No end in sight, I do reckon...

Rating: 6/10 (4 August 2013)

Things have changed a lot in four movies. We started off a mammoth, a sloth, a tiger and a baby, to virtually an entire zoo worth of creatures. This does mean the material is spread pretty thin as everyone competes for a speaking part, and the director's apparent insistence that almost every line must be a wisecrack. Still, the nucleus of the series remains strong, and it provides for yet another solid hour-and-a-bit worths of entertainment.
The best character remains Scrat, that ever-lovable squirrel(?) on his non-stop quest to bury his nut. All the best scenes revolve around him, and its amazing how much comic mileage you can derive from such a simple premise. If he was a human, he could be the biggest silent star since Charlie Chaplin. But he's not. Oh well, guess he's stuck with sleeping all winter and being run over by careless drivers, then... 6/10