Thursday, August 2, 2012

Ice Age 4 - Continental Drift





The famous Trio is back ...And this time they are facing a major Crysis , again right at their Doorstep . Manny , Sid and Diego , the Queer pack/herd they are , live peacefully in their land . When suddenly the ever famous guy "SCRAT" the sabretooth squirrel messes everything up again.

Scrat in the opening scene...

His love for the Acorn initiates an unimaginable apocalypse from which Manny has to save himself and his family . But disastrously they get seperated and the Herd is off again on an awesome adventure while floating on a Ice .Manny asks Ellie and everyone to move to the land bridge where they will be safe from the moving land mass once they are on the other side of the land. Peaches has grown into a beautiful teenage girl whose hormones are pumping are on the verge which attracts her to disaster all the time.Along with her friend Louis , a molehog she explores the area and finally gets a huge crush on Ethan .Due to which at one time she is forced to say that freindship with Louis was just a sham . Louis hears this and goes off hurt . But finally Peaches realises that friendship is the higher than some stupid feeling .

Louis and Peaches

A new charector emerges as Sloth/ Sid's family . Sid's mom , dad and Bro unceremoniously dumps Granny on Sid and pushed off to unkonwns..Granny forms the best comedy in the movie and is responsible for the huge help she and her " imaginary " Pet named ' Precious' provides at the climax of the movie. (Dont want to spoil the suprise there huh.)

Diego and Shira
The trio who gets cast off into the ocean are picked up by Sea pirates which include a Overgrown Ape "Gigantopithecus " as the Leader " GUT". A rabid Rabbit (Squit) , A female Sabretooth Called Shira,  and Sea animal  plus some guys who have been rescued from the sea and forced to work for Gut as payback. Manny and the gang somehow drowns the pirate gang's ship and escapes off in a raft with Shira as their prisoner


Hyrakes
.Finally when they reach a island they meet the localites of the Island ,  A group of Hyrakes..Gut uses them for slave labour and Manny devises a plan with them to steal the ship from Gut and finally succeeds . Just as Manny reaches Land bridge he finds out that Gut has beat him to it . And now the final battle between the two gangs take place with Finally Gut succumbing to the sirens. Manny and all the other animals move of a new land ,Sid finds a false teeth for granny and Diego and Shira becomes a couple and everyone lives happily ever after . 


Gut , The Sea Pirate
Of course Scrat who was following a map which leads to a treasure trove of Acorns finally finds the Island which is depicted as the same as that of Lost city of Atlantis ( SCRATLANTIS) . But intstead of being happy there , Scrat's obsession again forces him to lose everything and Scrat is found in a desetred desert where he shouts his lungs out as the movie's credits roll.






The entire movie is an absolute blast . Even Sid and Rooney from the 3rd part  makes an appearence  in the initial part of the movie when Scrat falls off into the core of the earth.

Lopez voicing for Shira
Wanda Sykes for Granny
This is the first sequel that was not directed by Carlos Saldanha who had done all the previous movies of Ice Age . Maybe thats why one could see something lacking in this movie when compared to its predcessors. I mean , the Dawn of the Dinosaurs was the best of the best in the series. 

The humour and creativity which was captured there in that movie was somehow lacking in this one .You somewhat have the unsatisfactory feel when the movie 
finally ends. Well atleast I had that . But one can t complain that the movie wasn'st entertaining enough . Bcos it sure as hell was the best . Ice Age Rocks !! And fans of the series are going to love their favourite heroes on screen again ...

Rating : 8.2/10


Regards
Ram.

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