Usually, I go into seeing a kid’s movie with an expected level of chaos.
That chaos can encompass everything from sing-a-longs and dance numbers to wild colors and the occasional fart joke.
But, overall, they mostly contribute to the basic storyline of the film.
This installment of the “Ice Age” series quickly descends into madness and stops being funny because of such failure.
And that’s coming from someone who honestly enjoyed the other films.
If you’ve got children, then this should work well enough to keep them entertained!
Fellow adults, I just have to commend you for enduring this film when and if you do see it.
The “Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild” is a computer-animated adventure comedy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and is a spin-off of the Ice Age franchise as well as a standalone sequel to “Ice Age: Collision Course” (2016).
It is directed by John C. Donkin in his feature directorial debut with a screenplay by Jim Hecht, Ray DeLaurentis, and William Schifrin.
The film stars the voices of Simon Pegg reprising his role as Buck Wild with the voices of Vincent Tong, Aaron Harris, Utkarsh Ambudkar, and Justina Machado also starring in the film.
The movie is 82 minutes long and rated PG for some action and mild language.
Concerned about the two possums Crash (Tong) and Eddie (Harris); Ellie (Jennings), their woolly mammoth sister, calls for them, but they refuse to listen, calling themselves independent possums.
They accidentally cause an avalanche and destroy the gang’s summer home.
Manny (Kenin) tells Crash and Eddie off for their recklessness and irresponsibility, with him and the rest of the herd declaring they would not survive on their own.
Wanting to prove them wrong, Crash and Eddie sneak out and leave the new camp.
Finding Crash and Eddie gone the next day, Ellie insists that they leave to go find them.
Crash and Eddie stumble upon the entrance to the Lost World, a land full of dinosaurs, and quickly get in trouble with two raptors trying to eat them.
Breaking away, they run into Buck Wild (Pegg), who helps them escape and tells them that a Protoceratops named Orson (Ambudkar), who was bullied when he was young for having a massive brain, has escaped from exile and has come to conquer over the Lost World.
Buck tries to get Crash and Eddie back to their home above ground but finds out that a huge boulder is covering the entrance to the Lost World.
Then Orson appears and says that he sealed the exit and reveals his plan to take over the Lost World himself.
Buck and the possums escape and go to Buck’s hideout, where Buck explains how he used to be part of an old squad that established the watering hole for animals to peacefully co-exist.
He goes on to say that Orson did not accept to join his squad because he believed in a world where the strong dominate the weak with him being the leader of them all.
Buck further explains that because his squad stood in Orson’s way, the latter tried to get rid of them, but they defeated him, banishing him to exile on Lava Island.
However, that’s not all to Orson’s tale and the mammal gang spends plenty of effort fighting and running from Orson and his lackey raptors.
Buck Wild is available for stream viewing on Disney+, but, I’d definitely not put much stock in enjoying this flick unless you just need background noise for something else.
