Ice Age: Collision Course

So, it’s true; this movie is most likely the worst one out of the entire series. It confirms the golden rule that when you repeat a joke far too many times, it stops being funny. So once again, there’s a squirrel with a nut, there’s an asteroid that causes ice age… over and over again. But after all, the kids probably won’t mind. (2017-11-22)

This time, it's really nothing more than a serial marketing product designed to sell toys and popcorn, the theme of which is already picked raw to the bone and whose creators have no ambition to say anything meaningful, and so they invent nonsense like UFOs and crystals of eternal youth. The continuing declining tendency of quality is also characterized by the fact that, for the first time in the series, this work cannot succeed even as a demented grotesque, in which the characters bury, snag and hit themselves in the head. And due to the extreme proliferation of protagonists (at least a dozen), the usual lessons about the values of friendship, family and relationships, which sound even more false, are diluted. (2016-07-19)

It is almost surprising that an ever-expanding group of heroes still maintains the level of humor where they can laugh freely for an hour and a half without inhibition. The reasons why I used to defend the first three parts at any occasion have significantly decreased. The previous installment with its pirate-family theme clearly deviated from the series, and this time, the uniqueness of the whole Ice Age franchise has almost completely disappeared. Collision Course is nothing more than a replaceable family comedy full of obligatory clichés, and in terms of adventure, it is already a somewhat overused variation of a journey for the salvation of everything and everyone. I am saddened by this similar direction, and I will continue to shake my head for a long time, wondering why it couldn't have stayed just a trilogy, but the tremendously positive atmosphere in all of the squirrel's escapades still makes me cautiously nod upward. (2017-12-27)

There's competition among cartoons this year where just having a bunch of funny characters definitely won't keep you in the game. It takes a story. Preferably one that will entertain kids and adults in roughly equal proportions. It must be all the better when it features the same characters for the umpteenth time. While it's true that the filmmakers still have some pretty cool ideas for torturing a squirrel chasing his dream nut, isn't it getting a little stale? It's going to need some kind of fresh air, at the very least. Otherwise, the animation is great, although that's become almost commonplace in recent years. 3 stars. (2016-07-24)

It's already very over-the-top, very colorful, and genre-wise strange, but I still had quite a good time in places. It's nice that most characters still have their voices because you quite enjoy encountering them. The characters manage to grow on you, so I didn't mind the shortcomings too much. But there's just nowhere else to go. (2017-01-16)