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Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

★½ — Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)

Ice Age: Collision Course is the fifth entry in Blue Sky Studios' long-running prehistoric franchise, directed by Mike Thurmeier, who had co-directed the previous instalment, Continental Drift, alongside Steve Martino. By 2016, the series had been running for fourteen years, and the diminishing creative returns were an open conversation in animation circles, even as each film continued to perform respectably overseas. The film arrived during a period when Blue Sky, operating under the 20th Century Fox Animation banner, was leaning heavily on sequels rather than original properties, a strategy that kept the lights on commercially but drew persistent criticism from reviewers. Despite a mixed-to-poor reception, Collision Course pulled in over $400 million worldwide, with international markets, particularly China and Russia, doing a significant portion of the heavy lifting.

At this point, Blue Sky isn’t making movies, they’re just launching Ice Age -branded content into the void and hoping something sticks. This one is a soulless, lazy, and barely connected collection of subplots that feel like they were stitched together with melted Sid drool. The “asteroid apocalypse” angle is the laziest plot device imaginable, and even the core cast feels like they're just going through the motions (and probably were). There’s no heart, no real humour, and zero reason for this to exist beyond milking a once-lovable franchise for a few more bucks. Sad to see a series I once enjoyed fall this hard. This wasn’t a collision course, it was a crash landing .

Rating: ★½ | Year: 2016 | Watched: 2025-07-21

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