Ice Age: Continental Drift Reviews
We Got This Covered
There have been far worse children's films than Ice Age: Continental Drift, even this year, but few that make me so depressed about Hollywood's utter contempt for young moviegoers.
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| Original Score: 2/10
Examiner.com
This is simply the case of a series that has fully run its course without anywhere left to go.
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| Original Score: 2/4
CraveOnline
[Teaches] the children of the world all the clichés that they will rapidly come to despise over the course of the following decades.
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| Original Score: 3.5/10
Irish Times
Pious as well as unimaginative, Continental Drift sets out to teach kids lessons about not trying too hard to get in with the cool crowd.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Trespass
Nothing more than a paint-by-numbers, cast-fuelled continuation of an uninspiring animated series.
Movies.com
Let's make this one extinct.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Not to beat a dead woolly mammoth here or anything, but the Ice Age movies are all pretty much interchangeable.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
What Culture
The wit and charm of the series' earlier entries, and much of their visual splendour, appears to have evaporated.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Real.com
The plot ... just gets a little repetitious after a while, however goofy, accident-prone but genuinely good natured the characters are.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The Standard
It doesn't help that Manny, Diego and Sid are among the most boring characters to lead a franchise in recent times.
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| Original Score: 2/5
ABC Radio Brisbane
I hate to be the one to break it to everyone... but it's time these animals were put to sleep.
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| Original Score: C+
Las Vegas Weekly
Will distract kids and won't unduly inconvenience adults.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
AV Club
Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that's already been settled.
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| Original Score: C+
Fan The Fire
Apparently Fox are making a fifth, and people wonder what's pushing originality out of Hollywood.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Top CriticThe characters are manic and idiotic, the dialogue is rat-a-tat chatter, the action is entirely at the service of the 3-D, and the movie depends on bright colors, lots of noise and a few songs in between the whiplash moments.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The nothing-special Ice Age: Continental Drift is the library paste of movies -- smooth and flavorless, kids eagerly consume it despite its total lack of nutritional value.
It's not very funny, but your kids might like it. For the record.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Times-Picayune
At the rate things devolving, we can expect Ice Age 10 to be little more than a feature-length flip book.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Boston Phoenix
You've seen it all before.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Doddle
The movie may not a Jurassic classic, but as a respite from those dry-as-a-dinosaur-bone days of summer, this family entertainment isn't all that beastly.
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| Original Score: 5/10
