The duo feels stifled living with their adopted mammoth sister Ellie (Dominique Jennings, replacing Queen Latifah) and so set off to live on their own. The Cliff’s Notes close with a shift in focus from Manny the Mammoth (Sean Kenin Elias-Reyes, replacing Ray Romano) onto supporting characters Crash (Vincent Tong, replacing Seann William Scott) and Eddie (Aaron Harris, replacing Josh Peck), a pair of rambunctious possum brothers. That grim opening shifts into a cave art-inspired hand-drawn recap of the previous Ice Age pictures, one that invokes the style of a key sequence from the original film. These adventures get off to a dispiriting start when they open on a Walt Disney Pictures logo, denying Blue Sky Studios- the now-defunct creators of the Ice Age series-any credit for work that was at both its worst and its best theirs. But rather than, say, exciting discoveries about the lives and times of woolly mammoths, all that the excavation of Ice Age has resulted in is another crummy movie: The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild. Ice Age’s creativity melted away so long ago that it may as well have vanished at the end of the actual Pleistocene. The series’ diminishing returns culminated in 2016’s disastrous Ice Age: Collision Course, a picture that made the name Ice Age synonymous with “empty cash grab.” And yet, as paleontologists do, Disney’s gone to dig it up.

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