Pegg’s delivery is very high strung and wacky, almost a shame that the animation is so static it doesn’t match the crazed cadence of his performance. One moment when he says to the bad guy that he has a pumpkin daughter the bad guy just sounds irritated. He’s been living on his own for so long that he’s gone a bit loony, living with a pumpkin he calls his daughter. Still, Pegg’s crazy Buck has some entertaining moments. It’s a symptom of the film’s unfocused nature that it kicks off seeming like a story about Crash and Eddie but when Buck shows up it basically becomes all about him. ‍ At least Pegg gets in some fun as the title character. It feels like a tossed off direct to streaming film to just keep people binge-watching Ice Age content. Even Crash and Eddie in this film have been recast. To be fair, the sound-alikes kind of nail it with only the guy who is supposed to sound like Denis Leary 80% there. Their characters are here but they’re basically just cameos and they aren’t even voiced by those actors. The Ice Age franchise employed well-known actors like Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary. Considering it was originally announced as an Ice Age TV show spin-off, that is probably correct. It looks like a lame TV series stretched out to a feature length. Compared to the lush visuals in Disney Plus original films like Raya and the Last Dragon or Soul, this is downright bad. The animation is stiff, and the image looks like they ran it through a single render pass with barely any depth.

The film seems a little on the chintzy side. With the help of Buck’s former ally, Zee (Justina Machado), they face down Orson and his squad of raptor goons but Buck may have bitten off more than he can chew, while Ellie and her friends search the lost world to find the wayward possums. There they run into Buck Wild (Pegg), the carefree and crazy adventurer who fights for the freedom of the land from the nasty and big brained Triceratops, Orson (Utkarsh Ambudkar).

One day, the possums go out on their own to find a sweet bachelor pad and end up in the underground lost world populated by dinosaurs. Although their constant schemes and wacky antics are irritating Ellie and her husband Manny (Sean Kenin) and his buddies. ‍ Possums Crash (Vincent Tong) and Eddie (Aaron Harris) are living with their adoptive sister, the woolly mammoth Ellie (Dominique Jennings).

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