Michael Berg (5)

Cartoon

Cartoon

Despite a wonderful new character with the voice of Simon Pegg and one of the better Scrat-subplots of the entire series, this is a middling film with a weak, nearly non-existent plot and very heavy-handed character arcs (which are, of course, still better than no arcs at all). But it has some fun moments, and I have a soft spot for Hollow Earth theory nonsense.

A solid step up from the rather aimless third film, with a great villain from Peter Dinklage, some genuinely creepy (yet funny) sirens, and some mildly amusing eccentric old person hijinks from Wanda Sykes. Otherwise yet another somewhat bland and overwrought sequel when compared to the grounded and genuine original.