Ranking All 22 Major Summer 2016 Blockbusters From Worst To Best

Sooner or later, an Ice Age sequel is just going to dispense with the facade and call itself Ice Age: Cash Grab. Because that's all the franchise is now, trading way too heavily on the popularity of the characters and not bothering to care about the hoops they're making them jump through any more.

You used to be able to count on Ice Age films for a few solid laughs, a lot of charm and great character performances, but the tiredness is badly showing. It is now a franchise that has badly lost its way, and if this is what a $100 million plus budget buys you today (it's not, as Kubo And The Two Strings has just proven), there's something deeply wrong.

It's not funny, it's not charming and it will appeal to only the most unimaginative of younger audience members. It's almost as if it's been trotted out as a paint-by-numbers attempt to trade on the name, but it's so bad that it should be seen as an insult to a fanbase who were already being given watered down sludge.