The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild
Disney should have let this property go extinct
The sixth feature film in the wildly popular Ice Age franchise (with a seventh film already announced by Disney), there’s no doubt that The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild has a built-in audience. But while little viewers may find the silly antics of Crash and Eddie enthralling, anyone older than 8 will likely be praying for an extinction-level event.
The movie is clearly produced for TV—using the standard television broadcast ratio instead of the cinematic—with the budget cuts to show for it. Pegg is the only member of the original cast to return, and most of the voicework is listless. The animation was also produced on a shoestring. Blue Sky Studios, who animated the films until this point, closed and Disney is not willing to shell out any of that Mouse Money to make backgrounds look good or textures seamless. The animation on an average episode of Paw Patrol looks better, and it’s a shame that this latest film looks worse than the first film, which came out 20 years ago.
