they should not have made five ice age movies

ice age 5: collision course (2016) is a pretty bad movie.
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I’ve seen too much content from Mikes Mic, Sarah Z, Jenny Nicholson and more to NOT make my own and go in-depth on a move franchise dear to my heart that went fully off the rails: Ice Age. Yes, I am bringing you a video essay about Sid the Sloth and Diego and Manny and so many weasels and many. Many. More characters. Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild just released but I just don't think I'm going to watch it, to be honest. Ice Age: Collision Course was enough. We can pretend it was the last one.
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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:02:04 - Ice Age (2002)
00:17:07 - There Are Five (6) Ice Age Movies
00:18:34 - The Cast of Ice Age 5
00:24:33 - Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
01:12:38 - Closing Thoughts
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[@Kunstner1004]

Despite the first movie literally being about saving a human baby, I keep forgetting that humans exist in the Ice Age universe

[@Butchcavalier]

don't worry, so did the writers

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

​@@Butchcavalier Frankly I'm not convinced the writers didnt just totally forget that it's supposed to be earth and not a croods/Primal fantastical alternate universe.

[@Moneymaker864]

Good point actually. What did ever happen to those human things? Unless we are too assume that they all just died.

[@laurensahanna5826]

​@@Moneymaker864realistically they'd have died during continental drift

[@jorymo4964]

I also forgot that Manny had a dead wife and kid before the first movie

[@PossiblyPossessed]

the fact all of the jokes you pointed out being actually funny where visual gags just means that the funniest people working on this movie where the animators

[@RatOfTheWoods]

& presumably any storyboarders

[@lux2736]

Visual gags are in the script

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

Do you not know that visual gags are in the script? do you seriously think that the animators just make that shit up without anyone telling them to do that?

[@PossiblyPossessed]

@@joshuasgameplays9850 alot of the time stand alone visual gags are put in by storyboard artists or animation directors (it's literally part of why they get hired)

[@ShermTank7272]

*were, not where

[@bigbadgammagnome]

fun fact! the reason why Diego's return comes so out of nowhere in the first movie is because originally he WAS supposed to die and stay dead! however, they found test audiences didn't like that, I think it genuinely upset some kids to the point where they felt it was too sad, so added in that bit at the end where he's okay.

[@gemstone71552]

As a kid I was so proud that I knew he didn't actually die because the trailer played his "Nine lives baby!" line at the point of his "death" I was like "but the line, we haven't seen it yet!"

[@anni1348]

I'm glad they didn't let Diego die. The story wouldn't work without him, he brings some sense of reason and calmness into this messy group, with Sid the clumsy kinda dumb sloth and Manny the grumpy stubborn mammoth. Diego balances this chaotic group out, the sequels wouldn't work without him. Although they clearly didn't know what to do with his arc in the second and third movie.

[@UncleFlutus]

I am laughing so hard over the fact the herd didn’t have a plan to avoid the asteroid so they were just gonna walk towards it and voluntarily kill themselves until Buck got another plan

[@raccoonsandys3038]

To be fair to them, if there was an asteroid headed to earth I’d also go to the crash sight and watch it hit

[@Danny_Ko]

Nah you just gotta jump at the right time to avoid the impact

[@metarr]

You know, I'm not sure if this movie had enough comic relief characters.

[@cleothehermetichermeticist8391]

Yeah, I get the feeling we don’t really have enough comic relief in this cast.

[@riv3rw4ter]

really could've used more, if only.

[@Giga-lemesh]

😂

[@WisdomCritFail]

someone really looked at that one charming kids movie about found family and went "now that we've spent a whole movie bringing these characters together into a family unit, what if we made more of these movies but also separated all of the main characters into monogamous heterosexual Christian relationships"

[@somnodaur8064]

family?? Without any romantic or blood ties?? Can’t be.

[@jungtothehuimang]

Wait I didn't think of it like that but omg! I always saw Syd as a kind of gay uncle type character but I only know the first film as a kid

[@pumpkin_pants3828]

ikr the entire point of the first movie was that family doesnt have to be blood and then they just... made everyone also have their own blood families

