And don't forget about Scrat, who's never involved but just somehow miraculously leads the story.

The vivid colors and the 'just right' graphical presentation is sure a feast on the eyes. I still gave this movie a 6 because of, well, what Fox and Blue Sky has always been best at. It feels like they just copied and pasted from before - The soundtracks are awesome, but when it's used once too many, it just doesn't have the same impact anymore. From the title sequence to the Ending, pretty much everything without a vocal voice was identical to something I've heard before. After listening to it for years now, I could virtually name the tracks as they come up in the Continental Drift.

I bought the soundtracks after watching that movie thinking it was spectacular. Despite having no improvement in quality, they recycled music from the second movie in the series, 'the Meltdown'. They also did a sub-par job in the music. I guess this is the biggest drag down for fans who have been watching since the first one. However, this probably means their target audience are younger than the ones before. Not a lot happened before the villains are apprehended and the world returns to peace and harmony, as in any of the Ice Age movies. By the end of this movie, I couldn't believe the story's over. The whole story took place in 3, 4 'in-movie' days, much shorter than the previous ones which had a constant string of events. There's no surprises, and everything is pretty much along the line of a typical friendship/family/hero type story.

The plot during this adventure is short and simple. The 3D was spectacular in terms of visual appearance, but I would not rate it as good as the previous Ice Age movies. In fact, this is the first time that I thought I would watch it in theater rather than getting a DVD later.

I have always liked the Ice Age series up to the third one.

Free Ice Age: Continental Drift