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Ice Age: Continental Drift
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2012
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Ice Age: Continental Drift
Positive Reviews
49
Negative reviews
42
Average Rating
2.6
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2.0
Jokes are recycled so frequently, its as if comedy writing was eating a hole in the ozone layer: If the audience had a nickel for every time a charact ..
Av Club
3.0
A mild bounce back from the dinosaur doldrums of the last Ice Age movie.
EW
2.5
The characters are manic and idiotic, the dialogue is rat a tat chatter, the action is entirely at the service of the 3 D, and the movie depends on br ..
Rogerebert
3.0
While its not the best animated adventure youll see, Ice Age 4 is sure to please the kids.
Common Sense Media
1.0
I believe kids deserve the best, not the worst.Once upon a time, ten years ago, the Ice Age franchise agreed with me.
We Got This Covered
4.5
Its a jaw droppingly good performance from this pint sized, first time actor.
Austin Chronicle
1.5
A colorful spectacle with breathtaking line detail, Ice Age: Continental Drift looks terrific.
Austin Chronicle
3.0
This Ice Age film explores similar and sometimes similarly dreary family friendly themes of friendship and loyalty as its three predecessors, but it d ..
Time Out
3.0
This is the low temperature family romp that Happy Feet 2 should have been.
Time Out
0.6
But if this fourth adventure about a team of post Jurassic survivalists is a representative example, the enterprise leaves the viewers eyes glazed ove ..
3.8
Logic may be extinct, but, boy, do these movies whiz by like ice cubes zipping across a linoleum floor.
3.0
TWITTER The fourth entry in the animated prehistoric franchise features improved visuals but trades in familiar shtick.
The Hollywood Reporter
2.0
A colorful spectacle with breathtaking line detail, Ice Age: Continental Drift looks terrific.
2.0
Pause for a moment and savour the flagrant laziness of all this: rather than explore the unique storytelling possibilities that Ice Ages unusual setti ..
Telegraph
3.0
This 3 D installment is still visually appealing and easy for children to follow.
2.5
Describing his similarly nutty adventures in the previous installment of the franchise, he tells his toothless granny: We fought dinosaurs in the Ice ..
San Francisco Chronicle
3.0
Offers little that isnt familiar....The real glacial era went on for a very long time, but the Ice Age franchise really neednt try to match its longev ..
One Guys Opinion
3.0
But the best bits are basic and all but voiceless: those Scrat intensive set pieces, still inspiredly squirrelly if much too far apart.
Village Voice
3.1
The Ice Age vocal mainstays return to lend their talents to this latest installment.
ReelViews
3.0
Its quite an achievement for any franchise, yet the strain of invention wears heavily on Ice Age: Continental Divide. While providing moderate charms, ..
Blu Ray
2.0
Franchises can and do reach a saturation point and diminishing returns.
2.5
This sequels premise the cataclysmic rift that tore apart the prehistoric super continent Pangaea rarely satisfies viewers of any age.
Usa Today
1.0
Its not as stupid as, say, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, but its the same kind of waste of time, offering nothing in return for the 95 minutes or s ..
News Review
3.0
But the computer animation is excellent and the inevitable 3D stylings are pretty decent, too.
Radio Times
2.5
I am still laughing at one particular play on words.This isnt a great afternoon at the movies with your kids, folks.
Screen It
3.5
The high energy set pieces are often surprisingly thrilling and the songs are both silly and witty.
Shadows On The Wall
1.5
The latest installment in Soul Jazz Records Boombox series, tracing the evolution of recorded rap in the late 70s and early 80s, provides us with the ..
Pop Matters
2.0
Youll find yourself pining for the return of the non speaking Scrat.So by all means, check out The Longest Daycare, which has all the laughs and suspe ..
The Wrap
3.0
Would it kill them to put a few Science Facts as captions at the endAs fourquels go, this is actually pretty good (and definitely better than the thir ..
View London
2.5
Whenever I watch an Ice Age movie, I understand how my mother felt whenever I zoned out in front of the television after school.
News Day
2.5
Sykes has a funny voice, but Granny is just a sassy talking comedy cliche who would be right at home in a Madea movie.
New York Post
3.0
Its terrific sweet, sad, funny, surprising.If youre running late, youre safe watching that first and getting your popcorn once Ice Age has started.
Az Central
2.5
Early on in Ice Age: Continental Drift, the animated franchises fourth entry, John Leguizamos Sid the sloth has a quick, funny aside about the dinosau ..
Boston
3.5
Like its predecessors, this latest instalment in Foxs Blue Sky Studios animation franchise a surprisingly successful response to Pixar and Dreamworks ..
Smh
2.5
The filmmakers stuff the film to a manic degree, albeit with increasingly textured animation.
Star Tribune
1.5
Theyre nothing more than forgettable time wasters that are just inoffensive enough to not keep audiences away.
3.0
As always in the Ice Age animated franchise the best sequences centre on Scrat, the Sisyphean half squirrel, half rat, determinedly chasing an acorn a ..
Guardian
2.0
With the fourth film, the Ice Age family animation franchise is looking almost extinct.