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

Before I watched the video I thought the Christian part was going to a nonliteral description to get the idea of the classical Americana nuclear family. No, actually they just have Christian weddings I guess. Cool. I'm now so curious about the religious, esoteric, and occult history of the ice age universe. "Christian" weddings assume the evolutionary path of religion is extremely similar to ours, and Carries with it the insane implication of things like Ice Age Gnostics and other early pre-orthodox branches. Which would also imply the greater Greco egyptian milieu. Now who knows how direct the parallels are, but I'm just going to say (because its it's funny to me) there is absolutely an ice age Greek Magical Papyri, complete with _The Steele of Jeu: the hieroglyphicist and his letter_ complete with like, a mammoth version of Akephalos. Praise to Mammoth Moses, Praise to Smilodon Osiris, Praise to Sabertoothed Squirrel Jesus, Sabaoth Iao, etc etc. I also choose to believe there is also a Sabertooth Crowley who modernized it into the Sabertooth Bornless Ritual and when you try to Ice Age Google the original text you only get the sabertooth bornless ritual and it's incredibly annoying Crowley get the fuck away from things I'm interested in challenge or I'll dig you up and find something to do to your bones you wont find arousing. Edit: this also means Ice Age Plato, so like Ice Age Eugenics. Also ice age hermeticism, ice age alchemy, ice age Rome... Edit 2: oh my God there's Weasel Pythagoras in Buck's sherlock mind palace? Does this imply Pythagoras is like a guy Buck invented? Or does Buck Pythagoras Weasel exist as Buck's representation of greek smart dudes because there was an actual Ice Age Pythagoras that Buck (the guy who literally only interacts with dinosaurs and lives underground) read about? Also I was joking about the religious esoterica stuff, but like, Pythagoras is just directly religious esoterica. To the point we don't know if he really existed and the Pythagoreans thought of him as a Daimon, like a nature spirit of math and thought he did all these supernatural things and like this was a crazy mystery cult with complex ideas about the world and I am going insane. Why am I thinking about this so much?

[@h.w.4482]

and? lmao

[@boredross]

The thing that bothers me the most about the focus on Manny's own family and forgetting about Sid, is that Manny was about to k*ll himself when he met Sid. Manny was on the edge of a cliff and he had his eyes closed and then Sid came running trying to escape the rinos and crashed with his leg Manny saved Sid from the Rinos and then he got away from the cliff and then the movie goes on. I believe he still wanted to do it until Sid conviced him to get the baby back with the humans because he was still trying to get away from Sid

[@raccoonsandys3038]

My child brain missed out on a lot of the darker subtext of this movie

[@mollymcdade4031]

Also it just hit me that he was near a cliff edge because the human hunters dropped rocks off a cliff to k*ll his wife and child so he wanted to go out in a similar fashion oh my god

[@nina.robbs565]

​​@@mollymcdade4031jesus christ 😭 the more I learn about the og movie, the more fucked up it is

[@silashurd3597]

@@mollymcdade4031here’s a theory: what if that cliff was the same cliff his family died near??

[@tomasalbanez1562]

I use to think Diego was only the hot tiger, but now I know he is also the right and smart tiger.

[@stanconnorstan4266]

I don’t know what’s more scary, the implications of Fall Out Boy existing prehistorically, or the fact that ice age animals somehow independently crafted musical instruments and wrote a song that’s coincidentally the exact melody and lyrics as a Fall Out Boy song

[@mikepower7419]

Plot twist: fall about boy stole the prehistoric music from the ice age animals. I'm real life. Ice age 5 is a documentary

[@SaltedRain]

holy shittt

[@Neighborhoodnugu]

Fall Out Boy literally said “you will remember me for centuries” they were dropping hints ok

[@stanm4769]

Said fob song also happens to be about the bassist from mcr, meaning mcr also has to exist prehistorically

[@charlesiiofengland3608]

@@stanm4769 while there are quite a few fob songs written about mikey, i don't think my songs is one of them.

[@scroobledooble6257]

I truly love that you call it “Ice Age 5 Collision Course 2016” every single time, but don’t do that for any other instalment in the franchise

[@Eyecyou64]

She said "Ice age 2002"

[@scroobledooble6257]

@@Eyecyou64 did she call it that every time, or just the first time?

[@MandoMast]

@@scroobledooble6257 most if not every time, yes

[@dr.archaeopteryx5512]

Scrat is fun because he wasn't based on any particular animal, just the "ancient animal with saber teeth" design convention, but scientists eventually found an extinct shrew-thing with saber teeth, Cronopio. Lived back during dinosaur times tho, but even actual dinosaurs aside it wouldn't be the only mesozoic animal in ice age, somehow

[@aterribleperson9119]

I would like to point out that your suggestion of splitting the main 3 off on their main quest while everyone else stays together in their own subplot is exactly what the 4th movie did.

[@frogwhisperer2067]

Yeah like I’m not saying the 4th movie is good or worth watching but it’s at least kind of entertaining. The animal pirates are cool and fun, even if they feel totally out of place in the world

[@eraelias]

I could watch an entire video of Haley JUST showering love onto the 1st ice age movie and gushing uncontrollably for an hour and a half.

