User Reviews

I saw this for the second time recently, before RIO (I'd seen it New Year's Day before GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, as well) and rated it 7 out of 10 (again, though quite independent of my first impression, since which a little water has gone over the dam, including Asia's Continental Crack-up). Scrat was hilarious BOTH times.

However, during my more recent viewing (with a different audience make-up, of course), there happened to be a group behind me who were "tsk-tsk'ing" to their young children off and on during this short cartoon's 2 minute, 39 second running time. Evidently, the parents thought that the theory of continental drift had something to do with Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Or perhaps they took exception to the toon's depiction of the world being round (not flat).

At any rate, when I first saw Scrat's science lesson, it never occurred to me that many folks of the fundamentalist religious persuasion might be vocally offended by seeing a hint of actual science. Maybe foisting such provocative material upon a "captive audience" expecting to be paying for pretty bird antics was another insidious plot by Hollywood J--I mean, Hollywood atheists. I still don't think this gives the intolerant boo-birds the right to disrupt the movie-going experience for those of us who actually live in the 21st century with both halves of our brains. Therefore, an urgent plea to parents: if you go to church in either a converted grocery store or a sold-out 5,000 fan arena, please show up 2 minutes and 39 seconds LATE for RIO!! You'll be doing a favor not only for yourself, but also for the rest of us!

Just watched this very funny computer-animated short before the feature Rio. In this one, the Ice Age squirrel keeps trying to protect his acorn to the point of inadvertently forming the world as we know it now. I mean, he seems responsible for forming such great continents like Austrailia, Africa, and countries like Italy (with a humorous turn as a kicking boot). He even initially makes the Mount Rushmore in his images! Just seeing Scrat go around the world frantically making what he does here is enough for me to laugh hysterically over the nearly 3 minutes this short runs. I read this first appeared before Jack Black's Gulliver's Travels back in December but I arrived a little late then so today was the very first time I've watched this short which we barely managed to see after arriving late for the previews. So in other words, I highly enjoyed Scrat's Continental Crack-Up especially in 3-D.

I really wonder what is more impossible for Little Scrat. Finally keep the acorn or carry his own movie. In my opinion, it's the latter. There are some decent jokes in here in this five-year-old 3-minute film (dor example Ice Age characters as Presidents), but none of these have directly to do with this story's hero. Also the reference of Scrat being responsible of the shape of the continents and their position was used a long time ago in an Academy Award nominated earlier Scrat cartoon already. Looks like they really struggle to come up with something new. So, perfect position they are in to make a second short crack-up film I guess huh? Some franchises just bleed out so much. Then again, I did like the 4th "Ice Age" film. But Scrat on his own never did too much for me. Also, during the films he was the weakest component most of the time. Not recommended.