Journey to the Blue Sky Episode 8: Ice Age: Continental Drift

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia return to the Ice Age franchise with the 4th installment Ice Age: Continental Drift released in 2012. Taking place years after Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Manny and Ellie's daughter Peaches is a teenager who wants to fit in with the other mammoths, but is looked as "weird" because she's half possum. Her friend Lewis is very kind towards her, but she has a massive crush on a mammoth named Ethan. However, Manny is overprotective of her. Thanks to Scrat's acorn shenanigans, the continents split and Manny, Diego, Sid, and Sid's grandmother are separated from the rest of the group including Ellie and Peaches stranded on an large chunk of ice drifting at sea trying to get back to them. Things become harder when a pirate ship led by a large primate named Captain Gut takes them on board and tries to force them to be his crew. When the film premiered in theaters, it made over $879 million dollars making it the highest grossing animated film that year. Despite that, it received mixed reviews from critics calling it derivative from the previous films while not capturing the same subtle humor and charm from the first film. What did Arun and Patricia think of the film? Listen and find out.