About the fourth time someone makes a false move and ends up sliding down an enormous icy slope as though on a roller coaster, I checked my watch and the movie was still only 20 minutes old. But the international nature of the property, for that is what it is, means a bias toward dull, simple slapstick (or, in the case of the squirrel Scrat, the ever-hopeful pursuer of acorns, scratstick). The quality of the series is fairly con-sistent, and the last episode brought in $900 million worldwide. His fellow scurvy buccaneers are given nothing to do except be background idiots. Also, the ape’s hair, which is supposed to resemble a pirate-y tricorn hat, looks more like a mortarboard, leaving an impression of a slightly weird math professor from Oxford instead of a dangerous maniac. The leader is a homicidal giant ape voiced, in a bit of puckishness that will be lost on the kids, by subcompact-size actor Peter Dinklage.ĭinklage gives it his all, but his voice isn’t all that interesting (and that of Jennifer Lopez, as Diego’s love interest, is utterly bland). Mildly more diverting is the main story, in which Manny and friends run into a gang of pirates commanding an iceberg like a ship. Peaches and her crew get stuck in a dull subplot that amounts to her chatting with her friends and mildly offending one of them.
Sykes has a funny voice, but Granny is just a sassy-talking comedy cliché who would be right at home in a Madea movie. She’s dirty of mind as well as body (when she takes a swim in the ocean, an oil slick of her corporal juices forms around her).
Joining Manny on his ice raft are Diego (Denis Leary) the saber-toothed tiger, Sid (John Leguizamo) the neurotic sloth, and a new character, Sid’s ratty granny (Wanda Sykes). Just after wishing she didn’t have a dad, she doesn’t, as she and her mom, Ellie (Queen Latifah), watch Manny drift away/escape from them on an ice floe that breaks off and floats out to sea. In the fourth installment of the comedy series that is mainly loved by countries that aren’t very funny (Denmark, Austria, Russia), Manny the mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano) frets about his teen daughter Peaches (Keke Palmer) as she tries to arrange a date with a boy mammoth (Drake). Carbon-dating techniques peg its inspiration to approximately 2006, when movies about pirates and Tyler Perry still seemed relatively new. “Ice Age: Continental Drift” does accurately convey a sense of prehistoric times. Diego (left, voiced by Denis Leary) and Shira (Jennifer Lopez) are in love in the fourth “Ice Age.”
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