L'aventure inédite de Scrat

The first time we met the character Scrat was in the trailer of 'Ice Age'. In that film he was one of my favorite characters and here he returns for 'Gone Nutty', a hilarious animated short. Scrat is collecting acorns but the last one keeps popping out of the stash he has already collected. We understand that Scrat will get in some trouble. Although the main event is predictable, the way the short plays from there is very original.

The trailer for 'Ice Age' seemed a animated short on itself as well; it was very funny. 'Ice Age' was also very funny and 'Gone Nutty' continues on the same funny level. I laughed a lot during this little film and while doing that I was also admiring the beautiful animation. One of the best animated shorts I have seen and finally one that is not made by Pixar Animation Studios.

This short animation is about Scrat and his nut collection that goes terribly wrong.

"Gone Nutty" shows that imagination has no limits. Scrat is somewhat a perfectionist, he wants his nut collection to be perfectly in order. Hence, when he forces a nut into the already tightly packed collection, his whole nut collection collapses and falls off a cliff. Terror! How Scrat reacts is so much fun. It is amazing how much humour and fun can be packed into just four minutes. I am not going to spoil the ending, but I will say I am impressed and entertained by the ending. And science of tectonic plates have to be re-written!

Gone Nutty, short film that is included as an extra on the DVD of Ice Age (and that was nominated for the Oscar), short film featuring the, sometimes, hilarious squirrel Scrat. Certainly it is just the story of its life: is Scrat with lots of acorns but with a problem, eventually is Scrat with only one acorn yet finally with only a sort of beret, no acorn. I wouldn't say this is absolutely hilarious, for me this isn't very special (just like Ice Age itself) but still it's good stuff, with the hilarious stuff of the continental drift theory! Certainly it's far from being as good as any of the best Pixar shorts but surely it's better than a short like Pixar's Boundin'.

The squirrel you knew from Ice Age is in his very own short film.

Gone Nutty, is all about Scrat and his collection of Acorns.

Which will lead him to danger and a world of hurt.

Gone Nutty is clever and humorous.

And has a funny ending.

It's done by the same people who did Ice Age with the same animation.

Chris Wedge does the voice for Scrat as he did in the movie.

It's worth seeing for 5 minutes for those who like Scrat and Ice Age.

I have nothing else to say about it.

But you're able to see this short on the Ice Age DVD.

Despite his struggles in the film Ice Age, Scrat has managed to fill a hollow tree with his precious nuts. Ever the hoarder, Scrat tries to squeeze another nut into the tree but his greed soon becomes his undoing.

Scrat was the focus of the trailer I saw for this movie, and was a really good little running joke all the way through the film, so to have his own short was both a risk (can he do it himself) and a benefit (his stuff was funny!). Happily the plot simply sees an extension of his Ice Age role of chasing nuts etc. Here the action is expanded and is actually pretty funny.

The short running time is just right as the one basic joke can't be told repeatedly over a longer time without fatigue setting in. As it is, the film just manages to do enough stuff with the nuts to keep it funny without wearing out it's welcome. The final punchline is a real exaggeration but is also very funny!

Overall I doubt this will stand up to repeated viewings (unless you're one of the toddlers I watched it with), but it is still a funny addition to the film.