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“Garfield” is being released with a short cartoon featuring Scrat, the saber-toothed squirrel from “Ice Age,” called “Gone Nutty” that is an entertaining diversion an homage to the little critter’s acorns.
If you go to Garfield: The Movie, you'll also get to see ''Gone Nutty,'' a digitally animated 2002 short from the creators of ''Ice Age.''
Small wonder that most viewers will find considerably more laughs in the brief "Gone Nutty" cartoon (starring the scheming Scrat of "Ice Age" fame) that precedes "Garfield" than they'll get from the feature itself.
Clement sounds like Jeremy Irons, which is appropriate since Nigel is an anthropomorphic villain on par with Irons' Scar from The Lion King.
Not all of the 14 songs are as successful in capturing the spirit of the moment, and one song seems derivative of a big production number we heard in "The Lion King."
Rio's opening, an apparent homage to the beginning of The Lion King , does little beyond providing evidence that old-fashioned, 2-D hand-drawn animation can at times provide a more complete, compelling experience than new-fangled, 3-D computer-generated animation.
The grey, droopy-eyed cockatoo – who looks like Sidney Greenstreet and sounds like Scar from The Lion King – is in cahoots with exotic pet poachers and helps them take Blu, Jewel and the other birds to a poacher’s hut, before they’ll be shipped abroad.
This is a lightweight family cartoon, not City of God or something.
Clearly, Blue Sky Studios (the team behind the “Ice Age” movies) were merely looking for as colorful a setting as possible but anyone who knows the real-life story of Brazil (or has seen “City of God”) may think that this was an unusual subject matter.
It's not exactly "City of God," but there's at least some acknowledgment that life's not all about samba and sunbathing in Rio.
So Blu and his human, Linda, do like Fred and Ginger and fly down to Rio, Rio by the sea-o, where they run afoul of some "City of God"-inspired thieves and their murderous cockatoo henchman ( Jemaine Clement ) and spend most of the picture searching for each other.
City of God in a kids’ movie?
Brazil, of course, has a strong movie past with City Of God among the many stories to have used the country as a backdrop.
Using a trope that audiences will already be familiar with – with Barbie (2023) most recently or, for example, Enchanted (2007) a few years back – Harold and the Purple Crayon allows its main character to leave the storybook world behind and explore the real one.
The visual artistry of the team at Blue Sky (“Ice Age,” the recent “Peanuts” film) gives the movie a delightful palette upon which Ferdinand’s story unfolds.
The latest offering from the company best known for the “Ice Age” franchise is “Ferdinand,” a sweet and straightforward family film adapted from 1936’s “The Story of Ferdinand” by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson.
Blue Sky brings the same animation style as in its Ice Age franchise, with likeable talking animals who have big eyes and exaggerated physicalities.
Blue Sky is 20th Century Fox’s animation studio; its best-known previous films are the Ice Age and Rio series, both of which rely heavily on abominable gender stereotypes most at home in 1950s sitcoms.
Then there’s Blue Sky’s blandly colorful computer animation, which has barely evolved since the premiere of Ice Age 15 years ago; although the studio succeeds at rendering landscapes with painterly composition, everything else is a grab bag of vague, oppressively bright images that say as little as possible.
An English-language film from the Brazilian director Carlos Saldanha, a veteran of the Rio and Ice Age franchises, Ferdinand was adapted from The Story of Ferdinand, the children’s classic by Munro Leaf.
Anyhow, just as in Michael Bay's Armageddon, what's a cataclysmic world event compared with personal growth?
The latest film from the team responsible for the fairly enjoyable Ice Age series and Rio , this 3D animated movie is an ecological fable largely aimed at kids and centres on the epic struggle in an American forest between the positive forces of life and the negative ones of decay.
Blue Sky Studios may be plucky underdogs when measured next to the brilliance of Pixar, but their ongoing Ice Age series and 2011's Rio show they know a thing or two about putting together bright and buoyant animated adventures.
Alas, Blue Sky Studios, the outfit behind “Ice Age” and “Rio,” isn’t entirely up to the challenge.
Let’s get one thing out of the way: “Epic,” the latest from Blue Sky Studios (the “Ice Age” films, “Robots” “Horton Hears a Who” and “Rio”) is at times breathtakingly beautiful.
Produced by Blue Sky—the animation studio behind Ice Age, its sequels, and the Ice Age-like Rio—Epic is heavy on celebrity voices and light on imagination.
In those moments, the vibe approaches what Brazilian animator Carlos Saldanha communicated with “Rio.”
Written and Directed by Rian Johnson ("Looper," "The Brothers Bloom," "Brick").
As Carlos Saldanha did with Brazil in “Rio,” director Enrico Casarosa brings us his deep love for the place he grew up, and every moment brims with tender affection for the Mediterranean setting.
"Rio 2" traverses the importance of family and learning to appreciate the simple pleasures in life?in this way it is a lot like 2010's " Grown Ups ," of all movies?but it comes off as disingenuous and never goes deep enough to build any lasting dramatic substance.
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Directed by Adam Wingard
influenced by Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Plot
Put another way, it cobbles together pieces of The Core , Alien vs. Predator, Pacific Rim , a selection of the more recent Marvel tales and Ice Age 3 and targets Pensacola, Florida and Hong Kong as battlegrounds.
In loosely adapting for the big screen the life of famed showman P. T. Barnum, director Michael Gracey (making a dazzling directorial debut) and screenwriters Jenny Bicks (2014's " Rio 2 ") and Bill Condon (2006's " Dreamgirls ") have crafted a pair of quite literally soaring love stories set against the backdrop of the museum-turned-sideshow business Barnum created.
Working from a screenplay by Jenny Bicks (“Rio 2”) and Bill Condon (“Dreamgirls”), Gracey channels the spirit of classic movie musicals while hedging his bets with wildly anachronistic pop songs by “La La Land” Oscar winners Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
Using a trope that audiences will already be familiar with – with Barbie (2023) most recently or, for example, Enchanted (2007) a few years back – Harold and the Purple Crayon allows its main character to leave the storybook world behind and explore the real one. The narrative trope may not be necessarily new or original, but it still works very well, especially thanks to the visual aspect as Harold’s world looks and feels very different from the real one with its two-dimensional animation and lack of colours.
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
Directed by Dean DeBlois
influenced by Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
I don't know, and arguably the $603-$665m successes of Madagascar 2, Ice Age: The Meltdown , and Kung Fu Panda 2 will be more than good enough.