The Acorn that doomed Earth

The Acorn that doomed Earth

            Now you would think all animals have to deal with is finding their next meal and sniffing each other butts, well not in this 20th Century Fox production. In the movie Ice Age Collision Course marriage and relationships are not the only thing the main characters have to deal with. What really happened to extinction of the mammoth or the sloth or even the saber tooth tiger? Now you never would guess what this children's comedy portrays as the potential extinction of these playful, crazy and wild animals that once roamed the place we sit and sip on our Starbucks pumpkin spice latte.

Just when you thought 20th Century Fox couldn’t make another Ice age movie, you were wrong! The new movie they have created is called Ice Age: Collision Course, staring all the original characters-- Scrat, Manny, Diego, and Sid. The film begins of course with Scrat trying to bury the famous acorn, when suddenly he activates a hidden alien ship. As Scrat is up in space he initiates an unwillingly asteroid strike headed directly toward earth, which is referenced as the “Collision Course.” Putting all of it aside Manny, Diego, and Sid seem to be having problems of their own. You would never guess that animals in the prehistoric time would have wedding days, thoughts about future family, and the things that we humans dread to deal with, the horrible thing we call “the breakup.” As we meet a new character Buck, a one eyed, dinosaur hunter, adventurer seeking weasel, warns them about the asteroids and explains that these asteroids have taken out past animals and that they should travel to these past sites to find out how to stay safe. This PG movie is yet another spoof on what really happened with the real extinction of the prehistoric animals. If you want to watch the trailer click here

A National Geographic article claims that  “More than 90 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on earth are extinct” (“Mass Extinction”). While new species have been created/developed to compensate for the changes. Scientist say that the mass extinction of these organisms is still one of those “unsolved mysteries” (“Mass Extinction”). An unsolved mystery that schools have seemed to discover because all schools seem to teach that prehistoric animals/organisms were destroyed due to volcano destruction and asteroids crashing into earth. The one thing that some scientist do believe that was stated in the article was “Massive floods of lava erupting from the central Atlantic magmatic province…. about Triassic-Jurassic extinction” (“Mass Extinction”). Scientist believe that with this “die off of animals” it is one of the biggest die offs that this world will ever see (“Mass Extinction”). Now a question that we must ask ourselves, did 20th Century Fox really just discover what the potential cause of the animal die off before the big named scientist did?

Fox productions was thrilled by the advancements in technology and famous stars that were up and coming in our society. As years went by, and technology advanced, and several movies later, Fox seemed to truly make a name for himself and have his place. The goals for Fox was again to always make people feel something. He broke his movies down into three categories to help people be able to distinguish the creation of movies. Modern Classics, including everyone's scientific fiction favorite Star Wars, was one of Fox’s greatest accomplishments. Movies that Matter is a section that speaks for itself, with films such as, Life of PI, Titanic, and recently Fault In Our Stars. The last section is “The Future” ("Over 75 Years of Filmmaking History"), one of the most thrilling and exciting sections that people seem to enjoy in many different aspects. Fox believes that the future of production and technology is very important in entertaining people. They strive to stay ahead of each new technological outbreak and make sure their audience enjoys each aspect of their film. As Fox says they believe in making sure their audience remains happy and enjoys their movies, they for sure had a big miss with their recent Ice Age movie.

Now don’t get me wrong, 20th Century Fox has made some amazing thrillers that I could watch more than a hundreds of times. But this movie, is one of the most scientifically inaccurate unenjoyable movies of our time. I could only describe this movie as Ice Age the Collision Course with bad jokes, lame entertainment, and a waste of the seven dollars I payed for my ticket into the movie and the twelve dollars I payed for cheap snacks. Fox has made four Ice Age movies up until this point and each one has had a significant amount of money and brought hundreds of thousands of millions of families packed into a movie theater with popcorn and their sugar infested drinks. But, this Ice Age series was four too many for this generation. Being a 90s kid I grew up watching these Blockbuster thrillers and animated phenomenon, and I couldn’t say in a nicer way that this movie was truly just a waste of time due to the identical plot as the last 3 movies.

After seeing the first Ice Age as a 5-year-old seeing how the characters seemed to know what would make me laugh, and how I couldn’t seem to take my eyes of the screen as Sid did another embarrassing and crazy thing, as Manny played the dad role for the many other animals in the movie, and Diego tried to control his tiger like instincts and not to eat any of the animals. Ice Age: Collision course was nothing more than a similar plot with different scenarios and the addition of characters that try too hard to make the audience laugh. Now don’t get me wrong the animation put into this movie was well done and sure outdid previous movies. Other than the animation, the film truly didn’t add anything more to the animation genre that 20th Century Fox has dominated for years and will dominate in the future. The one thing that I can say is that my walk to the bathroom halfway through the movie was slightly more interesting due to the fact I found a quarter next to the sink.

If you feel the need to go see a movie at the movie theater in the next couple days and you have no possible idea of what movie to see. Do not ask the front desk person what movie you should see. Unless you specify that you want to see a movie that will completely waste 80 mins of your time. Instead you might as well go do something that is a hundred times more interesting. For example, go home and paint a wall and watch it dry. Because truly and honestly that would be more interested than this subpar movie. And to just add on to the end of this review they have just released that they talking about making a sixth movie which makes no sense, because how many different endings does prehistoric time really need?

Work Cited

Society, National Geographic. "Mass Extinction, Mass Die-Off Information, Prehistoric Facts -- National Geographic." National Geographic. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Sept. 2016.

“Over 75 years of filmmaking history.” 30 Sept. 2016. Web. 25 Sept. 2016.