A Aventura Perdida de Scrat

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!

Like many of it's animated colleagues, Ice Age starts off with a wonderful short film, this time one which was even better known than the rest of the film before it was released. You may remember seeing previews for Ice Age that were made up entirely of footage from Scrat's Missing Adventure, which is probably the most entertaining and amusing short animated film I've ever seen. There is something to be said when a movie like Drop Zone or even a James Bond film like Moonraker can so badly screw up the concept of skydiving, and then a short children's film like this makes the effort to portray it so accurately (with the obvious exception of all that nut gathering business, of course).

I have heard that Scrat was originally meant to play a much larger role in the film, which was to be centered around him as the main character, but other characters were brought in under the demand for a more large scale motion picture. Thankfully, Scrat makes several much-welcome appearances throughout the film, but this opening sequence still stands as probably the best four minutes of the entire film.

He had enough acorns to last decades, but he had to force one more into his stash. This Ice Age star, saber toothed squirrel, goes overboard and pays the price. The animation is superb and the action sequences wonderful. The main character has so many expressions that are priceless. It's a really fun little cartoon.

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.

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.