the audience applauded

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

"Scrat in Love" is a 2-minute animated short film from 2009, the year when the third "Ice Age" film hit theaters. With this runtime, it may actually be the shortest of the very many Scrat short films, even Academy Award nominated among these. Maybe this short runtime is what makes me appreciate this film more than most of the others. I generally do not find Scrat a particularly interesting character and he gets fairly quickly repetitive in my opinion. However, here is something new: Scrat finds a girl and he has to make the difficult decision between her and his beloved food. And in the end, even after being a gentleman and jumping down to save her, he loses everything again. Poor little Scrat, but with girls like these I would probably be just like him and car for nothing but my beloved acorns. An entertaining 2 minutes. Thumbs up.