Scrat's Continental Crack-up
| Scrat's Continental Crack-up | |
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| Directed by | Steve Martino Michael Thurmeier |
| Produced by | Lori Forte John C. Donkin (Part 2) |
| Screenplay by | Michael Berg (Part 1) Mike Reiss |
| Starring | Chris Wedge |
| Music by | Michael A. Levine |
| Edited by | James M. Palumbo |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date | 1: December 25, 2010 2: November 16, 2011 |
Running time | 1: 3 minutes 2: 3 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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Scrat's Continental Crack-up is a two-part animated short film directed by Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier. The short films serve as a promotion and story introduction for the feature film Ice Age: Continental Drift. The shorts feature the character Scrat from the Ice Age film series, who, while trying to hide his beloved acorn, ends up causing the continental drift (an idea previously seen in Gone Nutty).
The first part premiered as a theatrical release attached to Gulliver's Travels on December 25, 2010,[1] it was released on-line on January 6, 2011, on iTunes, and was brought back to theaters on April 15, 2011 as part of the release of Rio.[1] The second part was released on November 16, 2011 on iTunes,[2] debuted in theatres with Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked[3] and later became the first theatrical trailer for Continental Drift.
Plot[edit]
Part 1[edit]
Scrat sniffs an ice cap looking for a place where his acorn would be safe. When Scrat hits the ice it starts to crack, causing him to quickly push ice into the hole to prevent trouble. When Scrat merely touches the ice with the tip of his acorn, it somehow ends up breaking the entire mountain below the ice cap. Scrat gets his acorn and falls into the rift, passing by the weasel Buck mounting his dinosaur nemesis Rudy while he goes, and ends passing through all of Earth's layers, eventually arriving at a hovering, metallic sphere which composes the inner core. While pursuing his acorn, Scrat makes the core spin and breaks Pangea into the contemporary continents, Australia is shown forming, giraffes are created when Africa is separated from Pangea, which stretches their necks, and making the boot-shaped Italian Peninsula kick a nearby island (accompanied by a scream of "GOAL!") during its formation. Scrat eventually trips and starts bumping between the sphere and the solid outer core, creating a Scrat-like Moai, a Scrat Sphinx which loses its nose, and four Scrat faces on Mount Rushmore. Scrat later picks up balance up and grabs his acorn, and ends up spinning in the core until he's thrown out of the rift into the upper atmosphere. While falling, Scrat positions his body as if he would fall into the sea, but ends up landing on a piece of ice, which breaks separating Scrat from his acorn. Scrat screams angrily.
Part 2[edit]
Scrat is riding an iceberg, when he sees an island. He climbs on to the island, where he sees a skeleton. He examines it and realizes it is pointing to a nut under the sea. Scrat uses a large stone to weigh him down the nut. When he pulls out the nut, it reveals to be a map to a giant pile of acorns. Scrat, excited with his find, encounters a swordfish skeleton. The skeleton pulls Scrat up to a pirate ship, where he encounters some pirates including a Gigantopithecus, a boar, a rabbit, a procoptodon, a blue-footed booby, an elephant seal, and a female saber-toothed tiger. The pirates make Scrat dance alongside a tied up Manny, Sid, and Diego.
Cast[edit]
Part 1[edit]
- Chris Wedge as Scrat
- Jason Fricchione as Announcer
- Simon Pegg as Buck (cameo)
Part 2[edit]
- Chris Wedge as Scrat
- Ray Romano as Manny
- John Leguizamo as Sid
- Denis Leary as Diego
- Jennifer Lopez as Shira
- Peter Dinklage as Captain Gutt
- Aziz Ansari as Squint
- Alain Chabat as Silas
- Jason Fricchione as Crab
- Nick Frost as Flynn
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sciretta, Peter (January 6, 2011). "Watch: Ice Age Short Film 'Scrat's Continental Crack-Up'". /Film. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
- ↑ Gonzalez, Sandra (November 15, 2011). "'Ice Age' star Scrat gets into more acorn-craving mischief -- EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
- ↑ Sampson, Mike (November 17, 2011). "WATCH THE NEW SCRAT SHORT FILM, CONTINENTAL CRACK UP, PART 2". Joblo. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
External links[edit]
- Scrat's Continental Crack-up on IMDb Search this movie on
- Scrat's Continental Crack-up on Fox Youtube Channel
- Scrat's Continental Crack-up: Part 2 on IMDb Search this movie on
- Scrat's Continental Crack-up: Part 2 on Fox Youtube Channel
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