As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

I was disappointed. This short came on before The Peanuts Movie, which was disappointing as well. This was a very intense short film with nothing that looks like it had any effort. Just explosions and Solar System disasters and nothing creative. The movie is bad. It's not entertaining (which is how I judge some movies).I rate this movie 6/10. Do better next time punk! I hate when movies do this.The guy is looking for his acorn and then he is moving around. He then falls in a hole and then goes in a space ship he secretly finds. He goes to space and knocks and destroys the solar system.

Scrat, that silly prehistoric saber toothed squirrel from the Ice Age franchise that has since proved popular enough to become the logo character of Blue Sky Studios, the movies' production company, is at it again. This time his nut chasing antics somehow send him into outer space, completely changing the game and genre for the little guy and setting into motion a series of world changing events. But will poor Scrat ever get his nut?There are some little laughs and a lot of "how does that actually work" if you try to use too much reason with this short. Without reason, though, it's a quick romp that's sure to entertain children, just like all of his previous outings. It is, indeed, the exact same formula yet again, just in a different setting, easily falling into the generic memory of them all. But, as I said, children eat up his mindless slapstick comedy, no matter how mediocre it may seem, and that really is the point, isn't it?The short does give a little nod to known science fiction and outer space films, though not enough to make it truly referential and worthwhile. For those that are fans of the Ice Age films, however, these Scrat shorts do answer some questions involving the overall story, and keep pretty good continuity all throughout. But that really only means that this cosmic adventure raises more questions than it answers. Nuts!

"Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe" is, as you may have guessed already, another Ice Age Scrat short movie. They have been making these for a long time and "they", in this case, refers to director Mike Thurmeier, who also worked on several other Scrat short movies. This one here takes him to the moon and he has to get out of the way of planets and asteroids while always keeping an eye on his precious food. The other "Ice Age" characters (including their voice actors) have a short cameo at the end as well, but that one is as unfunny as everything before it. The routine of Scrat's screaming and all these collisions and changes to the Earth (and other planets now too) has truly gotten scale by now. It's time to put a halt to these. They are certainly exploiting the character of Scrat as much as they can and it's not helping at all. Weak short film, never interesting, only the animation is okay. Thumbs down.

Clearly inspired by the success of this year's The Martian, Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe gives us the first Ice Age short I've seen in years, and a good one at that. Having toyed with time travel and dinosaurs before, this time Scrat stumbles upon- and into- the spaceship we briefly saw trapped in ice in the first film. Rather inventive in giving us acorn steering and an explanation of how Scrat inadvertently flies the ship into space, there are a few nice gags and a nice musical homage to 2001. We know from previous Ice Age films how Scrat is responsible for continental drift, but who knew he also aligned the Solar System, gave Jupiter its Red Spot and put Saturn between the rings? And at the end we have the typically cruel punchline at Sid's expense. (I've always actually preferred Sid to Scrat- the lesser-known short Surviving Sid is still the best Ice Age short).So Bring Scrat Home indeed- we don't want to part with this character.