Ice Age fans will be happy to see some of their favorite characters on screen even though Manfred, Ellie, Diego, and Sid only bookend the movie, it’s nice to see them briefly. But as an old pal of Buck’s, she’s not so straitlaced she can’t have fun and cause a little trouble. The new addition to the movie, Zee, slides in nicely as the trio’s more mature counterpart who keeps things moving. Both had potential on their own, but combining them in this way didn’t quite seem to do justice to either arc.īut hey, this is a kids’ movie, right? The real question should be… will kids enjoy it?īuck, Crash, and Eddie are all fun characters. If it’s Buck’s movie (as the title would suggest), why is he missing from a good third of it? If it’s Crash and Eddie’s movie, why are they relegated to background roles for most of the middle of the story? It feels a bit like two different ideas for Ice Age shorts stitched together into one movie. Instead, we end the movie with Crash and Eddie reuniting with their mammoth/sabertooth/sloth family. But then when the day is saved and things wrap up, we don’t get much of a conclusion to Buck’s story. There are parts where Crash and Eddie seem to disappear as Buck and Z make plans and take action. The movie turns into a quest to save the Lost World, and focuses on unraveling Buck’s past through his relationship to a new character, Z (voiced by Justina Machado). Suddenly the story is following Buck as the lead, with Crash and Eddie as his sidekicks. Then their arrival in the Lost World leads them to reunite with Buck Wild. They’re the movie’s main protagonists for the first 20-something minutes. The movie opens with a strict focus on Crash and Eddie, as they leave behind their lives with Manfred and the gang. The set up and the way the plot plays out in Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wildfeels a little off.

Ice age: the adventures of buck wild