YMMV / Ice Age: Collision Course

aka: Ice Age 5 Collision Course

• Adorkable:
  • Julian's always excited and happy in the same way as a little kid.
  • Roger is extremely awkward.
• Americans Hate Tingle: In most parts of the world, Julian is considered one of the most tolerable and likeable characters from the movie. Latin American audiences however regard him as The Scrappy since the Latin dub has him voiced by German Garmendia, a very popular Youtuber whose voice is so recognizable that most audiences (including his own fans) tend to agree the character ended up sounding too much like him to the point it came up as distracting, not helped by the dub adding references to his videos.
• Ass Pull: The Geotopia's crystals attracting the asteroid only makes sense if you ignore the movie's Action Prologue where we can clearly see the asteroid wasn't going to Earth until Scrat accidentaly pushed in the way.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • The Denser and Wackier approach to the series has seemingly reached its peak with the Shangri-Llama, a supposedly mystical shaman who will save the Earth from the asteroid. Is he a funny addition to the series or a stupid character already?
  • Julian, on one hand he's seen as an unnecessary addition to a franchise that has already being criticized for having too many characters and his subplot with Manny and Peaches is very disliked, while on the other hand, he's one of the few characters of who you can genuinely root for and is shown to be a legitimate Nice Guy in comparison to the rest of the Herd in this movie.
  • The Dinobirds (minus Roger who is considered a Ensemble Dark Horse) to a degree. Is very hard to find anyone who will defend them as great villains, but there seems to be an division between those who found them just as annoying as anyone else and those who see them as some of the few entertaining characters in the movie. Detractors cite how completely pointless their whole subplot was and their plan being so idiotic even the movie lampshades. Defenders find them a bit amusing, thanks to the performaces of their popular voice actors and actually changing for the better by the end of the movie.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: There's an very odd scene at the beginning where Ellie prepares a surprise party for her and Manny's anniversary, and Manny realizes he had forgotten the date. Immediately afterwards, the first asteroids crashing interrupt the ceremony and the anniversary plot point is never mentioned again.
• Broken Base:
  • Has the Denser and Wackier approach gone too far?
  • Scrat's antics this time around. Some fans thought he was still the best part of the movie and think his segments are on par with his segments on the rest of the franchise. Other fans feel that Scrat being aboard a sci-fi setting instead of land for the whole movie limited the character's usual brand of comedy and feel that some of the slapstick was too sadistic to be enjoyable.
• Cliché Storm: One of the chief complaints against the movie is that it's unoriginal and not creative at all. Manny's domestic issues in particular are criticized for feeling like standard sitcom drama.
• Designated Hero: Besides Buck, none of the "heroic" characters seems to care they are in a world-ending situation, often being more busy getting distracted over whatever they find in the way or for their relatively more minor issues. Only when they arrive in Geotopia is that Manny and Ellie come under the realization of how important their mission is.
• Eight Deadly Words: A common criticism is that there's hardly any character worth rooting for, even if you liked the same characters in the previous movies. Manny and Ellie spend the entire movie trying to sabotage her daughter's wedding for rather petty reasons. Sid's quest for love is rather shallow. The Citiziens of Geotopia are Jerkasses that are uncaring of the rest of the world dying. The Dinobirds are going against our heroes for such dumb reasons is impossible for the audience to want them to win even if you are rooting against the Herd and lack Evil Is Cool points to make up for it. Peaches and Julian are seen as bland sitcom-like characters and any other character borders between being pointless to the plot or an annoying Plucky Comic Relief with none of them seeming to care at all about the asteroid situation. The only possible exception is Buck, who's ironically the only character that's taking the world-ending situation seriously and even he suffers from being Demoted to Comic Relief.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • The Scratazons from the "Spaced Out" mini-movie have become rather popular because... well, just guess.
  • Roger is liked even by oppositers of the movie for being probably The Only Sane Man among the cast and one of the few characters that was likeable and not annoying.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Many fans prefer to pretend this film doesn't exist, perhaps even more so than the other sequels. The above and below mentioned issues certainly play a part in it.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The movie failed to make back its budget domestically, grossing $64 million against a $105 million budget. When it was released internationally, it made an additional $344 million, pushing its gross up to $408.5 million worldwide.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: 5 years later, one of the villains would become Sid's niece.
• Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: While the Dino birds are far from particulary popular characters, they often get a pass out of them being, one) Plot Irrelevant Villains and two) mildly amusing thanks to Nick Offerman and Stephanie Beatriz's performances, so they are far from the most hated characters in the movie, even if their intention is causing the apocalypse so they can reign over the ashes of the old world. In exchange, Manny and Ellie get a much bigger amount of hate for spending the entire movie trying to sabotage their daughter's wedding while being uncaring of the world ending situation they are involved in.
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Buck returning is one of the main reasons fans went to see the film.
  • Also, Neil De Grasse Tyson. Some people just couldn't resist the chance to see him in a film like this one.
  • Nick Offerman as the feathered raptor Gavin attracted some viewers.
• Memetic Loser: Among Latin American fans, Louis is commonly remembered as the one character with a Interspecies Romance in a All-CGI Cartoon movie that didn't got the Relationship Upgrade and to top it all only appeared in this movie to see her getting married.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • For fans against the film, "let the asteroid hit" is a common response to the trailers.
  • "IT'S TIME TO STOP!!!"
  • That, however, is a turd. ^ExplanationThere's a scene where Crash and Eddy lick what is supposedly a rock after seeing Buck do so earlier (as a stand-in for relative age dating), then Buck says this line. Replace the rock with a good installment of a series or a good piece of media, and the turd with a bad one, and you have this meme in a nutshell.
