# Ice Age 4/Ice age: continental drift (2012)
Ice Age 4 Ice Age: Continental Drift
(2012)
SDMS score: 69 points
For those who like to watch movies, What a boring summer. The whole of July, the movie theater is almost making way for a banshee and four hunters. Fortunately, after August, Blue Sky Company came with their most popular "Glacier" series, and Jason Statham's giant two action film also landed at the same time, so that fans like me can spend a few more stupid people in the renminbi. choose.
To tell the truth, "Ice Age 4" is really a movie that makes people unable to complain, and the plot is the weakest of the four in the series. The three lines that seem to challenge the narrative structure are actually just the work of Blue Sky Company to cover up the lack of originality, not to mention the vulgarity of one of the main lines.
The story of Peach, the handsome mammoth, and the best friend of the mole is basically a school comedy routine, plus another line, the 2012 disaster spectacle and the magical pirate group. The whole movie is like a calculation of chemical equations under the Hollywood industrial system. A little morphine, plus diacetyl, strychnine, scopolamine, aspirin, and caffeine. Okay, everyone, let's go high.
Adding characters is an indispensable adjustment for the series to go on, and the new characters in "Ice Age 4" are numerous and complex. Sid the sloth's family is really amazing. This time his grandma's soy sauce was quite successful. He was so calm and unreliable, and he was so funny that he even overshadowed Sid himself.
The pirates on the villain side, rabbits, seagulls, and silly walruses are all very happy. The biggest regret is that the pirate chief gorilla not only makes people hate it, but also challenges the audience's ethical aesthetic bottom line in terms of shape, temperament and personal philosophy. Moreover, the orangutan is also extremely difficult to deal with, persevering and full of babble, to be honest, people often feel impatient, this is really a rare nausea character in funny animations.
And the tigress love that the director deliberately arranged for Diego was too casual. Whether it was his stubborn allegiance to the orangutan at the beginning, or the change of personality that followed quickly, he was in a hurry and insincere. But prehistoric animals speak Jennifer Lopez's sexy Latin accent, a tactic that is sometimes appropriate to deal with male dicks.
Another important measure for this type of animation is the quality of the laughs. The most popular Shake Squirrel, from the first glimpse, now has a main line led by himself. The fate of always chasing after the pine cones and always giving up, has a Sisyphus philosophical meaning. The ruthless display of the tragic greed and the butterfly effect of geological changes have formed an admirable dramatic imagination, and this time, even the drift of continental plates and Atlantis have been linked.
Of course, most of the rest of the jokes are realized by the kind of wrangling like "Does elephants drink water with their trunks smells like booger?" Although many laughing fruits were a little eager for quick success, the group laughter in the cinema was still very frequent. To say why everyone is so happy, maybe it's just as the two possums in the movie pointed out: "because we are very very stupid".
The stories of the "Glacier" series have always been superficial, and they are nothing more than the values of the bottom of Hollywood's box - justice, trust, and unity. This time, Grandma Sid's pension issue and Manny Peach's father-daughter relationship were also added. At the end of the film, the song "We Are Family" was also used to carry out the younger age of this series to the end.
Of course, Americans will not pass up any opportunity to promote their own culture. The intermingling of this group of prehistoric animals, the harmonious coexistence of herbivores and carnivores, and the ambiguous relationship between elephants and groundhogs, is like the plural ideology of American racial integration. And for the stigmatization of dictators, there is nothing to do.
When the animals finally came to the New World after all the hardships, a statue of Liberty made it clear that America was the last paradise. This is really a blatant aggression of values, and it is no wonder that in the just-released "2012 Hurun Wealth Report", statistics show that 16% of China's rich have immigrated or are applying, and 44% of the rich are considering immigrating.
Sitting in the movie theater to watch such a joyful movie, and at the same time, I can feel the implications of concepts such as "Ice Age" and "dictatorship" for the social status quo. In the over-interpretation of a childish movie.
Not long ago, I had the honor to chat with a film distribution company boss, so I took the opportunity to laugh at how people in this circle don't understand movies. Every year, there are so many amazing works in the world cinema, and many of them have commercial potential.
But they have their own simple logic - ROI. He said that he was staring at Nicolas Cage and Jason Statham's movies (the latter's "The Mechanic" just came out), not only the copyright fee is low, the two old faces, the audience also recognized it, in the one-sided bad reviews , swallowed his breath and made the money.
Of course, the safer thing is cartoons. Before "Ice Age 4", "Madagascar 3" had already been powerfully plundered in the audience's pockets; and more creatively than "Ice Age 4", there are also Later, "The Story of Old Les". As of July 29, in the first week of its release in China, a few prehistoric animals have garnered 130 million yuan.
View more about Ice Age: Continental Drift reviews