[@im_salty4901]

The worst part about Ice Age 5 is that they added Shira in Ice Age 4 then gave her and Diego 5 minutes of screen time. They were the only reason I even watched the movie to be honest.

[@darthmeticulous6901]

It’s true that she was wasted. Shira went through an arc similar to Diego in the 1st film while the 4th film slowly built up their relationship. I recall really liking her in the 4th film… only for her to be barely in the film. At least Diego had more films prior to Collision Course. The worst part of Collision Course to me wasn’t that Shira was wasted. It wasn’t Julian coming in out of nowhere when he should have been introduced in the 4th film. It wasn’t what was done to Manny’s character. It wasn’t what was done to Buck as a character (actually he was one of the positives to me). It wasn’t the Dino-Birds nor the Shangri Llama. It wasn’t even any of Sid’s relationship nonsense. It was what they did to Gladys, Sid’s grandma. She was so funny and likable in the 4th film, only for the 5th film to make her rarely funny and now unlikable. They took what to me was the funniest character in the 4th film and ruined her in the next one. Ouch.

[@rocklee7737]

You know. Watching this video made me realise how Manny's defensiveness about Peaches makes sense when you remember that his last family were HUNTED in front of him, and so of *course* he'd be scared of his only daughter not being able to live a safe and happy life. But because they *refused* to acknowledge or even hint at that part of his character in the movie, all his defensive/paranoid behaviours just comes across as either awkward or just straight up uncomfortable.

[@liamross340]

yeah because for some reason even though the first film really hinges on the fact humans exist, humans are erased from existence in all the sequels. you never see a human ever again you never hear about them, manny doesn’t mention his family that was killed by humans, diego doesn’t mention his family and their relationship to humans, and they literally never mention the baby ever again. it’s so weird

[@andrianabartlett687]

Yeah, following that thought, I feel like there was a way for them to still introduce romantic partners and building these same family units and still remain true to the themes of the first movie. Manny could have met Ellie and experienced some abandonment issues that made him not as receptive to a partnership with her and it could have been about the early stages of recovering and building new relationships after loss. And then when they know they’re going to have Peaches, build on that with “oh no, I’m afraid to have a kid again because *trauma*” and then this one “oh no, it’s happening again, I’m losing my child!” All the while doing similar stuff with Syd and Diego as B and C plots while they continue supporting each other and surviving together- maybe Syd learns not to be so clingy throughout the series as he overcomes his abandonment issues because he’ll always have the herd. Maybe Diego finds he still struggles not to engage in transactional behavior when pursuing a potential partner because they aren’t part of his herd yet and so he realizes that he still has those trust issues for new people. Each movie could have handled different stages of recovering after each characters respective traumas and how they support each other through that, while still being a children’s series and it could have been so good. I’m forever bummed that they forgot the first movie and didn’t just continue with the emotional development of these characters and their stories.

[@Ghostpigeon5304]

The original Ice Age was also a movie I grew up watching on repeat and even as I little kid I never really was interested in any of the sequels. I don't think I could ever get past the fact that the first movie introduces the fact that humans exist in this world and have a big impact on the way the prehistoric animal characters live and then they are seemingly never seen or mentioned again? Even though they were a central part of the original plot? Seven year old me just couldn't get past this weird world-building choice.

[@CallN0w]

they all were extinct

[@jorymo4964]

It's really weird how different the other Ice Age films are from the first. Not even the oddly forgotten aspects like the existence of humans or Manny being a widower, but even the tone is drastically different. The first movie comparatively feels far more grounded and doesn't feel the need to constantly undercut dramatic moments with constant jokes

[@moosenman]

I will say, the second one isn’t completely awful. I grew up with that one, and I was not aware there was another one before it cause I was a dumb child.

[@jeamsis]

The plot twist of there being six ice age movies was insane

[@KaiLucasZachary]

putting aside the whole "saber-tooth tigers are hunting one specific child" thing... if we accept that that's lore in the story, I actually think it makes perfect sense why they'd take the baby instead of a grown man firstly, it's easier, but - more importantly - it's genuinely evil; THAT is actually something that an evil gang would do, kill someone's baby, because any parent will tell you it's far more painful to lose a child than it is to lose your own life

[@myrandajo9280]

this is perfection. i think it's even more bewildering when an animated movie is bad like this because a team of animators handcrafted each and every frame of that bad joke. they worked so so tirelessly modeling that weasel and for what? for what?

