This is an Ice Age adventure in the usual Disney vein. Typically, in the franchise’s tradition, some current universal issue is addressed (e.g., climate change, its threats and others’ to animals and to earth), along with changes in relationships within small groups, like a family or a herd, facing a major threat. This one focuses on children ready to […]
Very little works in Alpha to immerse the viewer in the adventure they are trying to sell. Albert Hughes, half of The Hughes Brothers, so half the talent behind The Book of Eli and From Hell, goes it alone on this ice age adventure. X-Men actor Kodi Smit-McPhee is cast in the lead role here,
This is the seventh in a series of Ice Age films, and is largely empty animation and special effects without much of a story. My interest was piqued when I saw that Neil DeGrasse Tyson was going to be one of the voices in the film, in hopes that it would have some educational value;