Ice Age Collision Course review

 48 Ice Age Collision Course

The fifth Ice Age movie. An interesting expansion of the Ice Age story, with a great sense of danger and existential angst throughout. Again, it is Scrat's antics that set off the plot. With an old spaceship, he accidently sends an asteroid hurtling towards the Earth... (Those aliens obviously made their technology very user friendly.) But that is obviously not the main plot of the film. It is the Herd who save the day (and the biosphere). Of course that takes a lot of work, and some help from Buck.

The beginning is rather good. It lays out what the Herd has been up to since the events of the last film (although where the molehog has gone wasn't explained). Peaches has met someone is getting married. The interactions between Manny and this fiance provide some comedic relief (although the fiance may be trying too hard.) Certainly, it's clear that he and Peaches love each other. Talking of love... Diego has found it with Sheera, but it's Sid's love life that is (sort of) a focus throughout the film.

First, there is the sloth he goes on an 'online date' with at the beginning. The joke about Sid looking 'nothing like your profile picture' is funny, but it doesn't make sense. Later he meets Brooke at Geotopia, a settlement inside a previous asteroid (meteorite/asteorite?). This leads into the climax, where the Herd and the denizens of Geotopia are trying to save the world. Antagonists, what would a movie like this be without them? First are a group of 'terror birds' who Buck had rescued some eggs from.

The other is the leader of Geotopia, the Sublime Llama (a spoof of Tibetan, or other Buddhist, Lamas), who doesn't believe the Herd about the threat that the asteroid poses. The former provide a sinister presence, while the latter is just comical. A good continuation of the franchise. 8/10.