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filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Robert Reynolds This short was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short, losing to The Danish Poet. There will be spoilers ahead: This short is visually rather nice and there are a few funny gags. A lot of its potential is blunted, however, toward the middle, when some of the jumps are really too short to be more than a blur. It's probably a good idea to watch this more than once in order to catch some of the gags.Scrat is carrying a nut when he sees a glow, digs and comes up with a gadget. Look very closely in here for a very quick, throwaway sight gag which explains the presence of the device instantly with a rather sick (and funny) joke.Never having learned the truism, "If you don't know what it is, leave it alone", Scrat starts messing with it, it flashes and his nut disappears. Scrat freaks, attacks the device and off we go. It's a time machine.The first for jumps are a bit longer and more satisfying bits. They'll all be recognizable bits, all well developed and most enjoyable. I won't spoil them here. The short gets a bit frenetic here, with the jumps short and almost too chaotic to really take in easily. There's a nice bit dealing with time itself, which has its painful side for Scrat.The last bit has Scrat creating his own problems and the ending is perfect, with several mood shifts in the last few seconds.This short is available as an extra on various releases of Ice Age: The Meltdown and is well worth seeing. Most recommended.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) This is a an animated short film from almost 10 years ago and it runs for 7 minutes, unusually long compared to the other Scrat short movies. Here he has trouble with a time machine that keeps teleporting him and his beloved acorn to different periods throughout the centuries. So he pulls the famous sword out of the stone, but also collides with the Titanic. And there is a scene where he sees the main characters from the "Ice Age" films (pretty uninspired how they were standing there looking) including his own self. Well... I watched almost all the Scrat short films and I cannot say I was impressed by a single one of these. This one here is certainly not the worst, but it's not particularly good either. I would not say that it deserved the Academy Award nomination, but at least it did not win like the equally mediocre Danish entry. I was really hoping for "The Litte Match Girl" back then. Anyway, I do not recommend "No Time for Nuts". Director and writer Chris Renaud really improved afterward with the "Despicable Me"-movies.

MartinHafer In 2004, Fox Studio's little film GONE NUTTY was released in the theaters with the film ICE AGE. GONE NUTTY was a cute little film starring that little mouse-like creature as he tries to fetch an acorn and it was highly original--hence an Oscar Nomination for Best Animated Short. Now, two years later, another installment of the short film was released in conjunction with ICE AGE II and once again, the short film is quite cute and funny---however, it's not exactly original--being in many ways just a continuation of GONE NUTTY. In light of this, I am very surprised that it also received an Oscar nomination--especially when Pixar's nominated film for the 2007 Oscars was so much more original (it, too, did not win--this honor went to a rather flat Norwegian film THE DANISH POET).So if you watch it, be prepared for more of the same--more laughs, more action, more excellent CG animation and more of the same plot. Very good but also not exactly new.

MovieSign321 Another uproarious Scrat adventure! In this short Scrat, busy as usual hunting down his acorn, discovers a time machine along with the frozen remains of an unfortunate mad scientist. When the device zaps away his treasured nut, Scrat is off on a hilarious, preposterous pursuit across time and space - only to end up trapped in a future world without oak trees! This short, like the previous one, has excellent timing, great voice work from Chris Wedge, flawless animation, and as always slide-splitting humor. The only problem is the rather predictable plot, but that's easily excusable for the impeccable comedy! The most convenient place to find this little jewel is on the "Meltdown" DVD, but you can more than likely find it online as well. All in all, Scrat's gotten away with another real gut-buster, far more clever than anything to be found in the Ice Age films themselves.