Guardian
3.0
Discerning adults will know what to expect.Number four in the series is formulaic and feels factory made rather than a labour of love.
Daily Mail
2.0
Overall the 3D adventure bears a polish that reflects a sophisticated set of production values but which the scriptwriting and increasingly banal char ..
Flim List
3.5
The film offers non stop frivolity and fun coupled with endearing side plots including Diego discovering love in the attractive form of J Los white ki ..
2.5
On the other hand, Blue Skys visuals are detailed and dazzling, probably worth the 3 D surcharge if your youngsters are willing to wear the cumbersome ..
Susang Ranger
1.5
The fourth installment of this series is somewhere between the last two.The first Ice Age movie wasnt all that good either, but it had goggle eyed slo ..
Movies
3.0
The latest, Ice Age 4: Continental Drift, has plenty of that, though not much by way of an original story.
Express
1.5
Unless one considers its dubious quality of lowest common denominator ness a smart business move: the Ice Age movies have always been just bland enoug ..
Flickfilosopher
2.0
You probably think of the Ice Age franchise as just one of many ho hum, indifferently animated potboiler franchises.
The Irish Times
5.0
Never mind that the freshness of the original Ice Age and its main characters Manny (Ray Romano), Diego (Denis Leary), and Sid (John Leguizamo) has di ..
Blogs Indie Wire
2.5
Whatever it is, Continental Drift offers up more of it, in an easily digestible form that will distract kids and wont unduly inconvenience adults.
Las Vegas Weekly
3.0
Weighed down with daft new characters and an overstretched story, the prehistoric saga is looking a bit old. On the other hand, it still has Scrat whi ..
Total Film
3.0
In an animation era in which making kids movies that also appeal to adults is all the rage, the Ice Age franchise is pretty resolute about making kids ..
The Atlantic
3.0
Ice Age: Continental Drift is crafted especially for the wee ones and it works.
Hollywood
2.0
The Ice Age franchise runs out of steam with a narratively inert example of animated fluff.
Coles Mithey
2.5
A short pre film featurette titled The Longest Daycare, starring baby Maggie from The Simpsons, displays all the wit and creativity missing from Conti ..
Herald Sun
2.5
The original movie was a mild entertainment a decade ago, but since then the franchise has fallen into the category of dull but safe time wasters a fa ..
Nj
1.5
Despite impressive visuals and voice work, this fourth instalment feels uninspired and unnecessary.
Film Ink
3.0
Fortunately, one of Ice Ages most welcome elements returns, skittering across the screen and bringing mayhem in its wake.
The Age
2.5
The Ice Age movies have made money even though they cant hold a candle to the efforts of Pixar or DreamWorks Animation.
Maki At The Movies
2.0
The Longest Daycare leaves us laughing and wishing for a Simpsons Movie sequel.
Tamp A Bay
4.0
Here, the slapstick with a dash of Homer (we even get a sequence with sirens), should work a treat for adults too.
Abc
2.5
There are more laughs in 4 1/2 minute short than in the entire feature that follows it.
Abc
3.0
And thats not a bad summary of what you get here; fun, whacky and snappy entertainment from a madcap cast of characters thats not too scary (even in 3 ..
Nz Herald
2.5
Sure, its an extraneous piece of animated merchandise, but its a watchable one.
Kansas City
2.0
Ultimately, Ice Age 4 feels very much like its a sequel for a franchise running out of steam.
Digital Spy
3.0
The gang of walking, talking, mammalian chums prove as reliably consistent as ever.
Flicks
1.9
Hes pure filler in a franchise that desperately needs new themes and new jokes.
Red Eye Chicago
1.9
In a world where family flicks are split between the inspired and the insipid, its time to let Manny and his mates drift out to sea.
Stl Today
2.5
Not to beat a dead woolly mammoth here or anything, but the Ice Age movies are all pretty much interchangeable.
Stl Today
1.5
On that level, at least, you cant say that Continental Drift doesnt deliver the goods.
Screen Crush
1.9
There is something most definitely amiss when a four and a half minute short has more laughs, wit, sweetness and creativity than the feature length ma ..
Dustin Put Man
2.0
One of the surest signs climate change is upon us may be that Ice Age movies ceased to be fun a long time ago.
Ar Kansas Online
4.0
Kids will love it and the anarchic humour will entertain adults too. Hugely enjoyable.
The Sun
3.0
moves quickly, is well directed, and from time to time achieves some real suspense. If it also shows how the franchise is wearing a little thin, it al ..
Killer Movie Reviews
2.5
If you are of an age to care enough about movies that you read movie reviews, you are not the films target audience.
Antagony & Ecstasy
2.5
Not since the Beastie Boys opened for Madonna on her first tour in 1985 has an opening act so completely eclipsed the headliner.
Sltrib
3.1
Indeed, theres nothing particularly new nor exciting nor brilliant nor inspired about Continental Drift.
2.0
Well just do the humane thing and stop making more Ice Age movies.Its the wafer thin premise in Continental Drift that has led me to this conclusion.
The Film Pie
1.0
The new cast members try to bring a little life to this tired material but they cant save a franchise frozen out of all creative thought.