[@Fantallana]

This is why they need to be paid better

[@mayas3422]

i hate that you held up julien and my immediate thought was "what about that possum who was friends-to-lovers with peaches?" i hate that i know that much ice age lore my only defense is that i have a little sister EDIT: he was a mole hog named louis from ice age 4 so i guess they took him out because they didnt want to write an inter-species relationship

[@kwarra-an]

So much for woke Hollywood

[@rebekab1579]

@@kwarra-an This comment took me OUT

[@whoasked3961]

I just genuinely gasped upon reading this comment, because I really liked Louis. He was probably my favorite part about Ice Age 4 (which I did not like as much as the first 3).

[@echo4572]

@@whoasked3961louis was easily the best part of ice age 4 like he was adorable only to never be seen again

[@jodipearson567]

He makes a cameo in the fifth movie, which is somehow worse since nobody acknowledged him and peaches never mentions him. He literally saved her from a pirate and was supposed to be her bestest friend

[@iains3897]

every single time you said how far into the movie something was, i was floored by how much time to go there still was

[@natk4017]

Fr every time I was like wtf

[@tawumpas]

You are so funny! I also had that moment! I'm at the magnetic astroids part and I'm like "this movie isn't even half reviewed yet HOW

[@kasagure.]

"we're 40 minutes into the movie and we're back in space 😮‍💨" this and the "which is good because i didn't think we had enough comic relief characters" gag never got old throughout the entire video

[@aster-disaster]

The most upsetting part of this is every time you discuss a series of wild plot elements and then each time "And at this point it's only been 11 minutes"

[@bucks6360]

You would think the "there's not enough comic relief characters" bit would get old, but somehow it doesn't. It's gold every single time.

[@Badusername2000]

what happened with Ice Age is the same thing that happened with another prehistoric movie series, The Land Before Time, the first one is an emotionally charged adventure movie with comedy in it, the rest of them are "WaCKy" comedies with a random bad guy each time

[@celebrityguest.9530]

i do feel like at least a few of the land before time sequels do still have heart. like i grew up with a dvd that had the stone of cold fire and secret of saurus rock and like.. yeah. i mean stone of cold fire isn't my favorite particularly for the weird message they were sending out with pterano but like, particularly secret of saurus rock and the dynamic between littlefoot and his grandparents is pretty redeemable imo

[@darthmeticulous6901]

@@celebrityguest.9530I mean, while the first Land Before Time is a classic, there’s at least four sequels I can immediately think of that were just as good… Land Before Time 2 and 4-6, especially 5 and 6, the former being a great way to make Chomper so much better, the latter being a solid chapter in its own right with an awesome ending. The 7th film was okay, as was the 3rd one. I barely recall 8-10, never saw the last four, and yes, there are 14 Land Before Time films, you can buy all of them as a DVD set for under 20 dollars.

[@mollymcdade4031]

I haven’t fully watched the first Ice Age in at least 5 years and I’ve only just fully realised that Manny wasn’t just sad over his wife and child, he was fully planning on staying behind to freeze to death out of his grief - and him, Sid and Diego essentially saving each other through the power of healthy male friendship

[@chai7218]

my entire life i thought i was raised on the first ice age movie and literally only now do i realize my whole childhood it was ice age 2 dawn of the dinosaurs. after searching through the family movie collection i have discovered we never even owned the first movie im so bewildered befuddled utterly flabbergasted rn

[@ScootSimp911]

dinosaurs was 3, meltdown was 2.

[@krell.1415]

That's number 3. Because I WAS RAISED ON TWO THINKING IT WAS ONE. Which is the one where their home starts melting and it has a terrifying eel creature and a scene were buzzards try to eat the gang.

[@valentinaaugustina]

@@krell.1415i’m cursed to sing “food glorious food” every time i’m hungry.

[@LittleBlackFoxInali]

Just want to say that the reason why the Ice Age franchise died is: Blue Sky, the studio who made it wad owned by Fox. When Fox got bought out by Disney a few years ago, one of the first things they did was scrap the studio, fire all the staff and scrap essentially all the properties they were working on.(Including a sequel to the Peanuts movie, a movie about Egyptian gods & the 90ish% finished Nimona. Luckily a video game studio picked the rights up for Nimona and finished the last bit. Unfortunately, everything else will probably remain dead in the water.) The animators made one final video at the time the studio dissolved of Scrat finally getting the nut. I was never a huge Blue Sky fan and I stopped watching the Ice Age franchise after the 3rd movie, but its always sad to see an animation studio fold.

