1 Minute Review : Ice Age - Continental Drift

This movie, I'll give a 6/10.
It wasn't so bad. There was beautiful animation and amazing visuals, but the movie had two major problems. The beginning was really intense, throwing the characters into danger in the "third or so" scene and it was extreme and sets a mood of hopelessness which works for the story, but it was too intense for a family film or a comedy. It went on for seven minutes and pushing the apocalyptic danger so much takes away from the threatening figure that the antagonists are supposed to have, playing all of the dramatic high-cards way too early.
Besides from that the movie suffers from what I have to call "EG syndrome". This is when the writers choose to include a vast amount of story arcs, but too much to the point when not one of the arcs get the attention to develop enough to stand out and stick with the audience. And aside from that, one arc is dependent on two cliché "boyfriend" characters that make it unbelievably predictable.
The movie, though, does have good visuals that can set the mood for a despairing tone or intense action and I feel that it is an interesting note that the movie is inspired by Greek myths and it almost seems to be reinforced throughout in kind of an arbitrary way as if trying to pander to the smarter or "myth-buff" audience, which is still pandering, but it's very out of the box in it's pandering.
Overall, it's not a classic by any means, but there is enough substance for the movie to be worth a watch to say the least.