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As much as even the fans nowadays tend to agree with the critics that the series [[FranchiseZombie has overstayed its welcome]] after each subsequent film [[Sequelitis became increasingly lacking in quality]], the early warning signs for the meltdown the series' reputation would suffer [[FranchiseOriginalSin were present well in advance]].
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As much as even the fans nowadays tend to agree with the critics that the series [[FranchiseZombie has overstayed its welcome]] after each subsequent film [[Sequelitis [[{{Sequelitis}} became increasingly lacking in quality]], the early warning signs for the meltdown the series' reputation would suffer [[FranchiseOriginalSin were present well in advance]].
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* A common criticism of later sequels is that the humor became increasingly [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece out of place]], [[ToiletHumor unfitting]], and [[DemographicallyInappropriateHumor inappropriate]]; not to mention [[ComedyGhetto too bountiful]] to allow the films to be taken seriously. However, while the original film was considerably more serious compared to the sequels, it wasn't entirely devoid of humor itself. The difference however, is that the original film balanced out all the slapstick and snark based humor with plenty of drama and heart that granted the story a sense of sincerity while also allowing only at least one instance of each of some of the more potentially unfitting forms of humor and allowing all the humor in general to be well timed enough to feel natural and provide levity when as much was needed. Unfortunately, with each sequel released, the amount of humor present became increasingly high to the point that, by the time of the final theatrically released film ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'', all potential drama and heart to be found was almost completely buried under an avalanche worth of jokes that were at best [[MoodWhiplash jarring]] or out of place[[note]]Such as one of the opossum brothers nearly licking a piece of poop until Buck told them not to, the opossums later making reference to hashtags, or Sid's angered date from earlier on in the movie disparagingly giving him a negative comparison to his 'profile picture'[[/note]], and at worst annoying or redundant[[note]]Such as Crash and Eddie generally acting like complete idiots when such a niche of humor is technically already being fulfilled by Sid[[/note]].
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As much as even the fans nowadays tend to agree with the critics that the series [[FranchiseZombie has overstayed its welcome]] after each subsequent film [[Sequelitis became increasingly lacking in quality]], the early warning signs for the meltdown the series' reputation would suffer [[FranchiseOriginalSin were present well in advance]].
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* A common criticism of later sequels is that the humor became increasingly [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece out of place]], [[ToiletHumorunfitting]], gross]], and [[DemographicallyInappropriateHumor inappropriate]]; not to mention [[ComedyGhetto too bountiful]] to allow the films to be taken seriously. However, while the original film was considerably more serious compared to the sequels, it wasn't entirely devoid of humor itself. The difference however, is that the original film balanced out all the slapstick and snark based humor with plenty of drama and heart that granted the story a sense of sincerity while also allowing only at least one instance of each of some of the more potentially unfitting forms of humor and allowing all the humor in general to be well timed enough to feel natural and provide levity when as much was needed. Unfortunately, with each sequel released, the amount of humor present became increasingly high to the point that, by the time of the final theatrically released film ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'', all potential drama and heart to be found was almost completely buried under an avalanche worth of jokes that were at best [[MoodWhiplash jarring]] or out of place[[note]]Such as one of the opossum brothers nearly licking a piece of poop until Buck told them not to, the opossums later making reference to hashtags, or Sid's angered date from earlier on in the movie disparagingly giving him a negative comparison to his 'profile picture'[[/note]], and at worst annoying or redundant[[note]]Such as Crash and Eddie generally acting like complete idiots when such a niche of humor is technically already being fulfilled by Sid[[/note]].