[@JakeTheHawk]

I think the franchise would be dead even if Disney hadn't Disneyed, honestly. But yeah, what they did to Bluesky fucking sucked.

[@folgerkelley2715]

Can you imagine how a good a scene could’ve been of Manny opening up to Julian about like how Peaches isn’t his child and he had a baby when he was about Julian’s age and a wife but they were both killed and he was devestated and how Ellie and the herd helped him but he’s still so protective because of that and how he doesn’t want that to happen to Peaches or Julian

[@raccoonsandys3038]

Peaches is his child though

[@asthejayflies]

@@raccoonsandys3038i think they meant peaches isnt his FIRST child

[@emmakaisa27]

@@asthejayfliesWHAT for 10 years thought Manny lost his parents and not his wife and kid???? Are you fr

[@asthejayflies]

@@emmakaisa27 it was an adult male mammoth watching as the female and child were killed, not the baby watching the mother and father though to be fair. i entirely missed on the implication that the father in the mural was manny when i was growing up. it wasnt until i checked the fuckin wiki for ice age for some reason years ago that I understood that part

[@genericname2747]

Honestly, the movies should've made that the reason for Manny being so overprotective. His first kid literally died. He's going to be absolutely terrified of that happening again. Wait I just want him to act like Merlin from Finding Nemo

[@stanconnorstan4266]

I feel like if I put a bunch of animated children’s movie plotlines in a hat and pulled them out at random and voice dictated a 90 minute movie through Siri, it would probably be a lot more coherent and entertaining than Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

[@kropotkinnie]

"diego has a girlfriend. which. not the vibe i got from diego" finally someone has the bravery to say it fun fact i had gender envy over diego as a kid before coming out as trans at age 11. thank you diego for being a piece in my engayening

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

Diego is just like me fr

[@cammclean5460]

Same 😭

[@shadowjaye4870]

My phone background is sexy Diego

[@dominiquegalvan1968]

the fact that this is longer than the first ice age movie is,,, so telling

[@hailsbop6749]

"Sid's primary personality trait....stuuuupidddd." I am CRYING the SID SLANDER

[@mimicsforge]

I don't understand how it's taken me over 20 years (the first film released when I was 4-5 years old) to understand that Scrat is a god damn sex joke

[@darthmeticulous6901]

So is Buck. The dude is literally a one-eyed weasel. Do with that what you will.

[@dontfearthe]

Please explain this to me, wtf, wtf?

[@darthmeticulous6901]

@@dontfearthe Because Scrat literally is always looking for a place to store his nuts, for example.

[@dontfearthe]

@@darthmeticulous6901 ohhh... Ohhhhh. 😭

[@mollymcdade4031]

@@darthmeticulous6901 I dont think that was intentional, because hiding acorns is just something squirrels do

[@kittymae335]

I'm choosing to believe that Manny thinking Sid was responsible for the fireworks was a callback to Sid being the fire king in the second movie

[@kayleighbrown459]

I just had a thought. You think part of the reason that Manny is so willing to sacrifice his life for Diego is because he wasn't able to do that for his wife and child and harbours some intense survivors guilt? Cause I think that. And it makes me sad.

[@sweetmoonpigeon7469]

I really loved the "what the movie could have been" portion of the video, and I would genuinely love to hear more of that about these disgustingly drawn out childrens franchises

[@KaiLucasZachary]

funny thing is, adults are scared of wild animals because we understand the dangers a lot of infants and toddlers just see a fuzzy animal, so that makes perfect sense to me why the baby isn't afraid the mother who gave her baby to wild animals on the other hand....

[@minerlady140]

I lost it at “he’s eaten a baby or two” 😂

[@Hell_of_the_Ball]

I still think the reason the mom gives them her baby is because she's experiencing hypothermia and straight up cannot think clearly, She see's big fuzzy and warm and associates that with her babies best chance of survival.

[@KaiLucasZachary]

"things Deigo wants: approval" the pause after that was brilliantly delivered lol

[@katfoxwell3995]

Buck as a character feels like they wanted to make Jack Sparrow, forgot what Jack Sparrow is actually like, simply went with the AestheticTM and then told the audience that they have to like him because he is Jack Sparrow, and everybody likes Jack Sparrow. And talking about the christian wedding: It's not just the wedding. Especially the dynamic between Manny and Julian feels so US American. It put me off so much. Like, they could have mentioned living in where-do-I-know, Minnesota, or going to Ice Age Walmart, and it would have felt less weird than other plotpoints of this movie.

