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There is far too little that’s fresh in Ice Age 4
Get the dope on Hollywood’s latest release, Ice Age: Continental Drift 3D from the world’s best critics. Here is what they have to say about the animated adventure.
Film: Ice Age: Continental Drift 3D
Voices: Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo and Queen Latifah
Director: Steve Martino, Michael Thurmeier
Synopsis: A continental cataclysm triggers the greatest adventure of all for Manny, Diego and Sid.
Releasing: July 27
Average Rating: 4/10
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert: The characters are manic and idiotic, the dialogues are rat-a-tat chatter, the action is entirely at the service of the 3-D, and the movie depends solely on bright colours, lots of noise and a few songs in between the whiplash moments.
USA Today
Claudia Puig: This fourth installment featuring the animated, prehistoric critters is aimless and derivative. While the first Ice Age movie in 2002 was inventive and cute, there’s far too little here that’s fresh.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire: The filmmakers stuff the film to a manic degree, albeit with increasingly textured animation.
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey : The dialogues are sometimes too sluggish and definitely too preachy, the ending is a little too sappy, yet somehow this strange collection of prehistoric critters and their completely illogical life are consistently likable, if not quite lovable.
