![]() Even with a story as paint-by-numbers as this, it should be possible to inject a little life into the proceedings. It’s more than a little astounding how awful the writing has become. Kids don’t need science! That’s for people we’re interested in educating. Never mind that Pangea split 200,000,000 years ago, the titular Ice Age depicted in these films occurred 20,000 years ago, and the continental divide took tens of millions of years to complete. So an incredibly dull story is cobbled together about main characters Manny, Diego, and Sid being separated from their friends and family by the rapid splitting of Earth’s Continents. Its only concern is what parents are willing to pay, and once the tickets are paid for, the quality of the film is a non-issue. I believe children deserve so much more.īut Continental Drift is indifferent towards what children deserve. The most a child could possibly gain from watching this film is a few cheap chuckles aimed at a goofy squirrel. No lessons, no insight, no substance whatsoever. ![]() It has nothing to offer children or their parents but a bland story, recycled character beats, bored humor, and inflated 3D ticket prices. There is no artistic reason, by any stretch of the most overactive imagination, for this film to exist. It was produced for the sole purpose of hitting a lucrative release date and filling the studio’s coffers with the money of hard-working families. ![]() ![]() I imagine the digital artists put a good deal of work into the film’s admittedly complex animation, but other than that, it appears no effort whatsoever has gone into the making of this four-quel. This is the attitude behind Continental Drift, and it is an unsettling one. ![]()
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