Ice Age: Collision Course - Aesthetically Impactful !

Just because the garnishings decorating the Biriyani is colorful and an eye pleasant, unless and until the Biriyani is cooked well and has the right ingredients to make it tasty, the beautiful finishing touches are nothing but a waste of time and energy. 

Ice Age:Collision Course begins with our Scrat who flies an alien ship to outer space when he tries to bury his beloved acorn and inadvertently activates the flying saucer in the process. What follows is a series of reactions that sets in motion an asteroid to head towards the Earth. Scrat really sets ablaze, literally and figuratively, the screens with his usual intense desperation to have a go at the nut which started way back in the first Ice Age movie when it was released during 2002. In fact, it is Scrat and Buck who saves this film from being blown apart without the asteroid strike.

The movie is gorgeous and visually stunning especially the Geotopia scenes. The effect is further enhanced and simply wowed when viewed in 3D. Unfortunately, the presence of a weak script completely lets down all the commendable work done by the VFX team. You don't have anything to say except Buck has a plan to divert the course of the asteroid from wiping off the existence on Earth and others follow suit not only to save the planet but also save themselves and their dreams. 

In this vapid adventure, Manny is very busy attending his family problems concerning his daughter and her fiance. He has some action sequences in the end and agrees to his daughter's wedding with Julian once when the world is saved. OMG! That was so unpredictable!! Even Granny has more role to play in this movie than Diego! Diego and his lady love are just a part of the group and merely walks, runs or talks without any substantial role to offer. Though the film has lots of puns to tickle your funny bone, you tend to get a bit irritated sometimes with Sid's antics and particularly the goofy characters in Geotopia. Geotopia is the boon as well as the bane for Ice Age 5. It was really amazing and eye-catching when the colours in every scene was made to dance on the screens with such richness and pleasantness. However, the silliness of the characters especially Shangri Llama really got under the skin to the point that I was internally screaming When-will-this-nonsense-get over.

Scrat almost destroyed one planet at one instance and wipes off the face of the Earth or Mars! in another.

Ice Age 5 had the potential to be something big with the extraordinary set of characters and a major catastrophic event to hurt the Earth very badly but disappoints. Nevertheless, it is surely a good one-time pop-corn pass where you can laugh, enjoy, come out of the theatres and forget it.

PS:
I am sure you would have now understood as to why I used the Biriyani reference in the beginning of this review.