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7 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :- He Should Have Just Left Things Alone!, 1 August 2007 Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States
This also is known as "Scrat's Missing Adventure." Scrat's obsession with his having his nuts organized just right turns out to be his undoing in this crazy animated short, included in the "Ice Age DVD."This little squirrel became a big hit in the feature film and was awarded with a much bigger role in the sequel. He's now part of the Ice Age gang, if you will. This bonus short shows that he had built up quite a collection of acorns in a hollow tree. But, for some strange reason - call it "perfectionism," that last acorn won't stay put where it is supposed to be. It keeps popping out. Instead of just leaving it as it is, which wouldn't have changed anything, Scrat goes out of his way to make it all look good.....and disaster is the result.What happens when his little nest of acorns is disrupted is too wild to describe here. It has to be seen to be believed. Of course, it's outrageous but it's a cartoon, and it is fun to watch. P.S. I viewed it a second time after writing the above review....and enjoyed it even more. This time I really appreciated all the funny noises Chris Wedge made, as Scat the squirrel.
6 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :- Short and sweet, 1 September 2003 Author: bob the moo from Birmingham, UK
Despite his struggles in the film Ice Age, Scrat has managed to fill a hollow tree with his precious nuts. Ever the hoarder, Scrat tries to squeeze another nut into the tree but his greed soon becomes his undoing.Scrat was the focus of the trailer I saw for this movie, and was a really good little running joke all the way through the film, so to have his own short was both a risk (can he do it himself) and a benefit (his stuff was funny!). Happily the plot simply sees an extension of his Ice Age role of chasing nuts etc. Here the action is expanded and is actually pretty funny.The short running time is just right as the one basic joke can't be told repeatedly over a longer time without fatigue setting in. As it is, the film just manages to do enough stuff with the nuts to keep it funny without wearing out it's welcome. The final punchline is a real exaggeration but is also very funny!Overall I doubt this will stand up to repeated viewings (unless you're one of the toddlers I watched it with), but it is still a funny addition to the film.
5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :- Very funny, 3 May 2003 Author: rbverhoef (rbverhoef@hotmail.com) from The Hague, Netherlands
The first time we met the character Scrat was in the trailer of 'Ice Age'. In that film he was one of my favorite characters and here he returns for 'Gone Nutty', a hilarious animated short. Scrat is collecting acorns but the last one keeps popping out of the stash he has already collected. We understand that Scrat will get in some trouble. Although the main event is predictable, the way the short plays from there is very original.The trailer for 'Ice Age' seemed a animated short on itself as well; it was very funny. 'Ice Age' was also very funny and 'Gone Nutty' continues on the same funny level. I laughed a lot during this little film and while doing that I was also admiring the beautiful animation. One of the best animated shorts I have seen and finally one that is not made by Pixar Animation Studios.
1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :- Wow this is so much fun!, 2 November 2008 Author: Gordon-11 from Hong Kong
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!
3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :- Hilarious!, 10 January 2003 Author: Michael DeZubiria (miked32@hotmail.com) from Luoyang, China
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.
mmm, so that's why it happened, 10 July 2009 Author: eric_xoloitzcuintle from Mexico City
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'.
Gone Nutty, 3 June 2009 Author: gameking53 from United Kingdom
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Gone Nutty is an animated short attached to home video versions of the 2002 movie Ice Age and was theatrically attached to Garfield (2004) and Catch that Kid (2004).The film is only around 5 minutes in length, but what it does in the time it does well. The plot revolves around the sabre toothed squirrel Scrat, who tries to organise his acorns in an orderly fashion, which results in them dispersing everywhere and only chaos can follow.Scrat is hilariously voiced by Chris Wedge, director of the first Ice Age film. The character never speaks, but just performs huge yells and cries, and this just adds to the humour of the short film. The gags were well chosen and funny as ever (like when Scrat causes continental drift) and the short is funnier than any other Disney Pixar short ever made.The animation is good. The fur is real and the lighting is amazing as ever (thats always the case with Blue Sky) and the film maintains the same soft look the Ice Age movie had.Overall, Gone Nutty is good for quick laugh, and is 5 minutes of pure comedy heaven. Scrat is one of the funniest animated characters ever created.
Very cute and entertaining, 8 February 2008 Author: planktonrules from Bradenton, Florida
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.
Excellent Follow-Up to Ice Age, 22 August 2006 Author: Safari-1969 from Northeastern United States
Blue Sky is pretty good at making short films, with their first short, Bunny. Which was a masterpiece told in merely 5 minutes.The great squirrel Scrat from the first movie is finding a place to store his nut and find a tree filled with them. He had problems storing it in there, and causes a nut avalanche! This short is really funny of how Scrat survives the collapsing sea of nuts. Funny little clichés. It ends with something really funny. Scrat forms a nut ball while falling through the sky and it crash on the ground.He lands in deep ice with the nuts surrounding him, and one last nut is falling directly towards him. He is trying to get out as the nut spins like a drill and gets fiery. It crashes Scrat and starts an earthquake that destroys Pangea, what our Earth was before we had continents. He then sees the nut, all black, and hugs it, but it collapses into ashes and puts the top of it on like a hat.Funny short!
1 out of 2 people found the following comment useful :- Killer ending that "explains" things geologic (Here There Be mini-Spoiler), 2 May 2003 Author: Robert Reynolds (minniemato@hotmail.com) from Tucson AZ
This short is absolutely delightful and follows Scrat through a personal catastrophe to a rather dramatic (if improbable) conclusion with far-reaching consequences for life on our little mote in the eye of the universe. I wonder what my various geology teachers would have thought of this particular "explanation" for the cause of the Continental Drift Theory. I personally would love for it to be true! Or at least something equally slapstick in nature. Great little cartoon with excellent visual detail. Well worth watching. Recommended.
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