At the start of Ice Age Continental Drift, Scrat’s relentless pursuit for acorns has world-changing consequences – when he triggers the break-up of Pangaea which leads to Manny, Diego and Sid floating in one direction and the rest of the herd in another, namely Manny’s wife and daughter. Our protagonists’ efforts to rejoin the rest of the pack makes for one of their most arduous journeys to date. The fourth installment in the Ice Age franchise features monkey pirates, life lessons, a love story and more and will be enjoyed by many.
Megan Lehmann of The Hollywood Reporter writes, “The animation by Fox’s Blue Sky Studios improves with each installment, and here it is vividly rendered, with the design of each prehistoric critter a marvel of state-of-the-art technology down to the last hair.” HSX forecasts that the film will open at around $65M-$67M. Boxoffice.com predicts $59M.
Rating: PG
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Runtime: 1 hr. 34 min.,
Starring: Ray Romano, Denis Leary and John Leguizamo
Directed by: Steve Martino, Mike Thurmeier
Written by: Michael Berg, Jason Fuchs
Produced by: Blue Sky Studios
Distributed by: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Journey 2 The Mysterious Island is the follow-up to the 2008 worldwide hit Journey to the Center of the Earth. The new 3D family adventure begins when 17-year-old Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal, who he believes was sent by his long lost grandfather (Michael Caine) from a mysterious island where one island shouldn’t exist. Sean’s new stepfather, Hank (Dwayne Johnson), seeing the mission as an opportunity to get closer to his stepson, joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot, Gebato (Luis Guzman), and his beautiful daughter, Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island, rescue its lone inhabitant and escape before it sinks back into the sea lost forever. This film will be released February 10, 2012 and will be preceded by a Looney Tunes short film titled Daffy’s Rhapsody. The short will feature Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd in their first CG or 3-D depiction.