After five minutes with our protagonists, you may find yourself on Team Meteor. Scene-stealer Scrat and his acorn have been promoted from sideline slapstick to plot engine – the hyperactive rodent stumbles upon a flying saucer embedded in the ice, and he accidentally launches into outer space, forming the Milky Way galaxy and sending some extinction-level meteors toward Earth. There’s plenty of fart jokes, forward motion and bright colors to engage easily-entertained children, but their parents will be subjected to yet another movie that has all the zing of watching evolution in real time. Lacking laughs, energy and sharp edges in equal degrees to its predecessors, “Ice Age: Collision Course” takes huge strides in the hotly-contested race to be 2016’s Most Irrelevant Sequel. In one of the great mysteries of contemporary film, most sequels to animated feature hits go directly to DVD while, somehow, a fifth “Ice Age” movie is galumphing its way into theaters.
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