That essentially leaves Diego as the only original character without kin, though the film soon remedies that situation by introducing a love interest in the form of Shira (Lopez), a silver saber-toothed tigress the group encounters at sea. Stranded on a block of ice sent drifting out to sea, the trio is joined by Granny ( Wanda Sykes), the wisecracking elder stateswoman of Sid’s long-lost family, which reappears just long enough to unload the toothless old lady into Sid’s care. The principal change since the first “ Ice Age” outing has been the shift from an honorary family composed of misfit friends Manny (voiced by Ray Romano), Diego (Denis Leary) and Sid (John Leguizamo) to the real thing, now that Manny and Ellie (Queen Latifah) have a daughter, Peaches ( Keke Palmer), who’s old enough to start thinking about boys.īefore her crush can progress to the dating stage, a massive earthquake separates Manny and his original “Ice Age” mates from the rest of his woolly mammoth clan, creating an all-too-common kidpic situation in which life-threatening events teach an overly protective parent to chill out. Recycling seems to be the spirit of the day, seeing as how this motley ensemble of characters has slipped into an almost sitcom-like mold with each new sequel feeling more like an extra-long Looney Tunes cartoon than a fully developed feature. Kids will recognize (but probably won’t mind) the repetition of the frazzled rodent’s opening-comedy routine from an earlier self-standing short, “Scrat’s Continental Crack-up,” which Fox attached to “Gulliver’s Travels” in 2010, while a later lost-at-sea vignette repeats a short shown before “Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked.” As per usual, pic opens with Scrat, as the saber-toothed squirrel’s quest for the elusive acorn splits the ice, then the continents and eventually Manny’s family.
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