The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild is a 2022 computer animated adventure film. The film is produced by 20th Century Animation and Walt Disney Pictures under the label. It's based on the Ice Age franchise. It focuses on Buck forming a team of animals to stop an evil dwarf talking Triceratops named that wants to rule the Lost World with his Raptors and kill all the mammals.
It premiered on Disney+ on January 28, 2022.
Plot[]
One month after the events of Ice Age: Collision Course, Crash and Eddie are tired of being treated like babies and wants to find their own place, especially after destroying the habitat of Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie, Shira and Brooke.
That night they escape and they go back to the old valley choosing it as their new home (they find a non-destroyed zone) but they get thrown underground and they find another bridge to the Dinosaur World after Buck destroyed the old one and they decide to go there to live a life of adventures with the weasel but they're chased by some Raptors after their leader, a dwarf talking Triceratops named Orson that hates mammals, decided to make them their snack, however they're saved by Buck as he was flying with his new Pteranodon pet Penelope.
Buck wants to bring the duo back to home since he believes them unable to survive in the Dinosaur World, but he says he will do it once he defeated Orson, that wants to rule the Dinosaur World with his Raptors and to get rid of mammals. Once they're on Buck's home, Orson shows up and he put a rock in the entry.
After explaining his plan, Orson succeeds to capture Buck, Crash and Eddie using gas, but they're saved by a female Zorilla named Zee, an old friend and love interest of Buck that helps them to find Momma T-Rex so she can help them to defeat Orson.
However, Momma T-Rex has a pain in one of her teeth and they try to remove that tooth but while doing it Zee had to use her stanch to keep her calm during the operation which made her confused and unable to fight the Raptors when Orson arrives.
Buck offers himself to Orson as his prisoner so that Zee, Crash and Eddie can escape, and Orson accepts delighted that he won. However, Zee trains Crash and Eddie to become better adventurers and fighters and they successfully free Buck from his cage saving him right when Orson was about to execute him in front of everyone by feeding him to his Raptors.
Buck, Zee, Crash and Eddie start fighting against Orson and his allies and Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie and Momma T-Rex arrives to help them. Crash and Eddie manages to temporarily control the Raptors and they send them to chase and eat Orson instead as the latter runs away in terror.
Crash and Eddie hugs Ellie and decide to stay with Buck and Zee to live an adventurous life while promising to the Herd that they will visit often.
Cast[]
- Simon Pegg as Buck
- Vincent Tong as Crash
- Aaron Harris as Eddie
- Justina Machado as Zee, an adventurer female Zorilla that is Buck's love interest and old friend.
- Utkarsh Ambudkar as Orson, a dwarf talking Triceratops that wants to rule the Dinosaur World with his minions.
- Frank Welker (Uncredited) as Momma T-Rex
- Sean Kenin as Manny
- Jake Green as Sid
- Skyler Stone as Diego
- Dominique Jennings as Ellie
Trivia[]
- Scrat is still trapped in space, presumably still struggling to command the UFO, and therefore unable to actually appear but he gets referenced in a drawing seen in Buck's home which shows him in the UFO (an obvious Easter Egg). Peaches is also indirectly mentioned when Manny says to Crash and Eddie that at some point adults should move over implying that Peaches and Julian already moved away. Shira and Brooke aren't seen or mentioned but it's safe to assume they were hanging out.
- Unlike the previous Ice Age Films produced by 20th Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios, This is the first Film to be produced by Walt Disney Pictures.
- The film was originally titled Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild, as seen on the prototype logo revealed during Disney Investor Day 2020, however it was later altered to The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild, beginning with the teaser poster.
- Like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, it is believed that the test footage shown during Disney Investor Day 2020 for the project came from when it was originally in-development as a television series, however this remains unconfirmed.
