By any logic, the prehistoric creatures of the Ice Age franchise should be extinct by now, or at the very least have migrated to the direct-to-video market, like their colleagues over at The Land Before Time had the grace to do. But no, here we are with Ice Age: Continental Drift, the 3D, CG-animated film in which we rejoin family mammoth Manny (voice by Ray Romano), irascible saber-tooth tiger Diego (Denis Leary), and wacky sloth Sid (John Leguizamo) as they deal with the break-up of Pangaea, an iceberg full of animal pirates and, for some reason, a teen mammoth (Keke Palmer) who just wants to belong to the cool gang (never mind the shifting of land masses that WILL VERY LIKELY KILL HER).
Cinefantastique Online's Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and I went to see all the animal hijinks and weigh in on how the fourth installment of the Ice Age franchise fares, whether the filmmakers are at all invested in these films at this point, and where the hell did all the humans go? Then, Steve takes a look at the genre elements in Woody Allen's latest, To Rome with Love, and I give my thoughts on the paranormal thriller Red Lights. Plus, what's coming to theaters next week.
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