Ice age 5 collision course

Ice Age: Collision Course, also known in other territories as Ice Age 5: Collision Course, or simply known as Ice Age 5, is a 2016 American computer-animated science-fiction comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox, the fifth installment in the Ice Age franchise and the sequel to Ice Age: Continental Drift.

The film premiered at the Sydney Film Festival on June 19, 2016, and was released in the United States on July 22. Upon release, it was negatively panned by both critics and fans alike.

It is also the last film in the Ice Age franchise to be produced by Blue Sky Studios, as The Walt Disney Company announced on February 9, 2021 that the studio would be closing in April of that same year.

Contents

 * 1Plot
 * 2Why It Sucks
 * 3Redeeming Qualities
 * 4Reception
 * 5Videos
 * 6Trivia
 * 7External links
 * 8References
 * 9Comments

Plot
Manny the mammoth starts to worry when his daughter Peaches announces her engagement. Still unlucky in love, Sid the sloth volunteers to plan the couple's wedding. To Manny's dismay, nothing can stop the upcoming nuptials, except maybe the end of the world. When Scrat accidentally launches himself into outer space, he sets off a chain reaction that sends an asteroid hurtling toward Earth. Now, the entire herd must leave home to explore new lands and save itself from Scrat's cosmic blunder.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) One of the core problems of the film is its near-lack of originality, with several scenes, characters and concepts being either clichés or elements recycled from other films; granted, this can be executed well, but here this seems to be executed in a way this feels so hollow and unsatisfying.
 * 2) * According to an interview, Collision Course was actually based on a scene in the first Ice Age film where the Herd and Roshan (the baby) are walking inside an ice cavern, during which a spaceship is briefly shown encased within ice; this reinforces the near-lack of originality the film has.
 * 3) ** 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.
 * 4) * The very concept of Scrat trying to get his acorn is tired and overused, especially considering how it has been repeated for the past four films, and how the viewer pretty much knows by now that Scrat will never succeed in getting his acorn.
 * 5) * The subplot of Manny being overly-clingy towards Peaches to the point where he refuses to let her leave him and explore and also seeming to despise and refuse to do anything to do with Julian, her fun-loving fiancé who is reasonably nice, is basically a carbon copy of Hotel Transylvania.
 * 6) * Crash and Eddie dressing as and pretending to be babies in one scene is an obvious rip-off of Top Cat Begins.
 * 7) * The film overall suffers from the "heroes embark to save the world to prevent impending doom" cliché.
 * 8) * In addition, it completely rehashes the plots of The Meltdown and Continental Drift of the heroes embarking on an adventure as they struggle to survive in a catastrophic disaster and a main character gets a love interest.
 * 9) * For the second time in the series, Manny essentially has the "over-clingy father" cliché.
 * 10) * The first act revolves around the "forgotten anniversary" cliché.
 * 11) * Peaches has the "grown-up character who wants to see the world" cliché.
 * 12) * Sid has the "loser who gets the girl" cliché.
 * 13) * Julian has the "future son-in-law who is trying his best" cliché.
 * 14) * Buck has the "liar revealed" cliché.
 * 15) * Gavin, Gertie and Roger all have the "redeemed villain in the end" cliché.
 * 16) * The film has the "ominous and ancient prophecy about something coming" cliché.
 * 17) * It also has the "ending with a wedding after which everyone dances to a song" cliché.
 * 18) The story is very predictable, with it being obvious that the Herd will stop the asteroid from hitting the Earth and eradicating all life; thus, it becomes more difficult to become emotionally invested in the story due to its outcome being extremely obvious.
 * 19) There are over eighteen main characters in the film, which is way too much for a film to handle, and as a result the plot constantly has to sidetrack with each individual character arc.
 * 20) * Also as a result of this, the film seems to struggle in deciding as to who the main focus is supposed to be; and thus, it suffers from an unfocused, dragged-out and lazy plot.
 * 21) Even though the animation is nice and an improvement over in the previous four films, its movement is way too fast and usually acts and feels like something from a Hotel Transylvania film; this is also even more jarring when taking into consideration that most of the non-Scrat animals walked like real animals would in the previous four films. In fact, there is even a moment where the film is indirectly self-aware of this, the scene in question has Manny mocking the way Julian walks.
 * 22) It doesn't really feel like an Ice Age film at times, mainly due to there being several out-of-place elements which all feel as if they originated from other films unrelated to the Ice Age franchise:
 * 23) * The film feels the apparent "need" to be hip and cool to pander to 2010s' audiences; this is especially clear when it overuses dated references to 2010s' popular culture, all of which feel very out-of-place in an Ice Age movie; blatant examples of this include Crash and Eddie repeatedly mentioning the word "hashtag" in one scene, as well as Francine criticizing Sid for looking "nothing like [his] profile picture".
