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Your support makes all the difference.The cracks are really beginning to show in this animated franchise, despite the smart ensemble voicework of Ray Romano (the woolly mammoth), Denis Leary (the sabre-toothed tiger) and John Leguizamo (the sloth).
The dialogue has gone to autopilot on the jokes, while the anxieties of the characters – survival, status, separation from the herd – are no longer persuasively felt.
Scrat the silent rodent and his pursuit of the elusive acorn still offers the funniest routines on show; the rest is suffering a terminal case of the cutes.
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