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* A common criticism of later sequels is that the humor became both increasingly [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece out of place]], [[ToiletHumor increasingly]] unfitting]], and [[DemographicallyInappropriateHumor out of place]] and inappropriate]]; not to mention [[ComedyGhetto too bountiful]] to allow the films to be taken seriously. However, while the original film was considerably more serious compared to the sequels, it wasn't entirely devoid of humor itself. The difference however, is that the original film balanced out all the slapstick and snark based humor with plenty of drama and heart that granted the story a sense of sincerity while also allowing only at least one instance of each of some of the more potentially unfitting forms of humor and allowing all the humor in general to be well timed enough to feel natural and provide levity when as much was needed. Unfortunately, with each sequel released, the amount of humor present became increasingly high to the point that, by the time of the final theatrically released film ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'', all potential drama and heart to be found was almost completely buried under an avalanche worth of jokes that were at best [[MoodWhiplash jarring]] or out of place[[note]]Such as one of the opossum brothers nearly licking a piece of poop until Buck told them not to, the opossums later making reference to hashtags, or Sid's angered date from earlier on in the movie disparagingly giving him a negative comparison to his 'profile picture'[[/note]], and at worst annoying or redundant[[note]]Such as Crash and Eddie generally acting like complete idiots when such a niche of humor is technically already being fulfilled by Sid[[/note]].
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* The first film contained a decent amount of ToiletHumor (Sid stepping in the glyptodont poop), adult humor (Sid saying that a girlfriend would "go all praying mantis" on him, amongst other things), and modern references (During the montage, a glacier was seen acting like a passing bus). However, this was underplayed compared to the sequels (In the case of the modern reference, it was just there for a quick joke), and the first film still had enough heart to make up for all of it. And furthermore, all the major characters had a purpose to their presence and genuinely contributed to the narrative, whereas several characters (both old and new alike) in the sequels would end up coming across at times as having no real reason to be there at best and [[DemotedToComicRelief reduced to pointless or annoying comic relief]] at worst.
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* The first film contained a decent amount of ToiletHumor (Sid stepping in the glyptodont poop), adult humor (Sid saying that a girlfriend would "go all praying mantis" on him, amongst other things), and modern references (During the montage, a glacier was seen acting like a passing bus). However, this was underplayed compared to the sequels (In the case of the modern reference, it was just there for a quick joke), and the first film still had enough heart to make up for all of it. And furthermore, all the major characters had a purpose to their presence and genuinely contributed to the narrative, whereas several characters (both old and new alike) in the sequels would end up coming across at times as having no real reason to be there at best and [[DemotedToComicRelief reduced to pointless or annoying comic relief]] at worst.
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* A common criticism of later sequels is that the humor became both [[ToiletHumor increasingly]] [[DemographicallyInappropriateHumor out of place]] and [[ComedyGhetto too bountiful]] to allow the films to be taken seriously. However, while the original film was considerably more serious compared to the sequels, it wasn't entirely devoid of humor itself. The difference however, is that the original film balanced out all the slapstick and snark based humor with plenty of drama and heart that granted the story a sense of sincerity while also allowing only at least one instance of each of some of the more potentially unfitting forms of humor and allowing all the humor in general to be well timed enough to feel natural and provide levity when as much was needed. Unfortunately, with each sequel released, the amount of humor present became increasingly high to the point that, by the time of the final theatrically released film ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'', all potential drama and heart to be found was almost completely buried under an avalanche worth of jokes that were at best [[MoodWhiplash jarring]] or out of place[[note]]Such as one of the opossum brothers nearly licking a piece of poop until Buck told them not to, the opossums later making reference to hashtags, or Sid's angered date from earlier on in the movie disparagingly giving him a negative comparison to his 'profile picture'[[/note]], and at worst annoying or redundant[[note]]Such as Crash and Eddie generally acting like complete idiots when such a niche of humor is technically already being fulfilled by Sid[[/note]].
