The Ice Age Adventures Of Buck Wild Review: Disney Bungles Another Fox Franchise
It's unclear what motivated The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild — other than a quick buck, that is. Following the Disney tradition of releasing cheapstraight-to-video sequels to blockbuster animated films (The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, and even The Hunchback of Notre Dame II: The Secret of the Bell — the list goes on),the 2022 Ice Age sequel is a budget entry that lacks the charm, wit, and frankly the star talent of its predecessors. The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild is the sixth movie in the Fox animated franchise, and it is easily the worst entry in the series so far.
The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild is a spin-off of sorts, shifting the main narrative focus away from the beloved found-family of the original Ice Age movies, instead, making the prehistoric possum twins Crash (Vincent Tong) and Eddie (Aaron Harris) the protagonists. When their adoptive big sister Ellie (Dominique Jennings) suggests they stop doing incredibly reckless actions that could result in their family's collective death, the possums rebel, running away to the underground «lost world» where they reconnect with Buck Wild (Simon Pegg).
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Simon Pegg is the only actor who returns for The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, and it's readily apparent why. The story sees Crash and Eddie rescued by Buck when they venture back into the Lost World, and quickly, they find themselves caught up in Buck's feud with Protoceratops villain Orson (Utkarsh Ambudkar). Orson wants to destroy the "harmony" Buck Wild has worked so hard to develop in the tropical lost world (although the fact that Buck needs to rescue Crash and Eddie in
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