[@alexlee4154]

I like buck in 3 because he was the only one who knew what was happening but was also clearly nuts so he was unpredictable and unreliable

[@liquidrubbish]

If my life was a movie franchise, I would love to think that Haley would make one of these lil videos about how it doesn’t make any sense and that the themes are conflicting and the plot-lines don’t really go anywhere before other plot-lines are introduced

[@frabjuosity]

The funny thing is Ice Age (2002) absolutely WAS a cultural touchstone in Norway where I'm from, because the Norwegian dub and specifically the Norwegian voice of Sid is just SO good it became instantly iconic.

[@frabjuosity]

My little brother is living in the US at the moment and he was absolutely shocked to find that his American friends didn't view Ice Age as the huge cultural touchstone moment that he did and were just like "oh yeah I kinda remember that movie"

[@mintyglitches]

buck seems like a first-time fic writers self insert OC that they got carried away with when writing it

[@larostern]

I love how you can tell that this video is going to be unhinged just looking at the premiere time. Why not just make it 7:00 on the dot? Because ice age 5: collision course (2016) doesn't deserve punctuality.

[@Drokovat]

When did it premiere?

[@chickensoup3301]

@@Drokovat if I remember correctly it was 7:02

[@MissYamIherexxx]

The Ice Age franchise feels like they ignored the first film completely, and you could skip it which like, what?

[@darthmeticulous6901]

Not exactly. Manny’s loss of his first wife and child is actually a reason for so much of his conflict in the 2nd film (it literally gets brought up early in the film when he’s telling a “happily ever after” style story), it’s part of the reason he was so nervous about Ellie’s pregnancy in the 3rd film, and it’s a reason for why he was so protective of Peaches in the 4th film. Also, Diego mentions leaving his pack in the 4th film to Shira. While it is true that the baby was basically ignored in the sequels, it is false to say the 1st film was completely ignored.

[@JoaoPedro-pv7gw]

In my opinion, Ice Age should have remained a standalone film.

[@JoaoPedro-pv7gw]

In my opinion, Ice Age should have remained a standalone film and didn't need sequels.@@darthmeticulous6901

[@riv3rw4ter]

you actually make a really good point about the baby not being scared, pretty sure babies have basically no sense of danger yet due to not developing one properly. there was a spider experiment where a baby was exposed to (I hope) non venomous spiders and none of them were at all scared because the reason people develop fears of spiders is because they notice from parents that they fear them or the people around them fear them and internalise that theres a reason to fear them.

[@rocotaco5517]

Ice Age 5 felt like a fever dream like even hearing the plot is all over the place like Ice age from 3 animals forming their own herd to basically saving the world

[@coreDesignix]

I didn't recognize ANYTHING you talked about in Ice Age 5 until you mentioned Skrat getting squished by the automatic doors repeatedly. I-- I think I may have watched the movie?? A genuinely harrowing thought.

[@theimaginatrix7625]

I am _keenly_ aware of their being five Ice Age movies. My niece watched them _all._ She liked them _all._ I haven't watched the video yet, but I just wanted you to know _yes, I do know this movie exists and did before I watched any of your videos where you mentioned it._ Because I had a five-year-old niece and a sister who watched all the Ice Age movies while over at our house. _Many many times._ Edit: Oh honey, you missed a _trip_ in Ice Age 4! There were _sirens!_ Literal Greek Myth sirens with _glamours._

[@AC-sj5rj]

I laugh louder and louder every time she says we don't have enough comic relief in this series

[@wolfikins2777]

I went in expecting a Sarah Z style video. This was a lot more insane and unhinged and I AM HERE FOR IT

[@stanconnorstan4266]

List of movie sequels to do this series for: Shrek Forever After, the fourth installment in the Shrek series Despicable Me 3, I completely forgot there was a third one Ghostbusters: Afterlife, how is there FOUR ghostbuster movies and why are the Stranger Things kids here Madagascar 3/ Penguins of Madagascar, why is there a evil animal cop and/or evil octopus Lion King 1 1/2, apparently this was not an elaborate fever dream I made up as a child Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows, why they look like that Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Road Chip, I thought they stopped after the island arc Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb, I didn’t know there was a sequel even??? Jaws 4: The Revenge, what did they do to my sharky boy Alice Through The Looking Glass, sequel to Alice In Wonderland (2010) which somehow make even less sense despite being a direct sequel Herbie: Fully Loaded, leave Lindsay Lohan out of this Cats & Dogs: Paws Unite!, also thought I imagined this series Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2, the food is animals now for some reason, there’s a monkey called Barb

[@haleywhipjack]

there's FOUR alvin and the chipmunks movies??? and four shrek movies???? you're a godsend

[@giorgimamalashvili4220]

Shrek 4 is actually good compared to Shrek 3 don't @ me

[@tny1757]

@@giorgimamalashvili4220 Shrek 3 is the only bad one. Shrek 1,2, and 4 are actually pretty good.

