Ice Age: Collision Course See it from15 July
T
he only thing prehistoric about
the Ice Age franchise is its setting.
Everything else – from the snappy
dialogue to the wonderful, gamefor-anything cast to the incredible animation
– is as up-to-the-minute as it gets.
Ice Age: Collision Course is the perfect case
in point. Hurtling into ODEON cinemas on
Friday 15 July, this fifth film in the series is
loaded with hilarious modern references,
features Adam DeVine (Pitch Perfect), Simon
Pegg (Star Trek Beyond), Queen Latifah
(Miracles from Heaven) and Melissa Rauch
(TV’s The Big Bang Theory) among its
supporting cast, and is eye-poppingly
state-of-the-art to look at. Not bad for a film
series at least 12,000 years in the making!
Brace for Impact
As with our sub-zero heroes’ previous outings,
Collision Course is set at the end of the
most recent ice age and sees loveable woolly
mammoth Manny (Ray Romano – TV’s
Everybody Loves Raymond), hapless ground
sloth Sid (John Leguizamo – Sisters) and
world-weary saber tooth tiger Diego (Denis
Leary – Freaks of Nature) reteaming for
their craziest adventure yet.
The fun begins when tiny saber tooth
squirrel Scrat, whose exploits have topped
and tailed every Ice Age film to date, pursues
his beloved acorn into space (by way of
a futuristic spaceship! – nope, we don’t
quite understand the timeline either).
Once there, Scrat accidentally sets off a series
of catastrophic cosmic events that culminate,
as Pegg’s amusing one-eyed weasel Buck
puts it, with “the mother of all asteroids
streaming towards us”. Oops!
To save themselves and their families,
the squabbling
trio embark on
a quest to stop
the gigantic,
potentially worldending fireball
from reaching Earth,
in the process
reteaming with
some familiar
faces and meeting
some cool new
friends, too.
“I cannot wait for
you guys to see
the film. Yes!
Exciting times”
– Jessie J (Brooke)
Bend and Stretch
Joining the herd for this fifth instalment is
Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s master of meditation,
the Shangri Llama, a yoga-loving beast
who rules a bizarre utopian village known
as Geotopia.
“Me being someone
who can barely
look at my toes
without feeling an
incredible stretch,
I envy him for his
limber nature,” said
the Modern Family
star of his flexible
alter-ego in a recent
interview with USA
Today. “He’s sort of
that yoga teacher who
can do anything and
tells you that you
should go at your own
pace but will show you up in front of the class.”
Also gearing up for the (possible) end
of the world is Jessie J. The ‘Price Tag’ and
‘Do it Like a Dude’ singer plays Brooke,
a female ground sloth who also resides in
Geotopia, and – you ‘herd’ it here first
– becomes Sid’s girlfriend. Go Sid!
“I cannot wait for you
guys to see the film. Yes!
Exciting times,” Jessie
told her legion of fans
via the multinational
video hosting service, Vevo.
With all our old favourites
returning (look out for Jennifer
Lopez as Shira) and a host
of exciting new characters to
meet, we can’t wait for this
one to (crash) land either.
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