Gone Nutty (2002)

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Did you people see the same film I saw?

Absolutely the worst movie.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Gone Nutty, short film that is included as an extra on the DVD of Ice Age (and that was nominated for the Oscar), short film featuring the, sometimes, hilarious squirrel Scrat. Certainly it is just the story of its life: is Scrat with lots of acorns but with a problem, eventually is Scrat with only one acorn yet finally with only a sort of beret, no acorn. I wouldn't say this is absolutely hilarious, for me this isn't very special (just like Ice Age itself) but still it's good stuff, with the hilarious stuff of the continental drift theory! Certainly it's far from being as good as any of the best Pixar shorts but surely it's better than a short like Pixar's Boundin'.

This short animation is about Scrat and his nut collection that goes terribly wrong."Gone Nutty" shows that imagination has no limits. Scrat is somewhat a perfectionist, he wants his nut collection to be perfectly in order. Hence, when he forces a nut into the already tightly packed collection, his whole nut collection collapses and falls off a cliff. Terror! How Scrat reacts is so much fun. It is amazing how much humour and fun can be packed into just four minutes. I am not going to spoil the ending, but I will say I am impressed and entertained by the ending. And science of tectonic plates have to be re-written!

GONE NUTTY stars the cute little mouse-like thing from ICE AGE and consists of the many funny and painful things this guy does to try to break open this acorn. Clever writing take a very simple idea and milk the very most from it.How can anyone NOT like this cute little short that accompanied the release of ICE AGE?! This Fox short is amazingly good and quite comparable to products coming from Pixar and Dreamworks--in fact, I think it was much more enjoyable than the competition for the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film from Pixar (BOUNDIN')--mostly because although BOUNDIN' was well animated, the story itself wasn't great. And that is where GONE NUTTY really excels. I remember the first time I saw it in the theater--lots of people were laughing out loud and that should be a good reason for considering this film for the Oscar. While it did lose to the very imaginative and weird HARVIE KRUMPET, the makers of this film have nothing to complain about--GONE NUTTY was a lovely short as was KRUMPET. Both are well worth your time.

Like many of it's animated colleagues, Ice Age starts off with a wonderful short film, this time one which was even better known than the rest of the film before it was released. You may remember seeing previews for Ice Age that were made up entirely of footage from Scrat's Missing Adventure, which is probably the most entertaining and amusing short animated film I've ever seen. There is something to be said when a movie like Drop Zone or even a James Bond film like Moonraker can so badly screw up the concept of skydiving, and then a short children's film like this makes the effort to portray it so accurately (with the obvious exception of all that nut gathering business, of course).I have heard that Scrat was originally meant to play a much larger role in the film, which was to be centered around him as the main character, but other characters were brought in under the demand for a more large scale motion picture. Thankfully, Scrat makes several much-welcome appearances throughout the film, but this opening sequence still stands as probably the best four minutes of the entire film.