 * 24) * It features five rather odd and pointless cameos from Neil DeGrasse Tyson (the first one being a narration in the opening sequence), who also serves as a scientific consultant...for an Ice Age film.
 * 25) * The pillar itself which describes the prophecy, alongside UFOs, magical crystals that last ever-granting youth and other sci-fi and fantasy elements all feel rather out-of-place in a series revolving around animals that used to exist in a time period before the rise of the human race, it 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.
 * 26) * There is a usage of out-of-place cartoon-ish sound effects throughout the film, with the most blatant example being when they are inappropriately plopped into a brief scene where a series of asteroids are literally annihilating a flock of birds.
 * 27) * In the scene where Crash and Eddie are inside Buck's mind, there is literally a robot version of the latter... even though robots are non-existent in the time period the films are set in, especially considering how human technology did not exist at that point; it is also even more bizarre when taking into consideration how Buck should logically be unfamiliar with robots for obvious reasons.
 * 28) * Unlike in the previous four films, Scrat never loses his acorn in the ending.
 * 29) There are several problems with the characters, including but not limited to:
 * 30) * Scrat is ruined as a character altogether; he seems to be the antagonist as he is not only responsible for the catastrophe, but also causes a storm on Jupiter to fly towards the Earth, pushes the asteroid headed towards the Earth further when he is about to return and later literally eradicates all life on Mars.
 * 31) ** In addition, the scale of his antics are upped to such an absurd degree it loses its comedic edge, and they also affirm Scrat as the equivalent of God, the latter of which is mainly because of him being responsible for the creation of the entire Solar System; the latter can be traced back to Continental Drift, in which he is responsible for why the continents are the way they are now.
 * 32) * Manny has been reduced from a slightly standoffish, but lovable grump to a whiny and moping jackass; basically, his character now suffers from flanderization.
 * 33) * Sid is even more unlikable than in Continental Drift, as his stupidity has gone to the point where it... literally earns him a love interest for seemingly no logical reason at all.
 * 34) * Even Ellie lacks any interesting characterization; at one point she is there just to agree with Manny's overprotective attitude, as well as to set up the forced "forgotten anniversary" plot point that is resolved as quickly as it shows up.
 * 35) * Several returning characters, especially Diego and Shira, both of whom were major characters in the previous films, are heavily underutilized and barely do anything to move the plot forwards; similarly, Louis from Continental Drift is reduced to simply a background character with nearly five seconds of screen-time.
 * 36) * Crash and Eddie are very annoying, as nearly all of their scenes consist of them spewing out atrocious dialogue and unfunny attempts at humor; they hardly even work off of the other members of the Herd properly.
 * 37) * Buck, the come-back character returning to have 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 nearly nothing but exposition; one can argue he was a bit crazy in Dawn of the Dinosaurs, but he was never this wacky or awkward.
 * 38) * The characters introduced in Collision Course either barely have any personality, are forgettable, unfunny, bland (especially Brooke) or, in the cases of Roger, Shangri Llama and Julian, annoying; in addition, several new characters such as Julian, Francine and the Dino-Birds never receive a proper introduction of how they came into the story or the other characters' lives; we just randomly start off with them from beginning to end, as if they came out from thin air without even being set up in the previous films.
 * 39) ** On the topic of Brooke, she is a flat and boring love interest who barely has any personality or characterization other than being willing to fall for Sid.
 * 40) * The Dino-Birds are forgettable as antagonists and have extremely lame motives, consisting of them intending to fly out of range as high into the atmosphere as possible as the asteroid hits and eradicate nearly all life, making it impossible to take them seriously when the audience knows their own idiocy is only going to get themselves killed, and even if they do survive the collision there would be no food for them to eat, resulting in them starving to death; in fact, the presence of a real antagonist is rendered redundant by the fact that the asteroid is basically the main threat of the film.
 * 41) ** In fact, there is even a moment where the film is self-aware of how stupid their motives are; however, stating the problems of a film does not automatically make them go away.
 * 42) * At one point, the Herd and Buck arrive at a river and at no point does anyone think it is a good idea to cross it, to the point where Buck literally demands said river to "let his mammals pass"; the characters are this idiotic.