* A related complaint was how the series became increasingly DenserAndWackier after the original had managed to maintain a fairly realistic tone and setting (barring small cases of MisplacedWildlife and AnachronismStew including animals that died off long before the Pleistocene, when the ice ages would've actually occurred). However, the earliest seeds for this trend's worst excesses could be found planted in ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs'', which introduced a hidden LostWorld filled with LivingDinosaurs[[note]]something that was even [[LampshadeHanging acknowledged by Sid]] in ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' [[AnachronismStew to have not completely made sense for the setting]][[/note]]. But many fans were entirely willing to look past this due to how the film contained a natural heartwarming conclusion to Manny's character arc and the introduction of insanely popular BreakoutCharacter Buck--plus, of course, dinosaurs. But when ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' and ''especially'' ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'' kept on introducing even more unrealistic elements and cranking them up to increasingly cartoonish and exaggerated levels[[note]]''Continental Drift'' had the idea that the tectonic plates had not actually ruptured yet (despite species who evolved after the continents drifted off being present in the films) until [[ButtMonkey Scrat]] fell into Earth's core and ran along it (when in real life Earth's core would be too hot, and partially liquid, for anything to survive down there), as well as pirate animals sailing on boats of ice and [[OurSirensAreDifferent sirens]]. ''Collision Course'', meanwhile, had ''the solar system not actually formed yet'' (in spite of life being on Earth at all) until (again) Scrat knocked it into place, with the conflict revolving around stopping a giant meteor he inadvertently created from wiping out all life on the planet, which all only became possible because of Scrat accidentally becoming an unwitting passenger on a ''spaceship'', while also featuring rocks that make old animals younger and create a literal FountainOfYouth[[/note]], the stories became so difficult to take seriously that even the fans finally began to agree with the critics that the series had overstayed its welcome.
* Another common criticism of ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' and ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'' is the constant adding in of new characters to the main cast. But for all the hay made about this detail, the beginnings of this trend could be found as far as the comparatively better recieved ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'' and ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs''. In ''The Meltdown'', Ellie's romance with Manny takes up so much of the runtime that, between said romance and the threat of the flood, Diego's arc about [[FaceYourFears overcoming his fear of water]] has only about 1/4 of the film's running time at best devoted to it while Sid's DudeWheresMyRespect arc feels like a complete afterthought. But this was easier to overlook in ''The Meltdown'' since Ellie's presence made understandable narrative sense on account of how her romance with Manny felt like a natural continuation to Manny's arc from the first movie about being able to move on from the pain of his tragically lost first family and provided a happy resolution to his fears of being the LastOfHisKind he'd been undergoing prior to meeting Ellie; meanwhile, all the time she got devoted to her in the narrative allowed her to be fleshed out enough to be able to stand on her own merits as a character and not come across as a SatelliteLoveInterest. And as comparatively underserved as their respective arcs are, Diego still managed to have the 2nd highest amount of screentime devoted to his arc after Manny while Sid made up for his own individual arc's comparative lack of focus by playing a crucial role in helping Diego face his fears. And while Crash and Eddie were hardly considered the most beloved new characters at even their introduction point, they still largely only contributed their brand of humor fairly rarely and still had their humor mitigated by how much they genuinely cared for their adoptive sister Ellie. Similarly, ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' introduced Buck and Peaches while having Diego's arc of feeling like he's starting to lose his edge get much less screentime compared to Manny's arc of becoming a father once more and Sid's arc of trying to be a parent to the trio of baby ''T. rex''. But Buck was fleshed out enough as an equal parts [[{{cloudcuckoolander}} crazy]] and [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass badass]] adventurer to become a popular character in his own right, and was also written out of the story at the end by [[IChooseToStay choosing to ultimately stay]] in the LostWorld so that he wouldn't risk overstaying his welcome in the narrative. Peaches, meanwhile, wasn't introduced until her birth fairly close to the end of the story, and largely served as more of a living prop than an actual character with her own arc due to only being a fairly newly born baby at that point. And much like how Sid played a crucial role in Diego's arc from ''The Meltdown'', Diego similarly made up for his own arc's comparative underserving in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' by playing a key role in Manny and Ellie's shared arc. But by the time Diego's [[HeelFaceTurn formerly evil]] {{Pirate}} love interest Shira, Sid's Granny dumped on him by his uncaring family[[note]]Who stays behind with other older animals in a FountainOfYouth at the end of ''Collision Course''[[/note]], Peaches' hapless fiancée Julian,[[note]]Who alongside her was preparing to be written out in the ending of ''Collision Course'' due to them getting married and leaving, the film wrapped up on their post-wedding party before this could happen[[/note]] and Sid's passionate new girlfriend Brooke got introduced to the fold, alongside bringing back Buck and having him stick around again, the cast had become so massively overcrowded that not only did the brand new characters get nowhere near enough time to get properly fleshed out enough to allow fans to like them on their own merits, but many of the characters that had come before them get increasingly pushed to the wayside or flanderized to the point that even ''they'' started to become increasingly difficult to continue rooting for and getting invested in. ''WesternAnimation/TheIceAgeAdventuresOfBuckWild'' seemed to get the idea and [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome pushed out]] all main characters that weren't Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie, Crash, Eddie, or Buck.
