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Ice Age: Collision Course is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated family adventure film directed by Mike Thurmeier and Galen T. Chu and written by Michael J. Wilson. It is the fifth installment in the Ice Age film series and a sequel to 2012's Ice Age: Continental Drift.
The film stars Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Keke Palmer, Jennifer Lopez, Simon Pegg and Chris Wedge all reprise their roles from previous films.[1][5] New additions to the cast include Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Adam DeVine,Nick Offerman, Max Greenfield, Stephanie Beatriz, Melissa Rauch, Carlos Ponce, Michael Strahan, Jessie J and Neil deGrasse Tyson.[1]
The film is scheduled for release in the United States on July 22, 2016 by 20th Century Fox in 2D and 3D. It received mixed to negative reviews from critics and has grossed over $57 million worldwide.[6][4]
Contents[hide]Plot
While trying to bury his acorn, Scrat accidentally activates an abandoned alien ship that takes him into deep space, where he unwillingly sends several asteroids en route of collision with Earth. Meanwhile, Manny is worried about the imminent marriage between Peaches and her fiancé, Julian, while Sid is dumped by his girlfriend, Francine, just as he is about to propose to her. During Manny and Ellie's wedding anniversary party, some of the asteroids strike the place and the Herd barely escape with their lives. Meanwhile at the underground, Buck fights a trio of Dromaeosaurs to return a dinosaur egg to its mother and later discovers an ancient stone monument, which he takes to the surface, where he meets Manny and the others.
Buck explains to the Herd that according to the monument, the asteroids had caused several extinctions in the past and with a massive one still incoming, he claims that the only place they could find a clue to stop it is on the site of the impact of the previous ones, as according to its engravings, they always fall at the same place. However, the three Dromaeosaurs, having listened their conversation, decide to stop them, believing that they could be safe from the impact, as they can fly, thus not only getting their revenge on Buck, but also killing all mammals and securing domination over Earth for their species.
As the Herd travels to the crash site, they discover that the asteroids have electro-magnetic properties, thus the main asteroid could be stopped if a huge quantity of smaller asteroids should be gathered and launched into orbit in order to change its trajectory. After facing several obstacles and the interference of the Dromaeosaurs, the Herd arrives at "Geotopia", a community of animals formed inside one of the asteroids that have fallen long ago, where Sid meets Brooke, a female ground sloth who falls in love with him. However, Shangri Llama, the leader of Geotopia, refuses to cooperate with Buck's plan to send the city's crystals into space in order to prevent the incoming impact, as they are the key to the residents' uncommon longevity, until Sid unwillingly destroys the entire city when he attempts to remove one of the stones to present Brooke with, making all the Geotopians grow old up to their real ages, including Brooke herself.
Once Brooke convinces the Geotopians that preventing the asteroid's fall is more important then their lost youth, they and the Herd help with Buck's plan, which is to fill up a geyser with the crystals so that the pressure launches them into space to draw the asteroid away, but the Dromaeosaurs attempt to intervene, until one of them, realizing that they will not survive as well if the asteroid falls, convinces the others to also help. The plan works, and the asteroid is pulled back into space. The Herd then departs back home, including Sid, who parts ways from Brooke, but just after they leave, an asteroid piece falls inside a hot spring, giving it rejuvenating properties and making the Geotopians and Sid's granny, who stayed behind with them regain their youth. After the Herd returns, Peaches and Julian celebrate their wedding, and a rejuvenated Brooke appears during the ceremony to reunite with Sid. Meanwhile in space, Scrat keeps struggling to control the alien ship until it crashes on Mars, destroying all life on the planet.
Voice cast
Main article: List of Ice Age characters
Production
The concept of Collision Course was deeply rooted in a scene from the first Ice Age film where the characters are walking through a museum and spot something that inspired this film in the series as well as a short shown before a previous film. The result is Scrat finding an object and causing a chain reaction.[17] The characters were first hand-drawn on animation software, complete with color and animated clips of the characters doing specific actions. They were then sent to be hand-sculpted with clay, and ultimately scanned into CGI software and animated around the model.[17]
After the release of Ice Age: Continental Drift, John Leguizamo, the voice of Sid, said of the fifth installment in the Ice Age franchise: "It sounds like they’re working on something. So hopefully the answer is YES, but I cannot say for sure."[18] A promotional poster, shown in June 2015, at the Licensing Expo, revealed the film's full title: Ice Age: Collision Course.[19]
Soundtrack
Track listing
Release
Initially the film was scheduled for release on July 15, 2016.[20] However, the release was delayed to July 22,[21] to avoid competition with the Ghostbusters reboot that was also scheduled for July 15.
Marketing
An extended sneak peek of the movie in the form of a short film called Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe was attached to theatrical showings of Blue Sky Studio's The Peanuts Movieon November 6, 2015.[22] The teaser poster of the film was revealed on November 6, 2015 with the words "Bring Scrat Home" spoofing The Martian.[23] The short film was released later on November 9, 2015, on 20th Century Fox's official YouTube page.[24]
The film's teaser trailer was released on December 15, 2015,[25] followed by the first theatrical trailer on February 3, 2016, a second trailer on March 1, 2016[26] and a third trailer on May 9, 2016.[27]
Screenshots of the film will be presented at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June.[28]
ReceptionBox office
Ahead of its North America debut, Ice Age: Collision Course began its international theatrical run two weeks prior, earning $18 million from seven markets on about 5,286 screens which is 25% of its total marketplace.[29] In its second weekend, it added $32.2 million from 25 countries. As a result, it only did it top the international box office for non-Chinese film but also helped Fox passed the $2 billion mark internationally making this the eighth consecutive calendar year Fox has surpassed the milestone, and the tenth time in the studio's history.[30] The film came in third place overall, behind the two Chinese films Cold War 2 and Big Fish & Begonia.[31][32]
It recorded the biggest opening of all time for Fox in Argentina ($3.78 million), where its debut is also the third biggest of all time behind Furious 7 and Captain America: Civil War, Colombia ($2.2 million), Central America ($2.2 million), Uruguay ($620,000), and the second biggest in Mexico ($8.4 million), behind Ice Age: Continental Drift, Peru, Chile and Ecuador, the biggest opening among the series in Brazil ($4.5 million).[30] Elsewhere, it had No. 1 openings in Germany ($4.2 million), Austria ($893,000) and Switzerland ($514,000) and No. 5 in Australia ($3.1 million).[29]
Collision Course will open in 37 markets, including the UK, Russia, Spain, France, Belgium, India and Holland.[30]
Critical response
On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 22%, based on 23 reviews, with an average rating of 4.6/10.[33] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 49 out of 100, based on 29 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[34]
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