This image released by Disney Enterprises shows a scene from the animated feature "The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild." (Disney Enterprises via AP)
For better and for worse, the 鈥淚ce Age鈥 franchise seems to have been around longer than the actual Ice Age. With the latest entry, 鈥淭he Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild,鈥 which is number six in the series and stars the voice of Simon Pegg on Disney+, the movies are starting to show their age. The characters and the voice work are still fun, but the animation doesn鈥檛 have the same pop as the earlier movies.
The action begins in Snow Valley, home of unruly possum brothers Crash (Vincent Tong) and Eddie (Aaron Harris). The possums are restless, bored with life in the sleepy, icy dale. They want to experience the world, away from the over-protective eyes of their make-shift family, woolly mammoths Ellie and Manny. 鈥淚t鈥檚 time for us to move out and make our mark on the world.鈥 By fluke, they wind up in the Lost World鈥斺淲e came here to live a life of adventure鈥濃攁 massive underground cave and land of danger that might be too extreme, even for them.
As Ellie and Manny fret鈥斺淚f we don鈥檛 find them, I鈥檓 going to kill them,鈥 says Manny鈥攁n unlikely 鈥渟uperhero鈥 comes to Crash and Eddie鈥檚 rescue, a one-eyed weasel named Buck Wild (Pegg). Together they form a team to defeat the dinosaurs who live in the Lost World. 鈥淚t鈥檚 time to get buck wild.鈥
鈥淭he Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild鈥 has a distinctly direct-to-streaming feel about it. The above the title voice cast from the other films鈥擱ay Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary and Queen Latifah鈥攁re gone, replaced with sound-alikes. Not that young kids will mind, or even notice. But older kids who grew up watching these movies鈥攖hey鈥檝e been around for 20 years鈥攎ay feel this one isn鈥檛 a movie as much as it is an inexpensive, extended version of the TV series that was spun off the films.
Like all the 鈥淚ce Age鈥 movies, this one has good messages for kids about the importance of family鈥"The only thing that stays the same is the love we have for one another. That鈥檚 the thing about a herd, you鈥檙e a part of it, even when you are apart.鈥濃攁nd embracing change鈥斺淐hange is scary but it is the way of the world. It can help us grow into the people we鈥檙e meant to be even if that takes us to new places.鈥
Nothing ground breaking, just solid morals from a story that should appeal to kids who haven鈥檛 already heard those platitudes a hundred times over.
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The title of 鈥淥ne Shot,鈥 a new action movie starring Scott Adkins, Ryan Phillippe and Ashley Greene Khoury, and now available on VOD, is a double entendre of a sort. The adrenalized action heroes at the heart of the film have one shot to quell an attack, and director James Nunn has cleverly filmed all the action in 鈥渞eal time,鈥 using camera tricks to make it look like this was shot in one, long continuous take.
The story begins with a squad of Navy SEALs led by Lt. Blake Harris (Adkins) airlifting junior CIA analyst Zoe Anderson (Khoury) to a remote Guantanamo Bay-esque prison that houses 鈥淯nited Nations of terror鈥 suspects. Anderson鈥檚 job is to extract Amin Mansur (Waleed Elgadi), a British national who pleads his innocence, but is suspected to be a mastermind of a 9/11 style dirty-bomb attack on all three branches of the American government.
Deputy Site Manager Tom Shields (Phillippe) stalls the prisoner鈥檚 release, inadvertently allowing time for the ruthless terrorist Charef (Jess Liaudin) and his insurgents to overrun the place, freeing captives and trying to kill Mansur before he can spill the beans on the plot to bring down the government.
鈥淥ne Shot鈥 isn鈥檛 about the characters, political subtext or even the siege story. It鈥檚 all about the 鈥渙ne shot鈥 gimmick, wall-to-wall video-game style gunplay, and a sense of urgency.
For the most part the gimmick works, although, if you鈥檙e like me, you鈥檒l be taken out of the story as you try and see where the subliminal edits are. It鈥檚 a distraction that fades as the running times passes because director Nunn choreographs the action expertly, creating a sense of unpredictable immediacy. You never really know who is around the next corner or hiding behind a pile of sandbags. It鈥檚 the edgy, you-are-there filmmaking, aided by cinematographer Jonathan Iles, that makes the generic story and stereotyped characters somewhat interesting.
The relentless violence, however, becomes tiring after a while. The first gunshot happens around the 19-minute mark and the bullet ballet continues pretty much non-stop for the rest of the running time. There are breaks in the action, usually as someone tends to a wounded person, but they are few and far between.
鈥淥ne Shot鈥 is a B movie with efficient brutality and some edge-of-your-seat scenes, but the script is as riddled with clich茅s鈥"Sometimes it is harder to save a life than it is to save one,鈥 intones Anderson when the going gets tough鈥攁s the characters are with bullet holes.
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A study in toxic masculinity, greed and the sins of the father, 鈥淭wo Deaths of Henry Baker,鈥 a new thriller starring Gil Bellows now on VOD, is a pale imitation of neo-noir Westerns like 鈥淗ell or High Water.鈥
The action begins in a flashback to 1958 as young Henry Baker and his father hide a fortune in stolen gold coins. Cut to 30 years later, Henry, now played by Gil Bellows, is all grown up and ready to retrieve the cash. With young son Hank (Gunnar Burke) in tow, things go sideways. Henry kills his own brother (also Bellows) and gets arrested.
Decades pass. As Henry is about to be sprung from prison both his son Hank, now played by Sebastian Pigott and his nephew Sam (Joe Dinicol), the son of Henry鈥檚 murdered brother, anxiously await. Everybody wants a taste of the gold, but Sam wants revenge while corrupt Sheriff Ron Capman (Tony Curran) wants it all.
鈥淭wo Deaths of Henry Baker鈥 is an ambitious movie that falls slightly short of its goal.
There are some nicely realized action set pieces and moments of tension, but those plusses are done in by slack pacing from director Felipe Mucci. The movie鈥檚 machinations crawl along, which make some of the story鈥檚 leaps of logic even more noticeable than they might have been in a film with a quicker pace.
Having said that, the story of cross-generational toxicity resonates. Violence begets violence is not a new idea, but the handing of the baton from fathers to sons is nicely illuminated here and aided by the performances from Bellows and Dinicol.
鈥淭wo Deaths of Henry Baker鈥 may be the feel-bad movie of the year so far. Heavy on the nihilism, it鈥檚 a gritty portrait of intergenerational violence, but doesn鈥檛 dig deep enough into the psychologically of the story for the characters to resonate.
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