I'm not going to suggest that Ice Age has made sense up until now. Putting aside all the animals living in harmony rubbish, the first two movies sort of worked, showing the end of the last ice age where now-extinct creatures faced threats of climate change and emerging homo-sapiens. Then along came a third entry which revealed dinosaurs weren't extinct, or some of them weren't, or something and a fourth that suddenly plonked everything at the splitting of Pangea (it also featured a bunch of ice pirates, because that makes sense). It's been bonkers ever since 2009's Dawn Of The Dinosaurs, evidence of either a studio not caring about continuity in favour of solid movies or thinking that kids are stupid enough to not care (probably the latter), but at least the adventures were historically correct to a 300 million year margin of error. But now they've decided to jump the megaladon (who will probably turn up the next film as a sea gangster) and take us all the way back to 4.6 billion B.C. The fifth film in the franchise, Ice Age: Collision Course, hits cinemas next year, but ahead of that they've released a new short film featuring squirrel Scrat, who's still trying to get his beloved acorn. In what is presumably set-up for the new film, his antics lead him into a spaceship frozen in the ice (what?) and blasting off into space for cosmic-themed adventures (WHAT?). Along the way he gives Jupiter its red spot, Saturn its rings and puts the whole Solar System into orbit. And then, at the climax, he accidentally sends an asteroid on a collision course (title drop) with Earth. I just... OK, so the short's fun and all (probably the best Scrat has been since number two), but it's so utterly ridiculous. So the Solar System was created by a rat from a planet in the Solar System jumping around in a sci-fi setting (something that also suggests that whole "alien creator" thing Hollywood's in love with at the moment) and coincides with the extinction of a species that is both millions of years in the past and billions in the future? I'm all for films that don't feel the need to be super scientifically accurate, but can't they at least make some sense (especially when kids are being "educated" by this sort of thing)? Oh well, check out the short below and see if you're as taken aback as me. Thoughts down in the comments, as always. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR3OlGvIw_g&feature=youtu.be Ice Age: Collision Course is in cinemas in 2016.