* Later installments got criticized for turning the franchise from a semi-accurate portrayal of animals surving the Ice Age into a FantasyKitchenSink with dinosaurs and fantasy elements. However, it can be argued that the trend started with Cretaceous and Maelstrom, who are reptiles from the Mesozoic era that were long extinct by the time the Ice Age started. The main difference is that, first of all, they do have a semi-realistic justification in the plot, [[MonsterInTheIce by being sealed in the ice and then realesed with the titular meltdown]], meaning that the creators were lampshading the fact they wouldn't be alive during the Ice Age with these two being a notable exception. And most importantly, they don't drive attention away from ice age-related natural disasters like the main flood, which is still the focus of the plot. In the latter movies, the more historically inaccurate and fantastical elements took center stage in the plot, leading the Ice Age-elements to become irrelevant, and they never bothered to give them any sort of handwave to the more jarring elements.
* A related complaint was how the series became increasingly DenserAndWackier after the original had managed to maintain a fairly realistic tone and setting (barring small cases of MisplacedWildlife and AnachronismStew including animals that died off long before the Pleistocene, when the ice ages would've actually occurred). However, the earliest seeds for this trend's worst excesses could be found planted in ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs'', which introduced a hidden LostWorld filled with LivingDinosaurs[[note]]something that was even [[LampshadeHanging acknowledged by Sid]] in ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' [[AnachronismStew to have not completely made sense for the setting]][[/note]]. But many fans were entirely willing to look past this due to how the film contained a natural heartwarming conclusion to Manny's character arc and the introduction of insanely popular BreakoutCharacter Buck--plus, of course, dinosaurs. But when ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' and ''especially'' ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'' kept on introducing even more unrealistic elements and cranking them up to increasingly cartoonish and exaggerated levels[[note]]''Continental Drift'' had the idea that the tectonic plates had not actually ruptured yet (despite species who evolved after the continents drifted off being present in the films) until [[ButtMonkey Scrat]] fell into Earth's core and ran along it (when in real life Earth's core would be too hot, and partially liquid, for anything to survive down there), as well as pirate animals sailing on boats of ice and [[OurSirensAreDifferent sirens]]. ''Collision Course'', meanwhile, had ''the solar system not actually formed yet'' (in spite of life being on Earth at all) until (again) Scrat knocked it into place, with the conflict revolving around stopping a giant meteor he inadvertently created from wiping out all life on the planet, which all only became possible because of Scrat accidentally becoming an unwitting passenger on a ''spaceship'', while also featuring rocks that make old animals younger and create a literal FountainOfYouth[[/note]], the stories became so difficult to take seriously that even the fans finally began to agree with the critics that the series had overstayed its welcome.
