Golden 'Age'

The least verbose of the “Ice” series makes good use of sight gags and also has Jennifer Lopez

By Roger Moore
McClatchy Newspapers

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jul 13, 2012

~~<p>There's considerably less drift in "Ice Age: Continental Drift," the latest in a long line of lucrative cartoons from Blue Sky Studios and their friends at Fox. It's all sight gags and action beats, which tends to cover the shortcomings these assembly-line farces are infamous for. And at a brisk 94 minutes, it's less reliant on charm-starved chatter among its increasingly overstuffed voice cast.</p>
<p>Yes, there are even more big names doing the talking for the various "Ice Age" critters: Pop stars Nicki Minaj and Jennifer Lopez join up with Peter Dinklage, Wanda Sykes, Joy Behar, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. But that old rule that "They only add more big names to the voice cast when they're worried about the animation" doesn't apply, as this is the least-chatty film of this series.</p>
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There's considerably less drift in "Ice Age: Continental Drift," the latest in a long line of lucrative cartoons from Blue Sky Studios and their friends at Fox. It's all sight gags and action beats, which tends to cover the shortcomings these assembly-line farces are infamous for. And at a brisk 94 minutes, it's less reliant on charm-starved chatter among its increasingly overstuffed voice cast.

Yes, there are even more big names doing the talking for the various "Ice Age" critters: Pop stars Nicki Minaj and Jennifer Lopez join up with Peter Dinklage, Wanda Sykes, Joy Behar, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg. But that old rule that "They only add more big names to the voice cast when they're worried about the animation" doesn't apply, as this is the least-chatty film of this series. Login for more...