Lifestyle: Ice Age 4: Continental Drift Movie Review

In this film, Scrat, the world's most lovable prehistoric squirrel-rat was the guilty party responsible for continental drift. It's about an acorn he set on the ground and suddenly a mountain is torn apart and the earth itself opens up, separating land masses into the seven continents. As Scrat hurtles toward the earth's core like in a pin ball game, trigerring massive earthquakes, which in turn isolates Manny the grouchy mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano), Diego the soft-hearted sabre-tooth tiger (voiced by Denis Leary) and Sid the idiotic sloth (voiced by John Leguizamo) are cast adrift on an iceberg with Sid’s senile but resourceful granny. 

Added to the cast was a feline love interest for Diego voiced by Jennifer Lopez.. Manny's beloved wife Ellie was voiced by Queen Latifa and their teenaged daughter Peaches (who was introduced in 2009's "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and is voiced by music actress Keke Palmer).

The characters  encounter big waves, bad pirates and treacherous sirens before reuniting with Manny’s family. These are not the funniest or most interesting characters, but there’s enough humour and danger to make this the second-best of the series, after the initial Ice Age.

This number four in the series is formulaic and feels factory-made rather than a labour of love. The other three were absolute GEMS for me. I think it's going too far with a great thing and dead ending it each time. For me, it should have stopped after 3. It's an all welcome in a kid's film. Happy, wholesome and colourful.
The film will keep most children aged from five to 11 thoroughly entertained. :)

My niece gave the film 4**** out of 5 stars and I respect that!