* Another common criticism of ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' and ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeCollisionCourse'' is the constant adding in of new characters to the main cast. But for all the hay made about this detail, the beginnings of this trend could be found as far as the comparatively better recieved ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'' and ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeDawnOfTheDinosaurs''. In ''The Meltdown'', Ellie's romance with Manny takes up so much of the runtime that, between said romance and the threat of the flood, Diego's arc about [[FaceYourFears overcoming his fear of water]] has only about 1/4 of the film's running time at best devoted to it while Sid's DudeWheresMyRespect arc feels like a complete afterthought. But this was easier to overlook in ''The Meltdown'' since Ellie's presence made understandable narrative sense on account of how her romance with Manny felt like a natural continuation to Manny's arc from the first movie about being able to move on from the pain of his tragically lost first family and provided a happy resolution to his fears of being the LastOfHisKind he'd been undergoing prior to meeting Ellie; meanwhile, all the time she got devoted to her in the narrative allowed her to be fleshed out enough to be able to stand on her own merits as a character and not come across as a SatelliteLoveInterest. And as comparatively underserved as their respective arcs are, Diego still managed to have the 2nd highest amount of screentime devoted to his arc after Manny while Sid made up for his own individual arc's comparative lack of focus by playing a crucial role in helping Diego face his fears. And while Crash and Eddie were hardly considered the most beloved new characters at even their introduction point, they still largely only contributed their brand of humor fairly rarely and still had their humor mitigated by how much they genuinely cared for their adoptive sister Ellie. Similarly, ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' introduced Buck and Peaches while having Diego's arc of feeling like he's starting to lose his edge get much less screentime compared to Manny's arc of becoming a father once more and Sid's arc of trying to be a parent to the trio of baby ''T. rex''. But Buck was fleshed out enough as an equal parts [[{{cloudcuckoolander}} crazy]] and [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass badass]] adventurer to become a popular character in his own right, and was also written out of the story at the end by [[IChooseToStay choosing to ultimately stay]] in the LostWorld so that he wouldn't risk overstaying his welcome in the narrative. Peaches, meanwhile, wasn't introduced until her birth fairly close to the end of the story, and largely served as more of a living prop than an actual character with her own arc due to only being a fairly newly born baby at that point. And much like how Sid played a crucial role in Diego's arc from ''The Meltdown'', Diego similarly made up for his own arc's comparative underserving in ''Dawn of the Dinosaurs'' by playing a key role in Manny and Ellie's shared arc. But by the time Diego's [[HeelFaceTurn formerly evil]] {{Pirate}} love interest Shira, Sid's Granny dumped on him by his uncaring family[[note]]Who stays behind with other older animals in a FountainOfYouth at the end of ''Collision Course''[[/note]], Peaches' hapless fiancée Julian,[[note]]Who alongside her was preparing to be written out in the ending of ''Collision Course'' due to them getting married and leaving, the film wrapped up on their post-wedding party before this could happen[[/note]] and Sid's passionate new girlfriend Brooke got introduced to the fold, alongside bringing back Buck and having him stick around again, the cast had become so massively overcrowded that not only did the brand new characters get nowhere near enough time to get properly fleshed out enough to allow fans to like them on their own merits, but many of the characters that had come before them get increasingly pushed to the wayside or flanderized to the point that even ''they'' started to become increasingly difficult to continue rooting for and getting invested in. ''WesternAnimation/TheIceAgeAdventuresOfBuckWild'' seemed to get the idea and [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome pushed out]] all main characters that weren't Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie, Crash, Eddie, or Buck.
* Later installments got criticized for turning the franchise from a semi-accurate portrayal of animals surving the Ice Age into a FantasyKitchenSink with dinosaurs and fantasy elements. However, it can be argued that the trend started with Cretaceous and Maelstrom, who are reptiles from the Mesozoic era that were long extinct by the time the Ice Age started. The main difference is that, first of all, they do have a semi-realistic justification in the plot, [[MonsterInTheIce by being sealed in the ice and then realesed with the titular meltdown]], meaning that the creators were lampshading the fact they wouldn't be alive during the Ice Age with these two being a notable exception. And most importantly, they don't drive attention away from ice age-related natural disasters like the main flood, which is still the focus of the plot. In the latter movies, the more historically inaccurate and fantastical elements took center stage in the plot, leading the Ice Age-elements to become irrelevant, and they never bothered to give them any sort of handwave to the more jarring elements.
