The story is too much of a mess for anybody with a developed brain. It's only saving grace may be its brightly-colored wackiness which may delight the youngest crowd. If they want to go into space, why not have aliens take the whole gang and have some fun with that.
The squirrel is still the funniest part of the movie. This goes way too far and makes less sense than anything from before. The Ice Age franchise has always played fast and loose with facts and reality.
The gang sets off to stop the forewarn catastrophe opposed by a family of dino-birds. Buck the weasel explains a prophecy set in stone about an asteroid destroying the world. It's Manny and Ellie's anniversary when some of the asteroids start crashing onto the ground. Back on the ground, Peaches and Julian want to get married. He accidentally flies into space and sets asteroids on a collision course with earth.
Scrat's hunt for the acorn leads him into a spaceship buried in the ice. The animation is fantastic and there are definitely some good moments, but the tiredness of the material and the story bloating hurts it quite severely. All in all, disappointing and definitely feels even more of a sequel too far than 'Continental Drift'. The script has some witty moments, but is too hit-and-miss and stop-start, the laughs coming too far and between and the best moments don't come to the level of the franchise's very best moments. Sid is very annoying this time round, and as said the antagonists felt thrown in for the sake of "needing" obligatory" antagonists and were underwritten, non-threatening, barely interesting and basically completely unnecessary with their motivations dealt with in a very generic and self-aware way. Diego isn't in it enough though does just fine when he's there and is still a lot of fun, and Manny is pretty dull. But also the characters, it does feel like there are too many in the film, with too many of them also having barely any screen time, and the only really interesting ones are Buck, Scrat and Ellie. The whole Manny trying to come to terms with his daughter planning to move away is completely lost amidst everything else and that could have brought some heart to the film, Sid's romance is rushed and painfully contrived and really there was really no need for the antagonists. Not just the story, which is pretty all-over-the-place, with too much that is rushed and like too much is going on with potentially great plot strands not being developed enough or given short shrift. However, 'Collision Course' suffers from being over-stuffed, over-complicated and bloated. Scrat and Buck, making a welcome return, are scene-stealing characters, Diego is fun enough if not as showy or with as much to do and Ellie provides some sincerity and heart, her scene with Manny providing a rare note of realism to the film. The voice acting is still very good, the most enthusiastic coming from Simon Pegg. While the laughs do not come consistently, there are definitely moments and they come from Scrat (especially the opening scene, which is the funniest scene in the film), who's had more inspired material but the facial expressions, physical comedy and the visuals in general help stop making Scrat too much of a tiresome one-joke character, and with Buck when re-introduced. The soundtrack is catchy, upbeat and whimsical, with an inspired riff on Figaro with Buck's playful re-introduction. For me, especially in the space scenes with Scrat and with Buck it is the best-looking film in the franchise, there is so much eye-popping detail, the characters move easily and look more refined and one really cannot get enough of the vibrant, rich colours. The best thing about 'Collision Course' is the animation, which is fantastic and the one thing that has improved greatly over-time. 'Collision Course' is not a terrible film but this reviewer found it a huge disappointment. If one thought that 'Continental Drift' was a sequel too far, while there are still good things here 'Collision Course' does feel like the writers were trying to keep things afloat by putting in as much mileage and material as possible but it all feels like a try-too-hard effort. 'Dawn of the Dinosaurs' was still entertaining though, but while 'Continental Drift' had its great things (like Captain Gutt) it did feel like a sequel too far. Having really enjoyed the first two 'Ice Age' films, the other three films in the franchise weren't as good.
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