[@saturnday160]

Cloudy with a chancy of meatballs 2 is fun. Cute food animals.

[@nbdjz1058]

oh my god madagascar 3 was such a wild fever dream but tbh i love it because it is just so batshit crazy which makes it incredibly funny

[@liquidrubbish]

Ok but any script doctoring needs to add more comedy relief, though, because that’s really something that this movie doesn’t have enough of.

[@shelbymckinney8888]

In all honesty, Blue Sky really should have stopped at 4 movies. Hell, in perfect world we would only have three.

[@DiegoRedeemedLover]

In a perfect world they would've brought the baby (Roshan) back to reunite with the herd of Manny, Diego, and Sid and bring everything full circle... but they never did and that was MY biggest disappointment re: the sequels...

[@nonaveragefangirl]

all this told me is that Haley should've written ice age 5

[@verylostdoommarauder]

The interesting part about the Scrat scenes (besides them being the best part of the film) is that they were apparently made up by the storyboard artists and not the writers.

[@FULLGAN_R.T]

This is my favorite Ice Age: Collision Course Video!!! I thought of a side plot they could have given Shira to impact the story more and be more relevant to the conclusion of the family dynamic. Have Shira and Peaches have a heart to heart and talk about her experience being abused by Gutt and what it’s like to leave what she’s known her whole life. Both her and Diego left their original herd and maybe that interaction could’ve impacted what Peaches and Julian choose to do after their wedding. Maybe it’ll even give Manny more time to reflect xD Excellent Work!

[@kamisamaks]

"What is a mountain, if not a volcano" I had that scene in mind from Wandavision, and it was so close. "What is a mountain, if not a volcano persevering."

[@leonidlex]

Your commitment to saying so many of those bits with a straight face as many times as you did is top tier

[@wombatpandaa9774]

Buck has such blatant oc insert energy and it's very odd

[@hailsbop6749]

Cannot believe i am considering binge-watching all five (6) ice age movies now.

[@lukavanloo8905]

the final eps/seasons of 2010's classic drama shows are absolutely batshit unhinged,, so like pretty little liars, the vampire diaries, gossip girl, etc. would b very interesting to hear ur take on those. (also loved this video & love u

[@gretagrip5325]

I just came back to finally finish this video off and it started back with “Buck, seeing the angry llama, is now inspired to use the volcano” and I think that beautifully proves the title of the video

[@CartoonMischief]

I love everytime there is a bad gag/joke you just say "ha haaaaaa" 😐

[@ripleyandweeds1288]

You slowly losing your composure as you describe Diego's family is priceless.

[@felinavondraco9500]

Ice age: beautiful masterpiece 2: ok 3: ok 4: I personally like it but completely understand why people don't. 5: Meh...

[@Sam-ju1lw]

Okay, so special interest time, there were actually giant land sloths a very long time ago, they’re called the Megalonyx. And sloths used to be HUGE!!! Not human size, like moose size and bigger!!! It’s so cool! Like Sid is a different species, but I’m pretty sure most ground sloths (I think Sid is some sort of ground sloth) around the time of the ice age would have been mammoth sized, so Sid and Manny should be the same size. Also Sid should be walking on four legs, not two.

[@cosmicalkitsune5998]

My favorite part of all this? KZbin isn’t even recommending an Ice Age movie under this video. It’s recommending Deep Impact 😂

[@jonathanfuchs6262]

this was really fun! i would love to see more of these kinds of things from you! as far as suggestions for other series to do so, the despicable me series comes to mind it had a lot more movies than i think anyone realizes.

[@lordedmundblackadder9321]

Unironically the dinosaur one was really really good and I loved it and still do.

[@Katyamuffin]

Your FNAF video has been on my home page and recommendations for months now and I finally clicked on your channel and I see this? An hour long video about Ice Age?? I think this channel was made for me. I think I'm in love.

[@thomasdegroat6039]

I think the weirdest part about the Ice Age sequels is that they all seem to want to forget that Ice Age 1 exists.