  • "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!'' ^ExplanationA line uttered by Neil deBuck Weasel upon hearing the raptors' scheme to avoid the asteroid. Used as a response to stupid comments or ideas on forums or social media.
• Never Live It Down: While they do regret it by the end of the movie, a lot of fans and general audiences will never let Manny and Ellie live down the fact they attempted to sabotage their daughter's wedding instead of focusing on the present world ending crisis.
• Nightmare Fuel: Scrat briefly suffers Body Horror during the gravity scene, when his skin falls off and he's reduced to a skeleton. It's only very brief, but it's still quite a shocking image.
• Padding: After the herd learns of the asteroid, they spend the second act simply marching from one set piece to another, and don't even reach Geotopia until the last 20 minutes of the film. There are way too many plot lines going on in this film.
• Replacement Scrappy: Fans of Louis were very disappointed that not only he's Demoted to Extra but that Peaches got a completely different character as a Love Interest in the form of Julian.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Widely considered to be one of the film's few improvements over its predecessors is that Peaches is significantly more tolerable and mature in this movie than in Ice Age: Continental Drift. If anything, she's arguably more mature than either of her parents.
• Ron the Death Eater: Overlapping with Common Knowledge, negative reviews of the movie tend to demonize Manny and Ellie for sabotaging Peaches's wedding, and while very few fans will deny it was a low blow, is commonly forgotten that they do come to regret it by the end of the movie, admit that what they did was wrong, supported the actual wedding, apparently payed for it (somehow), and they were otherwise decent enough parents in any other part of the franchise. But many viewers were so disgusted by their actions before that, that they had definitely painted the pair as Abusive Parents from the perspective of some fans.
• Rooting for the Empire: Many critical reviews expressed a desire for the asteroid to actually hit to ensure no further movies will be made.
• The Scrappy: Brooke. Her character design is hideous, as they gave a cartoony sloth human-like hair and a "dress" made from fur to really show that she's female. Besides, she is generally useless, barring a single scene, and seems to only exist to give Sid, of all characters, a girlfriend.
• Sequelitis: Collision Course is nowhere near the quality of any of the previous films, according to the critics. The idea of it being an unnecessary sequel is a prevailing theme in many reviews. The film holds the lowest critical score on Rotten Tomatoes (16%), not just for the series, but for Blue Sky Studios as a whole. It was also far less successful at the box office than its predecessors (though still managed to be profitable).
• Squick: Eddie very nearly licking a turd.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Besides everything else fans didn't like about the movie. Many took issue with the animation of the characters being much more cartoony and over-the top in contrast with the more relatively realistic way the characters were animated in the last four movies.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Shira wasn’t a particularly well-defined character to begin with, but this movie takes it up a notch by basically reducing her to a background element. She has a minor subplot in which she and Diego are discussing having children and wanting to gain acceptance from the other members of the herd, and a brief scene at climax where she and Diego are Manny's right-hand-men, but she's barely in the movie. Several people questioned why they even bothered hiring Jennifer Lopez to reprise her role that had barely any lines this time around.
  • Fans were disappointed that Louis, who was also a major supporting character in the fourth film, only got a mere, silent cameo here. Especially with another character suddenly becoming Peaches's love interest.
  • Buck's return to the film was widely well-received by fans of the franchise. Despite the character being brought back solely to please fans, these fans were frustrated when Buck made his grand return and didn't really do anything spectacular or important outside of his version of Figaro Aria.
  • The Dino-bird villains get some flack for not being as interesting or memorable as the previous films' villains since their plan to prevent the heroes from stopping the asteroid is utterly illogical ^note Which gets lampshaded by Neil deBuck Weasel and they constantly fail at every opportunity. However, one of the things that makes them stand out is that they are one of the very few villains who redeem themselves at the film's end.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • The movie has Diego and Shira discussing the possibility of having children. This subplot amount to little more that two scenes and really doesn't cause any conflict nor development to any of them. Those who wanted Diego and Shira getting Babies Ever After or Diego and Shira simply having more of a role in the movie were rather dissapointed.
  • Sid desperately wanting a girlfriend could have being a perfect chance for some Character Development for him, considering Sid has being established as someone with major abandonment issues, is a major Casanova Wannabe that once mentioned to have no issue with cheating and in this movie is shown to be rather clingy towards his couples. Instead, the movie decides to ignore all of these flaws and simply give him a couple that happens to fall in Love at First Sight. Ignoring any interesting route to take with the subplot.
  • More like They Wasted a Perfectly Good Joke but is a bit dissapointing we never see Sid's or the rest of the Herd reaction to the rejuvenated Granny
• Ugly Cute: Roger himself can be seen as this, since he is a dromaeosaur, but his depiction, with his big eyes and lanky body, makes him so endearing and adorable.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic : Francine hardly comes up as the shallow and heartless ex-girlfriend the movie tries to make her look like as she has pretty much any reason to turn down Sid. She finds him incredibly clingy, had only one date before he proposed her marriage and apparently Sid only got the chance to meet her by catfishing (somehow).
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic :
  • It's very hard to sympathize with Sid's arc of wanting to find a girlfriend given he has been established for 5 movies to be a clingy Casanova Wannabe that back in the original movie directly stated he had no issue with cheating. Even worse is that instead of giving him some development in those issues, he just happens to find a girlfriend that falls in love with him at first sight and ignores all his flaws
  • While Manny and Ellie are called out for trying to screw Peaches and Julian's wedding, no one seems to mention that Sid, Crash and Eddie were also helping on the sabotage despise the three acting supportive while talking to the couple.

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