Thankfully, Scrat makes several much-welcome appearances throughout the film, but this opening sequence still stands as probably the best four minutes of the entire film. I have heard that Scrat was originally meant to play a much larger role in the film, which was to be centered around him as the main character, but other characters were brought in under the demand for a more large scale motion picture. There is something to be said when a movie like Drop Zone or even a James Bond film like Moonraker can so badly screw up the concept of skydiving, and then a short children's film like this makes the effort to portray it so accurately (with the obvious exception of all that nut gathering business, of course). The image here is the fanmade title card for Ice Age: Scrat and Scratte Tales. You may remember seeing previews for Ice Age that were made up entirely of footage from Scrat's Missing Adventure, which is probably the most entertaining and amusing short animated film I've ever seen. The other day, BoladoScrat on Twitter told us that the second series of Ice Age: Scrat Tales could be called Ice Age: Scrat and Scratte Tales. “Scrat Tales” seized an opportunity to redeem the franchise and went out on a high note.Like many of it's animated colleagues, Ice Age starts off with a wonderful short film, this time one which was even better known than the rest of the film before it was released. And with how the “Ice Age” franchise seemed to run itself into the ground toward the end, this is for the best. It’s often hard to let go of a seemingly never-ending story like Scrat’s, but something this heartfelt and witty eases the blow a little bit. “Ice Age: Scrat Tales” is remarkably tight, side-splittingly funny and brilliantly animated. Although this short is the final project of Blue Sky Studios, it’s not the end for all of the immensely talented artists who have poured their souls into the company.īut if this truly is the last we’ll see of Scrat, it’s the perfect sendoff for such an iconic character. The title itself, a play on “not the end,” seems like an act of bittersweet defiance. It explores a what-if scenario that at first is endearing, then quickly falls in line with all that came before. “Teeter Toddler” shows the first hints of Scrat and Baby Scrat truly warming up to one another, culminating in “Nut the End,” which simply needs to be seen to be believed. Scrat (Chris Wedge) and Baby Scrat (Kari Wahlgren) draw in the snow. Then, in February 2022, a year after the announcement of Blue Sky’s closure, their final completed project was revealed: “Ice Age: Scrat Tales,” a series of six shorts for Disney+ showcasing Scrat raising a son, Baby Scrat, while also continuing his Sisyphean pursuit of the beloved acorn. Voiced by director Chris Wedge, Scrat has no dialogue, but is featured as a dedicated and anxious squirrel who is forever chasing the dream of capturing and safely hiding an acorn, for which he has become synonymous with. To add insult to injury, Disney announced a sixth film in the franchise, produced by an entirely different animation studio on a shoestring budget with none of the original voice cast, save for Simon Pegg as Buck Wild, and inexplicably, no Scrat, despite him being the series’ de facto mascot. In February 2021, two years after Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, Disney announced they would be shutting down Blue Sky Studios, the production company behind “Ice Age,” which was a heartbreaking announcement for a wide variety of reasons. But I’ve always admired “Ice Age,” in ways that have garnered me a reputation (yes, I am the Jesus Scrat guy). Directed by Chris Wedge, Scrat has no dialogue, but is presented as a. The series’ first four films were box-office hits, but by the release of the fifth film, the bizarre, slapdash sequel “Ice Age: Collision Course” in 2016, in which the series officially jumped the shark and sent Scrat to space, it seemed the world had moved on from the herd’s exploits. Now, as his final act, Blue Sky Studios finally lets Scrat make his wish come true. In recent years, the “Ice Age” series has mostly been forgotten or maligned.
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