 * 43) Several scenes in the film are pointless and only serve to pad out the runtime, as they serve no purpose in the story at all nor even explore the relationships between characters; one notable instance is when Buck decides to adopt and raise a small pumpkin as his baby, which has nothing to do with the actual plot or the development of the characters.
 * 44) * The subplot of Diego and Shira wanting to have children also goes nowhere and does nothing to move the plot forward; in fact, it is never even brought up again until the end of the film.
 * 45) * Even the subplot involving Scrat suffers from this, with many of his individual scenes seemingly being longer than in the previous films, seemingly for the sake of padding out the runtime.
 * 46) The pacing of the film is very inconsistent, with the filmmakers seemingly being unable to decide as to how slow or fast they want Collision Course to progress; at many points in the film they speed up the travel to get the Herd to the asteroid's intended landing site as soon as possible, but at other points the runtime of the film is being padded out with poor attempts at humor.
 * 47) As stated, much of the attempts at humor are poor and either come across as awkward, immature, predictable and/or poorly-timed or even remove suspense and tension within the film, since it practically never takes itself seriously; Crash and Eddie provide some of the worst attempts at humor here, consisting of either gross-out or toilet humor.
 * 48) * Continuing the topic of toilet humor, there is even one scene where actual animal feces are shown, which Eddie nearly licks on the assumption that it is a clue for something until Buck points out otherwise.
 * 49) False advertising:
 * 50) * In some posters, Scrat is seen wearing a spacesuit, but in the film he is only seen wearing it in three scenes.
 * 51) * Despite being heavily advertised on movie posters, neither Brooke nor Shangri Llama appear until the final act of film and aren't even given proper screen time and characterization.
 * 52) There is also an awkward and disturbing scene where the low gravity in the UFO causes Scrat's skin to fall off and thus expose his skeleton right before he pulls it back up, along with another disturbing shot where he lifts up his skin to reveal his nipples have been briefly transformed into acorns.
 * 53) The use of the aforementioned "forgotten anniversary" cliché feels very forced, especially considering how it is resolved as quickly as it shows up; it is also rather pointless, considering how it does nothing to advance the plot nor the develop the characters in a way that it sets up the rest of the plot.
 * 54) * On a similar topic, the use of the "liar revealed" cliché is rather pointless, as it does not change nor develop the characters nor move the plot forwards; to recap, during the travel, Buck 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 really going on and realize that Buck was not being honest about this.
 * 55) The subplot involving the romance between Sid and Brooke feels rather rushed; this is clear when Brooke proposes to Sid... even though they have only known each other for twelve minutes.
 * 56) It shares the problem of the previous four films of featuring historical inaccuracies; for example, Buck remarks how an asteroid would hit the Earth every one hundred million years, as if it were some sort of tradition, even though the asteroid that eradicated the non-avian dinosaurs hit around sixty-five million years ago, while the prior mass extinctions weren't caused by (an) asteroid(s) hitting the Earth.
 * 57) Cheesy and inappropriate dialogue, particularly, "That, however, is a turd!", from Buck.
 * 58) Several characters from the previous four films, specifically Rudy and Ethan, no longer seem to even exist anymore.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The animation, as well as the visuals, are an improvement from the previous four Ice Age movies.
 * 2) Decent voice acting, partly due to most of the cast returning to reprise their roles.
 * 3) Peaches and Julian, while parts of their storyline do revolve around clichés, are the most tolerable of the characters, as all they intend to do is to survive the incoming asteroid; a far better motivation than those of the other characters.
 * 4) Decent soundtrack from John Debney.
 * 5) The "Figaro" sequence was enjoyable.
 * 6) Some scenes here and there are worthy of a laugh, such as when Scrat is about to smash one of the remaining teleportation devices with his acorn right when he is teleported to the bathroom, at which he unintentionally throws his acorn, the one thing that was so valuable to him, everything he stood for, into an actual toilet.

Reception
Ice Age: Collision Course was heavily panned and criticized by both critics and fans alike, aimed at the screenplay, plot, humor, inconsistent tone, lack of originality, and character development while praising its animation and John Debney's musical score.

It currently holds a 17% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and an average rating of 4.1/10, with the site's critical consensus reading, "Unoriginal and unfunny, Ice Age: Collision Course offers further proof that not even the healthiest box office receipts can keep a franchise from slouching toward creative extinction." It also has a 34 out of 100 on Metacritic and a 5.7/10 on IMDb.