[@webbyishere]

So in the first movie review, you say that sid is a pwrson sized sloth. Sid is based on megatherium. They grew up to 20 feet long. Food for thought

[@greed0599]

Scrat was the name of our family pet Chihuahua. He was dumb as fuck lol

[@user-vd8nm8sv6x]

girl you are so right. what IS a rock if not a volcano

[@buzzytrombone4353]

I remember watching this film when I was drunk one night four years ago out of boredom and I had avoided watching it in the cinema when it was being advertised out of fear that I would walk out of it, angry as shit over it. The only thing that had stopped me from doing what I thought I would do when watching it was the ending scene with the wedding, knowing about Manny's story of his first wife and child being killed by Indians. Seeing him get that extra level of closure with knowing he had raised a child was nice to see. And that's one scene and to a certain extent the first twenty minutes, because Manny felt in character. Forget whatever ideas the writers and directors had for the film, if they forget to integrate what makes the characters tick and what makes them who they are in the film, then they have already shot themselves in the feet.

[@astersworld6169]

It's funny because i remember watching shorts of scratch in the Norman Rockwell museum thinking 'oh, there showing shorts for a film franchise i liked, it's cool that they did that from a franchise that finally ended' and then 3 more films released which was crazy

[@riqrimoli]

take a shot everytime she says "we don't have enough comic relief in this cast"

[@lordnul1708]

Yeah I agree with the title. Two was more than enough, let alone three was already pushing it. Five? They already milked it dry by then.

[@windermere_peaks]

I don't remember the last time I was this enthralled by a video. Normally I check my phone here and there, but I didn't touch it a single time while watching. I think I was vaguely aware of Ice Age sequels, but the only one I know for sure I've seen is the first. Honestly, I was fine with that. Ice Age is a perfectly fine movie, and I neither needed nor wanted to know what happened afterwards.

[@awhataduck8915]

19:40 Ice Age Baby is Ice Age Jesus

[@tomtheblind918]

this is one of the most unhinged video essays ive ever seen. i feel like dante getting taken through the circles of hell but instead of dante going by choice im being dragged through in spite of my own free will and instead of being guided by the poet Virgil im being throttled by my own sleep deprivation and addiction to sour patch kids

[@haroldyoung2361]

I quite frankly agree, they should've not made only five ice age movies--in fact I believe your point is so solid that I won't even watch the video because we're on the same page.

[@aspenkennerud7237]

I would love to inform you that canonically, the movie is opened by Neil deBuck Weasel

[@devinehlert6942]

hey haley long time listener first time caller. loved the video! I think a good series to do this on is Madagascar. Personally I don't think there is a miss out of all three of those movies but I haven't seen them in a while and also I would love to hear your take!

[@jungtothehuimang]

I hate the way that Manny went from being a somewhat grumpy old man who was closed off because of grief. To, in later films, being an actually emotionally manipulative aaahole. Like they don't even touch on his grief being why he is so overprotective. He is just a butthole.

[@Drokovat]

I can’t believe you didn’t put the pumpkin on the board

[@lila0leila]

I had so much fun with this video. Very nice, I love the way you talk about things! Have you ever thought about looking into Mort from the Madagaskar franchise? He's another can of worms that I would love to hear you talk about for hours

[@ozzie6736]

hello haley whipjack. just wanted to say i’ve been here from the beginning and feel like a proud aunt watching this insane unhinged video

[@dragonation1733]

...I was literally raised on these movies, and I always thought the cave painting sequence was Manny's parents

[@morpheusraver26]

Manny, Sid, and Diego have a Shrek, Donkey, and Puss In Boots dynamic

[@brynnrae2235]

Listening to you recount the ice age movies has been my entire day, and honestly it's been the best (also, watching this after watching the other one, I laughed at you saying you wouldn't watch ice age 6 :p because....

[@alaric1189]

Haley did such a good job that she made this feel short haha

[@sirlothric6357]

I always viewed Diegos fake out death as representation of the death of his old self.

[@joshuasgameplays9850]

Actually it represents the fact that he was supposed to die for real but nobody liked that during test screenings.

[@isabelgee5062]

This seems like the type of movie I would watch when I'm drunk/high. Good thing I don't drink or smoke! :D

[@fedoratheexplorar2143]

5 movies seems like a lot but as a horror fan I am used to franchises cross 10 movies and none of them are profitable or known to a general audience so like Ice Age is reasonable to me

[@Mothromance]

i had never seen an ice age movie before when I saw the 5th one I was like 14 and literally the only part of it I remembered was scrat going into space & vague recollections of how the other characters look

[@koii55]

You're right, they should've made more.

[@thomassaunders5554]

to think I could've gone my whole life not knowing there were five ice ages

[@abihops8204]

I am the only one who thought that mannys parents had been killed by humans and that he was the little baby mammoth jumping around and playing? I never even considered he had a wife and a kid who were killed