The Ice Age series was able to impressively sustain five theatrical movies, albeit with varying levels of quality. Seeing it continue via a sixth movie, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, is a little surprising. However, the movie is all startlingly different, as it attempts to shift attention away from the original stars: Sid the sloth, Mannie and Ellie the mammoths, and Diego the saber-toothed tiger, none of whom are voiced by celebrities this time.
Simon Pegg, who portrays the film’s namesake, one-eyed weasel Buck Wild, is the only returning major name. Crash (Vincent Tong) and Eddie (Aaron Harris), the chattering possums who are also Ellie’s adoptive siblings, join him in the middle (Dominique Jennings).
As we’ve seen in all of the ‘Ice Age’ films, the possum brothers can always be counted on to cause fresh havoc. It’s not any different in this film. Eddie and Crash leave their “family” in the hopes of discovering themselves and live independently after realising they don’t want to be continually bossed about or looked of as inferior to the mammoths and a sabretooth. Soon after, they rip a large crack in the ice surface, sending them into the “Lost World,” the warm subterranean habitat of the last dinosaurs, which Ellie had warned them to avoid. And, you guessed it, the twins march in and are swiftly attacked by the voracious raptor henchmen of Orson, the “big-brained” brilliant dino (Utkarsh Ambudkar).
Fortunately, an old friend, the gallant weasel hero Buck Wild, comes to their aid (Simon Pegg). Their refuge, however, is only temporary, as Buck informs them of Orson’s secret plot to control the “dino paradise.”