior that of the previous four movies past David Newman (Ice Age) and John Powell (The Meltdown, Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Continental Migrate).
20. In a similar manner to how Seed of Chucky, Shrek the Third, Cars two, Minions, and Pirates of the Caribbean area: Dead Men Tell No Tales negatively affected their corresponding franchises, this film heavily damaged the reputation of both the Ice Age franchise and Blue Sky Studios. As solidified Blue Sky's reputation every bit a studio that was unable to let go of the Ice Age franchise due to how much money the films fabricated them. And this resulted in the company every bit a whole becoming widely unable to exist taken seriously equally a major animation studio by a large corporeality of people (as great as the studio truly was in spite of the large amount of Ice Age films they made).

Redeeming Qualities

1. The animation, alongside the visuals, are beautiful to look at and are an improvement from the previous four Water ice Age movies, despite the overuse of disgustingly purple color filters throughout the film and the movement being too fast in certain scenes.
2. Decent voice acting, partly due to near of the bandage returning to reprise their roles. Even the new bandage, Adam DeVine, Stephanie Beatriz, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Max Greenfield, Jessie J, and Nick Offerman were decent selection.
3. Peaches and Julian, while parts of their storyline do circumduct around clichés, are i of the virtually tolerable of the characters, every bit all they intend to do is to survive the incoming asteroid and alive happily married lives together; a far ameliorate motivation than the residual of the other characters. Peaches is too significantly more mature here than she was in the previous pic.
4. Even though it was poorly executed, Sid finding a love interest is a pretty expert concept, peculiarly how nobody in his biological family but Granny loved or even cared about him, and this could have been his chance to be commencement a improve family himself.
5. Decent soundtrack from John Debney, despite beingness the weakest in the franchise, as stated before.
6. The "Figaro" sequence is enjoyable.
7. Some scenes hither and there are worthy of a express mirth, such every bit when Scrat is about to smash one of the remaining teleportation devices with his acorn right when he is teleported to the bath, at which he unintentionally throws his acorn, the one affair that was and then valuable to him, everything he stood for, into an actual toilet.
8. There are some emotional scenes in the film, particularly the one with Manny and Julian struggling to get the biggest crystal to land into the volcano and they allow it to roll into said volcano on its ain. Besides equally the scene where Manny and Ellie, believing that all hope to save the World from the meteor was gone, reverberate on the life they've spent together, and how they wish Peaches could've lived a life similar that with Julian.

Reception

Ice Age: Standoff Grade was heavily panned and criticized past both critics and fans alike, aimed at the screenplay, plot, humor, inconsistent tone, lack of originality, and character derailment while praising its animation and John Debney's musical score. On Rotten Tomatoes, the picture has an approving rating of 18% based on 118 reviews and an boilerplate rating of 4.15/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Unoriginal and unfunny, Ice Age: Collision Course offers farther proof that non even the healthiest box part receipts can go along a franchise from slouching toward creative extinction.". Rotten Tomatoes also ranks Collision Course as the worst-reviewed of all the 5 films in the Ice Age franchise. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 34 out of 100 based on reviews from 27 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the motion-picture show an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F calibration. The film has the rating of five.7/10 on IMDb.

Box Office

The film, while still technically a hit at the box office, did nowhere as much as the previous films did, as it grossed far less than it's predecessor Continental Drift did by a large margin, every bit it grossed $408.6 meg dollars at the box function which while yet very successful was nowhere as much equally the previous picture show did and not helping that information technology didn't meet Play tricks'southward expectations of the box office record they were hoping for the motion picture to make, thus it caused the film to be a box part disappointment which was a low sign for the serial, causing the franchise to nearly keep a hiatus for 6 years and ended up beingness a major factor to Blue Sky'southward closure in 2021, likely as a outcome of the picture's underwhelming performance at the box office for the franchise'southward standards.

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Trivia

• A spin-off titled The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, focusing on the characters Cadet, Crash and Eddie, is in evolution for Disney+.^[6]

References

1. ↑ https://www.alamy.com/stock-photograph-sydney-australia-19th-june-2016-vips-and-celebrities-pose-with-characters-106206897.html
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/blueskystudios/status/1379822457729785863
3. ↑ http://www.heyuguys.com/ice-age-collision-course-set up-visit/
4. ↑ http://www.flickeringmyth.com/2016/07/exclusive-interview-with-galen-chu-co-director-of-ice-age-collision-course-about-the-new-take chances-simon-peggs-render-and-the-franchises-continued-popularity/
5. ↑ https://www.thebalancecareers.com/adversary-1277104
6. ↑ https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/10/22167976/disney-investor-solar day-2020-biggest-announcements-plus-marvel-star-wars-pixar-blitheness

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