Blog:Marxo on the trailer for The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild

Today, I took a good look at the trailer for the upcoming Ice Age spinoff movie and I gotta say… I am not too impressed with what I saw. The first thing I noticed was the animation. My god was it a step down from the movies, and its juxtaposition against actual footage from the movies only made it stick out more. The movements are stiff and look like something out of The Penguins of Madagascar (not implying the show is bad, which it isn't), whose animation hasn't aged well. The next thing I will note is the voice acting. From what I found, the only actor reprising their role from the movies is Simon Pegg as Buck (part of me thinks that most of the budget went to getting Pegg on board). As for the replacement actors, I will list my favorite and my least favorite of them. My most favorite was Manny's replacement Sean Kenin, who I thought managed to sound a lot like Ray Romano. My least favorite was whoever replaced John Leguizamo as Sid. Aside from the lisp, the fact that his voice sounded a bit higher than it was in the movies was off-putting to me. Now onto the writing. I will admit that the premise of a Buck-centric story is promising. Indeed the trailer displayed some scenarios that seemed to be going somewhere interesting, such as the campfire scene. However, something that concerns me is the pacing. I am aware that this was originally supposed to be a mini-series rather than a movie, and the shift to the latter makes me think that the movie is just going to be a series of episodes combined into a movie like some of Disney's DTV fare.

That's all I have to say. Only time will tell if this the movie is actually any good or not.

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