Hollywood Chicago
1.8
the children of the world all the clichs that they will rapidly come to despise over the course of the following decades.
Crave Online
2.5
The pervasive problem throughout is that there just isnt much effort taken to the move the characters on, and given the depressing lack of laughs, thi ..
What Culture
2.0
The action scenes are fun and inventive, even if all of Ice Age: Continental Drift seems awfully familiar.
Scene Stealers
2.0
The swashbuckling stuff is boisterous, if dated, and proves far more engaging than a tedious sub plot involving Mannys rebellious teenage daughter.
What So
1.5
this latest instalment feels like a rudderless ship of ice floating in tropical waters.
Film 4
2.0
Just sort of sits on the screen, going through the motions for 90 minutes or so. Its neither good nor bad and, unless you are under the age of 8, youl ..
Bowling Green Daily News
3.0
You dont go to the fourth installment of a kiddie movie with great expectations, but Ice Age: Continental Drift is bound to amuse the smallfry for who ..
Jam! Movies
2.5
This is simply the case of a series that has fully run its course without anywhere left to go.
2.5
Its a breezy 90 minutes, and there are some funny moments.If you like the series, youll enjoy this movie.
Fat Guys At The Movies
3.0
Anyone who has ever enjoyed so much as a guilty giggle from watching the cartoonish antics of The Three Stooges as they eye poke, head slap and gut pu ..
Tiny Url
1.0
Continental Drift relies on Ice Ages recurring gags more than ever, and despite trying to play up the emotional angle, everything just feels tired.
Fan The Fire Magazine
2.0
The franchise is just going through the motions at this point, and even the animation feels by the numbers.(The Ice Age movies are not known for their ..
Entertainment Time
4.0
Finally one thats fun. Speaking of fun, why dont the producers give Scrat his own movie
Tri City Herald
4.0
In this day of BIGGER and BETTER, 3D is pretty much standard on films like this.It doesnt really add much to the story here.
Media Mikes
3.8
More solid, at least, than the ice on which its characters float, Ice Age: Continental Drift is a fun fourth installment of the popular franchise that ..
Qc Times
1.5
Fossilized in a syrupy, always stick by your family and friends formula. Scrat provides the only constant humour. The surrealism and manic slapstick t ..
Vue Weekly
3.0
The original film was amiable prehistoric fun though with sharp slapstick and deft one liners.
Honey Cutts Hollywood
4.0
Even the mandatory lessons in friendship and family values dont hold it back.
Sky
1.5
These films are generally good at being good enough, and the fourth installment, Ice Age: Continental Drift, doesnt deviate from that modest tradition ..
Film.com
2.5
It all would have been more enjoyable without all the treacle and pandering.
MSN Movies
2.0
Gutt (Peter Dinklage) and Sids granny (Wanda Sykes) are welcome additions to the cast, adding vitality and flavor to a cast whose conflicts have subsi ..
Movie Mom
2.0
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Movie Line
2.0
It doesnt help that Manny, Diego and Sid are among the most boring characters to lead a franchise in recent times.
Standard Net Au
3.0
A solid performer, keeping its target audience in its sights much more firmly than many of its big studio contemporaries.
The Mercury
2.5
The beautiful animation and wonderful character design continue to impress, but the seafaring action is sunk by sub sitcom level lessons about family ..
Gomemphis
3.0
A hollow simulation of what fun for the whole family looks and sounds like.
Reel Times: Reflections on ..
2.0
The sight of so many name performers lining up to score a quick buck is positively depressing.
Mania.com
4.0
It might be less subtle and relying heavily on formula, but Continental Drift is not only faster and funnier than its predecessors but it has also los ..
Birmingham Mail
3.0
The first Ice Age is still the best, but as fabricated and Saturday morning as this installment is, its still an accomplished bit of animated filmmaki ..
Movie Metropolis
3.0
More like a Happy Meal than a movie...another serving of exactly the same product that millions of families have been served before and will come back ..
Nc Register
4.0
Dont go expecting too much and youll enjoy it well enough and no doubt return for number five, when well probably be meeting aliens or cowboys.
2.5
Savages isnt a bad film, but it doesnt come close to matching the best of what Stone has given us in the past.
Atlantic City Weekly
2.5
The movie may not a Jurassic classic, but as a respite from those dry as a dinosaur bone days of summer, this family entertainment isnt all that beast ..
2.5
How many times do they need to reassert the message that family comes first and friends are forever
Toronto Star
3.0
Contains more than enough high energy hi jinks to keep distractible kiddies entertained.
Moviedex
2.0
The plot ... just gets a little repetitious after a while, however goofy, accident prone but genuinely good natured the characters are.
Real.com
3.8
I really wasnt expecting much, and lets be honest, these movies will never be mistaken for a Pixar type movie, but you know what I had a surprisingly ..
Jeffrey Manderson Blog Spo ..
4.0
Not much of a drift away from what has been done before, Ice Age 4 remains on its initial solid ground.
MovieFIX
3.0
Unless you under the age of 10, theres very little youll love in the latest Ice Age film.
College Movie Review
1.5
Here the franchise that recycles other kids movies recycles itself.
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