![]() ![]() “The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild,” a Walt Disney Pictures release that streams Friday on Disney+, is rated PG for “some action and mild language.” Running time: 81 minutes. This is a franchise that looks like it’s slowly going the way of the dinos, while we drool. But visually and storytelling-wise it’s not a cut above much of what kids can watch on TV these days. There are lessons for the kids about how the strong mustn’t dominate the weak, about independence and change, and new families that can be born of love not blood. “The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild” is actually a little better than you might expect on its sixth outing. In all the bathroom humor - yes, “Buck crack” is a joke - there are attempts to make the adults laugh: “I love the smell of skunky gas in the morning” and “Use your feeling words.” There is always a tiny pause when creatures hang in midair before falling and there are lots of martial arts flips. Donkin, a longtime part of the franchise, doesn’t mess with the visual language. Or as one creature notes: “What they lack in intelligence, they make up for with bumbling ineptitude.”ĭirector John C. But it mostly pays off since little viewers will see a pair of kids standing up for themselves and learning to be courageous. ![]() Making Eddie and Crash the heroes this time is a bit of a gamble since they’ve always been just humorous sidekicks. He’s got nice advice for the twin possums: “It’s not powers that make you a superhero. “We’ll never defeat Orson if you keep going all ‘buck wild’ without thinking first,” she tells him. He’s the rush-in-without-a-plan guy and she’s more practical. “Dinos rule, mammals drool!” he says.īuck and Zee are yin and yang here. ![]() The possums will need his help because Orson hopes to destroy the underground peace with an army of raptors. ![]() The two accidentally discover (again) the Lost World and are protected by Buck, a confirmed bachelor with a pirate’s heart voiced by Simon Pegg. ![]()
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